Mrs rolled her truck!

Bruce from Can. · Jan 26, 2014

But she is OK. Truck is not so good. She went off the road yesterday in a snow storm. Just had the bad luck the ditch was a 20 foot bank , and the poor little truck flopped over. Only 125000KM on the odometer. Oh well as I said she is alright, and they make new trucks every day. Bruce
Not sure why these dumb pics posted upside down, but it seems appropriate somehow. Nothey where not taken on the fly.

nybadlybent · Jan 26, 2014

That is why they call them accidents. Can happen to the best of us. Your attitude is just like mine when it comes to this type of incident. If your wife is OK, nothing else really matters. I am sure she is pretty shaken up.

Give her a big hug and tell her how glad you are that she is OK and that you can always get another truck but never another her.

samn40 · Jan 26, 2014

Did this happen in Australia?
Sorry to hear of anyone's misfortune, and glad the Missus is OK, Good wimmen are hard to come by! As you say there is always another truck......
Sam

Tom in TN · Jan 26, 2014

Bruse,

I'm so glad to hear that Mrs. Bruce is okay. That had to be a terribly frightening and upseting (no pun intended) event for her.

I think I read that Ford has discontinued the Ranger line of trucks. Real shame. They've been handy little trucks.

Give your wife another hug and thank the Lord for protecting her.

Tom in TN

Chas.Ont. · Jan 26, 2014

Yes Bruce, things were not good on the roads.
Give her a special hug this morning.
Chas.

Paul from MI · Jan 26, 2014

Glad your wife is OK. I can see why she liked her truck, nice looking Ranger.

farmerwithmutt · Jan 26, 2014

some women will do anything to get a new truck !! at least shes well and now thank god you can still have her in your life afterall it takes a long time to break them in take care god bless larry

rrlund · Jan 26, 2014

Glad she's OK,but you'll have to forgive me for sitting here chuckling a little. I didn't dare post about what happened Thursday,but since you brought it up......

I came in about 11 o'clock in the morning and there was a message on the machine. The wife. She said she'd just had a bad accident. Her truck was all smashed to h3ll,she was at Sav-A-Lot. Didn't say if she could drive it or not. I tried to call her back,her phone went right to voicemail. I asked if it was drivable and told her to call me back. I tried to start my truck,it wasn't plugged in and wouldn't start. Tried to call her again,voicemail again. Our youngest son works second shift. I called him and asked him if she'd called him. No. I told him what happened,told him to try to text her and call me back. He called back and said she wouldn't answer a text either. He said he'd come and get me and take me.

Just about the time he got here,she called. Said she could drive it.Said she had it full of groceries and was on her way. Well,she got home,the plastic was popped loose on top of the bumper and the piece under the drivers side back fender had a small piece broke off just behind the tire.

I don't know why women panic like that?

JimB2 · Jan 26, 2014

Hi Bruce,
Good to hear your wife is OK. We missed most of the bad weather yesterday. It was all to the south of us along the St. Lawrence River.
JimB

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2014

Glad to to hear she is ok - trucks can be replaced.

dcarp · Jan 26, 2014

Wow, glad she is ok. Sorry about the truck. At least she got a good ride without going to the carnival.

JD Seller · Jan 26, 2014

Bruce I am glad your Misses was not hurt. The winter weather and winds are making driving an adventure at times.

The tin/iron can be replaced. Just makes you remember to tell her how you feel about her DAILY because you never know what can happen.

larry@stinescorner · Jan 26, 2014

Glad she didnt get hurt

LP-Always · Jan 26, 2014

glad she"s ok, how warm is in your dairy barn?how many do you keep in there Bruce?any new photos.here in sc been in teens lately in am. thanks Kenny

samn40 · Jan 26, 2014

Just got down from standing on my head to look at those photos.....Surely the truck is repairable? I know we have garages around here that would fix that. Replace the roof panel and some of the side skins.....or it it worse than it looks? Are your insurance companies real quick at writing vehicles off? Here we would call that a catagory D damaged repairable....Cat A is a total write off, like burned out, Cat B has some salvageable parts. Cat C is mostly all good for salvage but can never be put back on the road....sometimes this is a stolen recovered vehicle with no damage at all (except maybe around the ignition switch) But it has not been found before the original owner has got his payout from the insurance....So they claim it for salvage. Or it could be a car with a stolen identity.......Just wondering if you guys would fix damage like on Mrs Bruce's truck ?
Sam

SDE · Jan 26, 2014

Larry, I right clicked on the photo an then clicked View image and then I was able to see each photo in the upright position.

I sometimes wonder how close each of us are to having something like this happen to us, but it doesn't. Driving two or four inches to the left, and it may not have happen at all.

Give her an extra HUG.
SDE

Geo-TH,In · Jan 26, 2014

Glad no one got hurt. Looks like she wasn't going fast. Too bad, nice looking truck. Guess some people will do about anything to get a new ride, just kidding.

Bubba would use duct tape, a little plastic for windows and continue to drive it.

I'm guessing the insurance company will total it.

Mark - IN. · Jan 26, 2014

Glad all are ok.

My former boss ended upside down in his too, January 1, the day after his retirement became official. As he said, "Not a good start to retirement". His wife was driving, drinking was NOT a factor, but she lost it on the ice with a strong wind, and down into a ditch upside down in his 2008 3/4 ton 4x4 crew cab GMC with a Durmax. Sharp truck, I've seen and ridden in it. $18,000 in damage. I asked, "2008, $18,000 in damage, why didn't they just total it?". He said they figured that $18,000 is much cheaper than the cost of replacement.

Anyway, both cases, no injuries, which is a good thing. The start to the New Year could have been worse, but luckily was not.

Mark

Dick2 · Jan 26, 2014

I like your attitude re: "They build more trucks every day".

I can't really understand why some people get so upset about damaging a vehicle - doesn't help a bit after the fact.

Don-Wi · Jan 26, 2014

Don't know how they do it in Canada, but that would be a total write off here in Wisconsin. Basically any structural damage like that too the roof and they'd much rather total then than fix them. Our renter had a tree limb fall in his car this last summer from a bad storm. Not much damage but they still wrote it off and left him with a huge payment and no car. He had no credit and his other car got smashed so he had to finance this one at a ridiculous interest rate with a ridiculous up front price.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Roy Suomi · Jan 26, 2014

When I was a kid , I rolled a CJ-5 Jeep on the way to work.. I had to shut it off as it never ran as well as it did laying on it's side....

danmcdonald · Jan 26, 2014

Glad your wife is ok.

donjr · Jan 26, 2014

Went to an accident one time where the lady had been shopping and rolled her buggy on the way home. She wasn't hurt, but she was terrified that she might have broken the eggs in the back seat.....

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2014

Knew a wrecker operator who came on a scene of a rollover. The lady was lamenting about the "egg mash". He said "that's easy to vacuum,what's the problem"? If she had said "scrambled eggs" he would have known what the problem was. LOL

Areo

Fordfarmer · Jan 26, 2014

Glad your wife is OK...but the sublect line makes me nervous - my wife is driving my truck until her Taurus is fixed...and she isn't used to a manual tranny.

EricInSEI · Jan 26, 2014

Most financing requires you to have enough insurance to pay off the loan if something happens to the car. There most be more to the story.

Eldon (WA) · Jan 26, 2014

(quoted from post at 04:26:13 01/26/14) But she is OK. Truck is not so good. She went off the road yesterday in a snow storm. Just had the bad luck the ditch was a 20 foot bank , and the poor little truck flopped over. Only 125000KM on the odometer. Oh well as I said she is alright, and they make new trucks every day. Bruce
Not sure why these dumb pics posted upside down, but it seems appropriate somehow. Nothey where not taken on the fly.

Glad to hear your wife is ok. My wife totaled her 09 G6 last July, I was brushhogging a job over an hour away. I check my phone occasionally and what a shocker when I got her message. Fortunately she only had a slight whiplash, airbags didn't deploy, windshield not broken, doors not jambed, but the insurance co totaled it. It only had 34k miles on it...the good news, insurance paid us more that we paid for it brand new! Good luck!

Chris Jones · Jan 26, 2014

Who rolled the pictures?

JD Seller · Jan 26, 2014

EricInSEI, Your are wrong!!! Most insurance just pays the average of book values. They do not care what you still owe. It is common to still actually owe on the car after the insurance totals a car. Anything financed for more than 36 months will be upside down for most of the loan.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2014

That's if the bank only allowed "loan value" on a car. Most creditors will finance 100% - meaning they are exposed for thousands as soon as the car leaves the lot.

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