Well I got home about 2 hours ago.......
Was leaving college class afterr my final at about 7pm. Made a right hand turn onto a 3 lane road. Right after the turn is a bridge over a highway. Thats were it all went wrong. I was in my 2006 4x4 reg cab 1500 and as i applied a little gas at a time to get going about the point I was between 35-40mph the back end let loose over the slick semi ice and over salted road. The tail spin sent me towards the concrete wall over the highway. I had very little time to react, turned the wheel as fast as I could to counter but it was to late the passenger side hit the barrier and pulled the whole passenger side into the wall. As I was getting her away from the wall the rear bumper caught and spun me left, head on to the center concrete barrier. As this happened my foot slipped half off the break and 1/2 on to the accelerater and I hit the center divider head on at at least 35-40 mph. I bounced off into the middle lanes and the truck ceased, both air bags went off, Front end pushed in at least 2 feet onto the engine, bumper gone, passenger side damaged the whole way down. Went deaf for about 30-50 seconds, couldnt remember what happened for about 30 seconds after the hit couldnt even hear anything right after impact like a bomb went off. I think I was definatly in shock, smashed my hand, and ankle real good and am getting aches all over developing from impact. I was lucky
Truck looks like it might be totaled, will try and get pics up soon, just more bad luck my way. Waiting till the morning to see if I need to go to the emergency room to be looked at more, the paramedics checked all my vitals and said I was ok, and id be sore tomarrow. No ticket because the officer, I think felt bad for me, I tried so hard to save her and the other traffic that stopped probably told him that. I missed all traffic praise god, im ok just really sore and upset. Have to call the insurance tomarrow, and see what happens now. Never totaled a vehicle before ever and cant believe how the ram became so uncontrolable, was so fast and terrible.
Please be careful out there guys, this weather here has been awful. With this happening so close to christmas I nearly broke down thinking about how much worse this could have been. I am thinking the srt will have to go if they total my truck because im actually a little afraid now after trying to handle this truck in this incident. This is the first time I can actually say I had no control and no chance.
All I can say is kiss and hug the ones close to you because you never know.
mike
Was leaving college class afterr my final at about 7pm. Made a right hand turn onto a 3 lane road. Right after the turn is a bridge over a highway. Thats were it all went wrong. I was in my 2006 4x4 reg cab 1500 and as i applied a little gas at a time to get going about the point I was between 35-40mph the back end let loose over the slick semi ice and over salted road. The tail spin sent me towards the concrete wall over the highway. I had very little time to react, turned the wheel as fast as I could to counter but it was to late the passenger side hit the barrier and pulled the whole passenger side into the wall. As I was getting her away from the wall the rear bumper caught and spun me left, head on to the center concrete barrier. As this happened my foot slipped half off the break and 1/2 on to the accelerater and I hit the center divider head on at at least 35-40 mph. I bounced off into the middle lanes and the truck ceased, both air bags went off, Front end pushed in at least 2 feet onto the engine, bumper gone, passenger side damaged the whole way down. Went deaf for about 30-50 seconds, couldnt remember what happened for about 30 seconds after the hit couldnt even hear anything right after impact like a bomb went off. I think I was definatly in shock, smashed my hand, and ankle real good and am getting aches all over developing from impact. I was lucky
Truck looks like it might be totaled, will try and get pics up soon, just more bad luck my way. Waiting till the morning to see if I need to go to the emergency room to be looked at more, the paramedics checked all my vitals and said I was ok, and id be sore tomarrow. No ticket because the officer, I think felt bad for me, I tried so hard to save her and the other traffic that stopped probably told him that. I missed all traffic praise god, im ok just really sore and upset. Have to call the insurance tomarrow, and see what happens now. Never totaled a vehicle before ever and cant believe how the ram became so uncontrolable, was so fast and terrible.Please be careful out there guys, this weather here has been awful. With this happening so close to christmas I nearly broke down thinking about how much worse this could have been. I am thinking the srt will have to go if they total my truck because im actually a little afraid now after trying to handle this truck in this incident. This is the first time I can actually say I had no control and no chance
. All I can say is kiss and hug the ones close to you because you never know.
mike
