[BigEnos]

My wife was driving home from work Monday night and got rear ended, BAD! She stopped on I-70 for a backup (at one of the usual spots) and the person behind her didn't see her stopped and hit her, at what the other driver said was probably the posted speed (65mph !) Good news is that Shannon (wife) has no serious injuries, nor does anyone else involved. Bad news is that Shannon is really sore, bruised, and upset. Link to pics of car:

http://picasaweb.google.com/BrianXL/BMW_Wreck

It's also sad because we both really loved that car and had planned to keep it for a long time. So far their insurance company (USAA) has talked the talk, we'll see if they walk the walk. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a long drawn out exercise in stupidity.

Seems to be the season for rear end collisions, eerily similar to AndyJ's situation.

[CamaroFS34]

Damn, Brian. Glad to know she's okay after that kind of hit. Justin and I came horribly close to a similar situation in his WRX when we were driving down to the Subaru Challenge back in November. There was a backup in a construction zone on I77 just north of Charlotte, and the three vehicles in front of me hit each other, with a Montero almost ending up being rolled by a Cadillac. I heard the Montero's wheels locked up, and was threshold braking the WRX and eyeballing the pickup behind me.... fortunately, he was paying attention too, and we both got stopped in plenty of time, but we were actually shaking worse than those who were in collisions, strangely enough.