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"Honda Civic... is good car. Very good car."

seawolf17 Aug 15 2007 12:53 PM

So said our mechanic a few years ago... and it absolutely saved my wife's life (and perhaps mine) this morning. Dropped the baby off at day-care, then started making our way to the doctor's office. (I had back surgery two weeks ago, and I was going to get the staples taken out of my back.) We were stopped at a no-turn-on-red red light, waiting to turn right so we could grab a bite to eat before the appointment, when all of a sudden, two cars in front of us crashed into each other at some enormous rate of speed, sending one of them -- a 1993 Chevy sedan -- spinning and rolling through the air right at our windshield. It came down, hood-first, onto the driver's side of our hood, shoving our car back 30-40 feet and spinning to a stop on its roof just inches from the driver's side door. We're both okay; we both have a little neck pain, and my wife, who was driving, bumped her knee and will have a nice little bruise. The car is in incredibly good shape for having had another car land on it; the hood, bumper, and front panels are all crunkled up and our windshield was cracked, but incredibly, the inside of the car completely escaped unscathed. All the emergency workers said we -- and really my wife, especially, since it landed on her side -- were incredibly lucky. The scariest experience of my life, and Honda's just made a lifetime customer out of me. Thank you, Honda, for building a great vehicle.

Edgy DC Aug 15 2007 01:00 PM

Wow. Glad to hear you're OK. Thank the Bradys for teaching you to buckle up. Have that next whiskey on me. Almost afraid to ask, but how did the others turn out?

DocTee Aug 15 2007 01:00 PM

WOW. Thank goodness you had already dropped mini-wolf off at daycare. play the lottery now, friend-- it is your lucky day.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 15 2007 01:17 PM

Holy crap! That flying car will probably be a sight you'll never erase from your memory. Did you have a fleeting instant when you thought "This is it!" or were you too scared to think? Did your life "flash" before your eyes?

metirish Aug 15 2007 01:22 PM

That's fucking incredible.....so glad you both are OK,hope the others are too....has the experience put baseball in perspective for you....only joking...great to see you here... oh hows the back after that...

soupcan Aug 15 2007 01:24 PM

Wowzers. Glad you're okay. Now you know how that pitcher Offerman took a swing at felt.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 15 2007 01:27 PM

yeow

seawolf17 Aug 15 2007 02:13 PM

No, nothing ever flashed before our eyes or anything, except for a giant car coming right for us. Scared the bejeezus out of us, but we're really in surprisingly good shape, especially considering my recent surgery. There's really not much either of us remembers from the actual incident, because neither of us was really looking up at that instant (we were discussing where to eat). I heard the collision, saw a car in the air, then there was a lot of motion and noise... then silence. You kinda take a minute to assess that you have all your body parts, but once I saw the overturned car next to us, my first thought was "Oh God, it's going to blow up!" (I've been playing too much "Godfather" on the Wii lately.) I jumped out of the car and yelled at my wife to do the same... she climbed over the console and out the passenger side, because there was a pale, white arm sticking out the window of the overturned car outside the driver's door, and neither of us wanted to get too close. The driver and passenger of the overturned car were jaws-of-lifed and ambulanced out of there, so I don't know what happened to them; and the woman from the third car was a hysterical mess, so the police squirreled her away quickly also. We just kinda stood there and answered questions for an hour or so until my sister showed up to drive us to the mechanic. Went to the doctor -- late -- and got my staples out, and he said everything looked good. So that's nice.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 15 2007 02:16 PM

yeow

Kid Carsey Aug 15 2007 04:18 PM

Jumping Jehosephats! I'd be a wreck if I came that close to me and my wife cashing in our chips in that manner. I've grown to hate driving for the most part, there are too many people taking too many risks and no one gives a crap about who's on the road with them. Maybe I'm just get old and cranky(ier). Glad ya'll are ok.

dgwphotography Aug 15 2007 08:18 PM

WOW. Just wow. I'm glad you and Mrs. Wolf are ok.

Nymr83 Aug 15 2007 08:25 PM

glad you are both ok. get a good lawyer.

Gwreck Aug 15 2007 08:41 PM

Glad to hear you're ok! Curious -- what intersection? (I usedta drive a lot in your neck of the woods...assuming of course that you live near the University).

Willets Point Aug 15 2007 09:27 PM

Very glad that we still have you with us.

TransMonk Aug 15 2007 09:33 PM

Thank goodness you and your wife walked away unscathed.

seawolf17 Aug 16 2007 06:29 AM

The corner of Echo Avenue & North Country Road, right on the Miller Place/Sound Beach border. It's sort of a weird long X-shaped intersection, with side roads jutting in on three sides. [url]http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=echo+ave+%26+north+country+road,+miller+place,+ny&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=24.813828,58.710937&ie=UTF8&ll=40.950538,-72.986705&spn=0.011507,0.028667&z=16&om=1 We were sitting at the light on Echo, facing northeast, waiting to turn right. Thanks for all the good wishes, everyone. I feel great this morning; my wife feels like hell, and hurts pretty much everywhere you can hurt.

smg58 Aug 16 2007 08:04 AM

Wow, I've been that way a few times. Congrats on your escape! PS I like my wife's Honda Civic even more now than I did before I read this...

Rockin' Doc Aug 16 2007 10:58 AM

'wolf, I'm glad that both you and your wife escaped your traumatic ordeal relatively unharmed.

cooby Aug 16 2007 11:20 AM

Glad you're okay, we've had several Civics too and loved them all. Hope your back's good too

Johnny Dickshot Aug 16 2007 11:29 AM

So what was it about the Civic that spared your life as opposed to say, a Celica or Altima?

seawolf17 Aug 16 2007 12:18 PM

It was the fact that we were driving a Civic, not a Celica or an Altima. I'm sure those are both wonderful vehicles in their own right, but neither of them saved my wife's life yesterday, so I'm kinda partial to the Civic.

Centerfield Sep 04 2007 09:20 AM

Holy crap. Just saw this now. Thank God you and your wife are ok.

seawolf17 Sep 04 2007 11:19 AM

Thanks CF. Got the car back on Friday... it looks brand new. HUGE thumbs up to Matt's One Stop, who did great, efficient work.

Methead Sep 04 2007 01:04 PM

For some reason, I just saw this too. Crazy story, glad everything turned out all right.