Heckuva Monday Morning!

Left at 5:00 AM Monday headed to Truman for day of vacation; about a two hour drive for me now. Headed east on 116 and car in my lane; speed limit of 60. Good thing road has great shoulders. Avoided the head on collision by about a foot, but dumb&^% side swiped my trailer. Took out wheel, wheel well, bent axle, and left rear brake light. Almost $1,400 damage to my trailer. Had to of missed my boat by inches. 20-something year old driver was distracted because he was texting!!! I have a great mechanic and I should be back on the water by Friday night though. Look out...crazy people out there! :yikes

Wow bad news glad no one was hurt!I hope the young man was well insured

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Originally Posted by Hookin'&Cookin'

Wow bad news glad no one was hurt!I hope the young man was well insured

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That would be scary! Glad you're ok! Did you or the LEO take the young mans phone away and put it somewhere "safe"?

Glad you're okay. But one horrible waste of a perfectly good vacation day!!

Some one was looking out for you, glad it was just the the tire and wheel.

Glad no one got hurt. There are a bunch of idiots on the road and it just seems to get worse. There are some days when I have to go some where that I can't wait to get home because of the idiots on the road. This morning when I went to town between 7:00 and 7:30 on a narrow 2 lane road I met a truck with a guy driving that had a red flag and was waving it out the window. Behind him was another truck that was pulling a new corn/soybean planter that stuck over the yellow line on one side and over the road edge on the other side. Guess he was to cheap to have it delivered and decided to try and have a wreck pulling it home. That is what semi's and flatbeds are far.

To be quite honest. The reason I'm selling my motorcycle is that exact reason. Texting kids and soccer moms....Oh and to buy more jigs and flies.

Glad you weren't hurt! I think that young dude would have had a knot on his head where it hit the steering wheel!

Man, that sucks but sure glad everyone is OK! by the looks of that wheel, he gave your trailer a pretty good shot. be sure to have your mechanic closely inspect the spring, shackle mounts and the trailer frame for square. I'm not saying there is for sure damage there, but a shot like that to a car wheel and there is almost always secondary damage. if that axle isn't pretty dang close to square, it will eat tires and not track as good. hope your back on the water soon!

Lucky you were not hurt. I had to pull our boat around town on Monday and I was looking for someone to take out my motor at any minute.

I used not to be afraid of traffic or just driving thru town. Now I am almost afraid to pull out of the driveway. Seems like no one pays any attention anymore. We stopped by the south side Sam's Club this afternoon to get some gas here in Springfield. There are clearly marked arrows for what directions you are to pull into the gas pumps. Sam's Club has marked everything so that all cars and trucks are going only one way to get gas. And the pumps are placed wide enough for someone to drive between the cars and trucks fueling. Well I pulled in behind another car that was gasing up. And I got out and starting fueling. Next thing I know is the car in front of me gets done fueling and pulls out. Well another guy pulls in behind me and is waiting to fuel. Then this jerk pulls straight in front of me head on and starts fueling going the wrong way. It was all that I could do to pull out of the tight jam that he had put me into. Paula rolled down her window and tried to explain in a nice way to the lady sitting in the car to next time follow the arrow directions when fueling there. The lady got kind of nasty with Paula so I finished it. Yep they were going the right way if they think that big arrow pointing at them in front of their car was wrong!! LOL!

And with all the rain the last few days here in Springfield we have noticed the large amount of drivers not using their headlights when they have their windshield wipers on. Its the law folks follow it.

Glad you made it through that without getting hurt.

They also go the wrong way in parking lots. You are driving the right direction according to the arrows and here comes an idiot going the wrong direction. Also you can be backed half way out of a parking spot and some one will drive right behind you going down the lane or someone will start backing out not looking that another vehicle is already half way out. Or one of my favorites its the tailgater. You don't make me go faster you make me go slower.

Dang man you was lucky, I see lots of them texters out there, crazy things they do...

:yikesWOW!!! It could have been much worse!!!! I hope the young man was issued a driving while texting award.