Oh MY GOD.
I feel for ya , I had almost the exact same accident happen to me. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt=":cry:" title="Crying or Very sad" /> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_evil.gif" alt=":evil:" title="Evil or Very Mad" /><!-- s:evil: -->
...1998........ My first mazda she was a 87 b2200 short box reg cab and it was my first vehicle, I was eighteen,it was the love of my life, I had a tweed interior, static drop, she was in primer, and ready for paint. I was gonna drop it off that night for paint.
Heres the freaky part , I tell the story almost exactly the same, I got chills reading your post.
My accident happened Oct 31 Haloween night , I was waiting to pull into a drive through Bank ATM for a buddy that was with me.
I was cranking RAMMSTIEN and sitting in the inside lane waiting to turn left with my turn signal on waiting for traffic to pass by, I got rear ended also, but by a F350 1 ton truck the accident dudes say he was doing at least 80kms per hour, the guy was a total dupe he was picking up a tool off of the floor. He didnt even touch the brakes at all. he was higher and I was lowered and the impact, accordianed the box and bent the frame crushing the box into the cab, my head hit the back window so hard I thought it must have broke. My truck was driven into oncoming traffic the first car just barely hit me tearing off the bumperette, the next car hit me head on. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_mad.gif" alt=":x" title="Mad" /><!-- s:x -->
My body will never be the same, I had really bad whiplash. I have not been able to do what I used to, and yeah I was spitting out some of my teeth also. My case took 5 years to settle on with the insurance company. I could not get a Mazda they are rare up here, for replacement. I only got $2200 for my truck. Obviously it was written off. I have chronic back pain now and my hips are always out of alignment. Hence Im stuck with a sales career.
Well thats how it happened.
Dan