The boyfriend and I were driving to *owes to get some lumber. So I had my SUV hooked-up with a little 10ft trailer like this:
It was hooked up to my brake lights and everything. I stop at a red light behind a few other cars. I'm stopped, talking with the BF, when
Whump! Whole car shakes!
I look behind me and realize how close this guy in a large Ford Company-style van is. Yup, he hit the trailer. And he was on his cell phone.
I signal and he followed me to the closest parking lot. The boyfriend checks the back of the trailer, undercarriage of the car, and the hitch. Guy in the truck looks embarrassed and said he was just drifting forward and didn't even notice the trailer because it sits so low (he couldn't see it over the hood of the van) and he actually thought HE had been hit until he saw me yelling! Boyfriend and I agree nothing is damaged (Guy's van's front decorative plate was bent), but I did tell the guy how I had been about to kill him if there had been! Guy apologized again and we all left.
If the guy hadn't been drifting and hadn't noticed the trailer, it would have been worse I think. While at the Store I bought those driveway reflector stakes that I'm going to attach to each corner of the trailer and put flags on.
Gawds.
It was hooked up to my brake lights and everything. I stop at a red light behind a few other cars. I'm stopped, talking with the BF, when
Whump! Whole car shakes!
I look behind me and realize how close this guy in a large Ford Company-style van is. Yup, he hit the trailer. And he was on his cell phone.
I signal and he followed me to the closest parking lot. The boyfriend checks the back of the trailer, undercarriage of the car, and the hitch. Guy in the truck looks embarrassed and said he was just drifting forward and didn't even notice the trailer because it sits so low (he couldn't see it over the hood of the van) and he actually thought HE had been hit until he saw me yelling! Boyfriend and I agree nothing is damaged (Guy's van's front decorative plate was bent), but I did tell the guy how I had been about to kill him if there had been! Guy apologized again and we all left.
If the guy hadn't been drifting and hadn't noticed the trailer, it would have been worse I think. While at the Store I bought those driveway reflector stakes that I'm going to attach to each corner of the trailer and put flags on.
Gawds.
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