Wrecked it
Was visiting friends in Salt Lake with my wife and kids. Left around 7:00am yesterday morning. It had been raining overnight and the rain was snow/sleet as we crested the pass approaching Park City on I-80. A car had presumably spun out ahead and was being assisted by an emergency response truck with hazard lights indicating traffic to move right. I was traveling in the left lane, and as I was downshifting to slow down, a car about 30 yards ahead of me and in the lane to my right began to spin. The car behind that one, also to my right then began to spin and the two made contact before hurtling into my lane and giving me no way out (left side of Highway has very little median there). I slammed into both cars. Thankfully the family is ok, although my 4yo was pretty upset by the whole event. The other drivers were both young women (18-20 id guess) and both were shaken up being their first accident, but physically ok. Their vehicles fared much worse. A friend picked us up and we were able to book a flight home pretty quickly, so everything worked out.
The truck will be shipped back to Denver this week, where it’ll be inspected and it’s fate determined. I was surprised the airbags didn’t deploy given the impact at ~50mph. The front fascia hood fenders etc were obviously damaged and both fenders pushed rearward making both front doors very difficult to open more than a few inches. I couldn’t tell the extent of the damage under the hood - the radiator was a bit crunched and it looked like the crankshaft may have bent, but hard to tell. Didn’t see any obvious frame damage but the radiator supports were pretty crumpled (I’m sure by design). The wiper fluid reservoir was sliced in half by something.
It was due to be dropped off at RSG for a lift, airbags, tires and sliders on Friday! Womp womp.
Unfortunately, this isn’t my first rodeo. Nearly 6 years ago my wife and I hit an elk at high speeds in Montana. That truck (identical to this one which replaced it) had 8k miles on it. Every airbag in the vehicle from front to back went off and $27k in damages led to insurance paying me out to buy a new one. I love my rig and am very torn about what outcome I am rooting for here.
(Photos of our previous accident below)
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