Well this just sucks.

2 trees.
1 fire hydrant.
1 F*d bumper
1 tweaked control arm
1 tweaked hub
1 thrashed cat (not the animal)
1 ticket
1 retard


Yeah. Just wrecked my car.
Agh this fuckin sucks. At least the cop was cool about it, actually a very nice cop. but damn... and right outside school too....

"Hey Chris? WTF?!"
"Dude!!"
"Hey man What happened?"


Argghhhhhhhhhhhh...........

now for the damage estimate.

Learn how to drive.

Thanks for that advice.
Yes I know I'm not the greatest driver. But Ice will fuck you when you've got alot of torque.
Oh well.

What all happened?

Coming out of the school parking lot I hit accelerated a bit too hard. didn't wanna slow the oncoming traffic.
Then Ice... Fish tailed, corrected *Shoe got caught* oops gas! Slip over brake. By this time i just jumped the curb. Tire goes. Tree 1 goes, Turn to get back on road, Fire hydrant goesFlat tire gets stuck on curb and kind of fish tails me into the road, second tree down.
stopped against the third tree.

Hope that made sense.

Aftermath.
*Step out of car, check engine Looks good, she'll run*
*Step two, *Ring* Hey mom, Wrecked my car, can you call a tow truck?*
*Step 3, Hi officer? I wrecked my car, adreess *blahhhhh*
Officer arrives "What happened"
"I Explained"
"Alright here's the deal, Roads are slick, You prolly shouldn't have been accelerating so hard, Need your info and stuff"
yada yada usual stuff.


BTW: I'm 17.

*Pull car off road, city people come, clean up trees.*
*Tow truck*

Allthe usual stuff
I end up with a 153 dollar ticket (Doesnt go on record Yay!), a nice conversation with the cop
And found out Fire hydrants dont spew water when you run over them :P

Anyhow thankfully the cop was really cool about it, he'd actually just been in a wreck too, and was real weasy on me cause im inexperienced :)

I thought maybe you hit a retard or something.

^lol

:lol:

hehehe No the retard is me, For not letting off the gas.

Hydrants dont do the geyser thing?

Well damn, guess I can cross that off my to do list...

Ok hydrants do spray everywhere when knock off. They are full of water to begin with. The only time they wont is if the water to them is shut off or if they dont break completely off.

Sucks about the wreck BTW. What do you drive?

Ok hydrants do spray everywhere when knock off. They are full of water to begin with. The only time they wont is if the water to them is shut off or if they dont break completely off.

Sucks about the wreck BTW. What do you drive?

hmm... I'm gonna go with A) the guy who actually ran over a hydrant and B) the cop who would know this sort of thing on this one. Because apparently they don't spray everywhere. or wait, did it not actually break off?

Let's put it this way, The fire hydrant ended up 3 feet away.
No they don't spray water, They are not full of water. the valve to open the water is about 20 feet underground and rotates when you turn the "nozzle". (The cop told me that bit, so You've got both sources right there ;) )
If you want a Geyser go to hollywood.
(BTW: I Actually told the cop I was really disappointed it didn't geyser :P )

I was driving my 79 sedan deville. Hence the relatively little damage.
I'm gonna see how much of it I can fix myself. What I have listed their is just what my inexperienced eye could point out while the tow truck driver was hooking my car up. There's a lot of yellow paint under there.

I guess I'll be finding out in the morning if I'm injured or not.


P.s. Don't tell green peace I killed two of their trees.

Dood that's too bad. you fully covered?

When i wrecked the officer was really nice to me too. i felt kinda bad tho cuz i put grandma molly in the hospital. my car took a month to fix and cost $9.8 thousand dollars. another grand and they wouldda titaled it, but they said it was worth 16K, so they wouldn't. gawd i wish they wouldda. ida made $ off it. heh.

yeah i was turning onto my road a couple winters ago in my grand am. I slid right into a fire hydrant and knocked it over. I wanted to see the water spew up too.

Thank god for old strong cars :D Damage estimate (P&L) is only 900 bucks :D so that plus towing and ticket is only about 1100, not too bad

And nope I wasn't fully covered. Insurance should cover the city damage (Trees, grass and fire hydrant).

Not as costly as it could have been.

Hydrants dont do the geyser thing?

Well damn, guess I can cross that off my to do list...

What a let down. I always hoped i would see one spray water into the air after some dipshit crashed into one...not implying you're a dipshit

ha ha soon we will see someone trying to make a hydrant spew on the news gj guys :P

It really depends on the system that your town/county/city runs for the water. Here the FD comes the tool or you need to have the tool to open the valve on top of the hydrant. Someone I know hooked me up with a job assisting checking the hydrants here. It was really cool. I got a CB, lights, and a badge. Fortunately some idiot kid in a brand new M3 w/ diamond package smashed into a hydrant that was going to be replaced later in the day. Less work for. On the system in that area water was constently in the hydrant and just needed to hook the hose and had water flow. Which means full time running water. If hadn't just gone under to shut the valve off to that one it would have caused major problems. Most beach towns run a full time system since they have a constent source of water(the ocean). My friend hit a LIPA(LongIsland Power Authority) 1900 in body work 3k for pole plus 600 increase on insurance for this year only. It is costing him nearly 5500 for it all. Not he was running on bald BFGoodwrich G-Force Drag Radial T/As which where esentially slicks + 310/325(Hp/Trq[to wheels]) of american power + worked transmission+ 3.73 gears+showing off for girl= crash into pole and shit load of debt. Its not worth driving stupid ever. Even in dry weather stupid crap can get you in trouble.

Well my car puts down about 320 Tq... which makes it extremely eager to lose traction, and slick raods+cold weather = not happy times.

Never heard of a hydrant spraying in real life. Guess they might at beach towns, still never seen it tho.