{"id":646,"date":"2012-09-23T03:45:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2012-09-23T03:45:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T03:45:42","slug":"so-there-i-was-minding-my-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/porsche\/so-there-i-was-minding-my-own-business\/","title":{"rendered":"So There I Was, Minding My Own Business&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, minding my own business, actually driving the speed limit in moderate traffic on Penn Shop Road, a two-lane secondary road.  The cross streets all have stop signs, Penn Shop does not.  I&#8217;m taking my daughter to cross-country practice.  It&#8217;s about 6 PM.  I&#8217;m approaching an intersection at about 40 MPH, see a black Saab at the stop sign.  The driver looks right, looks left, and just pulls out into the steady stream of traffic.  Into me.  Whamo.  He T-bones the Porsche, hitting between the center of the passenger door and the center of the rear wheel.  We do a nice 180 across the line between two on-coming cars and come to rest facing a very surprised tow-truck driver who was previously behind me.  Because of the way he spun us around I had first thought he only caught our rear bumper, but sadly that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8178\/8007897177_a7f8f7f16e_z.jpg\" alt=\"crunch\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nobody was hurt in the accident, though my daughter has a sore back and ribs from hitting the center console.  The impact didn&#8217;t set off the side airbags and the car was still drivable, though the right rear wheel is a bit toe-in.  The cosmetics are easy enough to fix, the damage to the suspension and possibly the transmission is my biggest worry.  I&#8217;m not looking forward to having to deal with the other insurance company to get compensated for the &#8220;diminished value&#8221; of the car either. It could have been worse: Because we spun in the intersection we didn&#8217;t end up in the ditch that&#8217;s on either side of the road.  I should get the repair estimate Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8439\/8007904597_582de08403_z.jpg\" alt=\"other angle\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, minding my own business, actually driving the speed limit in moderate traffic on Penn Shop Road, a two-lane secondary road. The cross streets all have stop signs, Penn Shop does not. I&#8217;m taking my daughter to cross-country practice. It&#8217;s about 6 PM. I&#8217;m approaching an intersection at about 40 MPH, see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/porsche\/so-there-i-was-minding-my-own-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So There I Was, Minding My Own Business&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[24,204],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-porsche","tag-24","tag-porsche"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}