Driving home from work early this morning, my older son was quite fatigued and apparently fell asleep while driving.
He had a very rude awakening when he ran into the back of a tractor trailer rig on I-75.
We are very thankful that he is uninjured except for a minor cut to his head.
I have yet to see the car, but from his discription, it sounds as though the Accord has run its last mile.
An airbag deployment does nothing to enhance the repairability of a fourteen year old car, and it sounds as though it was a fairly violent event.
It is great that relatively modern cars do such a good job of protecting their occupants.
Here is this young man just getting started and working two jobs while (finally) finishing his [censored] in chemistry who might have died in a similar accident in an earlier car.
Note that we have offered him our financial assistance with tuition, but he feels that he's taken enough of that and should now shoulder the cost himself.
We are really thankful that the car was apparently well enough designed to allow our son to learn the dangers of extreme fatigue and to have lived to apply that lesson.
Our son wasn't yet a teenager when we bought the car, and I still recall a Sunday drive to the dealer with our two boys and my wife to select the Accord and buy it.
It served us well, including its performance in this accident.
He had a very rude awakening when he ran into the back of a tractor trailer rig on I-75.
We are very thankful that he is uninjured except for a minor cut to his head.
I have yet to see the car, but from his discription, it sounds as though the Accord has run its last mile.
An airbag deployment does nothing to enhance the repairability of a fourteen year old car, and it sounds as though it was a fairly violent event.
It is great that relatively modern cars do such a good job of protecting their occupants.
Here is this young man just getting started and working two jobs while (finally) finishing his [censored] in chemistry who might have died in a similar accident in an earlier car.
Note that we have offered him our financial assistance with tuition, but he feels that he's taken enough of that and should now shoulder the cost himself.
We are really thankful that the car was apparently well enough designed to allow our son to learn the dangers of extreme fatigue and to have lived to apply that lesson.
Our son wasn't yet a teenager when we bought the car, and I still recall a Sunday drive to the dealer with our two boys and my wife to select the Accord and buy it.
It served us well, including its performance in this accident.
