Wrecked my work truck on Monday afternoon

Thats crazy that you walked away from that. I'm so glad I'm riding in a Toyota!

 

My buddy just flipped his Dodge Ram the other day, im glad to hear that two good people survived roll overs.

 

Details!

What air bags deployed...

What major structural members failed...

Once turned up, will/did she still start up and move!

 

It's should buff right out.

 

Once i read the part where you were OK
just like many others, i was like
wow, nice tie down with the ladder.

but once again toyota not only builds quality, they build safety.

 

LOL. Yeah do watch for injuries in the next week or two. The body gets pumped with adrenaline in a situation like that, and it takes a while to wear off, and for injuries (back, neck) to show.

 

jeez, glad you made it out ok

 

Glad to hear your ok.

 

OK......so why did they hit you? Did they run a STOP sign, drunk driver, etc?

 

Im glad your ok

If it was a auto, Id love to know where it ends up. Id like to buy it!

 

WOW man, thank God you are ok.

 

Glad you made it out okay.
Of course stories like this about Toyota will NEVER be seen on the main stream media.
They only like to bash Toyota............

 

Sorry brother about your Taco getting total... BUT HEY they can always be replace glad you made out alright.

 

Holy shit .

 

I think it only had the air bag in the wheel and dash. No side curtain air bags. Not to sure about the seats..... they may not have the bags there. I'm going to go look at it on Thursday, I'll check then.

My 2010 Taco has all the airbags. Plus stability control, I wonder if that would have helped at all?

None of the air bags in the 2008 AC went off.

 

Yup it is an auto and the motor was still running after the crash.
I shut it off before I left the truck.

Thanks for all the posts.... much appreciated.

 

try to start it again, cause when I flipped mine on its side the engine was still running but I turned it off then got it flipped back on its wheels I tried to start it again and it was seized up. I would think that toyota would have put oil pressure cut off switch on the engine but I guess not. That really disappointed me.

 

I was wondering when someone was going to ask.

I was traveling on a highway I695 in the fast lane. Fairly heavy traffic, but moving. The car in front of me slammed on their brakes, I slammed on mine. Car in front swerved to the left to avoid a bumper cover, I swerved to the left as well. We both made it around the bumper and got back in the fast lane. By then we were both down to about 50mph. The car behind me nearly hit the bumper, swerving to the right, she lost control and started sliding to the right, bouncing off the rear tires of a loaded tanker (full of concrete powder of some sort. Then she immediately shot to the left towards the Taco. Hit the Taco in the right rear rim. Putting me instantly in to a left hand slide, the Taco hooked and I started to flip. I think I rolled 2 1/4 times. The driver of the car behind me is being charged for the accident. She sort of walked away as well, I didn't see any obvious injury. She walked to the ambulance.

This explanation of what happened is not in full detail, I didn't feel like writing a novel at 1:15 in the morning. You all should get a good idea of what happened

 

I don't think it will be that bad, I feel fine now, just a little tight in places.
The rollover felt like a rather bumpy roller coaster ride. Not too bad.
Would I do it again? I'm not afraid to still drive.
We'll see. I keep ya'll updated.

Thanks,

 

No structural failure I noticed. I don't know if its in my gallery now. The left front ball joint or control arm looks like it snapped sometime in the roll. I never tried to start her again.