Reply #55: Of course, it wasn't as expensive as this:

[SeattleGirl]

Happened 3 months after I got the car. I was driving on the freeway, and a dog wandered out into the road. I slowed to avoid hitting it (extremely light traffic in that area, thank God), but while I avoided the dog, I was rear-ended by a Dodge Ram pick-up!

Nearly $9,000 damage. The other driver's insurance company wanted to total the car, but I talked them into paying for the repairs. The really cool thing was, neither me nor MrSG was hurt much (and thank goodness, the other driver and her two children weren't hurt either). And, ugly as the car looked, it still drove fine. Didn't get pushed out of alignment, or anything. The worst thing was feeling really embarassed at the way people looked at us after we were able to resume our trip.
:blush:

Just prior to buying this car, I had a Nissan Sentra, and while I liked that car, I absolutely shudder to think about what could have happened to us had we been hit while driving that car!
:scared:

The body shop I took it to was fabulous. Can't even tell it was so badly damaged.