Re: Ever broken a windshield from a pothole?

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

Good luck! That SUCKS!
	-Josiah
	Weare, NH
	'84 GTI
	'87 QSW
	'86 Golf
	http://bork.hampshire.edu
	Self-Employed VW Mechanic (for the summer) : )



On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:09:04 -0400 16v Jason <jason@scirocco.org> writes:
>It's been one of those weeks again.
>
>Pennsylvania is famous for its bad roads, but this is rediculous.
>
>Saturday afternoon I decided to take the Scirocco out for a drive 
>since it
>hadn't been driven for a week (I had surgery on my right hand 
>following a
>dog bite last week so I was confined to my Automatic all week).
>
>So, I'm cruising along with a shit-eating grin on my face, having 
>forgotten
>how sweet 7000rpm sounds.  Doing maybe 60mph (45 or 55 zone, don't
>remember), and I'm rounding an ever-so-slight right hand bend.  In 
>front of
>me all of a sudden I see a grey strip across the road, about 2 feet 
>wide.
>Looks like someone dug a hole across the street and filled it in with
>gravel.  I brake. Hard. Let go of my brake pedal right before I hit 
>it,
>maybe doing like 45?
>
>****BBBAAAAMMM*****
>
>I've never felt such forces in a car without being carried off in an
>Ambulance afterward.  
>
>My sun visor falls in my face, the sunroof handle falls, and the CD 
>Player
>turns itself off.
>
>I pull over to the side of the road.
>
>The casualties:
>2 Hockenheim Rs, 15".  Bent slightly at the hub (nasty vibrations)
>My 1-year-old windshield.  4" crack where the mirror is glued on.
>2 Boge TurboGas shocks.
>
>...and who knows what else.
>
>I went back with my friend who's a photographer for a regional 
>newspaper--
>and I'm trying to get these pics published.  Whatever asshole filled 
>in the
>ditch didn't put enough gravel in, so it sank, leaving a 2-foot-wide,
>4-inch deep ditch.  While photographing the ditch, we saw Jeep after 
>SUV
>after full size pickup bottom out over the bump... drivers 
>subsequently
>pulling over and inspecting the damage on their cars.
>
>Spoke with PennDOT this morning, and I need to supply pictures of the 
>loss
>scene, pics of the damage to my car, and either 2 estimates for 
>repair, or
>1 repair bill.
>
>Anyone have any experience with getting PennDOT to pay for being 
>ASSHOLES?
>
>ARGH.
>
>
>
>
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