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Body and Bumper Repair on a Chevy Astro Van



Main : Misc : 2004 Rear-Ended Astro Van
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On the way home from one of our backpacking trips, David got rear-ended on the freeway. Below are pictures of the wreck and the process of fixing up the back end of his Chevy Astro van.
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Apparently, the driver of the car that rear-ended David fell asleep at about 11:30 p.m. while we were heading home from our backpacking trip. He ended up rear-ending David's Chevy Astro Van with about a 20 mph impact. We were following in another car, so Christina (driving) saw it all. The rest of us were sleeping, etc, but woke up in time to see tail lights disappearing off the side of the freeway. Emergency vehicles responded quickly. When the car hit, David's seat back fell flat backwards, so he lost control for a second but was able to sit back up and pull off to the side of the freeway. He and one of his daughters have some minor back problems, but the chiropractor is taking care of them. Anyway, after rear-ending David, this car took off across the whole freeway, narrowly missed a cement post under an over crossing, went up over a mound of dirt about 5 feet high, and flew through the air and landed on a railroad track. He slid down the track a long ways and ended up upside down. By the time we got near his car, he had crawled out and was fine, just a shook up - miracles do happen.

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