My wife had an '18 escape until last fall when some dumas decided that he could make a left turn on a red light before the traffic with the green light made it through the intersection. Unfortunately for my wife her Escape was the recipient of the previously said dumas' dumb decision. Her vehicle took the impact right in the driver's door, yet she pretty much walked away with nothing more than some bruises and bush burns from the seat belt. Needless to say, the Escape was a complete total.
You don't realize all the damage that can be done from what initially looks like somewhat minor damage until you look closer and below the surface. Once the door was pried open you could begin to see the structural damage. Then a walk around and inspection of body gaps it became quite clear, the entire vehicle had bent as it absorbed the damage.
In another incident, my sister-in-law, who also had the same generation Escape, was hit head-on in a 55 mph zone and also walked away. She was fortunate enough to have had a couple fellow motorist at the scene who were both a nurse and first responder. Both could not believe that after such a violent impact at that speed she was able to pretty much walk away.
Sadly, this isn't the norm, but it says a tremendous amount about the safety standards and the efforts the automakers go to in order to produce these vehicles. I can't thank the engineers enough for their efforts, simple because it's an enormous challenge to keep weight down to meet other government regulations and still increase the vehicles capability to protect its occupants.
The fact that many here have had accidents and while their vehicles may have been totaled, they've walked away with minor or no injuries at all. Our Mavericks are doing what they have been designed to do, sacrifice themselves for the preservation of us and our families. It's not an exclusive situation, having a body shop on the premises where I work, I see it frequently; but it's good to know that while we're spending sometimes what stretches our budget, in some way we're really getting what we paid for -- and yet hoped we'd never have to discover. It still sucks that what looks to be so minor is so costly that it renders us without our vehicles and back to the starting point of finding another vehicle -- or worse, participating in the waiting game for another Maverick.
You don't realize all the damage that can be done from what initially looks like somewhat minor damage until you look closer and below the surface. Once the door was pried open you could begin to see the structural damage. Then a walk around and inspection of body gaps it became quite clear, the entire vehicle had bent as it absorbed the damage.
In another incident, my sister-in-law, who also had the same generation Escape, was hit head-on in a 55 mph zone and also walked away. She was fortunate enough to have had a couple fellow motorist at the scene who were both a nurse and first responder. Both could not believe that after such a violent impact at that speed she was able to pretty much walk away.
Sadly, this isn't the norm, but it says a tremendous amount about the safety standards and the efforts the automakers go to in order to produce these vehicles. I can't thank the engineers enough for their efforts, simple because it's an enormous challenge to keep weight down to meet other government regulations and still increase the vehicles capability to protect its occupants.
The fact that many here have had accidents and while their vehicles may have been totaled, they've walked away with minor or no injuries at all. Our Mavericks are doing what they have been designed to do, sacrifice themselves for the preservation of us and our families. It's not an exclusive situation, having a body shop on the premises where I work, I see it frequently; but it's good to know that while we're spending sometimes what stretches our budget, in some way we're really getting what we paid for -- and yet hoped we'd never have to discover. It still sucks that what looks to be so minor is so costly that it renders us without our vehicles and back to the starting point of finding another vehicle -- or worse, participating in the waiting game for another Maverick.
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. And that'll only go up the more they disassemble it and go underneath it.
