I must report the passing of my 6.0. It was a great truck, and gave it's life protecting mine.

377K, and I was going to wax it this weekend.



What does it take to do this kind of damage to a Super Duty? A Kenworth. Both had to be towed away. He swung wide into me. I had nowhere to go and no time to do it.

My chest really hurts, but got checked out and appears it's just a bruised sternum. Hurts like hell, but I'm still here. Wife took me for a coffee after the ER and I couldn't lift the mug. Man my chest hurts. And my heart aches for my old truck.

 

That sure stinks! Glad you weren't hurt worse!

 

Thanks

Hopefully I can sleep tonight. I feel like I took a sledgehammer to the sternum.

What a solid truck. It was quite a hit. In some ways I liked that truck more than my '17.

 

Your'e truck took a beating, and it sounds like you did too. Hope you heal fast. The truck can be replaced, but it's sad to lose a good truck. Can you imagine if you had been a little econobox car?

 

Being able to walk away from the ER is better than not.
Get well soon and sorry for your loss.

 

Glad you are OK, and sorry about the loss of your truck! What are your plans to replace it?

 

Hurt hasn’t peaked, but you’ll get over. Glad it wasn’t worse and my condolences for your loss.

 

Man I'm glad to see and hear you're ok.

Devastating loss on the truck.You always spoke well of it and it seemed to hardly give you any problems.

 

Man you’re right. I’m worse this morning. Not a wink of sleep.

They gave me a list of things to watch out for. Nothing on the danger list is hitting me - just more chest pain. FWIW the airbag didn’t go off. Only the belt stopped me from eating windshield. Worked, but not without a price.

I’ll have to replace it with something. Most likely another F250. I bought that one new with 15 miles on it March ‘04. Ran like a scalded cat. 😔

 

I was up with you. I got a pneumonia vaccine yesterday morning, started to fell it mid-afternoon while standing and talking to someone, last night was not going to sleep.

That kind of hit can peak 12 to 36 hours out. Belts are primary, bag secondary protection. With an angular hit, the deceleration in-line may have not triggered the bag.

Sometimes it's better the bag did not go off, the head gets a change in directions both ways, brick wall forward, then brick wall against the headrest. But the belt bruise is not an easy situation either. I know some people in NHTSA who believe the belts should be wider (somewhat bodyweight dependent) so there is a wider dispersion pattern of the deceleration load. The population had less body mass when the designs were first dictated starting in the '60s. I'd be OK with a 6" belt myself thank you.

Just watch for secondary issues over the next few days. Your neck took a high strain trying to keep your head attached to your body during the deceleration, and the bruises across the chest from the belt are something that should dissolve slowly. The body does as well as a 6.0 oil cooler, it doesn't like debris in the circulating fluid. Only take the pain relievers the doctor recommended.

Early in my career, I used to moonlight in the accident reconstruction field.

 

Great. Tow truck didn’t take the truck to my friend’s shop, per my instructions. So at this moment, no idea where my truck is.

 

It is a racket. They take them to yards where you have to pay to get it out. Charges rack up each day. Hopefully they didn't do that to you, but it is the common practice.

 

Man.... Black1.
I just signed in and seen the pic. I am glad you weren't hurt worse. Looks like you took a hell of a shot. My condolences to, on your truck.
As was said before we can replace the truck but not ourselves. I'm glad your OK.

 

Truck found. Took a solid hour of phone calls to find it.

My buddy has his wrecker on the way. I’m lucky to count him as a friend.

Chest aches, but getting my feathers up got my mind off it for awhile.

 

Looks like it will buff right out......... Yeah the sternum is not fun, give it time to heal.