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Hello,
I got into a pretty crazy one truck accident yesterday morning. Truck is destroyed.
2022 F150 Lariat
Driving on the highway in the left lane and out of no where the truck went hard left into the jersey barrier as if someone shoved me from the back right. I then shot a across 4 lanes doing a 360 into the opposite side jersey barriers. I hit there face first again but then it spun around one more time and smashed the rear driver side corner.
Not one person hit into me nor did i hit anyone else while this was going on. So lucky!!
I thought someone clipped my right rear corner while trying to pass me and it did like a police pit stop on me. But the two witnesses that pulled over only saw me coming across the highway and swerved to miss me. they never saw the first part where I hit the jersey barrier on the left side of the highway.
When I went to the tow yard to get my stuff from the truck. The tow truck driver said my control arm or arms looks like it snapped. And explained why my tires were in different directions and why I had no control whatso ever then this happend. Truck just had a crazy mind of it's own.
Sooooo anyone ever hear of a problem with these?
Insurance company is going to ask me a bunch of questions and need to offer them a couple ideas of why this isn't my fault.
I would talk to the insurance folks and press them to have someone inspect the control arm. Someone who does that vs. just an estimator who will write it off and move to the next one.
You might have to lawyer up to get that done.
But, if no one is injured, what about property damage? You gonna get hit for the repairs to the highway stuff?
All kinds of folks are interested in stuff like this as it makes the one side and breaks the other.
I would talk to the insurance folks and press them to have someone inspect the control arm. Someone who does that vs. just an estimator who will write it off and move to the next one.
You might have to lawyer up to get that done.
But, if no one is injured, what about property damage? You gonna get hit for the repairs to the highway stuff?
All kinds of folks are interested in stuff like this as it makes the one side and breaks the other.
Lucky you're not broken. Good luck.
That's good advice. Thank you.
I might have to wait to see who they put at fault and if they cover it without penalty to me.
If it's a hit and run it's covered. If it's a blown tire it's on me. If it's something like the control arm I'd guess it's on ford. So I will have to wait till I hear back. But need to offer them ideas. Other than "no idea what happened"..
I don't think I'll get hit with any property damage. Unless they say this cost money to fix that they definitely won't do. (there are 3 of these same marks on the barriers.)
And any debris, they just swept off the side of the road.
The Stateys didn't even take a report since I was the only one involved. And from start to finish where I hit the walls and my truck was towed and they were giving me a lift to work.. Was only 20 mins. Fastest thing ever. Get the highway opened back up and traffic moving.
Last edited by jayhitek; Nov 9, 2024 at 07:02 PM.
Reason: Correction
Another guess is the control arm broke from the first high speed cement barrier impact. There is a thread or two here in one of the sub forums of similar vehicle behavior that they were thinking might be psycho computer braking, like the stability control module freaked out.
Another guess is the control arm broke from the first high speed cement barrier impact. There is a thread or two here in one of the sub forums of similar vehicle behavior that they were thinking might be psycho computer braking, like the stability control module freaked out.
I'm thinking that too about when the control arm broke. And sinve you mentioned the brakes.. When I jammed on the brakes it's like nothing happened. No skipping feeling of when ABS kicks in. No loud braking screaching sound.. Just spinning and going real fast into that 2nd wall.
My truck will sometimes do this when adaptive cruise is enabled with lane centering. It’ll catch the shadow of a nearby overpass/on ramp or the center lane and I guess it thinks the road is turning due to the dark shadow and I’ll have to evasively correct it so I don’t hit someone or something ie: exactly like what you explained. At highway speeds a computer controlled lane change is abrupt. Ive experienced this enough at the same shadowed area on the highway at certain times of the day multiple times to avoid that lane on this few particular highways I frequent.
also: I’ve had 2 different 2021 f150’s and they both did this. Over 120k miles logged between the two trucks.
One other thing you might want to persue is the Event Data Recorder. It will show wheel position, throttle, brake, etc. Could work in your favor, especially if YOU can get ahold of it first.
One other thing you might want to persue is the Event Data Recorder. It will show wheel position, throttle, brake, etc. Could work in your favor, especially if YOU can get ahold of it first.
Where is that located? The truck is dead as a door nail as it sits in the lot.
The data recorder is usually under the center console or seat. A regular code reader wont work to access the data. The police accident investigation unit can access it, but they usually only do so with a warrant on a severe injury or fatality crash. But it doesn’t hurt to ask. The dealer’s computer may be able to access it.
There are no known control arm issues on these trucks that I’m aware of. No complaints on this site either. Did you get a recent front end alignment?
This was posted on another forum and it was acknowledged that a leveling kit had been installed.
Who knows what happens during that mod as far as everything getting torqued correctly.
What happened to this guy sucks but there is no evidence of a faulty factory part causing this. Hopefully insurance takes care of him.
I didn't acknowledge a lift kit. Someone saw the picture and said it looked like it.
But that being said, I have no idea if it had one or if that effected the initial impact or not.
Insurance found me not at fault. And that's all I care about.
Just hoping to get enough money from them to replace my truck with the exact one.
I didn't acknowledge a lift kit. Someone saw the picture and said it looked like it.
But that being said, I have no idea if it had one or if that effected the initial impact or not.
Insurance found me not at fault. And that's all I care about.
Just hoping to get enough money from them to replace my truck with the exact one.
It would be interesting to try to recreate the event with another truck with adaptive cruise and lane centering and see if the software is the culprit. I know mine tries to dive right or left under certain conditions, particularly when it encounters an exit lane.
