I'd be a basket case if I'd been driving the VX ... thank God I wasn't.
This morning I got a SOLID hit from behind. It was a total surprise since the big rig behind me was quite a ways back. Some guy/gal in a little silver car decided to change lanes way too fast & slammed into my right rear corner (never saw him/her coming). Just as I was about to pull onto the shoulder, there he/she was passing me on the shoulder. I pulled off behind him/her & came to a stop but he/she never did. He/she just kept driving on the shoulder until he/she disappeared around the bend. I didn't realize that he/she wasn't going to stop so by the time I tried to read the license plate, they was too far away. At that time I didn't even know what kind of car it was.
After I called the State Police, I went back & pulled the pieces of his/her car out of the travel lanes (too bad the front license plate wasn't included). Two of the parts had Mazda stamped on them.
There's probably not a snowball chance in hell of the Police ever catching them but I saved the pieces of the car just in case.
Haven't called the insurance company yet but I'll hold off for a while on the repairs to see if they do catch anyone.
So ... in your best Hew Haw voice, sing with me:
"... if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all ... "
I'll rig up a tail light tonight so I can keep driving the Eclipse till I figure out what's going to happen.