# I've been rear-ended

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-rear-ended/411264 "2007-07-10T21:41:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-rear-ended/411264/11 "2007-07-10T23:45:43Z")

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I was rear-ended while driving our minivan last year. The other driver was in a rental, probably just picked up from one of the nearby lots, and IIRC in the middle of a phone conversation when he pulled alongside to see if I was okay. I was in the left lane preparing to enter a post office parking lot on the opposite side of the street; he failed to notice I wasn’t moving in enough time to completely move over. The van got a messed up bumper and a small dent in the liftgate whereas the rental’s crumple zone did just that.

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