Had a similar thing happen when an older lady ran into the back of my Dodge Ram 2500 4X4. I was at a complete stop waiting at a Red light when she ran right into me at 30+ mph...She never even touched her brakes. Don’t know if she was lighting a cigarette, trying to find a song on the radio, or talking on her cell phone….but I do know she was not paying attention.

My truck didn't move an inch...hers bounced back 15 feet after hitting square on my trailer hitch bar from behind. In fact, the impact was so slight from my perspective, that I didn’t even know what had happened at first. .I heard a noise…but didn’t even see the car back there until a few seconds latter when the steam began to rise out of her car. The impact didn’t even break the filaments in my tail lights.

This was no “smart car”…She was driving a Cadillac Seville...and to look at her vehicle you would have thought she ran head on into a Caterpillar front end loader. The front of the car was totally destroyed all the way to the windshield. Her air bags deployed which is probably the only thing that saved her.

While she was being checked out by the EMT's the police officers were laughing privately and shaking their heads...they commented to me "Please don't take this the wrong way, any accident is serious and we don't mean to make light of it....but look at your truck and look at her car...LOL"

Her insurance company later called me to make arrangements to pay for the damage to my truck (I had them pay for a new trailer hitch assembly just to be on the safe side) and the adjuster told me that they had to total out their insured’s car.