03-28-2021, 11:00 PM
TL;DR: I bumped a car once. I definitely felt it.
I was going to enter a one p-way 55 MPH road from another one-way. I had a yield sign, the other road had no traffic control. There was a mid-‘60’s Olds 88 in front of me (this was in the mid ‘70’s). I was watching the Olds, waiting for it to jump out into the not-too-heavy traffic. I saw the driver make his move as well as the space he was going for. My space was just a few seconds later. I hadn’t moved because I needed all the run-up room I could use. I made my move right into the back of the Olds whose driver had decided not to complete his move. I was driving an empty belly dump weighing about 26,000 lbs. We both stopped, he got out of his car, looked at the damage, then got back in his car and beat it out of there. I suspect he had no insurance. I checked the front of the truck when I got to the gravel pit and there was no damage, not even a scuff mark, so I must have hit him pretty squarely.
Of course the Olds was a two ton car, not a one ton Mini. But there is no way the Canadian driver didn’t feel the impact.
I was going to enter a one p-way 55 MPH road from another one-way. I had a yield sign, the other road had no traffic control. There was a mid-‘60’s Olds 88 in front of me (this was in the mid ‘70’s). I was watching the Olds, waiting for it to jump out into the not-too-heavy traffic. I saw the driver make his move as well as the space he was going for. My space was just a few seconds later. I hadn’t moved because I needed all the run-up room I could use. I made my move right into the back of the Olds whose driver had decided not to complete his move. I was driving an empty belly dump weighing about 26,000 lbs. We both stopped, he got out of his car, looked at the damage, then got back in his car and beat it out of there. I suspect he had no insurance. I checked the front of the truck when I got to the gravel pit and there was no damage, not even a scuff mark, so I must have hit him pretty squarely.
Of course the Olds was a two ton car, not a one ton Mini. But there is no way the Canadian driver didn’t feel the impact.