Bad day for a Nova & the driver at the 2022 Woodward Dream Cruise.

[ROYALOAK62]

The story goes an elderly woman driving a SUV had a medical emergency and jumped the curb and hit a good looking Nova and someone sitting near by.
Guess the person sitting has a Broken hip, no word on the Woman.
As you can see the Nova is a total.

 

[63 dream'n]

Ew…………

 

[La Hot Rods]

Ouch!

 

[Phil Reed]

That's too bad.

 

[Seon]

What a shame. Hope owner has an agreed value insurance.

 

[62BillT]

My truck got hit on the way home from a car show. At least mine is repairable. Dealing with the Insurance was almost as bad as the impact. Got way less than it was worth (Progressive, her insurance). My truck is a '72 C-10. Hope everyone will be OK.

 

[boxerdog]

Anybody worried about the people involved?

 

[61-63]

I don't know how many times I've seen a picture like that where someone in a new vehicle t-bones a classic car at a cruise in by having their foot hit the gas instead of the brake pedal, a "medical emergency", or whatever. Burns my a$$ up every time I see it.

 

[Seon]

Years ago I had a fender bender with a dimple on the hood and Hagerty wanted to total it out. Went back and forth with Hagerty adjuster telling them I didn't want it totaled. Also was very difficult for them to return calls or emails.
So I decided to pay $5k out of pocket rather than totaling the Biscayne out.

 

[DaveN]

I saw the same thing happen to a beautiful 67 GTO newly restored when I went to a cruise to pick up my newly purchased 63 Convertible. A big old Buick went off the highway down an embankment and just destroyed that GTO so sad to see thankfully no one was hurt but what a waste of that beautiful classic. I also had my 60 2dr hardtop out and was rearended at a stop light. Also had 59 Biscayne 13000 original miles backed into at a store parking lot, needless to say kind of scared to take my stuff out anymore.

 

[Seon]

DaveN, remind me not to ride with you. J/K

 

[425/409ER]

Wow, that sucks. Make them fix the car like it was or shake the inc. co. until their pockets jingle. Ouch my back really hurts officer.

 

[DaveN]

hahaha I'm telling you I'm a marked man.

 

[64chevydude]

No medical emergency. Old lady hit a guy on a bike then stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
Nova was parked

 

[blkblk63ss]

I bet the owner of that 55 was releived!!!

 

[boxerdog]

There are a lot of people out there driving that shouldn't be for various reasons. I'm not quite sure why they would refer to old age and incompetence as a "medical emergency"? Driver stupidity killed Graffiti once around here because none of the nicer cars wanted to cruise with the idiots. Now we have cruisers and wannabe "street outlaws" looking to be media stars for a day or so. I'll just leave my junk home and watch the action, I guess.

I would be more worried about the spectator that was hit. The Nova was a nice piece, hopefully the owner can use this as an opportunity to build something even nicer (notice I didn't say Build Back Better) .

 

[409gang]

BEAT-ER-OUT, good gasser material!!!!