DAYS OUT: Ruby, R.I.P (rust in pieces?)

Sorry, Ruby!

Went back to the car today. To check we’d got all our personal stuff out, and take some photos for the insurers. Po’ Ruby! Only had her a little shy of a year. I was expecting we’d run her for 5-10 years.

Driver’s side.
Passenger side.
Driver’s airbag.

The driver’s airbag deployed full in my face. It was all so quick, it was over in an instant. After which I at stunned for a while.

Passenger side airbag, deployed.
Properly caved in.

The front of the car had, as I guess it’s designed to – thank goodness – absorbed the impact. I say thank goodness. It killed the car. The engine wouldn’t start, when I tried it, today. But mayhap it saved me?

Ouch! Bonnet bent back double.

The plastic grill with the Ford logo has been punched in, behind the radiator! The lights are shattered, and all over the shop.

Properly crunched and mashed up.

Whatever they make the body of, some cheap brittle plastic, by the looks of it, it shatters very easily and readily.

Ruby’s life blood, ebbing away.

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