So less than one year from my last one, i somehow managed to destroy another massive machine going at high speeds.

This time i was coming home from Santa Fe via I-25. I had the cruise control set at a very comfortable 75 (legal speed limit and that's about where my 94 accord got the best gas mileage.) and just enjoying the drive. Less than 30 minutes from the city, there's this SKETCHY looking van in the right lane. Not that that's uncommon here in new mexico, but it's only going about 55. I put the turn signal on to turn.

This is something i'd like to point out. When you're driving 75 miles per hour, turn signlas are important. Now, i'm 100% certian that my turn signal was functioning properly, as even after my car was destroyed, i could turn it on and lo and behold, it was blinking. Thusly, had the other driver in question been driving responsibly he would have had to see it.

Sorry, i digress. The other car in question, believe it or not, isn't the van. It was a car that was in the left lane about 2 or 3 car lengths behind me. MORE than enough room to let me over. I check my mirror, see the car, check the blind spot, check the mirror once more and it would APPEAR that by some miracle that the other driver in the state of new mexico is *ACTUALLY* letting me merge. This is absolutely shocking and i begin my trip to the left lane to pass the sketchball van.

As the front of my car is at about a 60 degree angle and well into the left lane, something goes pretty damn wrong. And not in the "a tree falls on someone and it's a terrible thing that couldn't be prevented" kind of wrong so much as it was "THE OTHER DRIVER DECIDED TO TRY AND PASS ME AFTER I SIGNALED FOR MORE THAN 5 SECONDS AND CLIPPED MY BUMPER!

well, when one is traveling at 75 miles per hour, you have a tendency to not be able to control said car. Thusly, i'm whipping around the freeway trying to calm the beast. I slam on the breaks. Only, what i realize 45 seconds later is that because of the cruise control and intertia, what i thought was the breaks turned out to be THE GAS PEDAL which caused my little car to top 100 mph.

I go into the median and try to get a little more control but that only hurts the situation as i'm still holding the gas pedal and there's loose foliage and sand and gravel and whatnot. So i continue into oncoming traffic and miss a car by less than 8 feet, into a barb wire fence, into another barb wire fence, and then into some kind of stump.

The fences took off my bumper, and thusly, said stump royally screwed up my car. Like, it was *bad* (but the turn signal worked)

as for the other driver THEY DIDN'T STOP! THEY KEPT GOING!

because of that, there's about a 70/30 chance that insurance is gonna shaft me and say that i shouldn't have been changing lanes. BS i know, but what are ya' gonna do?

The up side is that the score is now me - 2 death - 0 which means that when i DO die it's gonna have to be pretty spectacular for death to tie me or even win. I mean, sure, i could die of old age, but that gets him one point and i still have some sort of moral victory. If death wants to win on this one i'm gonna have to be pushed out of an airlock into space or hunted by a tribe of pygmies and burned at the stake or struck down by lightning while fighting off a shark AND a crocodile... while surfing... Or something like that.