I was on a surface street that went down under a freeway. As I went up and crested the top I was faced with a Red Light. I applied the brakes about 2 car lengths behind the limit line but skidded out into the intersection and hit another a 2015 VW Golf (gasser) . No one hurt and light damage to both cars.

My fault; I apparently was going too fast.


The other party was left with a paint smear mark on their plastic bumper cover and unknown damage underneath I was left with a dented right front fender and a cracked fiberglass part in front of the radiator with my light pointing down.


The car I was driving is a 1986 Chevy Cavalier that was given to me and took about $600 in parts several years ago to get it road worthy and to pass the emission test. Part of that expense was to fix while my Wife was driving the radiator plastic tank cracked and the engine overheated blowing the head gasket.


So the goal of the fix was simply to make it road worthy; not to restore it to perfect condition.
Note that the right front had been in a previous accident in the same area but I had been able to nearly pop out the previous dent and the front fiberglass part had been replace with one from the junk yard. However , this time I decided to fix the Fiber Glass part.


The Fiber Glass part was not too bad but you could not simply glue it back as it would not go flush.

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