Was driving into work and got hit. Crazy Monday morning. I am a little sore right now, but I am also thankful and happy me and my truck are escaping with little more than a scuff. I can't say the other car is as lucky.











I bought a bumper off of a member here, not sure of his screen name here, but he is also at the Dakota Durango forum as toy4whatever. This is a custom bumper he made for the Dakota. I am impressed. Didn't budge, and I get to see another day with my truck. Its actually still all a little unbelievable to me.

 

Looks like your hitch bar might have helped a little too! Looks like they'da just needed a hood till they punched a hole in their own radiator ^_^

 

That's aftermarket right or home built out of steal?

My factory one got hit like this; she had a little more damage; in a POS nissan and my bumper was bent in.. Cheap factory.. LOL

 

Custom made bumper, but by another forum member.

Now that the adrenaline has worn off I am hurting pretty good. My truck is looking way better than I feel.

 

You got out.. "My kneck.. My back.. Ohhhhhhh" right?

 

Holy **** that's awesome that the bumper held up like that. The other car is look at thousands in damage. Hopefully you're alright of course. I can't believe how much damage was done to the other car.

 

hope you are okay.....our dakotas are built pretty dam sturdy i also got hit earlier this year and my dakota was able to be driven home while the suv that hit me needed a tow truck...

 

nothing like having a REAL TRUCK BUMPER. how ever a guy that knew a lot said, if the bumper is TO heavy duty it will bend the frame and not the bumper.

 

Thanks guys, yeah I am getting around. Amazing how sore I am getting. He did hit me good, and the impact was pretty bad. I know the energy went somewhere, I am worried about the frame honestly. I think I will get an opportunity to have it looked at by a shop during the whole investigation process.

I got hit straight on, so we will se what happened to the frame. I am thankful though that I was in my truck.

Still, I've known more people than I'd like to that have gotten hit or hit something in a Dodge Ram, Dakota, or Durango and walked away from it in pretty good shape for the impact. Trucks can be replaced if they need to be, people can't.

 

The 2-nd gen Dakota was the last of the heave thick steal trucks if you get a good look at most cars/trucks now they are very thin skinned and plastic panels to drop the weight of the truck but then they do weigh a lot so good and bad.

I hope you are ok been in all to many bad accidents myself over the years day three is the worst.