sheesh melbzetec - you were lucky. I was sitting in the passengers side of a light truck with a dropside tray that did a similar thing to a BA Falcon (which was parked on the side of the road) a few years ago and that opened the car like a big can opener (you could see the insides of the car) from the right rear taillight to the front door and ripped of the drivers side mirror as well. Another centimeter or 2 to the left and I would have been in hospital. It only happened because the guy in the right lane failed to let us merge lanes by maintining the same speed as us and the driver in truck was an idiot anyway. - the end result was my company paid for the falcon to be fixed a the smash repairer that was 100m from the scene of the accident and our driver got a written warning. I glad you and your family were not hurt!
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