2nd 4RUNNER rear ended in a year.

Wow...so what's the story?

Sorry to hear that.

 

That’s a bummer.
I hope everyone is okay!

 

Hope all involved are O.K. They make more vehicles everyday. Inattentive driver behind you?

 

cripes....hope it wasn't a case of someone on their cell....

 

Highly likely

 

No words.

 

Wow, that sucks. Hope no one was hurt - vehicles can be replaced. I might start putting on my hitch mounted bike rack. I was rear ended when I had my FJ, and the rack got one tiny scratch. The Volvo that hit me was totalled. It's a little bit of a PITA, but good defense against the idiots that drive while eating a bowl of soup, etc.

 

Texting is as texting does.

 

Can't even count the number of times someone has rear ended me/my vehicle over the years. Which made going with a swing out a no brainer for me. As pictured, we even added a few hole punchers.

 

I was sitting dead stopped for about 10-15 seconds. Not sure if she was on the phone but she never hit the brakes. I had my trailer hitch in. I’ve never been hit that hard after being in several wrecks. Be on the lookout for another 4wd, V-8. Or a GX 470 with low mileage less than 4 hrs. From Birmingham.I know it will be like finding a unicorn but anyway.....

 

That wheel held up well considering. The mounting contact patch looks a little odd though.

 

Hopefully everyone is OK. After being hit 3X in a previous truck I keep the ball hitch in full-time. It does help keep people off the rear end a little. Wouldn't have mattered here.

 

It was in and took me 20 minutes to get it out of the receiver that was completely broken in half.

 

Hope everyone had full coverage.

 

Fortunately everybody did

 

that is pretty crappy. automatic driving cars will be a definite for the future. Humans dont seem to understand that driving is currently a right and a freedom. gotta stop driving like fools, and smashing into things. you know these computers are going to have better safety numbers right out of the gate.

 

I knew a guy who got rear ended and had a lot of back issues after. His next vehicle was F250 pickup and he put on something called iron cross bumpers which weighed lets say 1,000 lbs or some crazy amount of weight. Then he bought the largest trailer hitch he could find and put that in. He and I used to eat at the same steakhouse each week and one night he showed me this truck. It was surreal; if anything hit the back of this truck it was game over for the person hitting that truck.

 

Lots of people think the trailr hitch is a help, but it focuses the impact in a small area, generating more force transferred to the crossmember and actually increasing your chance of whiplash. A large impact area, combined with the cushioning built into crump zones allows to slow the kinetic force being translated to the driver.

The point of the equipment isn't to save your truck, it's to save the people's lives.