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The other night Nicole and I got into a small accident. We were driving to her Dad’s house, and we hit a raccoon. By the time I saw it, there was no way for me to stop or swerve out of the way. As soon as I saw the raccoon, it was literally right in front of us. It was a huge raccoon. It went under the left side and I could feel the left side car come off the ground. The sound for me was the worst. I still feel bad about the whole thing. The insurance guy said if it wasn’t me then it would have been a wolf or a coyote. That kind of thinking doesn’t really mean anything to me because at least the raccoon being killed by a coyote is a part of nature. Me running over the raccoon with my car has nothing to do with nature.

I took my car to the same dealership where I purchased the car. They fixed it really fast and did a great job. The whole process was painless from submitting the claim to the insurance company to the dealership only taking three days to fix it, thanks AAA. The damage was actually extensive. The cost of the repairs totaled about $1,952 and included a new bumper. I had a big scratch on the other side of the bumper so that got fixed too. Thank goodness I have just a $100 deductible. I wish the dealer would have removed the hair that is lodged into the frame underneath my car though.

See the pictures below to see how much damage a raccoon can do to a low profile car. If a raccoon could do almost $2,000 worth of damage to my car, I can’t imagine how bad it would be if I hit something bigger like another car. In one of the pictures you can even see fur embedded into the paint on the bumper.

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