jmagana928

I picked up my 2016 Fusion SE company car on Thursday, Oct 29 and took it home. The next morning I drove to the airport to fly to West Texas for a meeting and then flew back home the same day. My flight was delayed 5 hours because of bad weather and I didn't get out of the airport until 25 minutes after midnight. Ten minutes later, I was hit by a drunk driver who ran a red light as I was making a protected left turn. The drunk driver had previously hit another car just North of me and was fleeing when he ran the red light at my intersection and hit me. The drunk kept going and wrecked his car several hundred yards south of my location. Multiple witnesses told the police I was making a left turn with a protected green arrow when the drunk driver sped through the intersection and struck me. The drunk driver fled the scene but left his drunk, passed out buddy in the passenger seat. Turns out the drunk driver was an illegal alien, with expired insurance, and is more than likely already back in Mexico. Four airbags deployed in the Fusion and I only sustained a scratch on my forehead, a bruise on my left shoulder and on my abdomen from the seatbelt, and two chemical burns on my forearm and my stomach from the airbags. I was going maybe 5 miles per hour when I started turning left, then I saw a flash of headlights and airbags. My 2016 Fusion SE was totaled. The Fusion was pointed North when I started the turn and ended up pointing SSW after the crash. The drunk driver was likely going 65-75mph through the red light according to witnesses. The crash could have been a lot worse, but the Fusion saved my life, or at least from sustaining life threatening injuries. I am flying to Houston tomorrow morning to pick up a another Fusion - a 2014 model with 26,000 miles that has been parked since one of my co-workers left the company a few months ago. I'm feeling pretty safe that I'm getting back in another Fusion. I had a Fusion in 2008-2012, then an Explorer until I ordered the 2016 Fusion which was delivered on Oct 22nd. I had the 2016 Fusion for 2 days when the drunk driver totaled it. It is now on its way to the salvage yard for auction with 63 miles on the odometer. It is not only a terrific looking vehicle, but a very SAFE one.