The man was driving home from the Canadian border with the DS, on a stretch of highway that is virtually empty 99% of the time. He was driving my Lincoln Town Car (89, still in beautiful shape, no dings or dents at all!)
with cruise control on at 65 mph when a car came up from behind him, doing about 80 mph (his estimate). There were no other cars in sight either in front of or in back of him.

The car passed him and immediately pulled halfway into the lane in front of him and slammed on it's brakes and slowed to almost a full stop. He was able to avoid crashing into it by braking hard and pulling into the breakdown lane at the same time. He slid on the guardrail until he stopped, checked out the DS to make sure he had no injury, got out to check the car, and then realized the other car had sped off.

I isolated the DS in another room and heard his side of the story, which jibed with the one the man told me. The DS has a disability and is virtually incapable of lying, very detail oriented and tells his stories with no embellishment and a very flat affect. This was one of the very few times he has shown any emotion in his voice while telling me what happened. He was obviously very frightened when it happened.

I am of the opinion that this was one of those incidents where someone saw that it was a luxury car and tried to stage an accident and when it didn't work out, they sped off to avoid any repercussions. There was no opportunity to get the license plate number and they never saw the car again, even though it is a limited access highway on this northern stretch. He didn't have a cel phone signal to report the incident and decided that since he didn't have any details to give to the police, that he'd let it go and deal with me when he got home.

I'm so thankful that they are both ok, and that the damage is not too bad, but I am really angry that someone would do that to a car with anyone in it, never mind that one of the passengers was a child!!!

The worst part of it all is that I took off the collision coverage last month since the car is 20 years old and the insurance co. would probably never repair it, they'd just total it. I'm sad that such a beautiful machine was damaged through the utter stupidity of some @$$h0!e

Sometimes we here in the sticks think we are isolated from things like this but I truly believe that this was one of those attempts to stage a crash!