My family's 1990 Ford Tempo met an untimely end over the summer of 2000 when I was rear-ended in Longview, Washington, by an uninsured driver, ending my plan to use it as a time machine for my no-budget remake of Back to the Future. The car was declared totaled, and I took these pictures at the shop it was towed to when I went to clean it out (all of the time machine decoration was still inside, and some of it belonged to a friend). When I was rear-ended, I was stopped in traffic, and was pushed into the car in front of me, resulting in some minor damage to the front of the car, but most of the damage was in the back.
The Honda Civic that rear-ended me didn't hit me squarely. I was stopped in the left lane and I think the driver tried to go around me but was going too fast. This put all the rear damage on the right side of the car. Looking straight from the back, it didn't look too bad.
The damage looked much worse on the right side. Even this picture doesn't really do it justice; the right rear quarter panel was actually pushed forward into the rear door, jamming both passenger side doors shut. This was why this 10-year-old car was declared totaled.
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