Hi All,

My '91 745 was rear ended while parked last night. An older gentleman hit it - it seemed like almost the middle of his front end hit the driver's side of my rear end. The damage to my wagon *looks* incredibly minor - lost the two lower lights, some scrapes on the bumper, and a hole in the tailgate that looks like someone drove a punch through it from the inside (although the hole does not go all the way through into the inside). My car was in park, on the street, and it was moved forward about 1-2 car lengths. His pickup looked in pretty bad shape. The front end is shoved in at a V angle from where he hit my car - hood bent up, bumper completely smashed, damage all the way across to both sides of his front end. I don't know if it was driveable, the man was too confused to start the car again. I didn't see the accident, I was grocery shopping at the time. He was carted away by the paramedics, poor fellow.

I'm sure insurance will handle this all, but I was wondering if there are things that should not be overlooked. For example, will my car's moving forward in "Park" (automatic) be a problem for the transmission or anything? Also, the body doesn't look damaged in any way (except for the hole in the tailgate which still opens and closes fine), but I did notice a new "groan" from the driver's front door area when turning right at speed, and a new rattle in the front end somewhere between 50 and 65 mph - maybe I'm just paranoid? I've had the car about 6 months and it does have it's shared of creaks and pops anyway.

The spaces between the doors and body look reasonable and match pretty well between the two sides, except for the trim around the rear driver's side window does seem a little closer to the body than on the passenger's side. However, I'm quite sure this car has been hit before, also in the rear end, so that minor descrepency might not be new (paint looks just fine).

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Jenn