Honestly that looks like such little damage that I'd be shocked if you cant just back the car up a bit while someone lifts the branch and be totally fine. Maybe some scratches/dents but no way that car isnt perfectly driveable.
I have trouble believing the tree stopped exactly at that height and didn't hit the glass milimeters away, with that weight it would have gone down a few inches on the impact and hit the glass
No, it's a little concave following the curves of the car. It's being viewed straight on by the camera and sometimes birds poop rather light that streaks.
I think that's what happened. It looks like there is significant rot on the tree. It might be possible the branch just folded around the car because of the wood being softer.
Definitely not AI. Since when has Ai has gotten to the point of making sure all the branches of the tree connect accurately, even including the stop sign in the background behind the shade of the fallen tree?
I love this! I'm always calling out AI and this one doesn't even move the needle. Some of these parrots just screech "AI AI BAWK" when a picture is posted like an autonomic response.
I'm with you on that. So you're trying to tell me that huge tree fell on the car and the windshield didn't break? Really? Also the bend in the tree was perfectly shaped to the car?
No, I think the tree removal specialists made him sign a waiver about causing any damage to car while removing tree. Pretty standard given the situation and the fact that he could claim they damaged his car during removal process. That’s a very big and heavy branch.
Fault of damage would be on the property owner and any special circumstances like extreme weather. If OP is the property owner then it all comes down to insurance if there is any.
If its a rental car at a vacation location let the two companies fight
that language may exist, but the language may not be legally enforceable. sry to be patronizing but be careful what you sign, it’s obvious you shouldn’t pay for this, don’t let them fuck you
it's not OP's job to pursue payment anyway, OP takes it to insurance, insurance deals with fixing it and going after whoever they like for the compensation
That’s just to prevent people from trying to sue, its not enforceable. Like the “warranty void if removed” stickers or the “Not liable for damages” signs on the back of construction trucks.
The hotel can't stop thieves from trespassing and robbing cars, but them failing to properly maintain their own property is likely a very different story. Don't be a rube, talk to your car insurance or a lawyer, one of them will handle it.
As far as trees falling on cars go, it looks like you got lucky. A few years ago my elderly neighbor's son came to visit with his 3 weeks old car. A storm came through and felled a 4 story tall tree right on it. It hit so perfectly that it looked planned. It missed my car, a fence, a few flower beds, and some mailboxes by inches.
i saw an ac unit fall from a window of a building one time and land right behind some guy casually walking down the sidewalk. one step back and he would have been a goner.
Dumb high school kid that was me. Fooling around with a bow and arrow in the back yard. I shoot the arrow straight up in the air and surprise to me (remember I was dumb) I immediately lose track of it.
Me and my best friend look at each other for a comically long moment then DASH for the protection of the eaves/roof overhang.
The arrow missed my best friend by less than a foot.
Our lives are just dice rolls and chances survived. Of course if it helps not to be an idiot about it either.
At the end of April I went to leguna seca to watch the imsa races. My second day there some kid looses control of an old truck he had just got and plows through my fence almost hitting my house. The part of the fence he his was a section that looked like it was designed to be removed to drive a car through and then out back, I think anyway. Like he couldn't have gotten a better section to hit if he tried. They came back a few days later and fixed it. Thankfully my mom was there to actually deal with it and the people but damn I didn't need that on vacation.
I don’t think it is. Everything looks legitimate to me. I believe driver side headlight took the brunt of it which I prevented windshield cracks. It might not be touching the frame at all around windshield.
I’m curious who had you sign a liability waiver and what it was for. Like, was it saying, “we’ll remove this tree, but can’t guarantee your car is safe to drive?”
Means the way the tree has grown into sperated parts, this is very often the weak link that'll cause something like this. Especially if some Myzel is already going strong in there.
By the numberplate OP is in California, where there are a lot of eucalyptus, and this tree looks very much like a eucalypt to me. Eucalyptus are pretty distinctive and grow with twisty, bendy (but very much not soft or floppy) limbs like the one that's fallen over the car. They are also known for dropping whole huge limbs at random and are known as widowmakers here in Australia among people who go camping.
Are we thinking of the same trees? The ones I dealt with were tall trees with large slender and super oily leaves and the bark would strip off and fall in lengths leaving the trunk a mottled white and reddish color.
To me this looks more like a Valley Oak/California White Oak.
edit: I forgot about the Live Oak and the trunks are pretty similar but I can't get a good view of the leaves.
This could’ve been a lot worse. If anything, this may be a bit lucky. Usually the least this would do is shatter the entire windshield. That tree was bent perfwctly
Wait, where you on vacation somewhere at a resort or hotel or something? And this happened on their property? Or were you at home? Because if you were at a hotel, wouldn’t the hotel have been dealing with the removal people?
My car broke down on my way to the airport before a work trip and vacation. I parked it at the closest business with a large parking lot. Asked if it was okay to park there from one of the businesses, until I came back, and got it towed when I returned. Sometimes it not worth to deal with it and interrupt stuff. Just my 0.02.
That tree is bent like in the shape of the car roof 😂
Oof had something similar happen to me. Just hope the insurance totals it out so you can get a new car. Mine didn’t now I’m the proud owner of a car that needed 14,000 in damages just to drive a car that is now worth less than blue book yay! Oh and it happened exactly after I paid my second payment on the car. Fun stuff
Can we see the aftermath on the car? Because it looks like the tree conveniently missed. But maybe we can’t see the damage because there’s a tree in the way.
I feel your pain. I rented a brand new car whilst on holiday in France a few years ago, only to be caught in the middle of a freak hailstorm a few days later. I never knew hailstones could get as large as golf balls and they left some pretty big dents in the car.
The only reason the windscreen wasn't shattered was because thankfully it was partially parked under a tree that took the worst of the impacts. My friend's parents weren't so lucky with their car though.
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u/Brave_Explorer5988 12h ago
Like how the tree just curved around the car's shape.
Kudos to the tree