Having a valet take and park your vehicle is always a harrowing experience, but that’s because there are small instances where a valet driver takes a car for a joyride and it ends in disaster. That’s what one man is going through as Atlanta’s NBC affiliate 11 Alive reports how a valet driver allegedly took his CT5-V Blackwing on a joy ride that ended in a pretty decent wreck.
Joe Luck — an ironic name given the situation — finally got his dream car after a year-and-a-half of waiting: a Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing. But the dream ended fairly quickly the week of July 16, when Luck dropped his car off at the valet before heading to dinner in downtown Atlanta. Things took a turn for the worse from there.
Luck later told 11 Alive that he went outside to find that his car after dinner, which had originally been parked in front of the restaurant, was no longer parked there. The valet service told him that his vehicle had been sideswiped, so it needed to be moved.
What Luck saw when he got his car was done by much more than a sideswipe. “The side airbags deployed on both sides, and then the driver’s side seat airbag deployed also,” Luck said. “The rear quarter panels destroyed the rear driver’s axles off the car.
So, Luck, hoping to find out what really happened, took to looking at the Blackwing’s integrated Performance Data Recorder capture, which told a very different story.