OK, it was a Taurus, but bear with me... I feel your pain...
Got a new Sales car, a Taurus MT-5, paid for with my own money... in 1986 (first year of the center-high-mounted-stop-light)13 days old... I'm sitting at a red stop light thinking that with the van in front of me (spoiler with brake lights on it) and my 3 brake lights it'd really take an idiot to... check rearview... oh no... car with a flickering bouncy headlight coming in fast... BAM!
(ouch)
Takes the sheriff 20 minutes to get there, and when he interviews me he's laughing. The reason the one headlight was flickering? The woman driving (with her drunken boyfriend in the car) hit HIS POLICE CRUISER in the mall parking lot not 25 minutes before!
She paid. A lot.
Even more when the Sheriff took her and her twice-wrecked car and her drunken boyfriend home to her husband... but that's probably another story entirely...
(and hey - the Taurus 5-speed was a nice car... in 1985...)