kluge

Totally my fault. Ran into a minivan during stop and go traffic at some 5-odd miles per hour. Tried pressing the brakes, but as far as I could tell, I didn't feel the car deaccelerate. Who knows, it was one of those split second things.

First accident that was my fault EVER in many years of driving

Rear bumper of the van was bent slightly. (Prays insurance won't be a problem)

Only my front bumper is damaged, nothing with the fenders, etc. The bumper itself is bent slightly with a gap of several millimeters on all sides, and hell, I'm vaguely considering just using some low-quality touchup paint to fix the places where the paint rubbed off because really, the spots are tiny. Car managed to run fine the rest of the way to work, no odd sounds.

HOWEVER...there's a little bit of liquid leaking out the underside of my RX8. It's clear, and as far as I can tell, it's also odorless (not 100% sure of the lack of odor, my nose sucks). It's coming from just barely left of center, and from under the dashboard area (not under the hood area). Anyone have any ideas what this might be? It could be just from the air conditioner, but I'm mildly paranoid right now.

Just venting, really

GT34

Sorry to hear about that. In some cases I've heard of brakes failing, even in stop and go traffic. I've had it happen in my tow truck while I'm towing something. They just failed on me and I couldn't stop and ended up driving up the side of a hill to stop. However there are a lot of people out there that try and use that to get out of being at fault for insurance.

As for the clear liquid, that might be the rad or cooling system leaking water. If you don't use any coolant. That, or if you have headlight sprayers you could have jogged a water line loose. Check the coolant level in the system. Otherwise it sounds like you might need a trip to a shop to get it checked out.