A car hit my tree
Bark scraped or torn off one side down to pale wood, sometimes with a flap still hanging. A gouge or a split running up or down from the impact point. Paint, plastic, or chrome embedded in the wound. Soil pushed up or cracked on the side away from the impact, and turf torn at the base. The tree standing at a slightly different angle than it did. Weeks later, sap or dark wet staining running down from the wound.
Within days
The living tissue that moves water up and sugar down is a thin layer immediately under the bark, so a wound that looks like a scrape can still have killed a wide strip of the tree's plumbing. One crash produces two separate questions: whether the tree survives the wound, and whether the impact cracked the stem or loosened the tree in the ground so it may come down. The second question is the one that matters this week; the first plays out over years.
What it usually costs
Normally a hazardous tree removal job: $800 to $5,000 around Indianapolis, depending on size and access. A range, not a quote.
A car hit my tree by town
- A car hit my tree in Indianapolis56
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- A car hit my tree in Plainfield24
- A car hit my tree in Brownsburg25
- A car hit my tree in Speedway48
- A car hit my tree in Lawrence61
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- A car hit my tree in Greenfield29
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- A car hit my tree in Fortville45
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- A car hit my tree in Cumberland45
- A car hit my tree in Franklin19
- A car hit my tree in Bargersville27
- A car hit my tree in Mooresville25
- A car hit my tree in Camby24
- A car hit my tree in Martinsville12
- A car hit my tree in Danville23
- A car hit my tree in Pittsboro30
- A car hit my tree in Whitestown31
- A car hit my tree in Lebanon19
- A car hit my tree in Sheridan25
- A car hit my tree in Cicero31
- A car hit my tree in Shelbyville14
Other tree problems
- The bark is falling off my tree
- The top of my tree is dying
- There are carpenter ants in my tree trunk
- My tree splits into two trunks and it looks like it's coming apart where they meet
- They dug and graded and parked right next to my tree during the build, and now it looks bad
- The trunk is cracked / the tree split down the middleurgent
- I think this tree is dead
- Something stripped the bark off my young tree
- My tree is dropping leaves in July like it's already fall
- I think my ash tree has that beetle
- My tree stood in water after the yard flooded and now it looks sick
- A long vertical split opened up in my trunk over the winter
- There's a big mushroom growing out of my tree
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree
- Half the tree is dead and the other half looks fine
- There's a big branch hanging in the treeurgent