Funniest accidents (i.e. stupidest driving errors) you've encountered

[GL]

The funniest accident I saw (and nobody was hurt..it wouldn't be funny then), was when myself and about 20 others were waiting for the bus to come at a major intersection. There's a few really pretty girls beside me and some car drivers are taking notice. Out of the blue, this riced out Civic - white, lowered, Batmobile spoiler, Compact Disc diameter exhaust, and Mugen stickered - comes buzzing it's way to a stop at the red light. He's making a left turn. The windows are slightly tinted but the guy rolls down the passenger side window and eyes the girls who are already cracking jokes but smiling so that he thinks they dig him. The light turns green. The coast is clear, so he floors it. Tires screeching, the next set of events are unbelievable. Everybody at the intersection is watching - the guy just invited attention. He takes the left turn too wide and too fast...and BANG crashes right against the curb of the right lane he turned into. But the momentum is too much, he can't drive standard it seems, and the plastic skirts are shredding. For a few hundred feet the car is just hugging the curb like a bowling ball stuck in the gutter. Finally, the car just seems to collapse to a rest on the curb. 5 seconds...then laughter. I've never seen a group of about 20 strangers laugh at somebody's expense, but this guy made for the exception. He never even got out of his car. He just called from his cell phone. They couldn't even tow his car as both right-side wheels had collapsed inwards - one of those flatbed trucks was necessary to take this heap of riced out nonsense off the curb.

Anyways, that was the funniest accident I'd ever seen...it's probably not funny to anybody reading it...guess you had to be there. Anyone else have a stupid accident story to tell?

-GL

 

[Viper GTS]

An old lady at my church drove over 4' embankment in the parking lot. Actually, it's a vertical dropoff from the parking lot to the next lot down, which is grass. Her car ended up nose down in the grass, with the rear bumper sticking WAY up. She was pretty embarassed, I'm sure, but it didn't hurt the car.

My other story involves rice. A friend of my dad's drives a huge 4x4 truck. Some little ricer was tailgating him on the way home from work one day. Closer & closer, faster & faster just riding his ass. So, he kept speeding up. He knew up ahead their was a large pavement drop from construction that went all the way across the road. He took it fine, the rice boy's speed racer died in a shower of sparks from it's guts getting ripped out.



Viper GTS

 

[Eeks]

I think GL just wanted to metion the hot girls he was next to

 

[Yeeny]

Ok, your asking for it. My husband is a terrible driver. On our first date, he was parellel parking, and backed into a truck. The guy got out, and he was Chinese. All he kept saying was "What, you stupid? You stupid man?" My husband just kept apologizing, and finally the guy waved his hand at him and said, "You go away stupid man, I done". I almost died, I was so embarrassed.

One time we pulled up to a redlight, and in the lane next to us, a car hit the one in front of it in the rear. My husband looked and said "Holy sh*t, did you see that hon? That guy just hit the other guy right in the a**. He no sooner said that and he crashed into the car in front of us.

There are many more, but those two were the funniest, after they were all over with.

 

[GL]

I almost suffered the first-date accident syndrome. I was driving my girlfriend home from our first date and it was snowing and very cold. I was really excited and was talking with her and looking at her and failed to see the 4 way stop sign up ahead. By the time I did, I knew I would skid and I did. I skidded about 1 metre past the stop sign...just enough to really piss off the other drivers who luckily noticed me before they decided to go through the intersection.

-GL

 

[perry]

Sitting in a 5 lane road. One right, two straight, two left. I'm in the right side lane that turns left. I always scan my mirrors when I'm at a stop. Guy on a moped comes up behind me in the left side left lane, he's maybe 100 ft back. Cab comes zooming up. SMACK. Knocks that moped right over. Being the good samaritan I am, I hop out of my car, cell phone in hand, only to see the cab driving (Arabian guy) SCREAMING at the moped driver. Couple other people were out of their cars hollarin at the cab driver to shut the h*ll up so that they can see if the moped driver is alright. Kinda funny, only because the moped dude was alright.

 

[axelfox]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAH

 

[BiggieN]

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE RICE-A-RONI'S?

 

[cxim]

little white haired guy & his wife pull up to the boat ramp near here in their new Caddy. Look at the water for a while.

The dude puts it in drive thinking he has it in reverse

right into the drink... they get out ok with help from some guys fishing, but the car is a total loss...salt water is a bi#ch on new cars

 

[Vikaden]

I cut the turn too hard at a gas station and nicked the concrete island that was guarding it, it cracked by bumper, that was a stupid early driving mistake.

 

[NFS4]

GirlFriday, those are you too funny...tell me some more

 

[cxim]

wife of a guy with a business next door was in a suburban in the parking lot. Thought she had the suburban in reverse to backup.( not an old woman either.

She took out the motor cycle of a girl that worked in another offic plus a big hunk out of the building wall.

For some reason, people in Florida have problems with parking lots.

Not a year goes by that some one does not end up in a swimming pool ( last year at a motel ) or some where else strange.

a couple of the stranger ones, not especially funny but strange, non the less.

Old lady near Miami went over the side of a bridge / overpass a few weeks ago. She was found a couple of days later alive & basically OK. Her car was stuck upside down in a tree. The family had been looking for her. She was found by a road maintenance worker.

4 -5 yrs ago cops were looking for a stolen car & dragged a canal. They found about 3 or 4 stolen stripped cars under the water. They also found one with the remains of a young woman. At first they thought is was a murder/foul play episode.

After the investigation, they decided she had been drunk leaving a club & drove into the canal & drowned. She had been missing for about 6-8 months & the cops were not looking for her at the time. She was wearing her seatbelt, had her purse & the doors were locked, etc

 

[bigjon]

I pulled up to a light behind 2 cars, then realized that the car in front of me had rear-ended the car in front of him. I then proceeded to try to change lanes and get around them when the idiot lady BEHIND me in brand new cherry-red Volvo peals out of line and cuts me off to get around the wreck first. Of course this pissed me off somewhat but I held my cool and pulled up behind her at the next light (only about 100 feet down the road). Well, she kept eyeing me in her rear-view mirror, and when the light turned green she floored it, right into the back of the station wagon in front of her!!! I was dying laughing as I pealed out around her and headed home.

 

[FiddleDD]

I just started teaching my son to drive..taken him once driving..YIKES...everyone wish me luck <giggle>

good thing there is a nearby Superwallmart going up and their parking lot is paved now and I can take him on that without him hitting anything.

 

[Lorax]

why do the rice stories seem the funniest?

 

[desy]

OK
When I was 18 in my first car I spent the day practicing 180 Ebrake skids . So were heading out to a party that night on a gravel road and I miss the turn an figure no prob whip it around look cool.
Well I didn't compensate for the 5 people I had in my car then and put it 90 into the ditch into a natural gas line service, which is basically a mound of dirt protecting the head. Ooops
Also because this was basically right in front of the party I had an audience of say another 4 or 5 vehicles who had to push me off this natural gas mound.
Not to mention I just finished having the car painted not long before that and it pushed all the metal under the bumper.
Yes I was quite proud.

 

[Pastfinder]

I watched one guy break the belts in two right side tires as he tried to parallel park his SUV. The guy was beyond drunk, his blood I think was 100% booze.

 

[nateholtrop]

Being the coolest kid with an 89 grand marquis with balls to the wall acceleration! I decided on a rain soaked nite to try to whip a donut in a larger so I thought T intersection with shallow ditches on both sides I proceeded to do and found the front end of my car in a 3 foot ditch I drove into the ditch and was doing the back and forth thing and was almost out b4 i backed into a large rock and bent my exhaust system up like a pretzel I finally got out and went home and told my parents I hit a possum and swerved into a dtich and hit something...so that explained all the grass in the exhaust and kinda the pretzel but not really. So with a bruised ego i paid half of the repair bill which was like 200 bucks of sheer stupidity never will i do that again! serioulsy I drive a sunfire now!!! haha.

nathan

funny rice stories

 

[FlashG]

Not an error but,

My dad taught me to drive on Lake St Claire (Michigan).

We were ice fishing and he just said get behind the wheel (ancient 1951 Hudson Hornet) and drive. You can?t hit anything on the ice unless you drive all the way to the (Ice Breaker) channel anyway. Not only that but I drove all the way home. You didn?t need insurance in those days and the traffic was a lot lighter.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I got a friend with a 77 chevy 4x4 truck w/ leg buster clutch and drop ball hitch. While waiting for some kids to cross the street infront of a local high school he felt a bump. But he thought that he just slipped the clutch a little. So he starts driving and about 150 yards later stops to wait for more kids to cross the street. At this time some guy starts running up beside his truck screaming...

...he towed the guy's camero who had rear ended him by the radiator.

 

[yata]

Not a funny accident story but just funny...

I go to college. I was walking on the skirt of campus, approaching a 4-lane intersection. The corner across from me is walled department building, so you couldn't see as much traffic coming across.

A black camaro pulled up to the light in front of me and started revving, ready to leave campus. I saw the SS letters on the back and a college student like me in the driver's seat. &quot;Not bad&quot; I said in my head. The green light went off. He floored it.

Smoke coming off and tires screeched like there's no tomorrow. But as soon as the super sport went past the intersection. A cop car on the left just happened to stop at the light as went by. The white and blue grand marquis turned with no haste behind the poor guy and sounded its own acoustics.

The camaro didn't make it through the block.

 

[DaBoneHead]

Ill throw my hat in the ring, but it isnt about a car accident...

My best buddy had a 19 foot open cockpit boat, we had blown off classes at college to meet these two girls at the dock and go boating. The boat was trailerable. We had stopped at his house to prep the boat, and then headed to the dock to drop the boat in. We put the boat in the water, dropped the trailer and car off, picked up the girls and headed out...

not too far out, we couldn't come up on plane, and my buddy was trying to figure out what was wrong, why the boat was so sluggish. So he looks at me and says, &quot;Did you put the boat-plugs in?&quot;, to which I answered &quot;Boat-Plugs? You mean these? (as I pull them from my jacket coat)&quot; Well, we were sinking fast now, and we had to run the boat up onto a beach to avoid sinking! So, with the help of some nice people on the beach, we were able to get enough of the boat out of the water, get the boat plugs in, and get back to the dock where we pulled the boat out (barely!) and it seemed like it took a half hour for it to drain.

Basically, blew everything! My sig should be...

&quot;Boat-Plugs? Boat-Plugs? We don't need no stinkin' Boat-Plugs!&quot;

 

[SirFshAlot]

Years back in front of my work, there was a semi rig hauling a large cement girder. The rig consisted of a truck in front hauling the front end of the girder, and another truck behind with only a half cab that carried the back of the girder running alongside of the cab.
As the rig was entering the intersection, a young girl in a RX7 made a left turn in front of the rig. When the driver of the rig slammed on his brakes, the cement girder piled through the cab of his truck, bending it over the front of the truck, killing him instantly.

Oh......I guess that wasn't too funny.

 

[BiB]

How about F**king yesterday when a bus side-swiped me and siad it was my fault hahahahahahah Actually I was in a cab once and we got rear-ended. Of course with accidents people aren't paying attentino to where they are driving and about 2 minutes later somebody watching us rear-ended somebody else LMAO.

GL ghahaha that IS funny as hell, Nothing like laughing at rice who screws his car up. Same goes for viper's.

girlfriday I can picture that

Grr, gotta take a few min off work to finish this thread.

BiB

 

[PG]

A few weeks ago at my in-laws place I saw some flashing lights outside so I went to take a look. I saw a tow truck and this 300 lb guy standing next to his lowered Ford Taurus. The car was riced out and had those little tires that stick out about 6 inches or so. Well, one of the wheel bearings must have given out and the back left wheel was at about a 45 degree angle pointing in. The back of the car was on the ground and the car was leaking something. He must have tried driving like that long enough so that the rubbing put a hole in the radiator, gas tank, or oil pan. It was too funny. I considered going down there and complimenting him on his car. But I took some pictures instead. I haven't got them developed yet, but they should be pretty good. I had my 300 mm lens on so I could get a nice shot.

PG