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

[Mark R]

About a couple of years ago, the city council decided to close off a small road in the city centre which had been widely used as a through-route for traffic.

However, because the alternative route put an extra 2 miles onto a 1 mile trip, they needed to make an exception for emergency vehicles, taxis and busses. To this end, they used a pair of automatic bollards in the middle of the road, which would descend when an authorized vehicle approached.

There were at least 6 signs on each side of the bollards, copious flashing warning lights and a traffic light system to disuade people from trying to cut across this route.

Despite this, almost every day, I would hear a sickening crunch as some chump tried to follow a bus or taxi through and ended up having their car lifted up by the engine. I remember seeing a brand new car (can't remember the model) which had done just this, and was left with a huge puddle of oil and coolant on the road, and a very dented hood, where the engine had been driven up through it by the weight of the car.

 

[bigjon]

PG, you've gotta post those pics when you get them!

 

[Triumph]

one night two friends and i were leaving someone's apartment, and four dudes in a red grand cherokee drive by and honk at us and yell something. stupid kids. so, on our way home, we see them crashed into a stone wall of a cemetary, on the other side of the road!!! how the heck did they manage to do that, across 4 lanes?!?! so we rolled down our windows and Laughed at them. then, we turned around at the next intersection, and laughed at them Again! stupid dudes, that's what you get for crossing us!

 

[Croton]

a year ago, my friend got a brand new BMW m3

he wanted to test how fast it cornered, so he was driving REAL fast in a residential neighborhood. well, lo and behold, he goes too fast on one turn, and he starts to fishtail a little in the turn. he freaks out because tehre are cars on the street parked on the sides, and he didn't want to dent his car

so he tries to correct the fishtailing , and ends up smacking into the curb. his m3 lifts in the air so it is doing a right side wheelie.

then it smacks on the ground, and the ball bearing thingie breaks (i don't know a lot aobut cars). oil and grease and metal everywhere.

DOH

 

[Gatsby]

The funniest accident I ever saw happened outside my window.

In a 1 lane road. Just big enough to have parked cars on your right and a ane for you to dirve in, I saw a girl get hey HUGE ford Explorer or maybe it was hte expidition perpindicular to the curb. Mind she was able to do this in the small lane she had to drive in. It blocked traffic for a few hours as they tried to get her facing the right way.

ALso to add injury to insult, she ran into another car while doing it.

Gatsby

 

[Viperoni]

Winter time.

A friend of mine in a very rusted 86 cavalier was parked forward facing a big sh!tty ford passanger van.
His tunes cranked on the factory stereo obviously annoyed the Ford's driver.
So then when my friend gf comes back, he's like "watch this"

He floors it, and drops it into reverse and all of the snow/slush ends up on the fords grille and halfway up his windshield.

It really was a site to be seen

 

[Damaged]

My GF at the time. Her saying that she doesn't swallow. Me realizing a very cool thing about tilt steering. The median of I-94 between Milwaukee and Madison. A state trooper.

Need I say more?

 

[Spoooon]

I was working at Albertson's as a sacker. It was the end of a 9 hour shift that completely sucked because I had to work my rear off the whole day just about and was super tired by the time it was over. It was raining hard outside and it was real gloomy and dark. The parking lot here doesn't have the little curbs separating the aisles so I just accelerated................into a friggin parking lot light.

 

[Napalm381]

You're a lucky man, Damaged

 

[atom]

I'm going home from an import car show, which is riceboy heaven (although I did see a few very nice 500+ HP Skylines). Because of the show there are a lot of ricers in the area. I'm sitting in my 300zx and this Integra GSR pulls up next to me and starts to rev his engine. I don't give a damn about racing this guy so I just ignore him. Even though I don't race him he still darts off once the light turns green. He gets about 1 1/2 blocks ahead of me, only to find out two other people are racing in the intersecting street up ahead. He ends up running into a parked car while trying to avoid the other two racers at the intersection. The other two cars peeled out, but they didn't hit anything. I just roll by him 20 mph laughing my ass off.