Why type of car wrecks have you been in?

[DefDC]

Here's a list of my wrecks:

Drunk driver T-boned me doing over 100MPH. Threw my Astro van 300ft and flipped it 3 times. He fell asleep with his foot on the gas. He then sued me and won $10,000! 8-O It would have cost my insurance company more than $10,000 to reconstruct the wreck to prove him wrong. For a list of reasons, it would have been highly inconvenient for us to counter sue. Mostly because we just moved across the state.

Was a passenger in a Chevette that hit ice, slid to the side of the road, and flipped 3 times.

Was a passenger in a car than hit ice, slid through a lawn, and a brick mailbox smashed through the window next to me and grazed my ear. If it had been 2 inches farther, it would have taken off my head.

Was driving my 4X4 Blazer, (in 4 wheel drive) on an icy highway, I was approaching a truck stop on my right. A truck got sick of waiting for traffic and pulled out to turn left, right in front of me. I pumped the brakes, (only doing 35 in a 55 due to conditions) and flew off into a ditch. Since I didn't just plow into the truck, and went off the road, insurance called it MY fault. Grrr...

I was in a bus where the driver passed out and went off the road and into a field. Slept through that... Not really a wreck, but funny.

Am I cursed or something? None of these have really been my fault. Even other people think I am a good driver. Hard to call it a curse though. I've never been seriously hurt in ANY of the above wrecks. Small scratches and feeling the bumps the next day would be the worst of it...


Any other interesting stories?

 

[purbeast0]

i was hit by a car on my 4th birthday and dragged 90 feet by my head under the bumper of the car and broke my right femur.

does that count?

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: DefDC
Here's a list of my wrecks:

Drunk driver T-boned me doing over 100MPH. Threw my Astro van 300ft and flipped it 3 times. He fell asleep with his foot on the gas. He then sued me and won $10,000! 8-O It would have cost my insurance company more than $10,000 to reconstruct the wreck to prove him wrong. For a list of reasons, it would have been highly inconvenient for us to counter sue. Mostly because we just moved across the state.

Was a passenger in a Chevette that hit ice, slid to the side of the road, and flipped 3 times.

Was a passenger in a car than hit ice, slid through a lawn, and a brick mailbox smashed through the window next to me and grazed my ear. If it had been 2 inches farther, it would have taken off my head.

Was driving my 4X4 Blazer, (in 4 wheel drive) on an icy highway, I was approaching a truck stop on my right. A truck got sick of waiting for traffic and pulled out to turn left, right in front of me. I pumped the brakes, (only doing 35 in a 55 due to conditions) and flew off into a ditch. Since I didn't just plow into the truck, and went off the road, insurance called it MY fault. Grrr...

I was in a bus where the driver passed out and went off the road and into a field. Slept through that... Not really a wreck, but funny.

Am I cursed or something? None of these have really been my fault. Even other people think I am a good driver. Hard to call it a curse though. I've never been seriously hurt in ANY of the above wrecks. Small scratches and feeling the bumps the next day would be the worst of it...


Any other interesting stories?

None of those were your fault? Riiiiiiiight. Rethink that one.

You + Ice + sliding off road = your fault.

Mine:

1. Mom driving, I'm in the backseat. My mom was turned around talking to the kids in back and we all saw a car stopped in the middle of the highway. By the time we got her attention and she turned around it was too late. Impact was rather tame, though.

2. Dad driving, waiting for traffic to clear to pull out of convenience store. Guy in road we're waiting to turn onto is turning into the convenience store. He gets distracted by a tractor for sale next door and rams right into the front of our car. He was a fire chief.

 

[krunchykrome]

I drove head on into a tree at 40mph in my old Jeep. I saw a puddle in the road, got a bit cocky because I've done some off roading before, sped up to drive and splash right through it, and then I hydroplaned right off of the road into a tree. I also forgot to engage the jeep into 4WD, so drivign through the puddle, the jeep was in RWD.

 

[K1052]

Stay off icy roads, they will be the end of you.

Every wreck (5) I've been in I was a passenger in the car. People should learn not to drive me anywhere

 

[LS20]

went from center lane of freeway, spun left and slammed into concrete center divider, the impact bounced the car back out and spun across the freeway (3 lanes), denting the right-side metal guardrail

1993 economy car. no airbag. walked out a second later literally without a scratch.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

1st car:
Old guy didn't see a black car with orange stripes doing 2MPH in a parking lot on a sunny summer afternoon. Accellerated through me.

2nd car:
Sister wasn't paying attention, backed up with door open, wiped down the side of my car while managing to get no major damage to her own. Decided to park my car in a different part of the driveway after that.
Dad backing up was making sure he didn't hit his truck, wiped the OTHER side of my car with the front corner, took no major damage. Watched it happen from the back seat but didn't have time to yell. (yes, I was riding in the car that hit me) Decided to park my car on a hill after that.

3rd car:
Lady decides to pull out, sees me coming and stops. COMPLETELY BLOCKING MY LANE. Our corners met at about 5MPH. If she had kept going, I wouldn't have hit her or atleast been able to swerve around her.

 

[DefDC]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: DefDC

Any other interesting stories?

None of those were your fault? Riiiiiiiight. Rethink that one.

You + Ice + sliding off road = your fault.

I was a passenger in all of them, except the drink driver. The officer that came to scene said the same thing would have happened to him, if he would have been there.

And, I agree, icy roads suck! I wanna move south!

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: DefDC

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: DefDC

Any other interesting stories?

None of those were your fault? Riiiiiiiight. Rethink that one.

You + Ice + sliding off road = your fault.

I was a passenger in all of them, except the drink driver. The officer that came to scene said the same thing would have happened to him, if he would have been there.

And, I agree, icy roads suck! I wanna move south!

Oops! I should really learn how to read.

 

[IBuyUFO]

Originally posted by: DefDC
Here's a list of my wrecks:

Drunk driver T-boned me doing over 100MPH. Threw my Astro van 300ft and flipped it 3 times. He fell asleep with his foot on the gas. He then sued me and won $10,000! 8-O It would have cost my insurance company more than $10,000 to reconstruct the wreck to prove him wrong. For a list of reasons, it would have been highly inconvenient for us to counter sue. Mostly because we just moved across the state.

Was a passenger in a Chevette that hit ice, slid to the side of the road, and flipped 3 times.

Was a passenger in a car than hit ice, slid through a lawn, and a brick mailbox smashed through the window next to me and grazed my ear. If it had been 2 inches farther, it would have taken off my head.

Was driving my 4X4 Blazer, (in 4 wheel drive) on an icy highway, I was approaching a truck stop on my right. A truck got sick of waiting for traffic and pulled out to turn left, right in front of me. I pumped the brakes, (only doing 35 in a 55 due to conditions) and flew off into a ditch. Since I didn't just plow into the truck, and went off the road, insurance called it MY fault. Grrr...

I was in a bus where the driver passed out and went off the road and into a field. Slept through that... Not really a wreck, but funny.

Am I cursed or something? None of these have really been my fault. Even other people think I am a good driver. Hard to call it a curse though. I've never been seriously hurt in ANY of the above wrecks. Small scratches and feeling the bumps the next day would be the worst of it...


Any other interesting stories?

How is it that you're still alive?

 

[DefDC]

Originally posted by: IBuyUFO


How is it that you're still alive?

That's a good question... I'm not a particularly religious guy, but that's the one thing that makes me stop and think... Or maybe I have a guardian alien! :laugh:

 

[DefDC]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: DefDC

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: DefDC

Any other interesting stories?

None of those were your fault? Riiiiiiiight. Rethink that one.

You + Ice + sliding off road = your fault.

I was a passenger in all of them, except the drink driver. The officer that came to scene said the same thing would have happened to him, if he would have been there.

And, I agree, icy roads suck! I wanna move south!

Oops! I should really learn how to read.

Errr.. I guess I was driving on icy road incident also.

However, since the roads were bad, I was drive MUCH slower than the speed limit, in 4X4, and very cautiously. I even had the wits to pump the brakes instead of stomping on them, when someone pulled out in front of me...

I don't know how much more cautious I could have been... For insurance purposes, I should have smashed into the stupid semi. PROFIT!

 

[49erinnc]

Been in several bump-ups but only two bad ones.

1. Leaving high school and driving a Chevy Blazer. Got run off the road and directly into a fire hydrant that didn't give very much. Didn't have my seat belt on and I don't even remember hitting the hydrant. First thing I remembered was being in the floorboard with my chest killing me. I also felt something cold/stinging on my face so I grabbed the rearview mirror which had broken off and noticed my forehead was cut up pretty bad. But I never freaked out and wasn't in too much pain. I remember crawling out, lighting up a cigarette and just sitting down on the ground. I refused ambulance transport but had to go to ER later to have glass removed from my forehead. The steering wheel was bent badly from where my chest hit it too. The craziest part was that my mother was two cars behind me, from picking up my little sister at middle school, and saw it happen. I'm surprised she didn't wreck from being so hysterical.

2. Lucky to still be alive with this one. Was going to visit my GF, my sophomore year in college. She lived about an hour away at a lake with a dirt road going to her house. The dirt road was directly off a rural highway with a lot of turns. I was driving a 1989 Cavalier and because it was so hot, I had driven there without a shirt on. Well, I was stopped on the highway (55mph zone), waiting on oncoming cars to pass so I could turn left into her dirt road. While waiting, I unbuckled my seat belt so I could put my shirt back. I swear that 99,999 out of 100,000 times, I would have never put my seatbelt back on considering I was only making one left turn and then 200 yards on a dead-end dirt road. But for whatever reason, I buckled my seatbelt back when I put my shirt on. No sooner did I buckle it, I was rammed from the rear by an old Ford Bronco that was traveling about 45mph when he hit me. Jackass was messing with his radio and said when he looked up, it was either me or a telephone pole. Long story short but I don't remember anything until I was in some woman's house, where I had apparently walked to to call my GF's house. My car probably traveled a solid 50' and the trunk was pushed all the way into the rear seating area. I wound up at the chiropractor for a couple times a week for about 8 months but that was pretty much it. EMS and the state troopers all said that I would have been instantly killed had I not buckled back up. Guess it wasn't my time to go and I have NEVER driven without a seat belt since.

 

[nageov3t]

only 1...

I was at a blind intersection (I had a stop sign), inching forward to try and look at on-coming traffic so I could cross. I kept on inching out and no one was yielding to me and after a couple minutes, I ended up like completely blocking the right lane on the intersecting road. I saw an on-coming car and thought to myself, "if I don't get the hell out of here, he's going to have to swerve into the left lane" so I gunned it. I underestimated the degree to which he was speeding, though (had to have been going +45 in a 25 zone with the force he hit me with), and he clipped me.

sent my car flying... I ended up doing like a 180 degree turn, the rear axle of my car was smashed, and my back left tire was destroyed. I know I had the stop sign, but I still maintain that if he hadn't been speeding (or had even just tapped slightly on his brakes) it never would have happened. I don't think he had insurance, though, because I was never contacted and my insurance rate never went up. /shrug

on the positive side, the force of the impact actually fixed a back problem I'd been having for months prior to the accident.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I've been in 3. 2 bad, 1 not so bad. 1st one was when i was 9 or 10. We were driving in my mom's friends car when a motorcycle blew a stop light, guy t-boned the car, went over the handle bars and slid THROUGH the windshield and over the hood. As his shoulder was going through the windshield it sliced his arm off.
2nd accident was when driving in a friends convertible mustang (doing excessive speeds), tire blew out and he jerked the whell, somehow it caused the car to roll and flip a bunch of times. It never once hit the roof of the car and we landed on the wheels. Both of us walked away from it.
3rd some lady cut me off in an intersection and I slammed on the breaks and hit her front quarter panel and destroyed my bumper, but it didn't deploy the airbag.

 

[Kaido]

Off the top of my head -

1. Nailed at a stoplight from behind, just sitting there waiting for the light to turn green. Our Cutlass had some pretty nice damage in the back, but their older Cutlass looked completely totaled.

2. Hit in a K-mart parking lot when I was pulling out - old guy in his car zoomed out directly behind me after I had already backed up. Thank goodness for dentproof Saturn bumpers!

3. Rear-ended on a highway by a Dodge Ram in snowy conditions. He took off, I chased him for about 5 miles (my then fiancee in the car with me)...turned out to be an old man

 

[pulse8]

I t-boned a guy on Sunday because the dipshit made a left turn from a stop sign right in front of me. Right of way FTL.

 

[DefDC]

Just recently, my pregnant wife and I were driving on a 4 lane bypass cruising along at 75mph. It was sunny can clear, and a GD deer ran into the road. The cars in front of us both swerved, and ended up bouncing off medians and into each other like pinballs. Luckily, I had (just) enough time to stop before hitting them. No-one had a scratch. I couldn't believe it.

Funny enough, from playing Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, and countless other video games, was ready to keep on cruising and plow through them, for just a SPLIT second.

 

[rh71]

no real wrecks, just rear-ended some girl cause I was young and stupid, doing the tailgating thing. Also rear-ended an old guy a couple years later - he didn't enjoy that, neither did I... he stopped at a red light and coming up behind him - I swear my brakes didn't function properly. The worse though, was just hydroplaning trying to take an off-ramp from a highway... ended up onto a dirt platform and stopped (yay dirt!) just before a brick wall (the overpass) - no damage at all, but scary as all hell.

 

[Jeffwo]

Oh, my, let's see...I have been in 3 cars that flipped over and over. One landing upside down in a swamp. The doors were jammed and I almost didn't make it outa that one.

Once I had my Harley in the back of my pickup and slipped off into the ditch (on a hill). It was about to flip over so I steered down hill and into a garden. Well, it got stuck so I was rocking it back and forth. Just as I was spinning out of the muddy garden the landowner ran in front of me and I almost ran over him.

Once my girlfriend(in an old Taurus) rear-ended me in my brand new 4WD truck...grrrr.

 

[Modelworks]

Had a seizure while driving ( was medication related), first one ever.
Happened on an interstate overpass.
Car went right off the side of the bridge, down to the lane below, front end first.

Should have been killed, but somehow when they went to pull me out I was laying up under the dash on the floorboard with my feet where the brake pedal is and my head on the passenger side floor.

Came away with a broken leg, concussion. Car was smashed all the way from the front to the windshield.

No, I wasn't wearing a seat belt. Probably what saved me.
I do wear my seat belt now though.

 

[dustmann]

My advise to you: Stop riding with other people in the winter, and buy some studded ice tires

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: DefDC
Here's a list of my wrecks:

Drunk driver T-boned me doing over 100MPH. Threw my Astro van 300ft and flipped it 3 times. He fell asleep with his foot on the gas. He then sued me and won $10,000! 8-O It would have cost my insurance company more than $10,000 to reconstruct the wreck to prove him wrong. For a list of reasons, it would have been highly inconvenient for us to counter sue. Mostly because we just moved across the state.

Ummm... wtf? Any more details? Cause this is just way too screwed up. If this is true, why don't the family's of dead drunk drivers sue the dead families they run over...

Oh, and personally can't drive yet (I suck), but been in the car during a spin out on ice (slow speed). Also, driver of the car I was in pulled out of a parking spot, nailed a van on the side; once again, minor.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

had a few good near misses, but one decent accident

in the car with my mother, a Renault Espace... (7 seater) just going about our business, coming to a round a bout at the end of a road in a residential area. there are a few junctions lining this road of course with roads leading to little estates and cul de sac's. (remember we drive on the LHS of the road) we go past a junction which is on our left, theres some boy racer dude in a black mkII vauxhall astra and he got a little trigger happy and pulled out too early...as we were crossing his path. he T-boned us, not very fast like, but enough to punt our car on 2 wheels for a brief moment and send us off into someones hedge.

because the doors on the espace are made of glass fibre, we had a single small puncture hole where the corner of his car had hit and a bit of cracked paint work. his car had crumpled bonnet, his crappy body kit bumper was ronnied and his radiator was leaking. the bit that made first contact was the leading edge of the front wing which was quite pointy on this car and that had been turned right up, almost pointin opposite to its original direction.

moral of the story... glass fiber > crummy pressed steel panels from the 80's

 

[DrPizza]

Drunk driver T-boned me doing over 100MPH. Threw my Astro van 300ft and flipped it 3 times. He fell asleep with his foot on the gas. He then sued me and won $10,000! 8-O It would have cost my insurance company more than $10,000 to reconstruct the wreck to prove him wrong. For a list of reasons, it would have been highly inconvenient for us to counter sue. Mostly because we just moved across the state.

I find that quite unbelievable.
a. He was "drunk"
b. He fell asleep (how'd you know that?)
Surely the accident report would have this information on it; what problem would the insurance company have?
c. How did it go from "my Astro van" "sued me" to "for us to counter sue"?? Pronoun disagreement.
d. 100mph collision with two vehicles involved... no deaths?!!
Plus, how would it be inconvenient to you to counter sue??