Have you been in a car accident? How bad was it?

[fujiyama]

Today my friend and I went to the junkyard to take a look at his car, which was totaled the other day. He was lucky to make it out alive and fine. He was broadsided and the entire passenger side was gone. If there was a passenger, that person most likely would have been killed.

I've been in a small one -- I was going through Detroit, and I made a left turn, smashing into the car that was going forward. Fortunately no one was hurt. My vision was blocked due to steam grills in the street. It was during winter so the steam was pretty thick. Though, I definetely should have been a more patient.

Have you ever been in an accident?

[roguevalley]

1. It was fast and I wasn't hurt. T-boned by an idiot. All that I could think

of was that it was fast and didn't hurt. Amazing. My
car was totalled.

[Sequoia]

2. Very bad ones I'm afraid.

One was on December 7 some years back when a guy from England plowed into me not realizing I had the right of way. The other was after a wedding party when we were broadsided on our SUV which tumbled 3 times across a four lane street with a divider. I couldn't write for a whole month, car was destroyed, I was layed off two weeks later from work and now drive a crummy car. At least we lived. Would've died without seatbelts. Thank God my child was not in the car. I'm always nervous in intersections and people pulling out of driveways.

[murielm99]

3. I was in a minor one, once.

I was stuck behind a stupid Santa Claus parade, and I pulled out in front of another car following the parade. I was sitting at the intersection, waiting for Santa and all his elves to pass me.

I got a ticket. It was my fault. But the other car hit me in the driver's side door, and I could have been badly hurt. I just bumped my head, though.

My insurance company was not sympathetic about anything, either. My rates shot through the roof. It did not help that I was under 25 at the time.

My brother was in a much worse one. He was hit head-on, by a drunk driver in a pickup. The drunk was driving the wrong way down a four lane highway, with no headlights on, at eight-thirty at night. He also had no insurance, and a suspended license, for drunk driving.

My brothers best friend, the passenger, was killed. My brother spent two years in rehab. The drunk walked away.

I am glad you were not hurt. I am glad your friend is okay, too.

[BootinUp]

4. A couple, but never injured badly

On the other hand, I was in a motorcycle accident, body surfed on the 605 Fwy in SoCal at 80+ miles an hour, got away with a just burns on my hands for the most part. I like speed to tell the truth.

O8)

[Red State Rebel]

5. A Volvo landed on us from an overpass...

We were driving under an overpass as a Volvo left the road from up above and landed on my Suburban. It came in at an angle, not straight down and hit the engine, drivers side door then swung around and hit the door behind the driver. I was driving with my 3 daughters. It was absolutely bizarre being hit and not seeing it coming. When the police got there they kept asking which direction he came from and I said UP. It took a while before they actually believed me and went up and saw where he had left the road.

I seriously believe if we had not been in the Suburban, we would have been injured severely. As it was, my shoulder was messed up a bit, one daughter cracked the windshield with her head and her knee went into the 4WD shifter. The two in the back seat were banged around a bit but ok. The car was only 2 years old and with $10,000 in damage they still didn't total it. They also ended up replacing the engine a year later under warranty. The car is now 15 years old with well over 200,000 miles on it and still going.

The driver of the Volvo was in the hospital for about a week. The police said people had phoned in and reported that he was driving erratically before the accident, but we never did find out what happened.

[m-jean03]

6. You're friend and you were lucky -

:toast: to that.

I was in one accident. I was little, it was raining, me and my dad were driving (well, he was the one driving :P) on some back road, and we were run off the road by a logging truck. We slid off the road, down the embankment, and the car turned on its side! Luckily, it all happened in slow motion and we were caught by a bunch of bushes.

It was exciting climbing out of the sideways car, though. I had my first experience hitchhiking that day, too. :-)

[Dookus]

7. One bad one... and it was funny

in college, five of us were jammed into my friend's little mazda to go to somebody's house for a big spaghetti dinner. The front passenger was holding a BIG pot of spaghetti sauce we'd prepared.

Our driver ran a stop sign she didn't see and we smacked into another car. Luckily, nobody was hurt, but the spaghetti sauce went flying. The whole inside of the car, and US, were covered in it. As we all got out of the car, observers started screaming. They thought it was blood.

[m-jean03]

8. OMG that is f*cking hilarious!!

:toast: to that unintentional practical joke! :7

[Red State Rebel]

11. Oh! That is too funny!

Thanks for the laugh, I can use it today :)....

[Donkeyboy75]

13. Wish I could have seen that.

:)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Should I start tossing my business cards around in this thread?

Just kidding :evilgrin:

[classics]

10. Only one serious accident when I was 15.

I was riding in the back of an old school beetle (bright orange!) and looked out the side window as we turned into a parking lot.

Last thing I remember is seeing the motorcycle barreling up the road at about 70 mph with the driver looking over his shoulder as he moved into the lane were were in and thinking 'hes not going to see us'.

I woke up in the hospital with a big cut on my head. Apparently the bike hit the fender right outside the little window I was sitting next to and the window burst out and hit me in the head or some piece of the bike did.

The people in the front of car were unhurt, not even a scratch. The driver and passenger on the bike were wearing helmets and survived. The driver went over the car and had a both a broken arm and leg. The lady riding on the bike behind him had a bad case of road rash but otherwise was ok.

This was long before people were actually required to wear helmets in Ohio, so I think we all got off pretty easy.

[Donkeyboy75]

12. I totaled another car on a slippery day,

went through an intersection on yellow and I ran into a car full of people turning left through the same intersection. Destroyed the passenger door and crushed most of that side. Also busted up the front tire. My car was fucked too. Amazingly, everyone walked away fine.

I've also been hit twice as a pedestrian. Once by a van here on campus, but it was only going 10 MPH. Still hurt like hell. The other was when I was jogging and some stupid **** turned right into me...luckily I saw it coming and sort of jumped onto the hood as she stopped. I was so pissed I punched her hood twice and dented the hell out of it :evilgrin:

[aljones]

14. Was not bad for me, just my car!

I was 17 and my parents had just bought me a brand new car. Twelve days later a girl in a brand new car forgot to look at a stop sign and pulled out in front of me. Totaled both our cars.

smile ally