Any one ever being in a car crash??

[gaelic cowboy]

This weekend the Cowboy had a lucky escape out on the road.

I was stopped waiting for a break in the traffic to turn right into another junction when an old lady just ran straight into the back of me.

She just never saw me stting there in the road, the road is very wide at the particular point with plenty hardshoulder and still she never saw me even though the road is straight for at least one or two km. Luckily she wasnt going fast and I had the handbrake on so I wasnt pushed into oncoming traffic or anything.

Car is wrote off, tis real annoying you do everything correctly and you still end up off the road at least no one was hurt thankfully.


Anyone else had any near misses

[Vuk]

Glad to hear you are ok Cowboy. Yeah, I have had a few. Never been at fault, but I still have gotten banged around a few times.

[rajpoot]

Good to hear you're fine. It's a very shocking experience to be in a car accident even if one does not get hurt.

My worst till date has been when I drove over a big rock in my Jeep (the left wheel) and to prevent it from falling onto it's side I had to turn a sharp right. Rammed into a tree. Luckily I got away with minor injuries on my leg.

[Vuk]

Good to hear you're fine. It's a very shocking experience to be in a car accident even if one does not get hurt.

My worst till date has been when I drove over a big rock in my Jeep (the left wheel) and to prevent it from falling onto it's side I had to turn a sharp right. Rammed into a tree. Luckily I got away with minor injuries on my leg.

lol, something similar happened to my bro. He was out driving his Crown Vic on some dirt roads in the middle of winter, and there was swamp to his left and right and the road was all ice. He slid off the road, crashed over a big stone, then on two wheels crashed over a big sign warning not to go off the road because there was a swamp. :P Lucky for him he had the big steel bumper in the front, and miraculously the only thing that happened was he had a blown out tire and some minor scraping by the driver-side front wheel. His shocks were still good and everything. He had to take a come-along and attach it to a rock to pull himself off of the ice (which he said was cracking every time he or the car moved. Then to make it worse, he didn't have a spare or even a donut with him (he had lent me his spare :P), so he had to walk several miles in -20 weather to get to the nearest house and call my other brother. :P

[Vuk]

Warning, kind of gross picture: Here's my foot back in late '09

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Ouch, that looks bleeding awful! What exactly happened to it? Just broken bones or did your ankle joint get messed up?

[Vuk]

I believe the term the doctor used was "De-Gloving." The Achilles was torn, but not all the way through, or else it would have been a lot worse. Bones were fractured, but not shattered. Took me six month and several surgeries to get out of the WTU and back to a regular unit.

Someone actually asked me once "Did you get a purple heart?" to which I said "No, you only get that if the OTHER GUYS hurt you."

That stinks. I don't think people realize that driving tired can be just as bad or worse than driving drunk. :P Glad it healed up mostly ok.

[classical_hero]

I have been in 3 car crashes. Two of them my mother was driving. The first instance was, if my memory serves me correct, we were backing out from a place on a busy street when it happened. I basically got out with nothing but my mother got whiplash and my brother got a bump on his head. The second was and old lady did not stop in time, but thankfully not damage besides the car was done. The time it happened when I was driving it was wet and I was going too fast for the conditions, but I was doing the speed limit but I rear-ended the driver in front of me, who really should not have got over, but the only damage was to my car, thankfully.

[drone]

A couple of fender-benders, but nothing at speed fortunately.

Glad to hear you are alright, gaelic.

[Vladimir]

Oooh, I've got awful luck with cars. I got hit while walking on the side of the road when I was 17 by a Drunk Driver--no injuries other than a bruised ass. After I got my first car, I got T-Boned by someone who ran a red light--no injuries but I had to replace a door. And then at the very end of my deployment to Iraq I got run over by my medic who was driving an ambulance humvee, and hadn't slept in days but hadn't told anyone (out of some misguided work ethic), so he was delirious at the wheel--that one mangled my foot and cut my deployment short by a month, but I recovered with a slight limp.

Me and non-tracked vehicles don't get along, at all.

Warning, kind of gross picture: Here's my foot back in late '09

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"I need a med...Never mind, there's one right there. Hey buddy. Give me a ride."

[Tuuvi]

I've been in a couple, both were my fault. The first time, it was my second day of college and I was on my way to school. My car was giving me troubles so I borrowed my grandpa's Ford Ranger. I accidentally ran a stop sign and t-boned this guy that was driving his parents' old Chevy Astro van. The van was totaled and had to be towed, all that happened to my grandpa's truck was the bumper got bent really bad and the brake pedal snapped off from the shock wave of the impact.

Then a few months later, I was driving home from school when the car in front of me stopped unexpectedly because a kid was crossing the street. I was looking at something on the side of the road so I didn't see him stop in time and I ran into him. Luckily it was a 30 mph road and I was braking so there was no damage to my car and just a crack in the other guy's bumper. I got out of my car and started apologizing, the guy replied "Sorry? Sorry!? You ruined my bumper! We gotta call the law!" in this ridiculous southern biker accent. Then the cop that came was on a motorcycle, and I had to sit there and listen to them talk about Harley Davidsons for a half an hour while the cop wrote up the report and my ticket. I ended up getting my license denied for a month and my insurance was $150 a month for a while after that.

[PanzerJaeger]

Glad to hear you are ok, Cowboy. I've been hit twice, both by lane changers. Driving a small car in a country full of enormous SUV's with tiny, gun slit windows is dangerous business. Their rolling blind spots.

[Subotan]

Good thing you're OK GC.

I was in a car crash that was my dad's fault when I was about ten in France. It was a head-on collision on a dual carriageway, and my parents were seriously hurt, especially my mum. The other people and my sister and I were OK, but I still don't like driving because of it.

[Husar]

Good to know you're all okay!

I was once picked up by a car when I was sitting on a bike behind my dad, guy "picked us up" at a zebra crossing or what you call them.
Lost one of my milk teeth but the rest was just bruises IIRC.

Then a few years ago I crossed a green traffic light on foot when some of the ground was icy in winter. Suddenly noticed a black truck at the side of my vision that was approaching me, cornering through the intersection. Due to the ice I made two careful but fast steps back, thought I might/would slip and fall if I jumped(and that that was a rather bad situation to be in). Held my arm up in defense and the truck bounced off my arm, or rather my arm and I bounced off the truck.
That made enough noise to make the driver stop, he got out and asked whether I was okay. I said I'm fine and, as is my weird habit, didn't want to bother the police with what seemed like nothing serious, so I shook his arm and went home while he drove off. Of course that wasn't the best idea and I realized that when my arm started to hurt a lot on the way home....

Anyway, it was "just" a seriously squeezed elbow joint and my insurance covered it since I obviously didn't have any info on the driver. People repeatedly told me that was dumb but I was obviously shocked and my first serious accident like that where I was alone (there were other cars but noone seemed to care, not that I cared much about them at the time either).
Well, better than being catapulted a few meters over the pavement anyway.

[aimlesswanderer]

Back when I was about 7, on a dark, winding, narrow road one night coming back from a relo dinner, Mum somehow managed to lose control, hit the rail, and the 4wd ended up on its roof. I remember waking up hanging from the ceiling thanks to my seat belt, and Mum crawling back to help me and my brother down. Thank goodness for seat belts. We were ok luckily, though the car of course was a write off.

Luckily there was a police car right behind us, and they actually gave us a lift home, which was all very exciting.

Sadly we had our lego castles in the car with us, and, needless to say, after getting flipped over, one in particular had structural issues for years after until I did a full rebuild.

I remember that when we went to the smash repairers, we were still finding bits of lego in the car.

[Peasant Phill]

Glad you're OK Cowboy.

My only car accident of note was 10 years back. I was riding my bicycle and stupidly ran a red light at a busy intersection (where cars went 90kph or more). I was able to avoid most cars in the first 2 lanes but got scooped up by a car in lane 3. Miraculously, I was unhurt and my bike only sufferd minor damage (had to replace a wheel but I'm still riding it). The car that hit my got a big dent and a cracked windshield.

[Voigtkampf]

I was in about, say, half a dozen car accidents (both as driver as well as a passenger once or twice), dozen or two near catastrophic misses (most of them involving hazardous driving on utterly crappy roads and were, once again, mostly about me managing not to fly off the road in the last possible second). It was never my fault - and this part is what I hardly believe myself. On the other side, the catastrophic misses were partially my fault (young and restless, driving mostly empty roads, more like a rally run) as well as fault of other drivers and/or horrible roads I was driving on. I simply used to spend a lot of time on wheels, as the job demanded.

On the absolutely positive side, I was never hurt in all those accidents that always ended with only material damage for all parties involved.

As a funny side note, my first cousin was a true maniac on wheels. Living in a territory that could best be described as some sort of "wild west", he tended to race like mad. If the track from A to B would require a normal person driving with a bit of a "punch" take 20 minutes, he wouldn't rest until he would manage to make the track within 15 minutes. Then he'd aim for 14 minutes, then 13 and so on. He has about one dozen fully documented occasions where he literally flew off the damn road, totalling the car. Yes, that includes wheel barrels, somersaults and/or any acrobatic movement a car flying through the air is capable off producing. Those dozen heavy accidents resulting in total losses of a car were, if I am to believe his closest friends, actually more like two dozens of those he had and that escaped our attention because he happened to have them far away from home and nobody caught wind. Most of the cars he wrecked actually belonged to his friends and our mutual relatives. No, he never got to drive my car. Guess why.

The guy never, ever got hurt, except for some cuts and bruises. When I asked him what his secret was, he said, believe it or not, "never put on the seatbelt". "See, this is what happens", he told me in a bar, leaning in his James Dean "I-am-too-sexy-for-this-world-manner" and smoking his Marlboro. "I fly off the road, car hits the ground, I fly out - either through passenger window or through the front window - in one direction, car tumbles off in another. So we go our separate ways. If I had worn the belt half the times I was driving, I'd be dead ten times by now."

Please, feel free not to take heed to this advice. You are not driving a rally.

On the bright side, my cousin eventually got married, got two kids and calmed down to the point where you couldn't recognize him as the blood-boiling teenager and feisty adolescent ready to pick a fight with a freight train if possible in any way or form.

Ah, the fun memories...

[Lemur]

I was in about, say, half a dozen car accidents

Clearly you have done something to offend the spirits of the road.

[Martok]

I'm very glad you're all right, gaelic cowboy. Car accidents are scary as hell, especially afterwards when you realize how much worse it could have been...




Unfortunately, I can top Voigtkampf: If you include deer collisions, I've been in at least 9 accidents now (7 if you exclude deer collisions). I was the driver in 6 of them, fully half of which (to my chagrin) were my own stupid fault.

Thankfully, though, no one has ever been seriously hurt in any of the accidents I've been involved in (either as driver or passenger). The worst time was my 3rd accident overall (but my first one as a driver), in which I rolled my car on an icy, curvy road and subsequently had to get a couple staples in my scalp to stop the bleeding. However, considering I nearly went through the ice of an adjacent lake -- instead of merely flipping over after my car slid into the ditch (which is what actually happened) -- I was very, very lucky.

[Kralizec]

Several years back; a minor collision involving three cars (the person at fault bumped into the car behind us)

That's the only one I've been in, but I rarely drive.

[scottishranger]

Iv been in three... and im technically at fault in all of them

First was a fender bender at a stoplight. I try to make room for a merging car and just roll into the car in front of me

2nd was on top of a big icy hill and my friends car is going down and he spins out. I start laughing hilariously as I go down the hill until I realize my brakes have also failed on the ice and I hit his car. Luckily I just bounced off and there was zero damage!

3rd was me almost falling asleep at the wheel on a highway and bumping into the car in front of me.

I am not a good driver...

[Voigtkampf]

Clearly you have done something to offend the spirits of the road.

The list of entities I've offended by my mere existence is of epic proportions... On the bright side, I'm still alive. For now, at least.

[Peasant Phill]

The list of entities I've offended by my mere existence is of epic proportions... On the bright side, I'm still alive. For now, at least.

Don't tempt the entities.

[Voigtkampf]

Don't tempt the entities.

To hell with entities.

[Servilius Novus]

5 years ago we had a full-frontal crash at night (about at 100km/h)

I couldn't even realise what was happening it was so fast as sudden... For a sec I was panicking we are going to die...
Luckily everyone survived and I am really glad I am able to send this message

So whatever anyone tells you, it DOES matter what kind of car you have and YES, basically money can save your life (for instance if we were poorer and we had an old crappy car - we would be fried meat by now)

[Vladimir]

So whatever anyone tells you, it DOES matter what kind of car you have and YES, basically money can save your life (for instance if we were poorer and we had an old crappy car - we would be fried meat by now)

You say that but an old car with 20 feet of steel can cost you under $1,000 and squish a hybrid flat!

[Lemur]

You say that but an old car with 20 feet of steel can cost you under $1,000 and squish a hybrid flat!

Mass matters, but so does engineering. Remember that infamous offset frontal test between a Mini Cooper and an F150? Yah, I know, old news, but instructive all the same. Design matters.



Not hard to imagine which vehicle you'd rather be in.

[Vladimir]

Yes, but I meant the older cars that would throw all occupants through the windshield yet only require light buffing after hitting a tree. Like Abrams they were.

[rajpoot]

Yes, but I meant the older cars that would throw all occupants through the windshield yet only require light buffing after hitting a tree. Like Abrams they were.

The days when cars were rarer then people.

Obviously it made more sense then to make the safety of the car the top priority.

[Ja'chyra]

Any one ever being in a car crash?

Yes, I have been married.

[Peasant Phill]

Yes, I have been married.

Bada tssssschhhh. I'll be here til Friday.
Try the veal.