Any one ever being in a car crash??

[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)