Any one ever being in a car crash??

**Vladimir** · 05-09-2012, 16:09

Originally Posted by Servilius Novus

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** · 05-09-2012, 21:07

Originally Posted by Vladimir

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** · 05-10-2012, 13:22

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** · 05-10-2012, 14:20

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 05-11-2012, 17:17

Any one ever being in a car crash?

Yes, I have been married.

**Peasant Phill** · 05-12-2012, 19:32

Originally Posted by Ja'chyra

Yes, I have been married.

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

**Furunculus** · 05-13-2012, 16:10

Rolled my rover being fifty yards down a hillside a few years back, completely crushed but walked away without a scratch.
A noble end to my rover bling. :D

**gaelic cowboy** · 07-21-2012, 19:03

Unbelievable I have been involved in another car crash this time twas on the way to Dublin and again someone ran into the back of my car.

Luckily for me and the car not a scratch on either of us but the guy behind me got his boot driven in by the car behind him.

Why oh why do people drive too close behind you on a wet day??

**Major Robert Dump** · 07-22-2012, 02:25

The same reason they clean the toaster with a metal knife. Sorry to hear about your streak of bad luck. I have a few middle aged friends who, after being in several car accidents (one with perma injuries from it), have all sworn off car ownerships and relocated to cities with good mass transit systems. I have often flirted with this idea

**gaelic cowboy** · 07-22-2012, 13:23

Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump

The same reason they clean the toaster with a metal knife. Sorry to hear about your streak of bad luck. I have a few middle aged friends who, after being in several car accidents (one with perma injuries from it), have all sworn off car ownerships and relocated to cities with good mass transit systems. I have often flirted with this idea

To be honest I was as lucky as a black cat because truthfully I had only taxed the car that morning and it would have been so easy to say "ah I will chance it and pay it next week".

If I had been caught in that accident with out me car tax I probably would have been done for the whole incident by the gardai and insurance company.

**HopAlongBunny** · 07-22-2012, 18:39

Glad to here you're ok.

I have had more accidents than I care to list :P My highlight has to be being rear-ended by a logging truck on my motorcycle; highway accident too. No injuries, and he happily paid all repairs/expenses; good thing too, it took weeks to get the parts needed.
On the upside, being stuck for weeks in a beach community during the height of summer isn't all bad :)

**Ibrahim** · 07-23-2012, 04:46

never been in one as the driver, though I've been in a couple as a passenger.

luckily, in neither case was it serious: fender-benders.

just think of it this way Gaelic cowboy: she ran into you, and you didn't into her. So in a just world, she has to pay, not you.

**gaelic cowboy** · 04-18-2013, 08:53

Just slid off the road there this morning at about twenty to eight on the way to work.

I am ok and prob the car just needs pulling out of the field it's in.

Best guess is that as I was going round a turn I hit a bump/depression in road and lost control.

There were no marks on the road so I wasnt going to fast (thankfully) but I did get a nice fright (an a new bill to pay)

I am never using that road again to go to work

**Fragony** · 04-18-2013, 09:29

Glad you are ok

**HopAlongBunny** · 04-18-2013, 10:06

Glad to hear you are ok. I have to admit, since I no longer drive for a living I can't justify the expense; no longer get to deduct depreciation, fuel, maintenance and insurance can just get insane.