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.

[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.