Ever been in a wreck before?

[BrainDamaged]

My girlfriend and I were hungry after depositing a check at the bank earlier today. We decided to drive across town to Ruby Tuesday. We didn't make it because this lady decided to run a stop sign and hit me in the driver side door. We were both going about 40mph.

I have some cuts on my face from the door window and a bruised left arm, but hey I'm alive. My significant other is unharmed. Thank goodness for seatbelts. I'll get photos up later after I take more on a real digital camera (I don't have a cameraphone-to-USB cable) so nobody has to say "pix or it didn't happen"!

So my question to everyone is: have you ever been in a car accident/bike accident/"traffic collision" before, and if so - how bad was it?

[jp58]

Originally Posted by BrainDamaged

So my question to everyone is: have you ever been in a car accident/bike accident/"traffic collision" before, and if so - how bad was it?

I got rear-ended by someone with no insurace driving a car with no tags, registration, or vin number. Oh and did I mention her license was revoked?

And I got the ticket. She failed to yield and ran a light. I got the ticket. On top of that the cop got pissed when I told him he was wrong (go figure). But its okay, the ticket got thrown out (go figure again), and I didn't have to pay to fix my car. Only her's was damaged and the insurance company denied her claim after hearing my testimony and seeing my pictures.

Long story short, it sucks. Glad you and your SO were okay.

[BrainDamaged]

Originally Posted by jp58

I got rear-ended by someone with no insurace driving a car with no tags, registration, or vin number. Oh and did I mention her license was revoked?

My mom tells a funny story dealing with something similar. She was riding along with my grandmother (who was kind of a crazy woman to be honest), and while at a stoplight, they get bumped a little bit in the back, just enough to scrape some paint off the bumper. Grandma gets out of the car in the middle of traffic right there at the stoplight, oxygen machine and all, and says to man (who happened to be black) "Now I know that you didn't mean to, and I know that you're not hurt, and I know that we're not hurt, and I know that you don't have insurance - so we're not going to call this anything at all, but don't you think that my daughter deserves something for the trouble of not calling the police?"

The guy agreed with what she was saying and Grandma got $40.

[JimB52]

Glad everybody's OK.
I've been through some pretty spectacular accidents and have always walked away unhurt or with cuts & bruises only.
Luckily, haven't been involved in one for 20+ years (knock on wood+)

[MEKer]

I've been in a car wreck, a motorcycle wreck and shot-down-helicopter wreck (thrice). Lucky me-----very minor owies.

[BrainDamaged]

Originally Posted by MEKer

I've been in a car wreck, a motorcycle wreck and shot-down-helicopter wreck (thrice). Lucky me-----very minor owies.

Three times shot down? Can you elaborate - there's sure to be stories in there.

[Execut1ve]

just for my own curiosity, in what age range was the other driver?

Sorry to hear about your accident though glad you guys walked away ok

[MadMan118]

Ive rolled a car, had the front of the car sheared off by a big rig, and been t-boned in my own car. And have had the misfortune of being passenger of several more wrecks.

[Joe Gress]

Went off the road fishtailling during a snowstorm and hit a sign with my dads truck in 08. Rolled the truck this summer. Smashed my car into a curb during a snowstorm this past winter.

[Bard2dbone]

I've been in four major car wrecks, six minor car wrecks, two motorcycle wrecks, and I fell out of a helicopter once. I can't recommend the experience. But only required surgical repair from the helicopter incident. The last car wreck was 22 years ago.

[pnut166]

Had an 18 wheeler cross lanes, run up on the hood of my Sentra, which in turn lifted the back wheels off the road - doing about 70 on the interstate. I went spinning into a ditch. He left the scene then ran from the cops = high. Also had an 18 wheeler on same stretch of highway blow a tire out and a big strip of tread come through the windshield of my poor Sentra; again I went spinning off the highway. Passenger in a Camaro that ran off the road @ high rate of speed, went up a bank, flipped and came down on the roof - slid for about 100 yds. It had T tops, and the front passenger - the only one wearing a seatbelt - got his scalp ground down to the skull. Same driver hydroplaned a Tercel and flipped it down an enbankment in the middle of the night. Ended up catching a ride home on a freight train running through the woods whose tracks passed close to my house. Nailed a light pole on the interstate in my Mustang, in the snow, on New Year`s Eve. Stranded for 9 hours. Ran my own leg over getting out of my truck while it was still in gear. Other various fenderbenders, motorcycle, dirtbike, and four-wheeler wrecks resulting in various injury, all of this during my party days. And my wife wonders why I`m such a cautious driver now.

[MIJ-VI]

Originally Posted by MEKer

I've been in a car wreck, a motorcycle wreck and shot-down-helicopter wreck (thrice). Lucky me-----very minor owies.

An engine-stall wreck (once) would be bad enough!

[Jonyak]

wow guys. I have been driving for 15 years and have only been in one small fender bender that wasn't my fault. Some of you guys have alot of crash experience.

[tplyons]

T-Boned by a driver of a Ford F-350 who fell asleep behind the wheel and hit me in the front quarter panel of my El Camino at about 25. We both walked away, with no cuts or scrapes... just a giant dent in my quarter panel.

And slid off the road on New Years Eve thanks to a shoddy plowing job and black ice. Bent two wheels and ripped off my front air dam on the bottom side of my HHR. No injuries as I stopped about 10' shy of the tree I was on a crash course for.

[Jim Nazium]

I've been in a few. My favorite was back in the '90s when I was working as a car salesman. Customer comes in and wants to go for a test drive "someplace we can drive fast". OK, so I drive the car off the lot as is standard procedure, pull over and get out so he can drive. We are stopped about 50 yards before an intersection. He gets in, floors it, accelerates right up to and through the red light (while I'm paralyzed with terror), and gets t-boned by another car. The car is totaled, but no one appears to be hurt, at least until a couple of weeks later, when I see the guy wearing a neck brace. Want to guess his occupation? Lawyer.

[king_biscuit]

Originally Posted by Jim Nazium

I've been in a few. My favorite was back in the '90s when I was working as a car salesman. Customer comes in and wants to go for a test drive "someplace we can drive fast". OK, so I drive the car off the lot as is standard procedure, pull over and get out so he can drive. We are stopped about 50 yards before an intersection. He gets in, floors it, accelerates right up to and through the red light (while I'm paralyzed with terror), and gets t-boned by another car. The car is totaled, but no one appears to be hurt, at least until a couple of weeks later, when I see the guy wearing a neck brace. Want to guess his occupation? Lawyer.

Really? You think most lawyers are inclined to test drive cars and drive them through red lights causing a wreck? For what purpose? Clearly he was negligent/reckless, and had no case! A lawyer would know that, so that would be my last choice when guessing his occupation.

[Gard]

A very long time ago, I was driving a work vehicle (oddly, a 1966 Volvo Station Wagon...) for a window tint installation company. A couple days before the incident I'm about to describe, the owner of the company/car had a tire repair done on the right rear tire.

Afterward, both he and I noticed a "clicking" sound coming from that area at times, but didn't really give it a lot of thought.

So, I'm driving with my co-worker at about 60 mph on a 4-lane road (for those that are familiar with the Orlando area, the Bee Line Expy, near SOBT), and the clicking noise gets REALLY LOUD. I decide that maybe we need to take a look at this. As soon as I take my foot off the accelerator, there's a bit CLUNK from the right rear, and it drops.

My instant reaction is: blowout

I was wrong.

Boy, was I WRONG.

A second later, the right rear wheel goes rolling by us, and the car becomes VERY difficult to control - because it is riding on the left rear and right front wheels ONLY.

To keep the car pointed in the right direction, I had to oversteer strongly to the left. Then, because the car is dragging the left rear quarter down the road, it slows quickly, and lifts back up onto the front two wheels....which are both turned very sharply left.

The car instantly flipped onto its roof, and continued down the road in that condition for a good 100 yards or so.

Neither myself, nor the guy with me were wearing our seatbelts. And NEITHER of us got a scratch.

Cause: idiot at tire repair place finger tightened the lug nuts and never finished the job, eventually due to the stress from the wheel vibrating when going down the road the wheel just snapped around the lug nuts. I was not pleased, as you may well imagine. However, my employer at the time talked me out of legal action. In retrospect, that was the wrong path, I should have sued that place into dust....

[Mazatleco17]

Been in 3 car wrecks, 2 as a passenger, and the third one as a driver (it was my fault)

[Pilgrim]

Been in minor fender-benders of various types. Also got hit on a motorcycle from behind and almost lost my left leg - I have a 6" steel plate in my left shin.

I only drive cars now. I like having appendages.

[blendermassacre]

This was my 18th birthday present from a 16 year old kid who had already lost his license. He tried to turn left before I got to him and failed. We hit left headlight to left headlight, both going about 45. He REALLY wanted some sonic, I guess.