Car accidents

[DogLover8]

I was in a crazy car accident 6 months ago. The black ice caused the car I was in to spin around and hit the trees on the side of the road. The car was destroyed. The firetruck came and slid off the road. It hit the trees just like the car I was in. Scary seeing a giant firetruck coming right down.

I walked away from the accident just sore.

What car accident(s) have you been in?

[Swiftwind]

Wow, that sounds scary! Do you get black ice during summer? You're really lucky to have walked away with mild injuries. It sounds like it could have easily been a fatal accident.

I've been in two car crahses. Once (when I was 8) we were at a very big intersection on a highway, and we were turning the corner when all of a sudden a taxi on the opposite side went through a red light and hit our car! Luckily it wasn't too bad, and all I got was whiplash and a bad headache.

The other time I was 12 years old. My mum was driving my sister and I to school one morning, going about 30-40kms down our street. We were approaching the end of our road when this stupid woman in a great big 4WD backed out of her driveway in a speedy rush, ended up crashing into our car and making it turn 180 degrees! We were in a small 4WD so the force she hit our car with must have been quite strong to make our car spin around!

Her excuse...? She was in a rush and we were in her way!

[Rivsky]

DogLover that sounds absolutely awful - were you able to get out of the car yourself or did the fire department have to help you get out?

I've only ever been in 1 accident (thankfully!!) and that was when I was about 8 - Dad was driving us home to the Adelaide Hills when he spotted a koala in a gum tree so stopped so my sister and I could see it - unfortunately he didn't pull over when he stopped and someone ran up the back of the car - we were just really lucky they weren't going too fast.

[britishbandit]

I've been in 2 accidents, one completely my fault, the other was not.

First one was 3 months after I was able to drive alone. I had my mums new car while she was in England. My best friend at the time and I went to go and see another friend, who wasn't home, and on the way back I was speeding, going 120kph down a gravol road (stupid, yes), and blew a tire, skidded for about 10 seconds, then hit a cement culvert head on, flipped end over end and sideways before landing upside down in a 10 foot deep ditch. We walked away relatively unharmed, but it sure made me a much more cautious and careful driver. I was only 17 when this happened. (I'll have to scan the pics of the car to show ya, what a mess!)

The second time I was driving home from work, and an SUV in front of me signalled right and pulled into the parking lane on the side of the street. I kept going straight, and she pulled back out into the street, and right into the side of my car. Her SUV suffered a scratch on the bumper, I had a HUGE dent in the side of my car. Did the police report, and they put it down to no fault, since there were no witnesses, and no broken glass to prove that I was hit on my side of the road. Convenietnly, the woman who hit me's husband was chief of police in my town. Go figure.

I know I was in one when I was little, but don't remember much about it.

[britishbandit]

Ok, here's the number I did on mum's new car. My parents were far from impressed about it.


Can we say write off?

[Swiftwind]

Ouch! I bet she wasn't impressed at all!

[fancychicken]

The exact same thing hapened to me..hit black ice and off the road I went. Only I managed to get my truck jammed between 2 trees. I couldn't open either door. I had to climb out the window..in a skirt and high heels mind you(just got finished with work), it was 9:30 at night and it was snowing. I also live out in the boonies so I had to walk up the road to a house ..nobody home. So I went back to my truck and waited by the side of the road for someone to drive by. I needed the light so I could try and de-wedge my truck. Fortunately I was able to get the truck backed up alright (took about 10 minutes though). Needless to say I went out the next day and bought a cell phone

[ewarp]

When I was 16, I was driving home from play practice. Our house was out in the country, so I was driving down a gravel road. I was going about 40 mph, when all of a sudden, there was a beagle in the road.

I swerved, and lost control of the car. The car fishtailed and then flew off the road, over the ditch, did a complete barrel roll and ended up landing right side up, engine still running. I remember that the cd that was playing skipped for a minute and then started right up again.

The entire top was smushed and the car ended up being totalled. I remember sitting there, looking for my cell phone in the car (it wasn't in the cup holder where it had last been) and hearing this weird noise. I realized it was the windshield, slowly cracking more and more.

Had I not had my seatbelt on, I would have been dead, no doubt about it.

[Pearlulm]

Her is a link to an accident that I was in on April 2001. I was driving this truck. Needless to say, I'm lucky to be alive. It took them one hour to cut me out of the truck. Accidents are the scariest thing ever.


http://www.chespub.com/404/April%202...20accident.htm

[brandysmama]

I've only been in one wreck since I've been driving, and it was November 1999 while I was a senior in college. A woman not much older than I pulled out forwards of a driveway RIGHT in front of me on a busy 2-lane road during rush hour. (There was a big tree right there along the street, so it's possible she didn't see around it.) I T-boned her in her left front side at about 30-35 miles per hour. I must have gone into shock at that point, because my car kept rolling, crossed the center line, and gently hit the curb on the other side of the road. I guess cars coming the other way had stopped, thank goodness. My airbags deployed, giving me a busted lip and burns all over my face. My seat belt scratched me on my neck. My roommate, who was in the passenger seat, had a slightly sprained finger from when she put her hands up to her face and the airbag hit them. The other driver was fine physically--just VERY shaken up. I wish my airbags hadn't deployed; those accounted for most of the injuries! The seat belts would have caught us.

My car was in worse shape than we were. The insurance company totaled it out, even though it didn't look horribly bad. I guess the damage was too much, and the car too old (5 years), to make it worth fixing. Since my mom had given me the car and had since died, I cried when it came time to clean it out and give it up.

[DogLover8]

Originally Posted by Swiftwind

Do you get black ice during summer?

We do not get black ice during summer. The accident happened towards the end of winter when most of the snow was gone. The weather just happen to cool down enough to allow the black ice to form.

Originally Posted by Rivsky

Were you able to get out of the car yourself or did the fire department have to help you get out?

I got out myself. The door was good enough to be opened. I got out fast because there was all sorts of fluids coming out of the engine. I was not sure if gasoline was leaking or not.

The firetruck did not hit the vehicle I was in. It came awfully close though. The firefighters were a bit startled after there firetruck went off the road. I ask them if they were alright.

[DogLover8]

Three(?) other cars slide off the road after the firetruck.

Originally Posted by ewarp

Had I not had my seatbelt on, I would have been dead, no doubt about it.

I do know what would have happened if I did not have my seatbelt on!

Originally Posted by britishbandit

Ok, here's the number I did on mum's new car. My parents were far from impressed about it.


Can we say write off?

Ouch! Britishbandit that must have been scary.