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Long story short about 12 years ago I was driving my Mits Eclispe down a road I had never been on before I looked down for about 2 seconds & my ex Gf at the time screamed look out! We were going downhill not steep but wet. I looked up & there was a dullie pick up headed straight towards us. I broke my right wrist & my wrist hit the steering wheel with such force that my elbow broke my ribs. My Gf at the time broke her right leg in two places. Worst wreck I've been on & the only one that was my fault.
Have you ever been involved in a car accident?
I have yet to be in one. I've been driving for a pretty long time.
Have any of you? Any stories? Let's start a thread where you can share your experiences and hopefully teach others.
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Been in several, some were my fault, some were not...
That being said, worst one I was in was during a girlfriends grandmothers funeral. Going through a red light with the rest of the funeral procession, we were struck by a older lady that went around the cars stopped for the procession and plowed us in my 1981 Corolla. Of the 4 of us, I was the only one not injured.
Not funny at the time, but when we were struck, the shock popped the cassette tape into the player and the song started playing, loud. It was Hot Dog from Led Zep. Started right at the beginning.
Been in others but that is the most notable.
To this day I hate driving in funeral processions...go figure.
One of the worst was skidding on wet leaves on a back road in CT. Driver was not going fast but skidded off the road into a tree. Driver broke 3 ribs. Gal in front seat hit her face and broke the windshield. Suffered some pretty nasty cuts on her face. I was in the back seat and broke an arm. The gal in the backseat with me broke her leg. No seatbelts in the car and a two door car where the front seats just tilted forward as in no locking device. With seat belts and air bags, I doubt there would have been those many injuries.
I got T-boned one time and it was my fault. Busy traffic but I never saw the other car coming. I turned into its path. Stupid me.
In 20 years, my wife has been hit 4 times. 3 times in the rear and once in the front. The 3 rear ends all from others following to close. The front one was someone turned into a one way street the wrong way and hit her. All ruled not her fault.
Right before moving from South Florida about a month ago (thank God), I was stopped at a stop sign in a parking lot and a 70+ year old lady cut the left hand turn way too short and destroyed the front driver side of our vehicle. This despite the fact that I saw her coming about 2 seconds in advance and honked at her. After making contact with us, instead of stopping, she continued going, thus causing more damage to her own vehicle, as well as ours.
Anyhow, she lied to the cop and told him I was stopped and suddenly "lunged out" at her as she was making the turn. Her insurance company sent us a letter saying they conducted an investigation and found me to be at fault and my insurance company would be responsible for paying in full for the damages to both vehicles. Unbelievable. I'm at a loss as to how they determined that, I would have thought just judging by the damage alone on the two vehicles that it would have been obvious who was at fault. I told my insurance company what happened, I'm hoping they fight it.
2 in my almost 35 years of driving. First one when I was a wrecker driver (I think I was around 25 at the time), driving a truck that had one of those flat steel push bumpers on the front, nailed a Lincoln Towncar in the drivers door that ran a stop sign. No injuries to me, other guy was in the hospital for a couple weeks I think.
Second one was in December in my 2011 Charger. Box truck was making a right turn in front of me, woman pulled out from the same road the truck was turning on to blind. Nailed her minivan doing about 45. Totaled her van, $13k damage to my car.
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The Cortina GT is an extremely small car. They stopped making them YEARS ago. The Fairlane Wagon is pretty big compared to the Cortina. That must've been a tough hit! How fast were you 2 going when you hit?
25, on a narrow, winding road. One of my headlights was against the firewall, so yes, it was a tough hit.
Let's see, I've been driving for 24 years now, and I've had 4 accidents, with one being my fault. The first was me driving through the college driveway when a guy, driving his girlfriend's car, didn't pay attention and pulled out into the driveway hitting my car on the passenger side and spinning my car around. He got out and tried to jerk a piece of her car out of my tire.
The next one was kind of my fault. I was driving through an extremely heavy rain, only going about 15 miles per hour. Started going down hill and applied my brakes - the car hydroplaned every so slowly off the road hitting a business's sign. Did very minor damage to the car and the business was nice enough to not charge me for the sign, but it was embarrassing.
The next was just a few years ago. I was stopped in a line of traffic on a busy road when out of nowhere, this kid who had just got his license a few weeks prior, slammed right into the back end of my car, totaling it.
The last was last year. I was driving to church one morning, going dead on the speed limit. I was approaching the end of the road where my right lane turns right, and there's a small left turn lane that forms at the end of the road. The older woman in front of me merges into the left turning lane, so I keep proceeding to the stop light when she decides to turn right, cutting me off and forcing me off the road in order to miss her. In retrospect, I probably should have hit her, but the car would have definitely been totaled and who's to say she didn't have a small child in the passenger side? I went off road and hit the ditch. Since I tried my best to avoid a collision with her, her insurance wouldn't pay for any damage and it was just like nothing ever happened for her.
Once I was stopped at red light and a lady stopped behind us. Like 1/2minute later I felt a little push. We stopped on shoulder and it looks like lady was trying to pick something from the floor and partly released the brakes It's so little I didn't bother even getting her insurance info.
One when I was 16. I was in the back seat of a white Nova. Four of us going to the drive in. On the big boulevard approach to the drive in we rear ended the station wagon full of boys who were flirting with us as we passed them and they passed us. Slow motion. STOP! STOP! STOP! SMACK! I knew to duck and curl up in a ball in the seat well so was the only one not hurt. Driver smacked her face on the steering wheel and had to have her braces detangled from the inside of her lip. Other two passengers had minor impact bruises. Nothing broken. I was sore the next day but not hurt.
Years later one of our passengers, Susie, makes friends with a co worker and they are going to dinner and pass by the spot where we had the accident. Before Susie could say, "I was in a car accident right here," her new friend says "I was in a car accident right here. We were in a station wagon and I was the only girl in a car full of boys. They were flirting with girls in another car and we got rear ended by it!"
Susie says. "We're you hit by a white Nova?"
"Yeah."
"I was in the car that hit you."
When the accident happened Susie in her 16 year old wisdom yelled at the cops that "They are drinking!! They are drinking!" as if that would absolve our friend who clearly was in the wrong when she rear ended them. Susie confessed that she was the accusing loudmouth that Heather remembered.
Cops searched the car and found no booze.
Turns out that they WERE drinking and had taken the case of beer and pushed it under the station wagon before the cops arrived!
This was way back in the day and no one got in any trouble. But what are the odds that these two people would meet and the whole story from both sides would come out?
In nearly 20 years and almost 1,000,000 miles of driving, never been in an accident with me as the driver. Did have one as a passenger and it was nearly fatal for me.
I was the front passenger, guy merges into our lane and hits the brake. Our driver, instead of braking, swerved into the median (sand) at 70mph and lost control going side ways.
It was reported to our bosses that I was killed in the crash. We rolled over 4 times.
Fortunately, there were Americans behind us that saw the crash and stopped to help. First time I regained consciousness, I was still seated in the vehicle and one of the first responders said we'd been in an accident. I lost consciousness shortly after that.
Second time I regained consciousness was in the Blackhawk when the wind from the rotors blew cold air on me. I looked up at the guy and asked him who he was. He said, "sergeant (I don't remember his name), Special Forces." I lost consciousness sporadically in the Blackhawk, the medic kept shining his flashlight in my eyes telling me to stay awake. I was taken to a military clinic and then transferred to a local civilian hopital where they posted a Soldier in the room with me 24/7. I stayed in there for 4 days and slept about 22 hours a day.
I consider myself a pretty skilled driver having driven as much as I have and across this country multiple times. I believe if I were driving that the accident wouldn't have happened.
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