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Over nearly 40 years, I've had three times that people have rear ended me, and due to seeing it coming was able to maneuver to mitigate the damage to just a couple scratches.
Luckily I haven't been in any major ones. I did have a Harley guy do a face plant on the side of my van many years ago. He coasted through a stop sign and SMACK!
I stopped of course, walked back to the intersection and luckily he wasn't hurt but he was mad at me, said I was going too fast. He picked his bike up that had scratches and a big dent in the gas tank where the handle bar had kicked around but he got back on and off he went. I went back to my van to find the impact had blown my tire.
This was many years ago when I had only been driving a few years but now I know better and we have cell phones to call the police and take photos.
Just once when I was 18. It had been raining really bad and I went around a turn, hit a puddle with a mixture of oil and water which caused me to slide into a ditch. I didn't hit anybody and there was minimal damage done. I chalk it up to inexperience with driving (I got my license at 16, but didn't have my own car until 18). Here it is 20 years later and no accidents.
Flipped a car onto it's side when I was about 17, that was worse one. Slid into and up an embankment, car was stopped when it fell over onto it's side. That was the last one I caused myself. Avoided a lot of accidents that would have been caused by other people, about 3 minor accidents over thirty years that I couldn't avoid and that's about 1 million miles of driving. Some luck and a lot of awareness.
A lot. I have been rear ended while sitting at lights five times. I had my brakes break once and a wheel bearing freeze up then break apart once (did not hit any cars, but killed some trees both times). As a teen I had a 1969 Pontiac Catalina that was totaled by the insurance company four times (twice was my fault). I also had an incident with a high top van a parking garage and a missing sign which resulted in totaling the van. Then there was the 1980 sunbird that just burst into flames one day and burned up the engine compartment - totaled. Not sure whether those count.
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