BOOM CRASH
polycounter lvl 18
heading up to Philadelphia this weekend with my girlfriend and her 16 month old son to see the body worlds show at the franklyn institute. right after crossing the delaware border we saw a sign for a toll booth 3 dollars, i go to reach for my wallet and was not paying as much attention to the road as i should have been,, when all of a sudden the car in front of me darts into the other lane.. the cars infront of him were stpped still.. i slam on the brakes but by that time we were only maybe 20 - 30 feet away and traveling around 45 mph.
my nice new rx-8 plowed into the rear of her car,, the airbags deployed,
was my first major accident, a verry scarry experiece. after making sure my girl and her son was ok, i ran to check on the other driver,, i noticed she also had a car seat in the back of her car, but luckly no kid with her,, she was ok, and already calling 911, the police showed up about 10 minutes later, the police were really nice,, i only got a 45 dollar ticket for inatentive driver.. i honestly think i deserved more of a fine.
i'm just glad no one was hurt was a verry scarry experience..
now i have to go thru the nightmare of dealing with insurance company,,
any other storys of auto wrecks?
my nice new rx-8 plowed into the rear of her car,, the airbags deployed,
was my first major accident, a verry scarry experiece. after making sure my girl and her son was ok, i ran to check on the other driver,, i noticed she also had a car seat in the back of her car, but luckly no kid with her,, she was ok, and already calling 911, the police showed up about 10 minutes later, the police were really nice,, i only got a 45 dollar ticket for inatentive driver.. i honestly think i deserved more of a fine.
i'm just glad no one was hurt was a verry scarry experience..
now i have to go thru the nightmare of dealing with insurance company,,
any other storys of auto wrecks?
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So I lost the car, completely. Had to buy a new one, and am still paying back the whiplash suit. But thank god I was alone in the accident. I could'nt imagine endangering anyone else, even by accident.
I've been lucky enough to only have one accident back when I was 18, didn't see the stop sign at a 4way. Tore the bumper off of a girl's car with no damage at all to mine. Guess I was lucky. Didn't even get a ticket because as we were talking to the cop 2 other cars almost had the same exact accident at that intersection. Though I did end up paying 500 for the girls bumper, we decided to avoid the insurance company
I looked right for a second and saw a Volvo 850 coming at us quite fast and before I knew it. BAM!
The right side of our car (an Audi A4 94') was pretty banged up and the door was on the ground. The Volvo was worse off I think. No serious injurys tho. I got my right knee bashed a bit and a slight concussion and that's it. Naturally I was the only one who got injured... my luck and all that.
Luckily (or something) it was my dads co-worker (they both work at one of the largest insurence companies in Sweden) so they could sort that stuff quite fast.
It was a wee bit scary seeing that Volvo coming at us. :P
The worst part of it all was driving through town with no right side door in the middle of the winter tho. Blue feet? HELL YEA!
when all of a sudden the car in front of me darts into the other lane. the cars infront of him were stpped still.
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I really hate when that happens. Not much you can do about it. But some people should know not to jump out of lanes when the car in front of them has stopped. It gives little warning to the drivers behind them. This is why turn signals were invented. That person should be fined imho.
I know this is sort of off topic, but I really need to get to that bodyworlds exhibit, i have until april 23rd...
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when all of a sudden the car in front of me darts into the other lane. the cars infront of him were stpped still.
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I really hate when that happens. Not much you can do about it. But some people should know not to jump out of lanes when the car in front of them has stopped. It gives little warning to the drivers behind them. This is why turn signals were invented. That person should be fined imho.
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That happens WAY too often also. I really can't stand how people drive these days.
I've had one accident that was the same situation, where the car in front of me swerved over at the last minute. The difference in mine was, the guy that was stopped in front of him, had a stick, and was sitting in neutral, with NO brakes. They were waiting to turn left with only the turnsignal on. I tried to switch lanes quickly when I realized they were stopped, but I only got about half way into the other lane. When I hit their truck, it sent it through the turn into oncoming traffic. Fortunately they didn't get hit.
In that case, I placed blame on the guy turning since they didn't have their foot on the brake, so no one could tell they were stopped. I ended up getting the ticket though. I forget what violation they claimed it was, but I fought it in court and the judge didn't understand how manual transmissions worked, so she gave me probation. I had to pay the fine, but it didn't go on my record (no insurance increase).
For those who don't understand what I mean with the manual trans; If you hold the clutch in, it's like putting your car in neutral. If the ground is flat enough, you can sit there and not roll. Sometimes people will hold their clutch down with their left foot, then have their right foot on the gas, waiting to accelerate. No foot on the brake to have the brake lights on
I can't get in a accident. I most likely wont survive being a bicyclist. That and with no insurance, I wouldnt have any thing to cover medical bills. Sometimes its very very scary riding bikes around with the way people drive.
.. my Dad thought he was overtaking the car that was in front of the taxi so he held back, but the taxi ended up hitting us head on.
My Dad had only bought the car (a Ford Sierra, safest car in it's price range for '86) a few months previously and it probably saved his and my Grandfathers' lives- the engine came in to the cabin, crushing my dad's leg as well as breaking his jaw and ribs on the steering wheel, my Grandfather suffered a broken hip and other lesser injuries.
I was sitting in the back, and there were no seatbelts as they were not legally required at the time- if I had been a few inches towards the middle, I would have flown through the gap between the front seats and probably end up dying on impact with the windscreen.
The taxi driver died on impact, I don't think he was wearing a seat belt
I have also been in 2 other accidents, one where I was in a Mini with 3 others, we were on a country lane and as we reached the brow of a hill, saw that a car with a trailer was doing a 3 point turn just out of view- my brother in law managed to swerve in time into the layby to the side of the road, clip a tree which spun us out and then hit another tree on the other side- nobody was injured apart from my sister who had whiplash due to sitting in the front.
And recently, I went out for a driving lesson with my mate in the dark along country roads- went to take a slow left turn, braked, started turning and the car understeered which was down to me going a bit too fast, mud on the road and the fact that the temperatures were going down so the road was getting slippy.
This caused it to touch the mud on the outside of the corner which then made the car swerve into the corner again... I then managed to correct it, was only doing 10-15 mph but just ran out of road to keep going and ended up in a ditch which ran along beside the left side of the road.
Ended up with the car on it's roof, smashed windscreen due to hitting a bush on the bank of the ditch which stopped us and minus a mirror and half of the Yorkshire countryside on the underside of my car.... and in the door seals...
If the car had not turned in when it did, we would have hit a telegraph pole that was on the outside of the corner...
I managed to push the car back on to it's wheels but because the mud in the ditch was so soft, I couldn't drive the car out so in the end, a farmer came out with his range rover, and then a tractor to tow it out...
Luckily there were no injuries, just hurt pride.
Your story reminded me of a different accident that I was ALMOST in. I was approaching a light to make a left turn, but for some reason was in a daze, and not paying attention to the light. So I was going really slow rather than up to speed so that I could catch the light green (very uncharacteristic of me).
Anyways, I had just started to hit my gas when the light turned red. Right afterwards, the car across the road started going (she now had a green light). A pickup came flying through the intersection full speed from the right (guy had red light).
The truck hit the car, causing the car to spin in 360s, and the truck went airborn. It landed on the hood of two cars on the opposite side of the intersection. He had two dirtbikes in the back that came loose and flew down the road even further.
What I realized afterwards was, if I wasn't in the daze, I probably would have been there rather than that other car, since I basically would have been doing something I call turning on orange (between switching from yellow to red). The bad thing about that was, I was driving a Jeep Wrangler. I had the top and doors off the vehicle. My buddy was in the passenger seat. He would have been hit directly by the truck (literally) and it probably would have rolled my Jeep over.
Fortunately, with the way things ended, everyone survived. The woman in the car that spun, was stuck in her car, but I believe she was uninjured other than probably bruising. I know her voice was fine though
Haven't really been in any interesting accidents on public streets, just a couple fender benders but offroad I have rolled a baja bug, a jeep, and a pickup. The baja bug ended up so mashed up that we rolled it down a steep canyon to the 4x4 graveyard while shooting it. Good times.
Last day of high school I was making a left turn and there was a car coming towards me in the far lane that was blocked by another car. Their light turned red and I made a left, just as she sped up and went through it. Completely totalled my Acura Integra and her Honda Accord. I had stitches in my leg and bruises on my face and body. Air bag hurt like hell. She had the same type of injuries, but overall ok. I got the ticket for an illegal left turn and she got off. She later sued me (well my insurance company) which I thought was horrible. I ended up missing a final or 2. But things worked out. I was really paranoid to drive for a month or so afterwards.
I'm gunna be more careful. I really hate driving.
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