Your worst accident?

Confused · 11-12-2004, 07:42 AM

Saw a similar thing on another forum, thought it might be interesting here!

My only accident:

Car - Vauxhall Nova 1.2

Years ago - 3

Road - Country lane

Time - 10pm

What was i doing - showing off

What happened - jumped off a humped back bridge, nearly lost control, weaved side-to-side missing an abandoned 7 series BMW, slammed rear axle sideways into grass verge, sent car round 120 degrees and left hand side of the car about 3ft off the ground.

Who was at fault - me

Damage - Rear axle bent 30 degrees. Body/exhaust damage. Dad fixed car (step-sister's Nova had been rear-ended a month before and was still sitting in his back garden). Cost me nothing to repair.

Did i learn my lesson - yes, i always check the other side before i jump off them now, and go slightly slower.

Anyone else want to clear their conscience?

hijinks21 · 11-12-2004, 07:49 AM

9 years of driving and the only accidents i've gotten in are cars rear ending me.. little to no damage to my bronco/explorer but their cars are another story.

I've been rear ended 2 times in the past year and so far made around $1800 on insurance payments since i'm not fixing the scuffs on my bumper. Other then the scuffs.. my bumper is a bit pressed in.. but it doesn't look bad at all

Dracos · 11-12-2004, 08:20 AM

My worst accident:

Car - Rover Metro GTa 1.4

Years ago - 9 months

Road - Country lane (again)

Time - 3pm

What was i doing - dropping my mate home

The road is gravelly and wet - near to no grip. im going about 20 mph. Thers a slight downhill incline my direction. Up in front theres a fork in the road. The left fork goes around a blind bend - the road is wide enough for one car. The right fork goes up to a bit of farmland. There is a sone wall dividing the road into the fork - its about 3 foot wide.

As I approach the fork, some fool comes around the blind corner at me @ approx 45-50mph. We both hit our brakes and under the conditions, we slide. Rather than hit him, I aim for the other road on the fork, believeing I could make it, I release the brake and steer for the other road. The other car goes sideways and keeps sliding. I hit the dividing wall square on. The other car slides to a stop some distance up the road - without a scratch.

I have smashed my radiator, wrapped it over the engine, buckled the front axle a little bit, smased both headlights, and the front end of my car resembled the letter 'V'. After we shake ourselves off, we get out of my car to asses the damage. The driver of the other car sees us get out and quickly speeds off - I didnt get his plate.

Amazingly, nobody was hurt, the wall was undamaged, and it appears my car just crumpled. I ALSO managed to drive the car home - stopping once at a garage to refill the radiator (as much as possible), and to allow the engine to cool. I drove 10 miles with the car in that condition to get home. Upon getting home, I managed to pull the front end out with some rope, a lamp post and reverse gear

. I replaced both lamps and the bonnet. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a radiator (the GTa had a special rad), and therefore i didnt continue with the repair. Instead, I gave it to another mate who took it banger racing

Did i learn my lesson - Yes. Not that there was much of a lesson for me to learn. But I havent been on that road since

JC-S60 · 11-12-2004, 09:14 AM

7 years of driving, and still very lucky

only had 1 accident:

Car - Opel Omega 2.0i (120 HP in a rusty stationwagen with rearwheel drive)

Years ago - 6

Road - Freeway Exit

Time - 9am

What was i doing - taking my sister to the trainstation

What happened - took the 270° exit which was dry but had a wet spot somewhere in the middle. I started accelerating in the middle of the curve, just when I met the wet spot. Somehow I managed to end up 90° to the driving direction, in between the concrete borders, with 50 cm in front and behind my car, without touching anything! I had to fwd-reverse 5 times to get out. Luckily there was nobody behind me!

Who was at fault - the wet spot (It wasn't wearing a seatbelt)

Damage - Nothing but my ego

Did i learn my lesson - no. I came out feeling I was a superdriver and could handle my car pretty well. I have calmed down since.

carpcnoobie · 11-12-2004, 02:53 PM

Dracos, the lesson that should be learned from your accident is simple.. next time HIT HIM!!!! At least you'll have a better chance of getting his tags!

old_lou · 11-12-2004, 03:25 PM

My worst accident
Had a midair crash on a m/bike, with another one, 9 months in hospital
Two years ago hit a deer while going to the ranger station to get a Christmas tree £2,500 damage to my Pajero and a dead deer. Pajero was only six months old.

gambit32 · 11-12-2004, 05:56 PM

Marriage....11 years

Car - 280z...I turned it around after leaving the parking lot with an ex and came back in to meet the woman who would be my wife.

Place - KFC fast food joint. I was eating lunch with an ex.

Time - Not sure, because it sort of stood still because my ex wife is hot.

What was I doing? - I ask myself that now!!!

Spaghetti · 11-12-2004, 10:43 PM

Been in quite a few minor skirmishes and had a few sideways moments on wet roundabouts here and there, but only had one serious accident.
I know the topic is most serious accident, but I'll tell y'all my anecdotes anyway!

I did the humpback bridge thing too - but I was seventeen!! Anyway, managed to get a clean take-off in my car

and doing about 60mph when I noticed a woman pull out of a side road in front of me in the distance......needless to say, I absolutely **** my pants! Not least of all, because it was my mother's car.....

Well anyway, I locked the wheels instantly, leaving a trail of blue tyre smoke which I could see spewing in my mirrors, and the car set on course to exchange a substantial amount of paintwork.....but somehow i managed to stopped panicking for a moment and eased off brakes a little enough for me to swerve the car around the other driver with barely inches to spare

This incident shook me up so much I proceeded to drive the wrong way up a dual carriageway immediately afterwards...

A non-serious accident I was in was when I was with another guy (who was 17 at the time) in his MK1 Fiesta when we decided to go 'rallying' in the snow after work...oh yeah, we were ******* stupid! I even remember one of the colleagues at work saying what a ******* stupid idea it was and really giving us a look of contempt! Well there was a brand new short stretch of dual carraigeway I knew of that lead to a new housing estate that hadn't been built yet and was always coned off, and we'd always used it for racing/handbrake turns etc. We decided to hone our rallying skills there on that night.....On the fateful run (my friend driving), I remember thinking to myself that we were probably going too fast to stop in time before hitting the kerb at the end...well I was right, and we'd hit it! His car was a write off - chassis bent and wheels pointing anywhere but forwards! Car just wouldn't steer properly nor drive in a straight line and it was snowing! Ahh those were the days....

Another non-serious accident that I was in involved four of us in a mini, with me as a passenger in the back, bombing down a narrow lane wide enough for only one car in some farmer's land in the countryside. We always bunked off school to go 'rallying'

down here when we were bored... We came round one particular corner where there was a high banked grass verge on the inside which my friend managed to clip when he came around the bend too fast. We bounced off it and ended up careering back across the road and bouncing down a ditch on the other side where the poor mini ended up stranded! We all sat there silent and motionless for what seemed like an eternity, probably pondering the enormity of being caught bunking off school then getting stranded in the middle of nowhere, trespassing on land, and driving like complete morons. To top it off, the mini had a hole in the floor and the car was slowly filling up with water...

In the end, the kind farmer towed us out!!

My most serious accident to date involved a side-on smash in a friends car. My friend made a right turn off a main road on an amber-to-red (cutting across the opposite lane, for all you left-hookers

), just making the turn as it went to red. The guy coming from the opposite direction on the main road was accelerating hard (and very fast) as he approached the lights on his side in anticipation of it changing green for him. Which it did...I'm not sure what speed he was going when he hit us, but he hit us on my side of the car and we ended up doing a 270 spin. The back of my seat collapsed and the interior of the car suddenly got a lot smaller! I was totally winded, wedged up against the driver's seat and unable to breathe. My friend was ok, but a little shaken - had to tell him to ring for an ambulance myself! This happened at a busy crossroads outside my university block and attracted what seemed like hundreds of voyeuristic students crowding round and peering into the car - bastards! My vision started blurring at the hospital too, before I found out I'd broken my collar bone. I'm pretty sure I'd cracked a rib too, as it hurt like a ***** for weeks, although there's nothing that could've been done if they found out I'd cracked it anyway. The whole of my upper left torso was bruised, which went a nice shade of dark murky yellow (mmm..nice!) and the break also meant I had random stabbing pains in funny places in my arm. I also couldn't get out of bed properly and had to shuffle myself down the bed and drop off the end and off on to my feet! The other car belonged to a guy who wasn't insured to drive it, and the perpertrator was seen running off after the incident. It couldn't be proven that the owner was driving, and so nothing ever came out of it

Tried several companies to get some cash out of it, but failed miserably!

Here's a pic of the slightly banana-shaped car I was in - it's small car and is much worse in the metal

fearthepenguin · 11-13-2004, 01:32 AM

I was 18 and had a Ford Thunderbird turbo coupe (fun car). Myself, my girlfriend, my buddy and a foreign exchange student from japan were in the car and it started to hydroplane. It whipped around 3 times dancing in and out of traffic and finally slid off an embankment into a swollen creek. We ended up with the car being submerged up to the passenger side door (it hand landed trunk first and then on it's side, so kinda like standing only on your right leg and leaning). Had to bust out the window on the drivers side door and crawl out. We were fortunate in that while 2/3rds of the car was under water, we were able to jump from the drivers side to the bank of the creek. Took 3 tow trucks to pull it out because of the current. The funny part of the whole story is that I tried to start it when we got it out and it ended up belching mud all over a cops shoes. ended up driving that tank home and after a good flushing, drove it for another year.

Noctris · 11-19-2004, 06:55 AM

Car - Volvo V40

Years ago - 4

Road - Highway

Time - 2pm

What was i doing - Cruising

What happened -

Well, I was passing by a truck and was on the utter left lane cruising at 160 Km/h with the truck 5 meters in front on the right lane, then some lady drove up the highway at around 60 Km/hour ( which is illegal) and instead of first gaining speed, she cut off the truck who was driving aprox. 100. , the truck took the good decsion to swing out instead of driving over the womans Fiat Punto at 100Km/hour .. instead he cut me of and went full on the brakes while I had only 4 meters left to react. According to the police I didn't even break, i just pulled my steeringwheel to the right and hit the right backside of the truck (which was down to 40km /hour by then) fullspeed ( around 160) with my left frontside, Car went into a spin from hell, bounced against the side of the highway BACK to the truck ( twice back and forth between side of highway and truck) and finally finished somehwere in the middle of the highway.

Got out without a scratch ( did have to get out through the sunroof because the car was completely smashed where only the cage of the front and backseats was left ( no more trunk, no more engine). Must have had a guardian angel ( which the cops told me repeatantly ;-) that day )

Eitherway, the speed probably did something but I don't think the extra 40km/hour really made a difference. Best of all: The lady who cause this chain of events just drove further, didn't even flinch or react, probably was powdering her nose and didn't even notice the fuzz GRRRRR

Did i learn my lesson - ? You mean there was a lesson in this ? ;-).. Well, I learned that a volvo is a robust car, that elder ladies in small city cars are a severe danger to society ( which was proved to me on several occassions after the accident aswell) and that trucks don't give, and I do mean @ ALL !

Grayscale · 11-19-2004, 12:30 PM

I'm lazy:

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=35628

Motoko · 11-19-2004, 04:26 PM

Man i just watched that video, what the hell! and what has the Matrix got to do with it ??

Grayscale · 11-19-2004, 06:35 PM

lol, I know! I have no clue, but i don't want to hijack this thread so i'll stop talking now

Cris · 11-19-2004, 08:48 PM

After what I've read, it's nice to see you're all O.K!

0l33l · 11-20-2004, 12:33 AM

My only accident:

Car - 1995 Lexus SC300

Months ago - 1

Road - School parking lot

Time - 12:15

What was i doing - parking

What happened - I was backing into a parking space, and our school parking lot is so damn small that you can't get out if you pull in. So I was backing into the space and I was watching out not the hit the car with my front passenger side, and when I looked back I hit my friend's car.

Who was at fault - me

Damage - $514.30 damage to my friend's 2004 Toyota Solara, and the bumper wasn't even damaged. ******* pearlescent paint

Damage to me: $50 for a huge dent repair, and I still haven't done anything about the paint.... that side of my rear fender was already a bit ****ed... the paint was fading etc. I'm waiting for someone to hit my car and I'll get a 100% repaint, because you can't color match faded red, and the law says that it has to be to "previous condition"... so this means the paint matches.. if they repaint then one part will look red and the rest of the car will look a bit lighter, so I'll get a full repaint

Did i learn my lesson - Yes... have a different strategy for backing into spaces.