Dude! DUDE! Look!

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:23 pm

The best one I saw was at an traffic light I was walking past. I had crossed and was walking away and heard a bang - just a bang. I turned around and a car was on it's roof, spinning slowly.

Perfectly comic.

- Joel Fagin

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:40 pm

a couple years ago my mom ruined her perfect record of no accidents in bumper-to-bumper stop and go traffic. she was a second slow on the stop, wha-BAM into the car ahead of us. she was really upset and apologetic and had us sit in a grassy field nearby while waiting for the cops to come and file a report. there wasn't much to do, so we watched the traffic as not one but two other accidents happened that same way the same day. never seen traffic that bad before or since.

Laemkral · Post by **Laemkral** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:11 am

I've been in a car accident. Not some "oops I scratched your car" accident, but one where my car got totaled, the windshield exploded and I was govered in glass, the other car spun out across the intersection and they had put a neckbrace on her when taking her into the ambulance. I was brought to the hospital and x-rayed for injuries and they put me on oxygen during the trip there to calm me down. I don't remember much because I was in a state of shock at the time, but I adamantly refused to get into my mom's car for the ride home, and when I did I had my eyes shut and feet braced against the floor the entire time. No one was killed or hurt, we didn't get sued (it was my fault), and it was NOT a fun experience.

I've also witnessed a car accident. Leaving my high school I saw a car get rear ended so hard it shot across the intersection from a stop and end up on the otherside on the sidewalk. I immediately parked my own car on the side and ran over. Inside was a classmate of mine who literally sat right next to me everyday in Economics. She was unconscious, unresponsive, but breathing. I immediately yelled at everyone there to make sure 911 has been called and tell them she's unconscious but breathing. The ambulance didn't get there for at least 10 minutes and there was nothing we could do about it. She died from internal injuries over the weekend, a few days shy of prom.

Suffice to say, I have a very negative outlook upon car accidents and don't think they are ever anything to cheer about or celebrate.

JTorch · Post by **JTorch** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:31 am

I've witnessed several car accidents in my short life, been in a couple (I wasn't the driver), and in one incident that I saw out the window of a building after the crash, the whole front of the guy's car caught on fire.

A few months ago my mom and stepdad witnessed a car accident in which one of the vehicles ended up upside-down. The people inside were injured pretty badly, and a bunch of other idiots that witnessed it helped right the car, despite my mom and stepdad strongly advising against it. (It's dangerous - could have caused further injuries, obviously.) I only saw that one on the news afterwards.

I probably have more tales to tell on this subject, but I can't think of any right now.

The end. *Roll credits*

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:09 am

aww geez, sorry to hear that about your classmate Laemkral.

two classmates I sorta knew have died from survivable car accidents. all they had to do was wear a freaking seat belt.

always buckle up kiddies.

Thievery · Post by **Thievery** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:24 am

Laemkral wrote: Suffice to say, I have a very negative outlook upon car accidents and don't think they are ever anything to cheer about or celebrate.

Okay, either you think I'm immature, or morbid. Or you don't, I just read it wrong. If it was an actual full-blown ACCIDENT, with windshields broken and that sort of thing, I wouldn't talk about it like I did. There was a bent hood, and that was it. The car DROVE away.

Jesusabdullah · Post by **Jesusabdullah** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:54 am

My dad crashed his company vehicle like three times in four months sometime last year. It was pretty crazy! I was gone every time though, just saw the aftermath.

In the last crash I actually saw, this guy that was driving this obnozious yellow Jeep-ish thing darted the wrong way through traffic, flew off the road, did a barrel roll into a potato field and landed upside down. Then, he kicked open the door and was like, "WOO! Spring Break!". It would've been cool in an action movie, but the fact that I know that he's probably kind of a douche irl puts a damper on things.

The only crash I've actually taken part in was a head-on with a moose. That was pretty cool. Glass went everywhere, but nobody got hurt. Van suddenly became illegal to drive though.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:24 pm

My only "accident" was when I was in my lil subaru at a stop sign, the woman in the big yukon xl turned right, saw it was a dead end, started backing up, I honked my horn, she didn't pay attention, and her friggin' bumper went right over mine and smashed my headlight. She gets out of the car and goes, "Oh no, I heard the glass break!" I'm thinking, "yeah, you didn't hear my fucking horn though, bitch."

Worked out for me because her insurance company gave me like a grand to completely fix my hood and replace the headlight frame and headlight, and then I went to the shop and told them to just pop out the dent and stick a new light in. I made $700 off it. I was a poor college student, if my car weren't a rust-spotted '91 I would have had them fix the hood up nice, but it wasn't worth it.

I had to take a defensive driving course for my job. We got to go out on a skid pad and do some "stunt" driving - locking the wheels and doing 360s so we could see what a spin was like, avoiding cones, etc. The big thing that I really took with me though was to always leave a car length in between you and the car in front of you, and to look in your rearview mirror whenever you're braking or stopping. That way you have somewhere to go if someone looks like they're going to rear end you, and you are less likely to rear end the guy in front of you.

That and 360's are super fun, but on a skid pad where nothing bad will happen with a 4-point seat belt in a car with roll bars.