I had a good one about a year ago. I used to drive a little chevy s10. It was the first new vehicle that I ever owned and it was a great truck. Well, I'm on my way home from work and this kid who is parked on the right shoulder decides to make a u turn right in front of me. It was completely his fault. Both vechicles were totaled. I had nowhere to go. There were cars parcked behind him on the shoulder and there was traffic coming the other direction. That's the funny part. If I had managed to stop, the car coming from the other direction would have gotten him. I hope that kid learned his lesson. When his mom came to pick him up and the cop explained what happened, I thought that she was going to kill him. Anyway, with the insurance money, I bought my explorer.

 

Been in three--

1st--I was riding my bike to school when a guy in an 82 F150 blows the stopsign and knocks me 75' through the air. Witness said I hit the ground like a sack of wet flour and bounced a couple of times, still with the bike. I remember getting up and realizing my leg was bent in ways that it AIN'T supposed ta bend! Didn't hurt until I got to the hospital, about 45 minutes later.

2nd--An old man in an 84 Delta 88 rear ended my 1966 Mustang at about 40 mph. Knoced me across 2 lanes of traffic, up on the sidewalk. Broke everything in the rear of the car--massive damage to the car. Curb knocked the crossmember off, broke the tie rod, busted the right rear spring, bent the floors and the roof...etc, etc. Old SOB had been in the hospital for 4 years, and was wired out on drugs to the point he didn't realize he'd even hit me. Bodyshop stopped writing the estimate after he passed $5000. I wound up with a severe concussion (no double vision, thankfully) and a goose egg literally the size of half a tennis ball. The docs didn't stitch up my head, as the cut had already closed up, but they were concerned about the concussion. I still have headaches and am suffering from depression due to the head injury.

3rd--Wife and I were coming home from her mother's house in her 93 Civic, when a kid in a Volvo 240 rearended us doing OVER 70 mph. We skidded over 300 feet, pushed both rear fenders and trunk lid into the back seat. We were both lucky to walk away with minor injuries. My wife had just been realeased by her doctor to go back to work after being out for almost a year from back surgery. I wound up with a huge bruise on my arm (had it resting on the windowsill when he hit us) and some residual nerve damage that has cleared itself as time has passed. The kid was strung out so bad, he didn't know he'd hit anybody. He stopped because the coolant and ATF had dumped on the ground, and the car wouldn't go any more. No ticket issued, though. Gotta love the local Gestapo...

I guess God does look out for fools.

 

Only one a long time ago. I was a passenger in a 54 Ford. Hit a telephone pole and it knocked me out for 1/2 hour. Had two stitches in my lip. I put a dent in the steel dash and cracked the windshield with my head, no seatbelts back then. I was driving my 56 the next day.

 

I've hit light poles, flipped over in ditches, been rear ended, t boned you name it. Funny thing though. Walked away everytime.
"there's always been the hand of God resting right there on your shoulder" (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hell or Heaven, Viscous Cycle) I haven't had a wreck since I stopped drinking in Nov. '92, hmm.--Jack

 

I have been in a few accidents, hitting people or people hitting me, maybe six or seven. Some pretty severe.

The only one were I was at fault caused no damage to either vehicle, basically a 2-3 mph bump (someone cut her off and she slammed on her brakes and on wet pavement E-150s tend to slid) and the woman tried to claim disability to the tune of $25,000.

After writing a letter to the lawyer calling him a crook and that I was going to counter sue him as well as her and bring him to the MBA for filing a claim, where there was not even paint damage to either vehicle, they gave up.

 

I have been in 2 accidents. Both were minor though. The first was when I was in 11th grade. I had a Nissan Pulsar and me and 2 of my cousins were on our way to school. It was raining really heavy. We got into the turning lane that took us too the school. I hit the brakes and slid a little bit but then came to a stop. All of the sudden we were slammed into from behind. A girl from the school who was driving a previous generation Firebird had hit us. We had to wait over an hour in the median for a cop to show up and in the mean time it was still pouring. We were right across from a police substation, but there was nobody there at that time. So we had to wait for over an hour before a state trooper came. Since it was still raining, he let me and the other girl come sit in car one at a time while he done the accident report. One thing about this cop car is it was one of the older late 80's early 90's Mustangs with the 5.0 that they used to use for Cop cars. That thing was sweet! Ok, the only damage my Nissan had was that they bumper had been pushed in some. It was not even dented. The other girls Firebird had to be towed because the front end was seriously smashed. Nobody was hurt though.

The other was when I had my 2000 F150. I was sitting still at a red light when all of the sudden, I see this big ball of smoke in my rearview mirror. Then I was slammed into. What happened was that the guy was speeding and slammed on his brakes. He hit a Cavalier that was behind me and the cavalier then hit me. We got off the road and waited for the police to come and we checked out the damage. The guy that hit us had an older car. It was one of those that had the real long trunks and the real long hoods and metal bumpers. His front bumper was dented all up. The Cavaliers rear bumper was messed up, but the damage to his front bumper was what got me. Right near the grill area, he had a square hole in his bumper. Let me explain, when he hit me, his car was lower than my truck and all he hit was the trailer hitch. I did not have a receiver on the truck at the time or a hitch cover. We waited over an hour for the cops to show up. When they finally showed up, we found out that they could not find us. Now I can understand if it is a backroad area. But this was at a MAJOR interstate-state road interchange. The cop pulled up to us and looked at my truck and asked what damage I had. I told him that I was hit in the trailer hitch and he said that I could pretend that I was never there or he could report it, it was up to me. I was out of there in a heartbeat. So far that is it and I am done now.

 

Three deer killed so far.

Been rear ended twice, once by a metro and the other time by a camry both of which were totaled, never more than a scratch on my truck (I make my rear bumbers of of 6 inch channel).

Rolled my old mud truck right after I turned 18. The stearing box output shaft snapped, truck went off the side of the road and flipped 4 times compleatly tearing off the front axel and destroying the rest of the truck and my snowmobile which was in the bed. I had 5 point belts and a full cage. Cops figure they were the only thing that saved my life. Walked away with a few scrapes and a nice bruise on my leg but other wise fine.

I was riding shot gun in a friends monty carlo last winter. He his a patch of slush at 60+mph and we went fliping end over end (found 4 spots where it hit the ground). We both had to be cut out of the car. I ended up with a minor concussion and a few bruised ribs, he had a broken leg, broken arm and 4 broken ribs.

11 days after I turned 16 I side swiped a dodge neon on the front passenger fender. Her fender and my fender/bumber were a bit messed up no injurys though. It was my fault but no ticket issued.

 

I've been in a few accidents.

In 1980 when I was 4 years old my mom and sister and I were going to the store to get items for a birthday party. My mom only liked going to one store, which was the farthest away from our house. Anyway, a drunk in an El Camino ran a red light and t-boned us at the intersection of Schwartz Street and IL Rt. 159 in Edwardsville, IL. My mom was driving a 1974 Dodge Dart (I know I know!). The car should have been totalled but it was fixed. Nobody was hurt. The drunk who hit us was allowed to drive away.

The second accident happened in 1990 when I was 14. I was riding with my mom's cousin (second cousin?) in his new 1990 Lincoln Town Car when a man in a Dodge Omni pulled in front of us on IL Rt. 59 in Naperville IL. Both airbags deployed. I suffered bruises on shoulder and waist from the seat belt and burns on my face from the air bag. My cousin suffered similar injuries, but burns on his hands and wrists from the airbag. The guy driving the Dodge Omni died on impact. We hit him going about 50 mph. No tickets were issued.

The third accident I was in was in 1992 when I was riding with a friend of mine on an icy road in a regular cab Ford Ranger pickup. The truck slid into a ditch and flipped over. I did not have my seatbelt on and I was ejected from the truck. Luckily I was thrown clear of the truck. Both my friend and I had cuts and bruises. My friend was ticketed for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and driving too fast for conditions.

The fourth accident I was in was in 1998 the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I had just bought my first house and I had rented a new Dodge Durango that only had 15 miles on it when I picked it up. Coming home from a lunch date a lady in a Dodge Ram pulled in front of me just as I entered an intersection on IL Rt. 157 in Collinsville, IL. We hit in an offset head on situation. All air bags deployed and after I hit her the Durango bounced off her and rolled into the concrete barriers on a bridge. I was doing 45 when I entered the intersection and had no time to hit the brakes. I had minor injuries. I'm not sure about the lady who caused the accident. She was ticketed for failure to yield right of way to avoid an accident.

The fifth accident happened when I was rear ended by a guy in a Cavalier and pushed under a new Chevy Tahoe. I was driving a 1998 Taurus SHO. It messed up the front and back of the SHO to the tune of $6500. The guy who caused the accident got a ticket for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. His insurance paid to get my car fixed and for my injuries (whiplash).

I hope I'm never in another accident. I've been in my share of bad ones. Be safe out there everyone.

 

Ive just got my lineces no recks yet. but ironicley my friend just called me and told me his sister was in a reck! She is now in a coma and things do not look good for her.

Please alwase be safe and wear your seatbelt.

 

i was in my first yesterday. it wasn't my fault. both i and the car ahead had stopped for a van that slammed on its breaks, just barely i might add and the car behind me plows into my rear and knocks me into the car infront. the speedlimit was 35 and she had to be going 40-50 to hit me as hard as she did. it totaled her car, completely crushed it. i lost a bumper and had some bent exhaust pipes.

 

I think my first accident was in 61', I clipped the right rear of a blue car with my left front. The next thing I saw was the sky, then the hay bales and then the steering wheel when I did a face plant in it. 1/4 Midget driving prepared me for the rest of my motoring life. I've been in so many wrecks that I don't count them anymore. I do remember some but others are a complete blank, like the time a kid in a 5.0L Mustang lost control while exiting highway jumped the median at 120k and T-Boned my two day old van right behind my head. I don't remember that one so well, but the kid hit me so hard it flipped my van over into a Fire Truck that was next to me at the stoplight, Mustang ended up on top of of driver side & windshield. FD had to pull me out of the rear of the van. 5 Kids in the Mustang, no seat belts no injuries. I on the other hand had my belts on and was out of commission for a year.

JK

 

Only been in one wreck:

In Nov. of 1992, in our 89 Aerostar EB, a guy in front of us stopped to make a right turn, we stopped behind him, and a rig with a fully loaded gravel trailer rearended us. He was going about 20 mph. The van's 3rd row seat was ripped out of the floor, and pushed up against the second row seat. My dad was driving, and his seatback was pushed all the way back (from whiplash force), and the rear window glass was in pieces ontop of the dash, and some was embedded in the interior roof liner. The rig's radiator was broken, and coolant was leaking everywhere, and he was ticketed, and allowed to drive off. We also hit the car infront of us hard enough to send the driver to the hospital.

The van was towed to the local Ford dealer, and it was still driveable, even though the frame was broken and bent, and the body of the van had been shifted forward about 2 inches, and the back end had been pushed up about 2 feet.

We sued the trucking company, and they filed for bankruptcy.

 

Lessee: mostly minor stuff here.

Caddy, several years ago:
Guy in front of me stopped. I stopped. Some dork in a Nissan econobox didn't touch the brakes (he was futzing with the stereo) & rear-ended me at ~30MPH. I tied the trunk closed (latch sprung), finished my shopping, drove home, & replaced the bumper, left taillight pod, & decklid. The Nissan needed a rollback due to the front subframe being torn almost completely away from the unit body. The engine hit the firewall hard enough to dent it. No injuries worse than bruises.

1977 Cougar, about 3 years ago:
~5MPH rear-end tap at a stoplight by an LTD Country Squire wagon. No damage, didn't call the police.

J-20, a while back:
Some guy backed up without looking, right into my snowplow. No damage to either vehicle worse than scratches (his was a beat-up Tempo). Nothing filed, nobody hurt, not worth the paperwork for a 3MPH parking-lot tap.

F-350 wheel-lift/sling wrecker, ~2 years ago:
I was waiting for traffic to clear to turn left. A woman in an Accord was distracted (phone or CD, don't recall which) & proceeded to put the front of her car directly into the F-350's stinger at ~40MPH. Totalled her car, broke her nose on the wheel (no belt), broke her glasses. She claimed she "didn't see those small taillights, to which I replied, "Well what about the BIG F***ING TOW TRUCK?!" Did I mention the wreckers are painted fire-engine RED? I thought the cop was going to wet his pants laughing. Total damage to the truck: a few scrapes on the stinger. I was fine, & finished my shift.

F-350, last year:
Some idiot in a Pathfinder slammed the left front in a parking lot (I was parked & out of the truck). I spent about $1000 junkyard-hunting for a fender, bumper, grille, & headlight assembly; he had easily $6-7K in damage (the entire rear of the SUV was bashed in with the quarter on the RR tire).

F-350, last year, after the Pathfinder incident:
Making a left turn at a (green) light, some idiot in a crewcab Frontier (I don't do well with Nissans, do I?) runs the light at ~35MPH & hits me in the right-rear corner, more or less dead center on his truck. As a result, I have a nice Reading utility body on my truck now, since my bed looked like it had been attacked by a rabid can opener.

The biggie:
Last fall, I was driving in the rain in my Cadillac when a green SUV nudged my left quarter & took off. This sent me into a 50MPH spin across all 4 lanes, & I hit the guardrail & Jersey barriers pretty hard. I had my belt on, & was unhurt. The Cad's entire left side was damaged, trunk lid was mangled, front clip damaged, rear bumper bent. Currently part-hunting to fix it--I have the front-end stuff, looking for, mainly, a solid, non-rusted door. This will be the car's fourth decklid, incidentally.

They never caught the guy.