Have you ever been in a car accident?

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Two days ago I've been in the fourth car accident of my life. To avoid this *moron* who cut me off I swerved and crashed against a set of those big container metal dumpsters. Car totaled with this broad panicking and asking me how many fingers she'd holding while I am there and can't move. Car destroyed and severe neck injury so I have to wear a brace for at least five weeks. Add to the pain I am never comfortable enough to sleep.

At least it could have been worse, the woman's husband wanted to settle it amicably by paying my hospital bill and my girlfriend's father said my car is not as bad as it looks and he took it away for repairs. He wants to cover it but I told him, send the bill to that woman who caused this.

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

Several, mostly very minor. A driver mis-judged their turning radius and bumped my knee as I was crossing the street in front of them.
I was busy looking at someone behind me and a car coming out of the driveway I was standing on ran right over both of my feet with both tires.
I was running across the street from my house one winter with icy roads and a car coming up the street couldn't stop in time to keep from hitting me but, he was only going 2 to 5 MPH and did nothing worse than bump my right hip.
We were on our way home from a gig in Youngstown when Tim (my guitarist) fell asleep at the wheel about 5:00 into the trip home and bumped the Jersey barrier at the top of a ramp onto the highway.
I was driving a rental car back to turn it in and got stuck in a long line of traffic and, apparently, didn't have the breaks on full enough and the car VERY SLOWLY drifted into the car ahead of us before I realized what was happening and it just touched their bumper.
I was riding my sister's bike up to the mall (just over a mile from the house). I was going up the road on the left side (there was no path or sidewalk on the other side) and I saw a number of cars coming down on the same side, towards me, Just as I crossed Delafield Rd., a car on the street to my right turned into Delafield and hit my right ankle and slightly fucked up my sister's pedals. Before I crossed the road., I made sure nobody had turn signals on as I was crossing! So, it was THEIR fault for NOT having them on!! It was a rich couple on a date and they offered to give me $20.00 but, I don't think I took it.

lightbulb27 · Accepted Answer

Sorry to hear about the accident.

Yes, I was side swiped by truck and successfully avoided hitting other cars and making it worse. Driving skills, awareness, luck and a good car... always have a good solid car. I've been tail ended a few times. Thankfully, I've avoided many accidents and never caused one. Driving on east coast, you can plan on several more accidents in your lifetime.. because roads are full of idiots... e. g. humans.

As long as witnesses and admissions, send to insurance. That neck injury is worth money... I was on a jury where someone sued for a neck injury... and lost, but still. Get xrays or evidence.

As it heals up, chiropractic really helped me to where I don't have problems. Keep in mind damage can be healed but show up later in life.

Take defensive driver training.

Wish you well recovering. This... is where you want a solid relationship and wife... not girlfriends or vapor friends, but family. When we are strong and healthy, we can climb a mountain with 50lb. When we have a splinter in a toe, we need someone to help us walk.

Read your Bible... was explained long ago the wisdom.

Kori1236 · Accepted Answer

Really you should be going through insurance. Do you have a dash cam? And even if it’s not as bad as it looks if there’s frame damage it’s a write off. Hope you get better soon.

But to answer the question yes. Twice. The first wasn’t my fault; a truck in front of me stopped for the ctrain backed up without checking and hit my car with his hitch horn (which some tell me is illegal where we are while others say it’s legal so I don't know) we exchanged insurances but his was evidently fraudulent. I had bumper damage and was told later I could’ve claimed it as a hit and run but never did.

The second was my fault with the same car and it ended up totalled. I had just dropped like $3k in repairs for shocks and suspension on it. The road I was driving on has an awful dip (like the construction workers didn’t smooth it out so you practically scrape the bottom of your car going over it) I swerved to the right to avoid it, didn’t help that I was blinded by the sun but I rear ended a parked car that was illegally parked too close to the corner. Front right damage to my car which totalled her while the SUV I hit needed a new bumper. I was going maybe 20km/h on this road. And I am still paying for the accident in my insurance currently since it’s on my record for I think 5 years. So by 2027 I should be in the clear.

midnightmoon05 · Accepted Answer

Yikes.
need to take care of your neck injury. Most stuff show up later in life after current healing.
yes I have. First time, a school bus ran into me while I stopped at a red light. Minor damage. No one hurt.
most recent 5-6 years ago. while driving to PA to look at a property with my kids. Entering easypass lane from NJ. I ran into the guy in front of me. My can was fine except for the computers… they totaled my car. No one hurt. My daughter was a bit scared. I assured her that we are okay and the police will come help.
Police took us to a rental car. I drove to check out the house. We didn’t buy it. We got insurance money back and got another car.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I have been in a few minor collisions but none that caused injuries. None in the last 40 years.

exitseven · Answer

sorry this happened to you but anyone of those that you can walk away from is a good one.
Yes, I have been in one accident. I was taking the cub scouts about 50 miles away to make leather belts. Because I had 6 or 7 kids I took my wife;s brand new Country Squire because it had extra seats in the back. It was raining really hard out. As we were on the way home I was just about to get on the highway. I signaled that I was turning on to the highway but there was somebody who was trying to sneak up on my right. We crashed and we both stopped. The driver was a woman who was 25 or 30 years old. Instead of looking to see how bad her car was she was out in the street trying to flag down cars so they would be witnesses. As we were exchanging papers her boyfriend shows up in a Jeep. This was before smartphones. Cell phones are usually installed in cars and there was a telltale antenna that was mounted on a side window. The antenna had a spiral on the bottom. I wondered ho the boyfriend knew where she was. I checked her car and there was not phone in it.
A couple of months later I got a letter telling me I was going to be sued. I sort of forgot about the acccident. I called my insurance company and they told me to send them the letter.
The insurance company told me that they were going to settle. I told than that I was not at fault. They knew that but it would be cheaper to settle. It turns out that the whole thing was a setup. The place where the accident happened was notorious for cars getting into accident sand it was raining out. A perfect opportunity to fake a car accident.

dudeinohio · Answer

I was in a couple. The worst was when I hit a patch of gravel going around a curve. I did a few 360s and slammed into an embankment.

Didn't realize till the next day I broke my collarbone and needed surgery.

Surgery was supposed to be a quick in and out deal

My blood pressure tanked when they tried to remove the breathing tube and I vomited into my lungs.

They had to helicopter me to a trauma hospital.

I was put in a medically induced coma in critical condition in the icu for a week.

When I came to, I didn't know what was real or a hallucination for over a week. I fell and had to have 24 hour watchers and had to use bedpans, since I was 100 in bed.

Finally, after 2 weeks. I was released to a rehab center for a week.

I. had to get walking again. Eating properly and my brain function improve.

Worst month of my life.

Tarifa · Answer

Haven't been in an accident, but witnessed one so close I almost got involved as well. It involved the death of a child, maybe 1 1/2 or 2 years old, as one of the car passengers. I have always been a careful driver, but that accident made me extra cautious.

Purpleronnie · Answer

Yeah , I’ve been in quite a few. When you drive as many miles as I do the risk just increases , only 1 was my fault though and nobody else was involved and the most serious. Don’t drive tired !! , flipped and rolled the car , scissors in the Centre console came in handy to cut seat-belt that was locked and jammed , if not for those I would likely be dead 💀. Apparently falling asleep helped reduce the risk of injury , being limp and relaxed 😜.

Been shunted , t-boned , side-swiped several times , and nearly took out by a pot-hole and walked away each time with either bruising or a broken nose ( seatbelt / airbag ) or whiplash and had 12 personal cars wrote off.

Orion84 · Answer

I've been the passenger in a head-on collision once, yes.

The front of the car was smashed, but fortunately I was able to walk away without a scratch. The driver sustained minor injury, and the driver of the other vehicle had some scratches.

katiesmuff · Answer

Are you saying the person who cut you off was the one who stopped and helped you? What did the police have to say about the accident?

Anonymous · Answer

I was hit on the freeway while trying to out run the police lol

direct hit to the chest and the car slowed down before impact so I didn't get any broken ribs... that was high adrenaline and I did get up and walk/run away

cops nabbed me though

Simslover92 · Answer

I'm sorry that happened to you. Never been in one where I was driving but I was in one where my bestie was driving. It was pretty bad. If an 18 wheeler had hit us, we would have been goners. Fortunately it was just a pickup truck that hit us.

douride2 · Answer

I have been in 2 vehicle accidents. The last once was only minor. The first one years ago was a major life changing event. It should have ended my life.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

I was a passenger in a fully occupied small car, that slid on a wet road and rear-ended another car. Rammed my knees into the dashboard and had slight whiplash. 🤕

BCRanger10 · Answer

Yes, several. Two were actual accidents with vehicles. I hit a deer about three years ago as well.

AviatorTom · Answer

Yes, I've been in 3 accidents, none of them my fault. Fortunately, no one has been hurt in any of them. The most recent one was 15 years ago.

Finchie40 · Answer

A few , but I wasn’t at fault , , and they were all fender benders , so I never got injured. Thank God

mysteriousNicholas · Answer

👀 at the expense of sounding like a piss-taker or not treating this with seriousness, I for one experienced two car accidents in my life so far

jamesgoldman · Answer

Yeah but only the one that ruined my back Could have been worse 10ft away from the mud bank was an oak that probably would have not seen me typing this post today

MemeSupreme · Answer

that really sucks yeah i was in a bad one last year

ItsJill · Answer

Be thankful you got out of it with just a neck brace.

Anonymous · Answer

If you got a dashcam you can milk them for a lot

LiamJHayden · Answer

When I was 16, vehicle vs. me in a crosswalk while I had the green walk signal. Compound right tibia and shattered fibula were the result of the accident. The settlement was decent.

Phoenix98 · Answer

Two that I can remember one as the passenger and one as a the driver.

Nikki1989 · Answer

As a passenger, yes. I was catapulted through the windshield.

jazzy34 · Answer

A VERY minor one in a parking lot. It was a fender bender.

AgentG111 · Answer

Yes Several over my lifetime  A few while being a passenger and a few while driving. Two while sitting in a parking lot parked not driving.

FreyaRed · Answer

I was the passenger in one but as driver I never had one.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

I've been in several. Not all of them when I was driving.

Drumlin2001 · Answer

Not with another car. Have reversed into a couple of walls

Anonymous · Answer

Yes. But I've been pretty fortunate in that dept.

slatyb · Answer

Get a dash cam. See a lawyer.

CocaColaZero · Answer

Yes when you 3 years ago the lady tried to sue me and ended up having to pay me.

Dargil · Answer

More than one.

MannMitAntworten · Answer

More than I care to remember. Most as a passenger.

Anonymous · Answer

Several. None my fault.

Dnice1 · Answer

Yeah just one but it wasn't bad

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

A couple of minor bus accidents.

Anonymous · Answer

I don't drive, so no.

Alex-Snow · Answer

Not yet... fingers crossed

Agape93 · Answer

Yeap

jahaims · Answer

Yep.

Buford_T_Justice · Answer

A few

qwerty2469 · Answer

No. Im white.

Anonymous · Answer

Two.

Panthero80 · Answer

Yes, twice.

WonderingManII · Answer

not yet.

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