Have you been in a car accident? What was it like?

[gothbxtch]

i’ve been in two, one as a toddler (it’s one of my earliest memories) and one this year.

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah, a couple. First one, I was in a line of traffic with my foot on the break but didn't have it pressed all the way and didn't notice the car was going forward about 1 mile every 8 weeks until it hit the car in front of me. Since there was no damage at all and it was no harder a bump than just an very light elbow nudge, the people in that car didn't even get out. They just looked back, smiled and waved.
Second time, we JUST finished playing a gig in Youngstown! We were on the road back home about 5 minutes!! Tim made it up the ramp onto the highway and then fell asleep at the wheel and grazed the front fender into the Jersey barrier on the left side of the ramp!!
Third time wasn't really a crash. We're on our way to a gig in Erie one afternoon and I'm sitting in the back of the van next to the wheel well. Tim is driving and the rest of the band are up front talking, listening to music and passing a joint around. We're up around Kearsarge, another 10:00 to go before we get to the Scum house and one of the retreads suddenly loses a big enough chunk that I can hear the wheel thumping VERY rapidly! At LEAST 4 times a second!! I yell up front to alert them about it, they all tell me it's fine, there's nothing wrong and they don't hear it! Within 3:00, the entire wheel well EXPLODES INTO the van!!! EVERYTHING is covered in rust dust!! NOW they stop the fucking van but, now, it's too late to do anything about it!! We saw a large pond over the side of the road and a bunch of people swimming in it so, we stroll over there and the drummer from My 3 Scum is in the pond swimming!! He can't help us because he doesn't have the room, in his car but, next to the pond is an old dirt road and some biker in a pick-up truck happens by and has the ability to take us to the Scum house and then the place we were gonna play a few blocks away. While we're there, we swing a deal for him to buy the van from us and let him see the show for free. I don't recall who drove us back home after the gig! It's a 3 hour drive!

[BlackJeep]

Head on collision and died after surgery. I was dead for maybe 5 minutes and had a few broken bones and internal bleeding. Off work for a year. I don't recommend it

[AngryCarl2]

Crikey!

[BrookeAZ90]

Boyfriend and I blew a tire on a freeway and flipped over about 4 years ago. Haven't been in one with another car before.

[gothbxtch]

that sounds scary!

[comekitty]

Yes, a few

Three where I was the passenger and twice where I was driving and was rear ended. All of them were scary.

[AviatorTom]

I've been in 3 car crashes, none of them my fault. One was a pregnant teenager on a learner's permit running a red light and hitting me. Another was a car that sideswiped me and then took off... hit and run. The most recent was a car that got impatient waiting for a left turn, changed his mind and went straight, and hit me while I was making a left turn; my car was totaled, every airbag in the car went off as I spun around 180 degrees.

I wasn't injured in any of them, all low speed crashes. In the first two, my car was repaired by the other car's insurance company. In the most recent one, my insurance company bought me a new car, pretty much identical to the totaled one.

In each one, it seemed everything happened in slow motion.

[Kokoroho]

Yes I have. But it wasn't bad though. I sustain minor Injuries. Sore as hell, in some pain a day after happen, and gotten 8k out they ass from state farm

[gothbxtch]

yikes, i’m sorry you had oain!

[Kokoroho]

It was cool cause gotten a day off work and gotten 8k. You bet I enjoyed my day off.

[AngryCarl2]

I've been in several, but I've never been injured. Most of them weren't even my fault. Still scary though. One time I got out of the car and I was literally shaking. That was the time I got broadsided on the driver's side, and it was before airbags.

[kellytheman]

Only a couple. One was with a woman that when we was turning she turn into my lane on a double left turn. It was also night time and trenchel downpour of rain. Her whole passenger side was dented up and my driver side headlight got smashed. My other accident is when I hit two deers luckily only my headlights broke.

[Anonymous]

Yeah. Some stupid punk turned right if front of me. What pissed me off was he sat there waiting to make a left handed turn. And like literally right before I was about to pass by him he turns. So there's no way I could avoid him. It's the only accident I've ever had.

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah, don't remember much but my spinal compression got me a £4500 payout that I was recommended not to take but after 3 years of back and forth I was tired and it sounded like a lot, built up my business with most of it

[SnowedIn]

One that was a bump at a light. Another when I was a passenger where we were rear ended.

[Anonymous]

Yeah. About two years ago. Thankfully, it was minor and no one was injured. It happened in a parking lot. The other driver and I were reversing at the same time. I was honking my horn like crazy, but he didn’t stop.

[exitseven]

Just once. I was hit by a woman that did it on purpose to get a settlement from the insurance company.

[douride2]

I was run down by a car that nearly killed me when I was 15.

[Berethor]

Me and my close family don't have cars so no, my father have a car but I am not seeing him.

[Lynx122]

I've been in minor ones never something big.

[MementoMori777]

very spinny, like a rollercoaster

[BLP11520]

Horrible just horrible