Your crash adventures

[Jostyrostelli]

I never had an accident with a car in my driving years (nearly 2years)
but I have a few friends who already had like 5 accidents in the first 3 months...
When you crash your car here (or scratch it on somebody others car) you have to pay more insurrance, you are scaled in sections, you pay 80% 70% 60% etc...depending on your damage-free years..

[logo]

I never had a crash either.. but i've been in 3 accidents as the passenger all were kinda funny
1st i was driving with my cousin in this very wet day.. he brakes hard to show me the ABS works fine in his new car in a high speed road. Then we stop at a red light, turns green, when the car infront of us moves we move too, but the car infront of us suddently brakes hard so we hit.. a small hit.. and his ABS didn't work lol and the car behind us also hit us
2nd my friend and i were having fun in snow in a parking lot doing donuts and drifting here and there.. he was doing this for his first time.. i dono for some reason he aimed at a light pole and he didn't steer or brake!! boom the air bag hit my face.. and cut my sandwich in half :'(
3rd i don't remember, but i remember there was a 3rd one :p

[Hazardous]

Originally Posted by logo

3rd i don't remember, but i remember there was a 3rd one :p

And of course, alcohol had nothing to do with this incident

I haven't had any real crashes, aside from one time I tried to move a pole with my passenger side door(the door lost )

I was once driving to work very early in one winter morning and damn nearly crashed into a car/trailer combination ahead of me. The car turned into the highway well ahead of me and then a truck came past us and made a big snowcloud. I was assuming that the other car would get up to speed up while I was in the cloud and when I came out of it it took a while to realize that the car was only a bit ahead of me and going about 30 kph(the speed limit being 100 kph). At that moment I did experience the funny "time slowing down" thing, which I don't wish to experience again. I managed to make a safe dodge, though, so this time around even the car survived to tell the tale.

[MXM]

I had one proper crash and a number of small ones. Only two of them in my own car.
The proper one happened couple of months after getting my license in MB Sprinter (work car). It was at night, road was covered with ice, and tyres supposed to have spikes, but they were all gone. Car was empty, so there was no weight at rear axle. So I basicly lost traction at rear wheels at 110km/h, made couple of spins and went offroad hitting something. Suprisingly I was fine, only scratched my head on something (seatbelts ARE useful!). Oilpan cracked open, and oil was everywhere Engine was still running thou And airbag didn't even open!
Small ones were pretty harmless. Last winter I drived into the guy in front of me, who was braking at red. Traction at my wheels weren't as good, so I hit him. He was completely ok, but his towing bracked destroyed my front bumper

[bone]

i've been in one accident as a passenger

we were going to a store to get a new fronttyre for one of my friends dirtbike. we're driving and a straight road, and suddenly a car had to turn into a sidestreet, but had to wait for oncoming traffic. there was pretty much traffic coming, so we change the cd while waiting, it loads, and just when it wants to start, the digit turn 00:00... BAM. a 99 ford galaxy drive into the back of our car. the galaxy has a very steep hood, and it pushed the back up (i remember that i suddenly saw my feet, and knew sth was wrong) and jammed us in the car in front of us. (a E39 BMW 5)

the golf II we were sitting in was ready for the junkjard. in the rear of the car ther was a soundsystem, made in wood (selfmade 8) ) and that surprisingly survived, but hte rearbench, was only about 15cm wide, totally pressed together (luckily the tiltjoint kept the bang). the exhaust wasn't broken off, but was scraping over the street. at the front the radiotor was leaking, and one of the chassisbeams was bend.
The BMW was leased, so the owner just filled in the papers, called a cab and left, he didn't care at all
and the fucking ford they were able to repair, changed the headlights and hood, and they were done

and we? we had nothing i think it's due to the fact that seats broke of at the adjust point. it kinda took the shock i think.

it was a pain in the ass to get the soundsystem out afterwards. although it was fun, wrecking it open with a crowbar
and he had to wait till he got new car to get the cd out of the radio

[andyhui01]

I've been a passenger in one and had one when I first had my driving license... the one where I crashed is just an ordinary one not worth writing about... however the one where I was a passenger was quite interesting... I was sitting in a Proton Wira (Malaysian Car... do a search on google) that has been highly modified... the car had well over 350bhp with Evo. engine conversion and he mounted a 4wd system into the car.... so we were driving on the road the other day at about 70kph and all of a sudden... the differrential locks the rear left wheel... so the whole car started sliding sideways and we a barrier and took a motorcycle down as well that was quite a scary experience

[bone]

and i had one almost-accident when i was still learing to drive. i was trying to get by my wallet, and must have turned the wheel, suddenly my dad abruptly turns it. and i hit a small tree with my sidemirror
but if my dadn't hadn't done anything, we would have ended up in a ditch

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haha.. i mean oh poor motorcycle and the guy driving it.. i hate driving close to motorcycles.. hitting them is fatal man

[Overheat]

One of the closest shaves that I remember was once when my Dad was driving this Caddy 59 to an American Car Show. We were on the motorway on the inside lane and we were being overtaken by an 18-Wheeler (yes, caddys are that slow. Then for some reason the 18-wheeler swerved and came very close to our car forcing us to swerve to the hard shoulder. One of the back wheels of the big truck hit the pointed tail thing on our car and scratched it. That was all that happened though, the truck corrected itself and so did we. Scared the fuck out of us though, we wouldn't have survived in such an old car, esp seeing as it was a rag top with no seatbelts.

[jasonchiu]

i seen a car crash b4 back in school, waving to a classmate saying by, then smack bang the car shes in which belong a to another class mate slams in to a taxi at the lights. my friend and i laughed our ass off, only when we knew they were ok, and then the adult parent driving of anotehr classmate got pissed off.

another time a 4x4 revereses and the taxi behind is honking liek a crazy mother fucker but the 4x4 doesnt seem to hear and then the taxi gets the front crushed.

o and another time a mid-size truck seems to be nice and moves back to let a bus go past but at the same time crushs a taxi behind it

[andyhui01]

jasonchiu... remember the time when you were racing the porsche 911 track car on the highway and you were amazingly close a bike and we prob. skimmed his foot

[jasonchiu]

hahahahahahaha o yeah that was funny shit. that 911 was like ready for the track day in china next day and i nailed him on the highway with my old turbos. proves why euro cars such cock and japansese cars own EVERY CAR when tuned.

and dont gimme that shit about if you tuned a ferrai it will rape a skyline FUCK NO it wont

[snars]

Originally Posted by Overheat

Then for some reason the 18-wheeler swerved and came very close to our car forcing us to swerve to the hard shoulder.

'The hard shoulder', I like that. Here it's boringly (<-- is that a word? ) called 'vluchtstrook' , which translates into 'escape lane' or somethin'.

I've had a few close calls. One time I was coming over a hill with an Audi A6 at about 70km/h (off the gas, I was approaching a 50km/h speed limit) when these two old ladies pulled up from the left in a tiny Suzuki at a T-section, RIGHT IN F*CKING FRONT OF ME
Everything just went into slowmotion Max Payne bullet-time. There was no sense in braking, so I steered the car to the right as much as I could and thought to myself "This is gonna suck. It's not gonna hurt, but it's definitely gonna suck". Then I thought about having to call up my dad and say "Say..that Audi of yours? Yeah the grey one with the nice seats...well...it's kinda...wrecked ". By now I had already passed their car with my driver's door, so I figured they'd hit me at the back. I was kinda glad for this since I had my window open. And had I hit them in the side at this speed they would have been dead, simple. Then...nothing. I guess they managed to stop in time and I just whizzed past. I'm not ashamed to say that it scared the HELL out of me. I didn't stop to hear their side of the story (it'd be something like: "Thank you for not hitting us. By the way, we're old farts with a death wish.")

Later I was kind of mad at myself for not anticipating this. You know old people...they look to the right....look to the left.....wait...wait and then just GO without checking the situation to the right again. I've seen this before. They sometimes just can't keep up with the pace of traffic. I could have slowed down even more (even if I was already below the speed limit), I could have held my foot above the brake just in case, I could have...

Another close call was on a three-lane piece of German Autobahn when I was passing a BMW at about 110km/h. The funny thing was, by his agressive driving style I just instantly KNEW he was going to do something stupid. It all happened very quickly. Just as I was passing him, he suddenly swerved to the left, threatening to hit me in the rear side compartment. I responded accordingly and quickly steered to the left lane (I had more or less checked that it was clear). If I hadn't had this gut feeling a split second before he made his move, it would have been an accident for sure. He stayed on the inside lane for a good 5 kilometers (instead of his intended speeding?) so I knew it had scared the sh*t out of him.

BTW, ever experienced aqua-planing. Now THAT'S Mother Nature's way of telling you to SLOW..DOWN hehe

I wouldn't call myself an excellent driver, just a good one (if I want to ). I like driving and I like people to feel comfortable in my car. But I'm no saint either...I do take my share of unnecessairy risk by occasionaly driving too fast or too long (15 hour roadtrip, anyone? ). I just backed the rear of my VW bus into a stone pillar...how bout that
There is such a thing as bad luck on the road I guess. Don't drive like a complete maniac, use those little eye-balls and stay alive long enough to get married, see your kids grow up and drive a stupid MPV packed with baby seats and diapers (wtf I didn't just say all that??)

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[MXM]

You're so childish, I'm not even gonna argue with you

EDIT: That was answer to jasonchiu

[Phix]

I was in my brothers '92 Toyota Paseo and we were racing our friends '97 MX-6 LS on this really really really long stretch of road. Like, rarely a car if ever. So he moves into the other lane (2-lane 2-way road.... yeah) and go at it. Up ahead there's a slight S-Turn and just as we reach it he's doing about 120km/h and the paseo is doing 90km/h and then KOOBLAHKAI!!! Some other car ends up right in front of hte MX-6. My friend manages to brake and swerve to the right avoiding the car very very very narrowly. Of course, braking hard at 120km/h in a S-Turn... hah, he loses traction in the rear and since he isn't that experienced starts brakign even harder. The Front-drive MX-6 starts sliding it's rear everywhere and eventually he slams into the curb at about 90km/h shoving the entire front-left suspension/mount/CV-shaft back a few centimeters and knocks the airbags out naturally. Passenger side airbag shatters his windshield and the car is still moving pulling up all sorts of dirt and shit. He actually scrapes a few signs sending massive sparks up and knocking his driverside door in a bit along with chunks of paint. Eventually he falls back onto the road and it's lal over. I was in the Paseo my eyes clued to his car.

My brother pulls to the side, puts on his hazards, puts the e-brake up and in gear and we run over to the MX-6. They're both perfectly fine, just a bit dazed naturally. The other car that came towards us mercifully kept on driving-- if he had stopped then my friend would have been in a lot more shit. So the damage was the driver-side CV-Shaft/suspension was knocked back, the rim was broken in half and the tire was all managled and pushed back with wads of dirt and shit stuck inbetween the spokes. The windshield was shattered from the passenger side air-bag and the inside was full of that crap the airbags have isnide of em. This happened this past August and the MX-6 has so far been written off (obviously). Ah well. We all admit (especially my friend, the MX-6 guy) that it was sheer stupidity that we raced on a 2-way 2-lane road.

[ESPNSTI]

Not really a "crash", but this will probably be the slowest "loss of control" incident of this thread.
Several years ago, in the middle of an Iowa winter, I ended up in a ditch with an '89 Ford Bronco (full size 4x4 "SUV").
It had rained a few days before and turned the gravel road into a mud pit with (unbeknownst to me) lots ot deep ruts in a few isolated spots.
In the days following that rain it had first frozen hard, turning the rain into ice and subsequently a pile of loose snow had fallen.

Anyways, so I'm driving on this somewhat narrow-ish (by American standards) gravel road, and I'm driving about 25mph (~40kph) because I can feel that there's ice underneath the snow.
So I'm on a perfectly straight section of the road when all of the sudden my rear end slides into a deep rut (that I couldn't see) and it kicks me sideways enough so that I'm pretty much headed for the ditch without me having a say in it.
I immediately turn the wheel and hit the brakes, but it's too late, I'm sitting diagonally on the steep embankment of a ditch filled with snow (in which I slid at maybe 10mph or so).

Now I couldn't back up because that would have probably slid me parrallel to the road and there would have been a chance it would have tipped over, and at best it would have slid back in the ditch anyway.
So instead, I purposely drove into the ditch.
Now the embankment was too steep to drive up except maybe at the end of the ditch, so I start driving parrallel to the road in the ditch (full of snow and mud).
I have no problem with it until all of the sudden I hear some scraping noises and I appear to be stuck.
I get out only to find out that I had driven the truck on top of a giant boulder that was covered with snow (so I hadn't seen it).
So basically, I wasn't going anywhere.

Now I walk home a mile or so and I call a tow truck.
The tow truck arrives (basically a semi truck) and he hooks up to my truck.
As soon as the winch started and the cable tightened, the tow truck starts to slide towards the ditch .
He quickly stops the winch and extends the "stabelizers" (not sure what they're called) from the sides of the tow truck.
After that, my Bronco gets pulled out without further problems.
Other than a really muddy truck, my truck had no damage.

[Jostyrostelli]

Luckely you didn't have your WRX back then fieu

EDIT: but then you would have jumped over that boulder with 60mph

[MXM]

This stories reminded me of one "funny" video:
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/fun_on_ice.wmv

[ruuman]

I think my first proper crash was as a passenger in my mates astra, I think he'd passed his test the week before and was totally over confident

We were racing my mate in his triumph spitfire down roads that hed didn't know, I was drunk of fuck and we had rage against machine blarring on the stereo. sudden'y round a sharpe left and the back lets go and we fish tail around the corner and smack into a brand new fiesta coming the other way. Both cars seriously mashed but not quite right off's. It was lucky we hit the ford as if that hadden't been there we would have gone striaght down a valley and probably died!!

My only proper accident was in my first landrover, driving down a straight road about 40mph, car looked like it was going to pull out on me, so braked hard. didn't know oil seal had gone on axle and gone all over my front left brake and span me into a parked Jag!!!

Damage, some paint came off my bumper, totally fucked side of jag causing god knows how much damage. It was not a great day.

Otherwise every other accident I 've was sort of planned and down to my own stupidity, I think the problem is a new bumper for a landrover is 20 quid so I don't really care if I hit tree's and walls when driving

[v0od0o]

hehe, those are lots of crashes! I've only read half way through
I never had a crash driving, even though I taught myself driving, never had someone teach me 8)
My friends however were involved in a lot of crashes, and I mean a lot, one friend of mine flipped his car on the motorway and the car went offroad to the desert flipped a couple of times and made a huge sandstorm that we thought everybody was dead, the 5 of them came out of the car and one was searching for his walkman's headphones not a scratch on any of them.
Another one very recently flipped an E46 BMW 318i in town, he hit an oil stain on the tarmac, the car rotated a couple of times and hit the sidewalk so flipped, he sent to BMW and still waiting to hear from them cuz the airbags didn't go off

There are lots of others but I'm too lazy to tell them all, one of the funniest was a friend's brother who was learning to drive and on his first day on a public road he drove with his instructor and almost hit a biker but he didn't, he was so worried he may have hit him though that he looked behind him to check (not yet used to mirrors ) and while looking back he hit the sidewalk at 60kmh