Have you ever been in a traffic accident?

Question

If you have, and can be candid about it, please describe what all happened.

Do you remember what you were doing before, during, and after the accident?

Answer 1

Yep. I was in an Olds Cutlass Supreme... I think it was an 84, might have been an 86... anyway... it was somewhere around Halloween of 2002. My bf at the time and I had driven for two hours on the interstate. We were returning home from visiting family.

He was on a bowling team, and we were running late for that when we got back to town. So, I dropped him off at the bowling alley and went home to get his bowling ball. I have a tendency to drive a bit fast... I was doing about 65mph on a two-lane highway.

As I approached a curve, the right front tire blew out. That pulled me off the road. When I tried to pull the car back on the road, the difference in height between the pavement and the shoulder was so that it made me spin around... then I lost control. That's the last thing I remember, as I was knocked out.

When I became conscious again, which was maybe 2 or 3 minutes later (thankfully), I was very confused. I had not been wearing my seatbelt, and ended up in the passenger seat facing the rear. I was all disoriented, and I tried to open the passenger door. There was dirt outside that window. I didn't know why. I thought the car had pushed up against the hill of the ditch. So I crawled across the seat to the driver's side. I couldn't open that door either... it opened a bit, but it was as if I were pushing against a five hundred pound resistance or something.

All of a sudden, someone was there opening the door from under the car. I was really confused... then when I finally poked my head out, I realized that the car had flipped and was standing up on the passenger side.

I sat on the grass with some lady that had stopped to help. She was talking to me and all... I was looking at myself, making sure I was OK... looking for blood and bruising and such. I was covered in mud, and I had a lot of bumps, but I seemed to be OK. Then I felt a tickle on my head, and reached up to rub it and make it stop. My head was wet, so I brought my hand down and looked at it. It was covered in blood. I freaked out, thinking something was horribly wrong because no one had bothered to tell me I was bleeding.

Anyway... it wasn't that bad. I got a few staples in my head. I had a LOT of bruising on my legs and arms, and I felt like I had been beaten up by a grown man the next day... but I was lucky to be alive.

After I saw the car, I figured out what happened. The *rear* passenger window had busted. There was blood at the center of the impact that busted it. I had hit the passenger seat so hard that the back of it laid down into the back seat, and I then busted the back pass. window out with my head. The arm rest between the seats was twisted toward the pass side.

I wear my seatbelt now.

Answer 2

I rolled my truck on the way to school one morning of my senior year. It was the first day school was open after a big snow/ice storm. I hit the only patch of black ice on the entire way there, my truck spun around 180 degrees, and then rolled into the field on the other side of the road. I wasn't wearing a seat belt, and was on my hands and knees in the passenger seat when the truck came back down. It landed on it's wheels, but part of my sliding back window got busted out, the top of the cab was a little wrinkled, and there was a long dent along the side of the bed. And the engine was still running when it came back down on the wheels, so if the rear tires hadn't popped when it landed, I could have driven it home. I was very close to having my little sister with me that day. She almost missed the bus, and was only in kindergarten or first grade back then. I wasn't hurt at all though. When the cop came to my house and took a statement for the police report, I told him I was wearing my seatbelt, since I wasn't hurt at all. I have worn one ever since then though, no matter where I'm going or who I'm riding with.

Answer 3

I was involved in one accident, not my fault. Let's see, it happened during the morning, early morning traffic, averaging maybe 5-10 mph. It was at a red light, so I stopped, as well as the car behind me stopped. For easier understanding, I will be car number 1, the car behind me car number 2, etc. Unfortunately car number 3 was not paying attention and rear ended car number 2, which in turn rear ended me. Luckily my foot was firm on the brake pedal so that I did not rear end the car in front of me. Car number 3 and myself suffered relatively minor injuries, I only felt some minor neck pain. Unfortunately for car number 2, she suffered some more injuries, though there was no blood involved. However car number 2's car was basically demolished, I was driving a Durango, and the end of the Durango is where you attach stuff to tow things, and she hit it dead end, causing a v shape in her hood. The police had to use their car to push car number 2 because it wouldn't work anymore. The sad thing about it is that I saw that car number 3 had a child in the back, ready to go to school. If only people drove more carefully, especially when kids are riding with them. Lucky me, that I suffered no real pains and that my car was basically unharmed, except for some minor bodywork that needed to be done.

Answer 4

been broadsided twice
minding my own business when the driver did not stop at the stopsign, twice.
First time she just hit the front end. Totaled.
Second time the girl slammed the car and hit the rear quarter panel. Spun me around and broke my axel. She got thrown out of her passenger window. She was flying through the intersection. Totaled.
I was pissed both times after the accidents.

Answer 5

I've been rear ended twice. Once I was on a two lane road with no shoulders. I was stopped behind a car that was waiting to make a left turn. A truck ran into the back of my car and pushed it into the car in front of me.

Second time - I was waiting at a red light and a tractor trailer rig was sitting very close behind my car. The light turned green and he immediately released his clutch. The truck jumped and hit the back end of my car and knocked it out into the intersection. I was in a Pinto and luckily for me it was the first year they'd made changes in them so they wouldn't explode when rear ended. (-:

Answer 6

Ive been in many...and all of them I was either the passenger or had 0 control of the situation...Most of them are with my friends on the freeway and the traffic abrubtly comes to a stop or slowing point and we are going to fast and rear end someone scary ****...shakes you up

Answer 7

i was just in one last week. I was driving home from work on a sunday, the freeway is always stop and go on sunday, so in a span of 3 miles from when i got on the freeway we went from about 70mph to about 10mph. for about half a mile we were actually stoping and moving a few feet then stoping. I keept looking around me to see where everone was, i was just about to look behind be and bam this chick hit me. so i look back and tell her to pull over. I wated untill there was a break in traffic that was big enough for both of us to get to the side but she wated longer and cut 3 cars off. so we finaly stay over she is still sitting in her car when i am lookin at mine. I get to her car and she goes any dammage, Yeah, so i bet you want my name. so she gives me that but noting else it was like pulling teath to get info out of her. but because you could hardly tell there was any dammage I did not report it but i did yell at her

Answer 8

I have never been in one thank God! and I hope I dont have one and I wish the same for all of you....
yes,I wear my seatbelt as well,everytime I drive or when am a passeneger...

Answer 9

I've never been in a traffic accident. Thank you!

Answer 10

I live in NY, how can you NOT have an accident ?