Have you ever been in a car crash?

Question

What happened? what was it like?

Answer 1

I was 10 years old I'm 40 now I remember hitting the pole and then waking up in a hello copter, Apparently the car roiled 12 times in the air and five times on the ground. The woman driving, My baby sitter at the time was drunk and speeding.

Answer 2

I was driving my impala down the interstate and it was raining and the guy behind me fell asleep and rear ended me. He hit me on the corner of my car I went sideways at about 80 - 85 MPH. I went sideways and the rims dug into the road. I rolled the car 8 times and ended up in a ditch. All I remember is rolling onto the roof then I blacked out and proceeded to roll 7 more times. I had my seatbelt on "thank god" and I escaped with a broken collar bone, 4 broken ribs, and a broken arm. I also had a really bad concusion. I thank god for everyday now.

Answer 3

Yes 2 one I hit a rock in the road and it blow out the rear tire and when I hit the bracks I spun out and hit the mountain but all people where fine after that every time I got to that spot in the road I drove slowwwww. the next time I made a u turn and a lady came through a no stop sign inter section and ran right into the back door of a small Toyota car..once again every one was fine...

Answer 4

I've been in two. One was just a minor rear end, but the other, I went over a curb and knocked down a street sign, missing a telephone pole by literally an inch which could have killed me. It was pretty intense and upsetting after the fact as it happened so fast. Its funny though because some of my friends were driving by the accident (as it was near my school) and all they could was smile and shake their heads.

Basically it was like bumper cars, but it cost me way more money.

Answer 5

At 65mph on a 2 lane highway my buddy Zack fell asleep. We drifted across the road into oncoming lane and into the ditch. We were lucky bc we did not get hit by oncoming cars, we did not flip, we stopped ok. But the windshield was cracked bc the car twisted when it bounced off a couple of big rocks in the ditch with 4 feet of water. We got the car pulled out and we drove it away. I called him a dumbsh%t for almost killing me!

Answer 6

on October 29th, 2006 at 12:15 AM l struck an 1800 pound black pregnant cow running about 80 to 85 MPH. I was diving a 1996 Ford Ranger pickup. It pretty near killed me. Kansas open range laws suck shlt l'm telling you for sure. In the last 5 years l have been driving mostly 8 to 10 hours at night. I have hit 9 cows and 15 deer. This last one was by far and away the worse one of all. l have totaled out 3 different vehicles.

Answer 7

Several fender-benders early on. No big deal.

One fatal T-Bone -- the other guy was drunk and ran a stop sign and flipped the Chevy pickup I was driving. Seatbelts one, grim reaper one.

One fatal head-on -- the other guy lost control of his pickup when he swerved to miss a dog in the road. Seatbelts two, grim reaper two. (He probably would not have lost control if he had had his belt on. Left a wife and 4 kids. No insurance, of course. What a waste!)

Answer 8

I was a passenger in a car that was stopped at a stop sign. There were two cars in front of us and no one was moving at all. A guy in a huge truck with some kind of bars across the grill hit us from behind at full speed. We were in a two-door Saturn. He hit our car so hard it broke the seats and my spine was injured. Then he got out and started screaming "Why did you stop!!!!" While pounding on the hood of the car.
It would have been funny if I hadn't been in excruciating pain.
I ended up with over 3000 dollars of medical bills and almost lost my job. I didn't know you could sue people who hurt you in car accidents because of the whole "no fault" thing, but you can! I wish I had known because I would have been able to buy a car and start college like I had been planning to (I had just moved out of my foster parents house) instead of working two jobs with a bad back to pay off debts that shouldn't have been my respondsibility. It really ruined my plans for an education, took all my savings, made it so I could barely afford to keep my apartment. I'm too scared to travel or drive. It may not seem like much to some, but the money I had saved was the most I ever had. I lived in foster care and never had a place to live for very long so when I set up that account, I felt more secure. Like I was a member of society instead of another living off the state. I know, as a child I couldn't help being placed in govt. care, but my foster parents drilled it into me how worthless and undeserving I was for having to rely on handouts. (they were not nice people)When the creditors came after me for the unpaid bills I felt like a worthless bum. I tried to reason with them, and explained that I had turned it over to the insurance companies. I was only 19 at the time and they threatened me, saying it would be on my record forever and I'd never be able to get a car loan or go to college (all lies, of course they are scum!) I would start crying and they'd say "Turn off the waterworks! Its not going to work!" I would explain I couldn't help it because they were scaring me and they'd say "Pay up and you wont hear from us again!"

So in summary it was some of the worst pain I've ever had (it was my spine!) it still hurts often and it ruined me financially simply because I'm young and didn't know how to look out for myself in a legal battle. The insurance companies just passed my claims back and forth without paying them, the hospital wouldn't even talk to me, except to say "Pay up" and I got late notices and penalties. I was harrassed by creditors and certainly took a hit in the self esteem department. I lost all my savings, didn't get to enroll in school and was too scared to finish my drivers courses.
I'm going to try again this year, because I finally have a little money to help offset the car maintainance but I'm terrified. Being in a car just brings the whole thing back.

Answer 9

Yes, last year.

Now I have to explain how the road is laid out--it's a 5-point intersection.

You have the exit to a shopping plaza, and when you head out you're going west. There are three lanes--the leftmost lane is to make a sharp turn onto Beall and head south. The middle lane is to make a not-so-sharp left onto Cleveland and head south (actually more like southwest). The right lane is to head straight across Cleveland and onto Elm, or it's to make a right turn and head north on Cleveland.

I was headed south on Cleveland and I had a green light. Suddenly I saw someone shoot right out in front of me and I slammed on the brakes, but my right headlight connected with her right rear and tore her bumper off.

Turns out that she was in that right lane at a red light...she made a right turn on red (which was fine) but decided she wanted to go onto Elm, so she whipped it to the left and cut me off. She was cited for improper turn. I would also see it as running a red light, but in a roundabout way!

I was pretty shaken up. No one was hurt. I had my son with me and he was 4 at the time, strapped into his booster seat.

My passenger-side headlights were punched out and my bumper was torn. Her bumper (it was actually someone else's car, I guess her boyfriend's based on the police report) was hanging by a wire and the cop was standing there kicking it off the rest of the way! She actually told him what she'd done (the left turn) and I heard him telling her, "you can't do that!"

Turns out she lives in the next county...but there is a sign indicating what lane goes where.

Her boyfriend's insurance wound up paying for damages to my van. I can imagine he wasn't very happy with her!

Answer 10

Yes, but I was little and asleep and therefore can't remember it. Apparently I nearly lost my legs. All I remember is that we went to a nearby house and that the lady there gave me and my brother really nice hot chocolate.

It was caused by a pair of drunk boy racers racing on rural backroads.