What's the worst car accident you've ever witnessed personally?

Question

Mine was at a stop light where I witnessed one car going about 50 run the light and T bone another which then slammed into the car ahead of me. Glass and airbags everywhere. I've never been so happy to be third in line! I also came upon a late night crash scene on the Bay Bridge and saw a guy sitting on the curb with his face covered in blood and gaps in his teeth.

Oh, and I forgot the worst of all. I stopped at the scene of a huge RV fire. A girl had just been rescued by another motorist and she was terribly burned, her skin pealing off. Constantly screaming. Asked her if there was anyone else inside and she said 4: including her father and brother. The RV burned to the ground in front of us and the cops couldn't even find a tooth or a bone of them when they had put it out. Poor girl. The motorist who rescued the girl said he tried to help the father who was driving but the flames engulfed him, screaming, before he could pry open the door. Understandably, the man was emotional.

Answer 1

I was sitting at an intersection waiting to turn left when two cars met head-on right in front of me - both of them doing at least road speed (50 mph). One was a VW Beetle with just the driver but the other was a station wagon with seven children and a distracted woman driving (found out later she was babysitting all but one, which was her own). When they hit she was turned completely around and not looking where she was going. All children were ejected from the car and none survived. The woman driving was pierced by the steering column from side to side, as she was turned around in her seat. One child, a little girl, skidded face first along the asphault. Use your imagination. There was only one survivor, the driver of the VW. This was right outside of Wrightstown, NJ. I saw that one in my nightmares for a LONG time. No cell phones in those days, of course, so I had to drive almost two miles to the nearest house. I cannot describe to you how difficult that was to do.

Answer 2

Worst in terms of result... a minor two-car plus truck accident on I-280 back in the mid 1980's. There were no serious injuries, but it had backed up traffic for about a mile because the semi-truck had hooked the guard rail and dragged the cable across the lanes. An idiot on a motorcycle (crotch-rocket), thinking himself wise and gifted, blew down the shoulder at about 65-70 mph and met the cable at his shoulders. He was decapitated cleanly, but his motorcycle continued on and killed a CalTrans worker.

WORST visually (most impressive) was in Illinois in 1996 I was travelling east-bound from California to Virginia at about 25mph on the freeway in a HEAVY thunderstorm. I saw a west-bound car doing about 55 mph lose control, skid, and roll... the car rolled 14 times !! I got WELL off onto the center median (I was an EMT) and by the time I'd ran the 100 yards to the vehicle, the driver was climbing out UNHURT !! She'd worn her seatbelt (no airbags).

Amazing how many people drive faster than conditions dictate.

Answer 3

the same way other people believe in "GOD" i believe in God personally because of how i was brought up and what i have seen felt and taught my self. most religions are based on life as a child and what your parents have taught. It has actually been around longer than people say, but is is just starting to become more dominate in peoples lives who may or may not have once been atheist or christian. Also people see feel and go through things that lead them to the denial or believing of Christ. I am completely against Scientology, but can see how some people who be confused on religion cause though i believe in God i have had moments where i even questioned our being in a time of despair. As the first answer said, religion can be a disease of the mind. It is what we make it, only you can believe in what you choose to believe in and no being in this world has the right to influence your decision based on what they believe. Its okay to be curious, but don't let it confuse you with what ever direction you may already be going in, Christianity in my eyes is the best way to go, but that's my belief and if someone were interested I'd be willing to give advice and information on what i know, but only you choose the path you go down and in things you receive from it.

Answer 4

An accident that I was in myself where a mother and child were ejected through the windscreen. The mother held the child on her lap in the frontseat so another person could come, and we slammed into the back of a car stopped at lights. The driver was distracted as she looked for her cigarettes which the passenger with the child had taken a minute earlier for herself. The child was decapitated and killed instantly, and the mother barely survived. I treated her as she lay slumped on the bonnet, and another passenger was almost ejected as she was unrestrained like the mother, but in the back next to me. She was thrown against the roof of the car, then over the seat. I still see them going through the windscreen, and I shudder when I see a mother holding a child on her lap as it reminds me of the fateful day.
I have also worked as a paramedic and seen many crashes similar with kids ejected from cars, pregnant mothers who have lost their lives and the unborn childs, teenagers killed etc, but that was personally the worst day of my life

Answer 5

So you stopped and tied up space for Fire and Rescue/EMS to do what? You couldn't put out the fire, you may have moved somebody injured and now caused further injury, and exposed yourself to bodily fluids and legal trouble! Next time, call 911 and keep going. People stopping and doing nothing only creates hazards, as well as keeping Professionals from getting in to make a rescue with fire equipment, training, and guess what, water,foam,dry chemical and you have???

Answer 6

A drunk at 7:30 in the morning in traffic in Clearwater, FL. Weaving through traffic and slammed into the side of a minivan next to me. He never slowed down. All I know is that people were air transported to a hospital.

Answer 7

Being a Firefighter, I could tell you things to where you wouldn't sleep tonight. The first car wreck I went to involved a guy that I knew. His car flipped on a wet road and pinned his head between the creek bank and the divider of his tee-tops. Ofcourse he was killed instantly. This was one of the tamer wrecks involving a fatality.

Answer 8

when someone hide us behide about mph. the person car was onto of are.