KA-BLAM!
That's the sound of a car hitting another one. Namely, my car hitting the one in front of me. I was in a 4 car pile up tonight on the way home from work. 2 cars ahead of me somebody stopped suddenly. The car directly in front of me broke hard and didn't hit the car. I however, broke hard and just slid right into the ass of the car in front of me. The car behind me hit me pretty hard. The car behind that guy also hit us hard. The next car missed the wreck. We all pulled into the gas station. It turns out there must have been a spot of ice on the road, because my car and the 2 behind me all hit the brakes and slid rather than stopped. Even the all wheel drive car bringing up the rear. I didn't do any damage to the car in front of me, nor was my car damaged at all. The guy behind me however, got fucked up. His front and back end had bumper damage and the lights in front and back were broken and hanging from their sockets. He also had damage to his trunk. The last guy didn't have any damage either. We got each other's information and chalked it up to nobody's fault. I got a pretty good case of whiplash from getting hit twice. My neck and even my upper back are killing me. I'm glad nobody got seriously hurt and I'm also glad my car is uninjured. I just had to get a new tire last night due to a nail in the sidewall. Which brings me to a topic: What was your best car wreck? This one by far wasn't the worst, but it was interesting. Let me know. Winner gets a prize!!!
posted by jason @ 4:04 PM
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How did you get a nail in your sidewall? Did they show you the tire?
My worst car wreck was one of two...
One was being t-boned by a woman in an escort. She hit right behind the driver door so hard that her little car spun my big thunderbird around 180 degrees.
The other could've been a lot worse than it was. I was at metro north mall. I was taking a corner too fast and came upon an icy patch. The car spun around 540 degrees, went over 3 curbs, and lost 2 wheels. If it were a lighter or shorter car, it probably would've rolled.
I've only been in 2 wrecks, not sure if the second one counts, but the first was a pretty good one:
At the time I lived in the country, north of Maryville, and was heading to my brother-in-law's house to pick up my kids. The road was a gravel road, but anybody who has driven gravel roads know they are mostly dirt. I came up over a hill and found myself loosing control on some fresh loose gravel. I was driving a Ford Explorer and I could feel it trying to roll, so I let go of the steering wheel to prevent the roll. The next thing I know the truck is in a ditch that was about mid-thigh deep, I can't open the door due to the fact that the barbed wire fence I went through was wrapped around the body of the truck. Both airbags went off and stung my lips, and the seatbelt bruised my sternum. I was still out in the middle of the country, so I had to run to the nearest house to call for help. I got a ticket for Carless & Imprudent (the tropper had a bad rep for tickets) & did $13K in damage ($1,000 short of totaling it --if I would have bent the frame behind the axle instead of infront of it it would have totaled). The truck was on the shop for a month. I finally got it back, then 2 weeks later (2 days before my birthday) accident #2. I hit a deer on the way to work one morning..another $2400 damage. So, I refuse to buy an Explorer or ANY WHITE vehicle!!!
I've got two, one as passenger, one as driver. When I was a kid driving back from the grandparent's house in Ark, there was a huge dust storm on the highway. Visibility: nada. Hit another car head on. I was in the backseat, not wearing a seatbelt, but luckily only pitched forward into the cushioned armrest inbetween the two front seats. Somehow bruised my stomach. My mom was wearing seatbelt and broke her sternum and got a deep cut in her leg that required stitches. My dad was fine. Car totaled.
The second was when I was driving home from high school in my first car. I had a German exchange student in the car with me, but not the on who lived with us. It was one of her friends I was giving a ride home. There was a new stoplight on a busy road to let traffic from my high school through. This old lady didn't see it and just cruised on through the red light into the left front side of my car. Nobody was hurt, but it shook us up. The airbag went off and gave me a horrible burn or rash. Then I had to calm this German chick down while waiting for the police. She was crying about wanting to go home. Then, the police almost gave ME a ticket, because some dumb witness said I had the red light, which was not even close. He changed his story and the lady got the ticket. Car was totaled. Moral: old people should ride the old folks shuttle everywhere.
~Jade
That sucks, I just wrote a nice long story about my worst wreck, and then my computer acted stupid. So the abridged version is this:
I stole the family van when I was 13, Cassie was there, and wrecked it into the neighbors parked truck.
I still got to go to the Cure concert that weekend though.
It was really sucky.
I have no idea how I got a nail there, but there it was Sunday afternoon. My worst wreck is when I took a corner to fast when I was drunk and hit a tree head on about 35 miles an hour. Totalled the car and I had to knock on the door of these poor elderly couple at 3:30 in the morning.
I bet the cabby put the nail in there!! He heard you say that he ripped us off on the ride home Saturday night!!
that was fucken funny! i remember you waking up your parents to tell them the news!
Yeah, it was so funny. Really, it was. Doing community service and having my mom take me out of school to go to court was really funny too.
I said the cabbie ripped us off on the way home from the bar? Man, I must have been shitfaced...I don't even remember that. What was the total?
You sure did...you argued with Aaron & I all the way up to your front door about how much he charged becuase you didn't remember he said he get us on the way back for the ride from Addison's to Mojo's. Grand total for 2nd ride ($8) plus 3rd and final home ($22) = $30 = No rip off :)
` I have a good story, though it is a long one. I hope my computer doesn't do something weird...
` When I lived in Ohio I was dropping off someone at their house, and Phil came along with us. And then, something typical happened (for Ohio): When I pulled into the driveway, the road was clear. After I'd turned around in the driveway and was pulling out, the road was completely white.
` I drove about 20 mph down ST RT 18, and was about two hundred feet behind the car in front of me. In fact, I could barely see anything but their taillights as the sudden blizzard became a total whiteout.
` There was no salt on the road, as was usual for that year, so there was a thick layer of ice. When the third car crawling ahead of us stopped to turn, the second car also stopped. I put on the brakes, but nothing happened - the car just kept going the same speed.
` I wasn't that concerned until I realized that there wasn't going to be enough time to even slow down to any extent even if my heavy Lumina finally did hit a patch of non-ice.
` In order to not hit the car in front of us, I turned the wheel to the left and gunned the engine.
` The car swung around backwards and careened down the opposite lane seemingly in reverse, almost hitting another vehicle, until it smashed into a Route 18 sign and slid sideways down an embankment and into a sinkhole.
` I called the cops on my cell phone, but they said there had already been a wreck there, and since the blizzard was so bad, I should just go home and leave my car.
` Really, they'd said, it was okay to leave the scene of the accident, I had their permission, and if I didn't I'd probably freeze to death.
` Luckily, I soon saw the silhouettes of the people whose car I'd avoided hitting. They had ventured across the ice to see if we were okay. They were so nice that after we had freed ourselves from the sinking mud (thankfully, the car hadn't quite rolled over), they actually drove us into town.
` Unfortunately, since the bitch mayor had withheld our salt, the snow had just piled up about three feet deep on the road, and when the driver attempted a left turn at intersection, the car actually went to the right because the snow was so uneven underfoot (-wheel?).
` The entire time we were slowly drifting through the whiteness - thankfully these people had a stick shift - I was continually trying to call my mother and her boyfriend, leaving increasingly aggressive messages on the machine in her bedroom.
` They didn't pick up until I was finally on our front porch, telling them that I was home. My mom and her boyfriend, who were hastily putting on their clothes, claimed that they couldn't find the phone receiver - even though the phone in our kitchen was a rotary and therefore not high-tech enough to not require a cord.
` *Sigh...* Whatever. Though, they did us out to eat in their Jeep, which, unlike my front-wheel-drive Burgundy Retangle, is perfectly stable in blizzardy conditions.
` But this isn't the end of the story... the next day, Mom took me to look at my car and call a tow truck - those were also all too busy last night - and the only evidence that anything had happened was the bent-over sign!
` Oh no! Was it the car-body snatchers?
` Mom called the police and they said they'd already towed it away, which we thought was odd, since it hadn't exactly been blocking traffic.
` So we went to the Highway Patrol station and I identified myself as the owner of the car. I remember someone saying; "The driver of the car was male."
` I was like... 'wha?' Apparently, the woman whose car hood I'd almost smashed while going backwards had called the police with the news that a man in his late thirties had for some reason tried to pass a stopped car on the road, nearly flying headlong into her car, and slid off the other side.
` If this lady thought my car was going forward when its taillights were headed at her, and that she saw a man looking toward her through the back window (Phil was in the front with me!), she should not have been driving that night.
` Even so, in this situation, I think she should have pulled into the nearest driveway to see what was really going on and whether or not this 'man' was all right, and whether he had a cell phone and was calling the cops, rather than just call them without knowing what was going on at all.
` This resulted in the police thinking that I was yet another driver in trouble and that they couldn't help me. Therefore, I was told I couldn't be helped while an officer came up to indeed assist me, and wound up waiting for hours in the blinding snow until it was clear that I'd illegally ditched the scene.
` Thankfully, though my axle was screwed up and one of my back doors was destroyed, I was able to drive the wobbly wreck home - which shook me quite violently at only 45 mph - and was cleared of most charges, almost everything being paid for by my car insurance.
` The moral, kids? I think my character 'Waldo the Skeptic' has already covered this one:
` 'It can be counterproductive when you try to be helpful in a situation of which you are so vaguely aware that you may have false ideas about it.
` 'For a skeptic, it is usually important to make an effort to see what is really happening so that you can see what is needed from you with open eyes.'
` Or something like that.
Congratulations go to Heather and See Quine...a toss up for best wreck story. Heather's was the gnarliest, and See Quine's was chock full of day after pathos. Kudos, you win a comment. Not to worry, all other contestants will get the following parting gifts: a lifetime supply of turtle wax, some mop and glow, and a spayed or neutered animal of my choice. Check your mailbox daily for your prize.
Elwess, tell these girls about the time you went upside-down in a car.
I think you are referring to the time when I was going back to college from winter break. I was asleep in the backseat of this girl's car whom I was getting a ride from. I was dreaming that I was moving back and forth. I woke up to see the car sliding back and forth on the road. We hit some ice and went down an embankment. The car rolled either 1 and a half or 2 and half times and landed on the roof. I had no seatbelt on, so I just braced with my arms. I ended up pulling the 2 girls through the back seat and out the back door since the front doors were crushed. Luckily, nobody was hurt. I got a concussion when my head hit the roof of the car. I had a headache for about a week. I did get a sweet insurance settlement for my medical bills that allowed me to buy my first car cd player. That was one of my better wrecks, but I don't count it because I wasn't driving. I've had my share of snowy wrecks on my own though.
` Well, I'm glad at least Buckleman wasn't needed in this case...
New post; the Joys of Holiday Shopping and Gift Wrapping!!
~Jade
Nice to hear from you Laura...welcome to the club! By the way, the thing that stopped the pole from coming through was friction. The laws of nature favored you that day.
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