Car wreck stories

rohirrim TR · 09-09-2007, 07:44 PM

My fender got bended this weekend, and unfortunately I'm not talking guitars here. Actually my car is basically totaled, frame bent radiator shot and fuel lines appear to bent as well.

I was going through an intersection and some crazy chick decided to run a redlight or couldn't stop in time (couldn't quite get clear on that) hit me and subsequently hit a fire hydrant. no injuries and no water line breaks. I'm only sorry I don't have a pic of her car lol.

So what're your guys stories???

hectorberlioz · 09-09-2007, 07:58 PM

1) My radiator

2) head gasket or some such thing....

3) clutch!!!!!!

The clutch was gradual...thankfully I made it up our road....just barely in time.

$500 dollars to fix it

Lotesse · 09-09-2007, 09:21 PM

One time I got sideswiped by a drunk illegal who pushed me and my old Volvo 164E underneath a flatbead diesel truck. If I can find those old photos I took of the car, I'll try and remember to dig-photo them and upload them to show you - it was amazing. The entire roof of the car was scraped down. Mind you, this was a Volvo, they are built like tanks - one shudders to imagine what would have been left of the car, and me, had I been in, say, some Honda or something.

I emerged from the accident through the passenger side of my car, couldn't open my door of course, couldn't even switch off the ignition because the dash was completely crumpled and smashed forward and in. People were peering at my car, expecting to see a bloody mess of dead-girl, and were pretty surprised when I emerged unscathed from the other side. I had scrunched down, way down in my seat as the accident was happening so as to avoid being decapitated. Well, the guy obviously was uninsured, he wasn't even legal to be in the country, so of course I was not compensated, but the great thing is I didn't get injured.

rohirrim TR · 09-09-2007, 09:50 PM

Wow, thats awesome (that you were ok that is, wrecks in and of themselves suck as you lose your car which, if your like me it was like losing a friend..almost like losing a friend anyway, it was a weird emotion considering its just a hunk of metal.

The Gaffer · 09-10-2007, 10:07 AM

Bummer about your car, dude. (Sorry, I just had to add "dude" ...it just seems to belong there)

I ran another car off a road doing a dodgy overtaking manoeuvre on a single-track road up in the hills. Totally my fault (well, 95%: he was dawdling along, then swung to the left into a passing place, I thought meaning to let me overtake, but the numpty was just following the left-hand kerb and swung back to the right as I passed.) Very lucky: not a scratch on either car and if it had been to the other side of the road, he would have been down a 150' ravine.

Lesson: assume may make an ass out of u and me, but on the road, assume may well make strawberry jam out of you, me and a bunch of innocent passers-by.

A couple of months after that, I spent a jolly hour holding a bloke's head together at the side of the motorway after he'd been hit by a car doing 70+.

OldHippie · 09-10-2007, 04:45 PM

Never been in a really bad wreck )Knock on wood) but I did have a deer try to jump my car once. We were driving down the highway at a leisurely 60MPH and next thing I know theres a deer in the windshield. The windsheild kept the deer out of the car but The car sustained some pretty good damage. Took out the passenger fender, had a dent in the hood, smashed the winshield and bent the roof. We were covered in glass shards but luckily neither one of us got cut. Forget what the damage was now but insurance covered it.

***Tessar*** · 09-10-2007, 05:34 PM

Never been in any kind of wreck... my oldest sister totaled her car once, though. Apparently she 'looked down at the clock' and when she looked back up she was seconds from slamming into the guy in front of her.

...

Which teaches the lesson that we don't stay up all night working on school projects for two days and then try to drive.

09-09-2007, 07:58 PM	#2
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09-09-2007, 09:21 PM	#3
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	One time I got sideswiped by a drunk illegal who pushed me and my old Volvo 164E underneath a flatbead diesel truck. If I can find those old photos I took of the car, I'll try and remember to dig-photo them and upload them to show you - it was amazing. The entire roof of the car was scraped down. Mind you, this was a Volvo, they are built like tanks - one shudders to imagine what would have been left of the car, and me, had I been in, say, some Honda or something. I emerged from the accident through the passenger side of my car, couldn't open my door of course, couldn't even switch off the ignition because the dash was completely crumpled and smashed forward and in. People were peering at my car, expecting to see a bloody mess of dead-girl, and were pretty surprised when I emerged unscathed from the other side. I had scrunched down, way down in my seat as the accident was happening so as to avoid being decapitated. Well, the guy obviously was uninsured, he wasn't even legal to be in the country, so of course I was not compensated, but the great thing is I didn't get injured. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

09-10-2007, 04:45 PM	#6
OldHippie Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Michigan Posts: 161	Never been in a really bad wreck )Knock on wood) but I did have a deer try to jump my car once. We were driving down the highway at a leisurely 60MPH and next thing I know theres a deer in the windshield. The windsheild kept the deer out of the car but The car sustained some pretty good damage. Took out the passenger fender, had a dent in the hood, smashed the winshield and bent the roof. We were covered in glass shards but luckily neither one of us got cut. Forget what the damage was now but insurance covered it. __________________ Music is like candy............. It's much better when you throw away the Rappers.

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09-10-2007, 10:07 AM	#5
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Bummer about your car, dude. (Sorry, I just had to add "dude" ...it just seems to belong there) I ran another car off a road doing a dodgy overtaking manoeuvre on a single-track road up in the hills. Totally my fault (well, 95%: he was dawdling along, then swung to the left into a passing place, I thought meaning to let me overtake, but the numpty was just following the left-hand kerb and swung back to the right as I passed.) Very lucky: not a scratch on either car and if it had been to the other side of the road, he would have been down a 150' ravine. Lesson: assume may make an ass out of u and me, but on the road, assume may well make strawberry jam out of you, me and a bunch of innocent passers-by. A couple of months after that, I spent a jolly hour holding a bloke's head together at the side of the motorway after he'd been hit by a car doing 70+.

09-10-2007, 05:34 PM	#7
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Never been in any kind of wreck... my oldest sister totaled her car once, though. Apparently she 'looked down at the clock' and when she looked back up she was seconds from slamming into the guy in front of her. ... Which teaches the lesson that we don't stay up all night working on school projects for two days and then try to drive.