What's the worst accident you have been involved in?
Mon, 01/12/2009 - 11:05pm
Just wondering some other peoples stories? I hope everyone faired well in your experiences!
Mine was rolling a 1998 Caddy SLS off a 20 foot ditch doing about 80 MPH. First did a front flip and went threw a 20 inch pine tree about 10 feet in the air (we found chucks of tree in what was left of the trunk). Then bounced off of two other trees, not sure in what direction. Finaly end on the passanger side about 200 feet from where we went off the rode. There was another tree that had a perfect circle taken out of the bark about 15 feet in the air also, but we have no idea if we did it or not. Only injuries were minor bruising and my Co-Drivers leg was messed up for about 2 weeks.
you guys are lucky..
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i blew a tire on st. paul road in ashville ohio took my truck off rd in a s curve took out 300 ft of fence post then went back thru the ditch tried controlling it to get it on the road but abs kicked in which threw it across the rd and into another ditch then crossed the road again and the front end buried into the mud which stopped me i was only doing 45mph but man did it hurt. i had a mag light sitting on the dash it went thru the back cab glass. i was pretty shook up but i walked away
So...I rolled out of Plattsburgh, NY, headed to Cleveland, OH in the spring of 1986, dropped down through the millions of acres of woods to SR-3, headed west. The road had just been recently redone. It was nice, wide brand new asphalt. I'd rented a brand new Dodge Omni. The rental place was so proud of this car. It had EVERY option including the turbo. It was pretty fast and quick. It had 38 miles on it when I drove it out of the lot.
There I am, tooling along at 60 MPH (speed limit 55) when I see this, well, 'monster truck' pull out onto the highway about a 1/4 mile in front of me. Okay, no biggie, I've got my lights on, as usual, so he should have seen me. The road's wide, open, no traffic...so I put my left turn signal on, check the big truck; it's holding its lane, flash my brights just to make sure he sees me...and roll into the left lane after checking my mirrors.
So far, so good. As I get about 50' behind the big truck, doing about 65 MPH now, it makes a left. The massive bumper the thing had on it peels the whole right side of the Omni like a potato, all the way back to the passenger door. As it passes OVER the Omni, I get a close up view of the transfer case before I throw myself down onto the front seat. Glass is exploding all over the place and I watch the roof depart the body as the truck finishes passing over the car.
Miraculously the car is still on its tires. I sit up, the car's spinning at probably around 50 MPH. I wrestle the steering wheel, countersteering to the spin, then back again to counter that...spinning a 900...until I get it straightened out...going backwards! I look behind me and see a massive oak tree coming right at me...so...BRAKES! I push myself back in the seat and slam into the tree's trunk doing about 35 MPH. I've got a death-grip on the steering wheel and I'm staring straight ahead. If I was religious, I'd have been thanking the powers that be...but, since I'm not....
This little old lady comes hobbling out of her house (it was her yard/tree I'd just messed up) and asks me if I'm alright. I tell her, yes, seems so...and she's on the phone to the Highway Patrol already. She tells me they'll be here any minute, a Patrolman is in the area. We both look back along the path I had travelled...there are Omni parts scattered all over the highway and part of her yard. The roof had slid about 80 feet down the highway and was laying in a ditch on the opposite side of the highway. Glass was EVERYWHERE.
And amidst all this, sets that big-arse lifted behemoth in the driveway it had turned into...and...standing at the edge of the driveway, looking up and down the highway, are these two idiot rednecks. I climbed out of the Omni (door wouldn't open) and walked on over as casual as could be. One of the idiots (the passenger) looked up and said...I kid you not: "Did you see a dog?"
The morons thought they'd run over a dog. They were, of course, sloshed. The HP showed up and took my statement. I told him about passing, that there had been no signals from the truck, that I thought they'd been drinking, all that. The two idiots STILL thouight they'd hit a dog...so they didn't understand why the Patrolman had been called, since the dog must have lived because there wasn't a dead dog anywhere around.
The officer took them and walked them across the street, and pointed to the Omni. "There's you dog." he said. Then he checked the truck over...it had NO electrial on it at all. The two had been building it. It had no lights, directionals, etc., although they swore up and down they'd 'put the turn signal on.' I had to call the rental place, which I did while the Patrolman was cuffing the driver of the truck and arresting him for a DUI (probably the shortest one on record, the truck didn't go 50' down the road), and tell them I'd just killed their Omni. All they had left, in Watertown, was a Corvette. I took it.
Came out with some minor cuts from the glass....
I've wrecked my fair share of cars. I had a little old lady run a stopsign at an intersection, I t-boned her Buick doing 60MPH in a subcompact Ford Festiva, flipped the Buick up on it's side, and pushed it through the intersection before it stopped. I was able to walk away from that one. The Festiva looked like it had been in a beer can crusher.
Once I was borrowing a friend's Blazer in Alaska, hit a freshly graded logging road, the thing fishtailed, and we rolled it twice down a ravine. Me and the three girls I was with walked away from that one too.
Not too long ago, after I had gotten the Saturn, had a ghostly white Vette approaching my 6:00 in a very fast and reckless manner.... I brought it up to about 120 before slowing to around 90 to go around this huge curve through the middle of a sugar cane field. I look up in my mirror, and I see tire smoke and the side of the car... it swaps ends, goes into a ditch backwards, and flips completely upside-down, pole vaulting on the rear tailpipes. I turned around to see if the guy was okay. Turns out he was 17, had just bought the C4 used (with a tired LS1 and an auto) and had no collision insurance on it. The first words out of his mouth were "Damn, that little car's fast!" He walked away with just a gash on his elbow, and wounded pride.
I'm sure there's a few others I've forgotten about.
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Guy towing a speed boat didn't latch his hitch. Safety chain let go on the second fishtail and hit me head on. Didn't even have time to hit the brakes. Good thing I was driving a Kenworth! Turned that boat into fiberglass toothpicks! Managed to get stopped without taking anybody out. Wrote the truck off. Hit so hard on the front of the engine that the crank broke out of its mains and pushed the trans off the back of the engine!
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Guy towing a speed boat didn't latch his hitch. Safety chain let go on the second fishtail and hit me head on. Didn't even have time to hit the brakes. Good thing I was driving a Kenworth! Turned that boat into fiberglass toothpicks! Managed to get stopped without taking anybody out. Wrote the truck off. Hit so hard on the front of the engine that the crank broke out of its mains and pushed the trans off the back of the engine!
lol, wow that probably sucked at the time but if I were you I would get a good laugh out of it now. Kinda like my crash. Yours is just a fun picture in my head!