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What it would feel liek to be an accident. Well this morning, I found out. :( Its not fun.

Some girl ran into the back of me doing about 40mph. The back end of my truck is pretty messy, but fixable. This is my new truck to, so I am kinda crying about that. :cry:

Her cars front end was pretty much destroyed, the insurance company will probably total it.

No one was hurt, I'm fine other then a small neck ache.

Hopefully my truck will be fixed soon! :(

:eek: Oh well just thought I would share. :eek:
 
Magic - You can't be too careful with that neck-ache. Get it looked at.

One of my accidents looked a lot worse than it was, too. I was crossing an intersection going about 45-50 mph, traveling in the right lane. There was a big white van waiting to turn left in the left lane so my view of the oncoming traffic was obstructed momentarily. As soon as I entered the intersection a Honda Accord made a left right in front of me. I never even had time to touch the brakes. I hit the Accord broadside. It moved like fifteen feet. My vehicle was totaled. Oil and antifeeze all over the road. And I had to climb out the window. The doors wouldn't open. I just went and sat on the curb and stared at the ground. I think it was the only time I have ever been in shock. Miraculously, nobody was seriously hurt. My legs were bruised from hitting the dash but that was it. Even the passenger in the car I hit was fine and all that separated him from my vehicle was the Honda's door.
 
I ditto what milefile said.You should go get your neck looked at by a doctor. Something very similiar happened to us when i was around 6 years old. We were on our way to church and the traffic was backed up pretty bad. We were almost stoped when all of a sudden this woman in a Corolla(I think) slammed into the back of us doing about 40 MPH. Luckely we were in a HUGE car.(Not quite sure what it was but i know that it was an 80's Mercury).We were fine but the lady wasn't. She had a fractured neck and back and broke her arm. She was airlifted to the hospital. Her car was totaled:eek: Our car just had a wrinkle in it.
 
Originally posted by Magic069
What it would feel liek to be an accident. Well this morning, I found out. :( Its not fun.
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I too wondered that for many years (if you can call part of my short life span "many" ;)), but found out in 3rd grade...

We were heading down the hill from school (the school was [and still is] set on a hill that's about a mile long, thus the streetname, "Hillcrest")... anyway, along the side of the main street are a bunch of little streets and residential places. Near the bottom of the hill is one big residential area, and often, people coming up the hill make left turns to turn into that area.

Well, as I said, we were going down (I was carpooling in a friend's car), and, before my friend's mom knew what happened, a green Ford Explorer made that left turn right in front of us. All I remember was looking up, and seeing only green in the windshield-- nothing else, then the sound of crunching metal and the feeling of my seatbelt clenching me.

Then, the car started filling up with a weird, smoky/hazy kind of stuff, and her mom quickly opened the door and told us to get out. At this point, I was starting to think that this was just a dream, but when I got out and looked at the demolished front end (it was completely gone), I knew that it wasn't.

The Explorer had skidded about 20 feet and jumped the curb, and the rear right passenger door was crumpled.

No one was hurt... I had some chest pain from the seatbelt for a day or so, and my mom's friend had a cut and burnt lip from the airbag, but otherwise, we were fine.

Pretty scary stuff to get in an accident... in addition to this, I've witnessed two others, and, incidentally, both also involved someone going straight crashing into someone making a left turn.

The first one was last year. We were travelling along a street at night, and up ahead my dad saw that the stoplight had turned yellow, so he started to slow down. At the intersection, on the opposing side, was a car waiting to make the left turn. So, anyway, we reached the stoplight, which had just turned red. The car goes to make the left turn, and then, out of nowhere, a Honda CR-V passes by us and smashes right into the front left fender of the car. Incidentally, the CR-V was the same color green as the Explorer, and the car that was hit also skidded about 20 feet before jumping the curb.

The second one was just last week... across from my school, there's a place called the Ice Station, where there's a skating rink and what not. My mom and I were in our car, waiting in line to enter the school. A Toyota Previa (egg-mobile!) came up on the opposing side, and wanted to make a left to turn into the Ice Station. So, my mom decided to stop and let them through... and, when they were making the turn, a student in his Chevrolet pickup comes along, tries to brake (I remember hearing the screeching, looking out my window, and seeing the smoke coming from the tires), but didn't stop fast enough, and hit the rear right fender of the Previa. And, again, the car skidded and jumped the curb.

Garsh, I'm going to be paranoid when I'm of driving age to make left turns! :D
 
Magic, definitely get that checked out, even if you don't think it's a big deal. I'm really sorry to hear about your truck and the accident :( *hugs*
 
We've had a few nose-to-tails before. The first accident I ever experienced was, we we're in the right turn lane (remember, I drive on the opposite side from you guys) and the light was green but we couldnt turn (oncoming traffic). Then this indian woman came screaming up behind us and whacked us. My dad got out, and man, the profanities coming from his mouth at this poor woman left me sitting there in awe. :lol:

Second time we were on the motorway and we had stopped. And my dad, being a pretty good and safe driver, left some space in front of our car and the car in front. But the people behind didnt thus the domino effect happened.

[CAR]--skided into--[CAR]--skided into--[US]

The force from the impact forced the bonnet of our car down just that little way and broke the fan shroud on the radiator.

My dad told me once, that his workmate was sitting at an intersection. I can't remember what happened, but the third person in front of him was hit. He looked alright and when asked he said, 'Yeah, I'm fine, just let me go lie down' He went and sat down, and never got up again. MASSIVE shock, and he was just gone. The workmate was so traumatised, if only he had passed those last three cars on the way to the traffic lights, if only he felt a need to hurry, he would've been gone, just like that guy was.

Scary.
I had a dream that I had an accident last night. I took off in my parents car and pulled over to the side of the road. A car was coming down the road towards me and started to cross the middle of the road. She slowed down and just hit me fairly hard head on. I got out and yelled and screamed at her. Then I got bakc in my car floored it, went home told my parents and they started crying. :thatsodd:
 
My brother-in-law (yeah, the one who "buys American") was in a motorcycle accident almost two years ago. It was his first time out on the bike and he was feeling a little shaky so he wouldn't take my sister on it. They were to meet somewhere. He even took a less traveled route. But going through an intersection he was broadsided be a car going 50 mph. The driver was on the phone :mad: (we later learned that he was talking to his wife; she had a nervous breakdown). Basically he was nearly killed. Some bystanders actually lifted the car off of him because he was pinned under it. He had to be airlifted to the trauma center. He was in a coma for two months and had third degree burns over 40% of his body. He also had many broken bones. After a couple years and several operations and skin grafts he's basically okay. It's a friggin miracle. I saw him at the hospital and he was in bad shape. Even though I think he's kind of a redneck dork I'm glad for him and my sister that he pulled through.

The guy who hit him declared bankruptcy so he couldn't be sued. And to top it off, they both are in the Air Force Reserve and serve at the same base. He's seen him since the accident. The piece of **** coward runs away.

Oh by the way, the guy in the car did blow the red light. It'd been red for at least 15 seconds.
 
My mum was driving a school minibus last year when, at a set of traffic lights, there was a *crunch*. The car behind had run into the back of the bus. Now, kids being kids, they were killing themselves laughing; my mum went round the back of the bus to have a look at the damage. This bus had a solid metal step, less than a foot off the ground, which had gone through the radiator, and nearly hit the engine. When the car was reversed off the step, bits were hanging off it and there was glass all over the floor. The car was a writeoff, but there wasn't a scratch on the step, never mind the bus. Nobody was physically hurt. That was one of the, um, "funniest" (all relateve, of course) accidents I've heard of.

I'm fortunate, because neither myself or my family have been involved in a serious car crash, but I remember when I was 10, we (my mum, sister and me, on the way to school) were first on the scene of a crash where a car had driven into a huge oak tree. It turned out that the car was driven by a mother of a kid in the same school, three years below me; the car had driven almost head on into the tree. The kid died of head injures a few days later. That was not a good day.

Oh, and Magic, go get your neck looked at. You don't know what might have happened to it.
 
Well I'm just full of accident stories...

Another accident I had was just driving down the road on the way to my mom's house. I stopped at a red light and glanced in the rear view mirror only to see a car coming... and coming... and not slowing down. Crash. I was so pissed. I jumped out of the car yelling and I threw my travel mug on the ground and it broke. Turns out the driver was a 14 year old girl. Her drunk dad was the passenger. I was driving a 1970 Plymouth Scamp. My bumper had a scratch. But their nineteen eighty-something Oldsmobile was trashed :lol: . Driveable, but badly damaged. I got a kick out of that. They guy had no insurance and wanted to let it drop so I went along with that. The Chicago police are best avoided.
 
I quit wondering about that the first year I drove. I totaled out 3 cars in 7 months. A 71 Charger, a 72 Monte Carlo, and a 75 Trans Am. I have a thing for 70s cars as you can tell.
Was lucky enough to walk away from all of them and so were all the other people involved. Only 2 broken ribs and a few stitches in the T/A wreck.
 
Originally posted by DGB454
I quit wondering about that the first year I drove. I totaled out 3 cars in 7 months. A 71 Charger, a 72 Monte Carlo, and a 75 Trans Am. I have a thing for 70s cars as you can tell.
Was lucky enough to walk away from all of them and so were all the other people involved. Only 2 broken ribs and a few stitches in the T/A wreck.
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Only 2 broken ribs?
Well, atleast you have a positive outlook:)
 
I have been in plenty or car crashes - not becasue of my mums driving but other peoples.

Shock is scary!
I remember one time a just got off the computer - (I had been on GTP) fell down the stairs on my back neraly to the bottom. Man I felt strange! I was like jelly! Then I vomitted a lil! So I went to bed and that was that..........I think the cat at the vommit :thatsodd:
 
Originally posted by gigo
I have been in plenty or car crashes - not becasue of my mums driving but other peoples.

Shock is scary!
I remember one time a just got off the computer - (I had been on GTP) fell down the stairs on my back neraly to the bottom. Man I felt strange! I was like jelly! Then I vomitted a lil! So I went to bed and that was that..........I think the cat at the vommit :thatsodd:
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The cat, huh?
 
I always wanted to be in an accident that set the airbag off.

Done that now. (Dec-13 1999). It wasn't fun, and I won't be trying to repeat the experience.

Sorry to hear about your truck Magic, but glad that you're OK. Take it easy for the next few days.
 
Update:

So I took pictures yesterday, and I will be posting them soon. (Got to use the rest of the film for Christmas)

Truck is in the shop today, and I should get it back in a week or two. I will be driving my older truck for that time.

I hope the pictures come out good enough for everyone to see.

My friends say it doens't look as bad as I describe.
 
I've never been involved in a car crash, I have had my share of hits out on the track though!
 
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The second one was just last week... across from my school, there's a place called the Ice Station, where there's a skating rink and what not. My mom and I were in our car, waiting in line to enter the school. A Toyota Previa (egg-mobile!) came up on the opposing side, and wanted to make a left to turn into the Ice Station. So, my mom decided to stop and let them through... and, when they were making the turn, a student in his Chevrolet pickup comes along, tries to brake (I remember hearing the screeching, looking out my window, and seeing the smoke coming from the tires), but didn't stop fast enough, and hit the rear right fender of the Previa. And, again, the car skidded and jumped the curb.
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The Previa wasn't totaled was it? Man, Previas are becoming endangered! It may need to be added to the endangered cars museum. Or, an endangered car museum needs to be added to the Smithsonian.

I've witnessed and been in several accidents and felt the effects of another, but one is a story that'll always stick with me.

In Denver about three years ago, I was driving home from God knows what in the right lane on a fairly wide street, when an ambulance came from the other way. The Honda on the left of me, noticing the ambulance coming the other way and the Audi Quattro directly behind him, slammed on the brakes as hard as he could. Of course, the Audi hit him and was subsequently ticketed for following too closely and failure to stop for an emergency vehicle. The Hondaman collected his insurance and probably used it to pay his rent.
 
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The Previa wasn't totaled was it? Man, Previas are becoming endangered! It may need to be added to the endangered cars museum. Or, an endangered car museum needs to be added to the Smithsonian.
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Eh, it wasn't totaled, but I'd have to say that it was behind practical repair...

One of my friends has a Previa... it's the coolest thing ever! :p
 
Last summer, I was in a go kart accident in Myrtle Beach, SC at some track behind the Nascar Cafe.:p Some clownshoe was riding the back of my cart the whole first turn. As we came off, he spun me out causing my cart to be broadside to traffic. Then some other guy rams me right in the side at full speed. I wasn't hurt though.:)
 
I should have pictures up soon, they are getting developed today.

Bad news though, the body shop metioned the word "filler." Not good! :(
 
Here are the pictures. Its not as bad as I thought it was when it first happened.
 

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