Have you ever been in a serious car crash?
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Anonymous
| What happened and did you recover if you were injured, if you don't mind sharing? |
Anonymous
| Never recovered -- died on the spot. |
Anonymous
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Yes. I was a passenger in the front seat, wearing a seatbelt and the driver missed his exit, sped over to the side to try to make it and slammed into a truck.
My face hit the glove compartment and I broke my face. cheekbone and nose. I needed nose surgery. we had to sue my friend and his insurance, which made for an awkward friendship. This was senior year in high school. We won the lawsuit. I used that money to pay for law school. That was like 25 years ago. I have a scar on the side of one nostril that's pretty faded. |
Anonymous
| I was in college driving somewhere and the leaves from a tree above had grown over the stop sign below. I didn't see the sign until I was right on it. Slammed on my breaks but it was too late and I hit a larger car. My little Ford Escort spun from the impact and hit a truck. I was fine, just bruised from the airbag and in shock. Both the people in the big sedan and huge old transport truck I hit were fine, although there was quite a bit of damage to the sedan. My insurance paid for everything. My car was totaled. I had points taken off of my license. I was afraid of driving for a while and didn't drive at all for about 6 months. I didn't get another car for 10 years. |
Anonymous
| i was hit by a car from opposite lane turning his left (onto my lane). hit me on the side and flipped my car over. wife was taken to hospital but i was ok. when we were upside down right after the accident, someone yelled "the gas is leaking" and i have to tell you, i was a little scared. |
Anonymous
You are very lucky, this is exactly the way an uncle of mine died. The car that hit him was a huge truck after he ran a covered stop sign. I'm glad you're ok. |
Anonymous
| I have not been. My only accident was a slow speed head on one. The other car was sliding while attempting to stop on a wet curve, didn't stop but was going pretty slow. I saw it coming and was almost stopped when they hit me. I was a teenager (like 17?) and totally freaked out. I do think it made me a better driver because I realized how quickly someone else's mistakes could effect me. So I was always a really defensive driver after that. |
Anonymous
| I lost control of a pro-street car I was racing at Capital Raceway in Crofton. Bounced off a jersey barrier at 170 mph and rolled maybe 10 times, then went off into the grass and then the trees. I was sore for a week. |
Anonymous
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Yes.
I was driving a 12 year old Jeep Cherokee Sport in 2WD without traction control in the Chicago suburbs. I was on a 3 hour drive home from visiting my boyfriend, and I was on the interstate but within 10 minutes of my house. The exit was on the left, so I got in the left lane. Oh, I should also say, my mom was on speaker phone. I'd been talking to her hands-free for about half an hour, which wasn't unusual to make the time go faster on the drives. It had been clear and dry the whole way. It had just started to snow, and within a minute, I hit a slick patch and spun out across 4 lanes of interstate traffic. I had slowed down to about 50 mph already. My car spun twice and then a large box truck (thank God not a semi), hit me head on as I was facing the wrong way in traffic. My mom heard the whole thing. Oh, and the car was black which she has some superstitions about/her husband is named after an uncle that died in a black car accident and his mom always made him promise not to get a black car. After hitting the truck, the Jeep did another half spin and came to a stop in thr far right lane. I still have no idea how I didn't get hit by more cars. Obviously airbags deployed, car was totalled, dash had crushed in, and I was in shock. I did have the presence of mind to shout to my mom I was okay, the phone had flown out of the cradle across the dash. I just sat unable to move as the truck driver ran to my door to check on me. I was just really numb. I was able to get out of the car on my own but was essentially oblivious to what was going on. Cops came, let me get my suitcase out of the back of the car, and then put me in the cop car. I remember they asked if I had anything dangerous in my suitcase and I had to tell them I had a pineapple in there because I had stopped at the grocery store halfway home to stretch my legs and picked up some things for the week. They also patted me down on the side of the road. I guess it was cold but I don't remember it. I had some wrist and knee pain, and I really messed up my lower back/hips which is still an issue 10 years later. Nothing seemed that serious at the time and i still would classify it as getting off extremely lucky. Cop drove me home and gave me a ticket for "failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident." Okie dokie. I ended up and going to stay with my parents for about a week after the accident, they came and picked me up that night. I lived in an area where I really needed a car, it was the dead of winter, and I was kind of shaken up. They helped me find a replacement car. About 6 months after the accident I woke up one morning and legitimately could not walk, seemingly out of the blue. I lived alone and had to crawl to the bathroom, and I remember it being extremely difficult to put on pants. I was able to get upright just enough to drive myself to a chiropractor (had never been before) and was at least able to walk after the session and then it took a couple months to get back to "normal." I have tried exercises, stretching, all kinds of stuff, and chiropractic (which I am generally a skeptic of) is the only thing that keeps my lower back and left wrist in check. I can skip a few months, so it isn't like a weekly thing, but then it takes me several weeks to get back to good, so I usually go for a really basic adjustment once a week ish. You can see the misalignment on an xray when it gets to the point of being painful. Mentally it made me terrified of driving in inclement weather. I ended up leaving Chicago a couple years later and moving to a warm weather state. It wasn't the reason, but it was a really, really nice benefit to rid myself of having to deal with that. And even now, I try to avoid driving if reasonably possible when it is heavy rain (which can be harder than snow!). |
Anonymous
PP with the Jeep. It wasn't an accident, but a different car I had before the Jeep, I hit something coming home late one night and didn't realize I'd punctured the gas tank, as it was almost empty. Long story short, I ended up filling up, driving over an hour, wondering why my gas was so low and filling up AGAIN (omg!!!!!! I even looked under the car when I stopped and didn't see anything leaking), and then got stopped as I was pulling into a parking lot by an off-duty firefighter. I was about to pull into a spot maybe 15 feet away and he was like "NO, YOU NEED TO GET OUT NOW." I was only 18 and truly didn't understand how many miles I should get to a tank or what could be going on. I was meeting a guy for a first date and had to call and tell him all the fire engines were there for me, and he could pick me up from the back of the cop car they'd put me in to wait since it was cold out and I was wearing a dress. I had no appreciation for how dangerous that situation was. Boggles my mind now. |
Anonymous
| Someone crashed into the back of my car on the beltway. The tailpipe was laying on the ground and the guy said no need to call the cops since it’s just “cosmetic”. Obviously I called the cops. 10 grand in damage. His insurance paid for the repair. I felt fine the day of the accident but the next day my neck and back were really sore. The doctor prescribed muscle relaxants and anti-inflamitories. Even with those, my neck and back were hurting for a full month. |
Anonymous
I was driving behind a car on the express toll lanes on 95 north of Baltimore just a few miles back. I noticed the car because it was the same model my husband bought in ‘97 and you don’t see them much anymore, so I was checking it out pretty closely - and then the whole underside burst into flame. I’ve been driving for 30 years and probably half a million miles, been in and witnessed accidents before and I’ve never been as freaked out by something on the road as that. I honked wildly and she did pull over, and I kept driving but called 911. |
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In back seat of car with no seatbelt, driver dozed for second on a turn and we hit a tree at 60mph. The tree cut off right front fender of car and whole front axle of car and took skins off doors and windshield but car still moving. We then did a triple roll over down a 20 foot embankment advantage I was ejected vehicle on roll two and almost crushed by vehicle on roll three. It actually nip my face as flying by.
I was paralyzed waist down and blind in one eye, three broken bones and 20 stitches. Amazingly at hospital was a large bruise pushing on spinal cord that went down and legs were fine with two hours. My eye has some stitches near socket but just large bruise that went down and could then open eye. In end just some Sitches and the three bones healed up. I sued driver and there was actually a female rookie cop off duty right behind us and she told insurance agent she thought she was recovering a dead body as she witnessed it ave was suprised I was not dead. In fact I was perfectly fine a few weeks later. |
Anonymous
Wow! |
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