by BigDaddyBS on July 19th, 2008

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Have you ever been in a one-vehicle accident? Multi-vehicle? Was your vehicle drivable, or did it have to be hauled away?

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by sadiepotatie in a smitten COAT on September 4th, 2008
yea, i was in a wreck with my sis n law and my nephew, who was a yr old at the time. I was making a left turn. I yielded my turn, but some idiot came over the hill and rammed my right side and completely bent both doors in,broke my tire rod, and cracked my windshield. It was raining really hard. The guy sped up over the hill and swerved to hit me rather than miss me. The officer didn't charge anybody due to weather. Everyone was ok, and the funny thing is, i wrecked in front of the house i lived at yrs. before!
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- He probably lost control from driving so fast, and overcorrected, which looked like he "swerved to hit you rather than miss you". Glad no one was hurt. (Now-a-days, don't they charge people for driving too fast for weather conditions?) Ironic about the location, though! LOL
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  by BigDaddyBS on September 4th, 2008
- It made me so mad. He had a mentally ill person with him, who got out clapping saying it's your fault repeatedly. The guy who hit me walked over to my car, and in a smart *ss tone asked if we were ok, then walked to the front of the car and called one of his police buddies. I asked him politely if i could use his phone to call my mom but he turned his nose up and walked away. I was 15 w/ a learner's permit and i was scared to death. The guy convinced the officer that it was my fault (which it would not have been, and you could clearly see that)but my mom talked him out of it.
  
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  by sadiepotatie in a smitten COAT on September 5th, 2008
- If your mom was able to convince the cop that it wasn't your fault, he must have hit you in the lane you would have had to cross to make the left turn. My guess is, then, that he was 1) showing off for his friend, or 2) REALLY wanted to get a new car - On YOUR insurance. Jerk. :-P
  
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  by BigDaddyBS on September 5th, 2008
- well it really would have been his fault. It was more in a neighborhood where the road isn't marked, but still. Here is a picture of it. He hit me, then he backed up, so he was able to convince his police friend it was my fault, and my mom convinced him otherwise.
  http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr144/sadiepotatie/carwreck.jpg
  
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  by sadiepotatie in a smitten COAT on September 5th, 2008
- i was comming up that street and making that left turn, he was coming down that street and did that.
  
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by The Chief on July 22nd, 2008
Yep. There were LOTS of Gremlins in the junkyards at that time. Wouldn't know why...
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I fixed pretty much everything in one night, except the transmission/flywheel. I drove it until the transmission quit, a couple months or so later. THEN I got that fixed. Cost me a couple hundred or so for that, if I remember correctly.
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- (Should be a comment on http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/3552904 )
  
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  by BigDaddyBS on July 22nd, 2008
- Cool. ;-)
  
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  by BigDaddyBS on July 22nd, 2008
- DRAT! Shoulda caught that!
  
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  by The Chief on July 22nd, 2008
- Happens to all of us... Still happens to some of us, even a few months in! ;-)
  
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by The Chief on July 22nd, 2008
A few one vehicle accidents, one which I couldn't drive the car away. (I was working for RACO at the time, by the way)

A couple two car accidents, minor fender-bender types.
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- Really? Was I still working for them at the time? I don't remember it.
  Thanks, Chief. ;-)
  
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  by BigDaddyBS on July 22nd, 2008
- I launched my Gremlin over some tracks. She flew pretty well, but the landing...
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  Crushed both motor mounts, punched a hole in the power steering pump when it bounced off of a bolt, the engine went down and forward (see crushed motor mounts), which resulted in my fan blades carving a nice arc out of the radiator, messed up the water pump because the attached fan had been used to destroy the radiator, cracked the top of the transmission housing and warped the fly wheel.
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  Yep, you and I worked together at that time.
  
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  by The Chief on July 22nd, 2008
- Ok... I VAGUELY remember that... Didn't you get it fixed pretty quickly?
  
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  by BigDaddyBS on July 22nd, 2008
- See http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/3553517 for the response.
  
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by NicNic on July 20th, 2008
Just the one.
I was in my brand new car (only had it a month) and got hit by a guy being stupid on his motorbike. He was OK but my poor little car was a write off. Thank goodness for insurance!
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- Indeed.
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  by BigDaddyBS on July 20th, 2008
- no worries :)
  
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by .avallach on July 20th, 2008
3 accidents:

First, I swerved to avoid someone changing lanes into me and ended up hitting a curb, a "right lane must turn right" sign, and grazed a telephone pole. Fortunately I stopped a few feet short of the train tracks, had to be towed away.

Second, I was behind a pickup truck at a stop light, the light turned green and we started to go, someone ran the red (from our left to our right), the guy in front of me slammed his brakes, and I bumped him. We stopped, looked at the damage, shrugged, shook hands, and went about our lives.

Third, my wife and I were rear-ended on our way out of a parking lot by a girl who hadn't gotten the hang of her clutch yet. Again, we stopped, looked at the damage (or lack thereof), shrugged, shook hands, and went about our lives.
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- Yeah... I've had a couple of those "check it out, shrug, and go on with life" moments! LOL
  Thanks, avallach ;-)
  
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by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on July 20th, 2008
A few

Single vehicle (as passenger) - Not even close. It was on it's side with a telephone pole across the dashboard.

Single vehicle - Possibly after getting it off of it's roof, though with a severely cracked windshield. (Landed in deep, powdery snow)

Multi-vehicle - Definitely, minus a tail light. Some dumb c*nt didn't check the rear-view in her SUV when backing up and then proceeded to floor the gas when her car stopped, unaware that she hit us.
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- 2nd one - "landed" huh? Moving a bit too fast? LOL
  I hope YOU came out ok in all of them.
  Thanks, Jerv ;-)
  
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  by BigDaddyBS on July 20th, 2008
- Not really. When I left the road, I doubt I was going over 20. Hell, before I skidded I was doing about 35. I would've been going slower but it was unsafe to hit the brakes, even with ABS. Sudden changes in road conditions suck.
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  I got banged up bad in the first one; couldn't walk for a week, though nothing broken.
  The second, my wife bumped her elbow hard enough for her arm to go numb for a few days but we were both otherwise fine.
  As for the third, the impact speed was low enough that it didn't cause any problems.
  
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  by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on July 20th, 2008
- Good... Glad to hear it. ;-)
  
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by Galeanda on July 20th, 2008
One-vehicle accident, car coming down steep mountain pass, faulty brakes from the manufacturer. Luckily came to a stop plowing into the other side of the road into a bank and tree. Car was totalled, all 5 people okay. I was in my early teens, very scary!
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- Wow... No doubt!
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by Lady Lavender on July 20th, 2008
I have been in two two-vehicle accidents and one three-vehicle accident. They were mostly fender benders so the car was drivable after the accidents.
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- Glad they were only fender-benders.
  Thanks for answering, Lady. ;-)
  
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by Rose is getting sleepy on July 20th, 2008
I've been in two serious accidents, both on motorbikes, both where I flipped over a turning car. Neither was my fault, neither resulted in any injury except a few scratches.

I now drive a car.
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- I sincerely hope you have better luck with a car!
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by StemnyJones on July 20th, 2008
I've gotten in lots of minor accidents, one-and-multi vehicle in nature, and never did I have to have my car towed away.

My sister, on the other hand, has totaled 3 cars, two of them accompanied by DWIs.
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- Wow... Stay outta HER car, huh?
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  by BigDaddyBS on July 20th, 2008
- Haha, yeah... except it's the opposite. She doesn't have a car right now, so she has to stay outta MINE :P
  
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  by StemnyJones on July 20th, 2008
- LOL... Yeah... At least DRIVING it! ;-)
  
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by KayJ on July 20th, 2008
first one, a farm vehicle turned in front of me and I ran right into the middle of it. There were a lot of witnesses that came forward for me on that one. I walked away from it but the car was totaled. second one, I didn't stop at a stop sign and got hit dead center and flipped I don't know how many times and amazingly I walked away from that one with just minor injuries, of course the car was never seen again. Third one, I hit a deer when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant, it did about $3000 damage which insurance paid for, so we fixed the car up.
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- Yeah... Those deer just seem to like committing suicide by car, don't they?
  Thanks for answering, Kay. ;-)
  
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by Tom 47 is back in his bear COAT on July 19th, 2008
In all truth, the only vehicle accidents I have ever been involved in were cases in which I was "rear-ended". I was stopped dead at a light or stop sign every time. And all three times were when the "crash car" was driven by a teenage male who was not paying attention to what he was doing. So, young guys, you wonder why you pay higher insurance than the rest of us? That's why.
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- I've had three (first was the first time I drove an Econoline van (no back windows) and backed out our driveway into the car parked across the street - Dad took the hit for that one... MADE me go inside.) After that ... BOTH considered my fault, though I don't think I did anything wrong (of course). I WAS much younger, too. And between those, I was rear-ended a couple of times, both on icy roads at stop lights. The rear-enders caused little to no damage. The others... Well, A LOT of damage to my Cordoba... Couldn't drive it... The other, I rear-ended someone... Well, actually my ex-wife (story's elsewhere on AB, let's just say slippery/wet road, guy in front of HER stopped at a changing light, JUST as I accelerated... BOOM.). We both could drive on, and luckily had the same insurance, so it covered both, but there was a lot of damage!
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by Kitty Kat on July 19th, 2008
Back in 2000 I was 18yrs old and was in a near death car accident. I was a passenger in a geo prisim, and my boyfriend at the time was driving, we were on a 4 lane rd, and he was said to be racing someone we went to school with. At a certin point on this road it went back into one lane and there was a gas station on the right of us on a hill. A roll back wrecker did not stop at the stop sign comming out of the gas station and we hit it on my side of the car. I was knocked unconcious on impact, my seat belt broke and I went through the windshild, I was sitting indian style in the seat and the dash board was pushed into my lap and that kept me from going all the way out of the windshild. When I got to the Hospital the doctors said that I had about a 4% chance to live, I had broke my left knee in half, screws were used to put it back together and ues and external fixator to keep it set in place, I broke my right femur, had a rod put in to keep it together, had torn tendions in my left knee, broke my left tibia, which they placed back together and stitched my skin back up then put my right leg in a full length brace, broke my left wrist, casted it, broke to ribs and punchard my lug, had a chest tub, I laserated my liver which healed on its own, had facial damage which consisted of a gash above my right eye, a gash on the lower part of my chin, and I had knocked three teeth out which I soon got a partcial for. I had a feeding tube till I was well enought to eat on my own. I recovered very quickly and better than doctors thought I would have. Since my accident I hav gotten back on my feet doing anything I want and have had three kids and love life like there will not be a tomarrow. Don't ever take you life for granted, it could be over in a blink of an eye. Enjoy life!
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- Wow... Just Wow!
  I'm glad you ended up ok... I'm sure it took a LOT of therapy and determination.
  Thanks for answering, Kat. ;-)
  
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- Your welcome, it took alot of determination, but my accident happened in mid May and I was back on my feet by mid August, I was very determined because the doctors said that I only had a slight chance to be able to walk again or if I did I would have major problems, and I wanted to prove doctors wrong and did, I have no major problems, I walk just fine I can't run as fast as I was able to before but thats about it. Therapy was tough but like I said I was very determined. You can do what every you put your mind to, nothing is impossible!
  
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