Have you ever had a car accident?

Question

If the answer is yes, then:
How old were you?
Was it your fault?
How many years have you been driving?

I'll go ahead and give you my own accident report. I've had one accident and it happened when I was 17 years old. Coming home late at night on a country road I hit a black steer that had got out of the pasture. Killed the steer, really banged up the pickup but my only injury was a jammed finger. That was back in the days before seat belts, so I was lucky. Guess the accident was my fault because I never saw that steer. I've had a driver's license for 43 years.

Answer 1

On the oval track I've been bumped, banged, crashed and crunched. I've been spun-out and flipped but I don't think that counts.



On the highway only one.



A woman got alongside me (in my blind spot) in traffic. When the traffic thinned a bit thinned I checked mirrors and signaled. I then started moving to my right in order to take an upcoming exit. Witnesses said she moved over with me until she had no more room. She then accelerated but not quickly enough... When we made contact it felt like I was losing a steering axle tire so I braced myself to try to manage the single lane bridge that was coming up on the transition road ahead. Next thing I knew there was a brown strip across the bottom of my windshield (the top of her car, I was driving a cab-over-engine truck). I only pushed her down the freeway sidways for about a hundred yards.



To this day I maintain that you can't miss what you can't see... CHP didn't see it my way and cited me.



Been driving since 1960.



Edit: Please remember ... If you can't see the driver of the truck in his mirror the chances are he can't see you and/or your car.

Answer 2

I have had a few only one was my fault. My first one I was trying to see around a car at a stop sign and could not and went ahead and hit another car. I was 21 at the time. Later when I was 24 I was going around a corner and this pick up was on my side of the road and I even went on the grass to avoid it and she hit me anyway. I went many years without one and rode motorcycles 37 years without an accident then last year I had my first motorcycle accident. A 15 year old unlicensed driver pulled right out in fron of me and I could not stop. From my point of view it looked like a magis trick because he just appeared. I hit him at 50 miles and hour, flew over his car and landed face first on the hot Texas pavement.



Then just three months later I was in my pick up and a woman hit me on purpose simply because she was mad. What happenes was I entered the street and got in the left lane and she was sitting across the street a very busy street and had been there a while and pulled out and we have turn lanes which are actually full lanes and many people use them to pull out, stop or drive slow and enter when clear and she did this but then just turned her wheel and deleberately hit me because she wasd made because I got on the road ahead of her but I did nothing wrong and she got a ticket for failure to yeild right of way and got her car towed for no insurance and got a ticket for no insurance.

This just goes to show that you can drive safe and do all the right things and still get hit.



I have been driving since 1969. Those accidents above is my full report. Still a good driving record.

WR

Answer 3

Yes, I was in two rear enders as a passenger. Once when I

was just out of highschool and we were waiting for a light. And my boyfriend and I were hit hard from behind, by a man

in a big new Caddie. He came to the drivers side with his

wallet and apologized and wanted to know if there was any-

thing he could do. He even admitted he wasn't watching where he was going in order to slow down for the light. But

my boyfriend, didn't want to take advantage of the situation

and told him we were fine. Even tho I hit my head on the

dashboard. There weren't seat belts then. Luckily I didn't

develop anything from that rear ender.

The second time was about a year or so ago and we were

stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the interstate bridge.

We were in a van, and it was a mid sized car with a woman

on a cell phone behind that hit us squarely. My husband said she had kids in the car he thought because she had turned around in her seat to apparently yell at someone in the back seat. We were both slightly stunned and before we knew it, the traffic started to move again and the woman pulled into the next lane and managed to weave in and out of the cars and made a fast getaway. It was a hit and run. And I'm still paying for that accident, due to nerve damage in my hip and down to the top of my foot which developed a lump that has been growing since. And now it throbs alot and I have a cat scan scheduled for next month, since it's gotten to be too

painful. And I want it taken out.

Answer 4

My one and only accident happened in 1979. I was 18 and was on my way to opening night in a theatre production I was in. Had the radio blaring, and I went left of center without realizing it and got hit by a truck. The police say if I hadn't been wearing seat belts I would've been killed. I had to go to court, and I was cited. Nearly lost my license entirely but my mother spoke up for me and the judge made an exception for driving to and from school/work only. I thank goodness for that. Needless to say I was a very careful driver after that...some say too cautious! That accident was a very emotionally shattering one for me, and truth be told I've always been afraid to drive. So last year at age 45, I decided I won't do it anymore. I do retain a state driver's license, but I sold my vehicle and now use a bicycle and mass transit for most of my transportation needs. I find it works for me, and if I absolutely have to have a car, either I'll rent or ask a freind to drive.

Answer 5

I have been in two. The first one I was taking my grandson to the movies at dusk ( now I know better) We came to an overpass where a semi was stalled and taking up half of the bridge. The bridge was very icy that time of day. I was so scared as I crossed the overpass. I was afraid of hitting the truck or the rails but when I made it through I breathed a sigh of relief and looked into the rear view mirror at a car coming right at us. He hit the back of my truck. We all were OK. It just scared my grandson when I had to give my report to the officer. That was 10 years ago.I was 40 and it wasn't my fault.

This past year has been very hard for me. Going through a divorce at 50. He had been talking divorce and I knew he was unfaithful so I left the house to have the oil changed in my car and was so upset and crying that I pulled out in front of an elderly woman. I guess that's how it happened. I looked down both ways and for 4 blocks there was nothing coming when she suddenly appeared. I think she pulled out of a side street.

Thankfully neither one of us was hurt .

But I felt so awful hitting a frail older woman. I thought it was my fault but was never issued a ticket.

I have been driving for 36 years.

Answer 6

I am 79, I have never had an "at fault" accident and I still drive. Started driving at 25, I was hit in the rear when I was about 55 by someone trying to squeeze onto a busy freeway. Around 68 Some kid came out of a parking lot fast tried to turn, and cut it short right into the front of my truck. I was going north. He wanted to go south.

Answer 7

I had my first accident back in 1998. I had just bought a 1995 T-bird 3 weeks earlier. I was working a night shift and running late for work. I had made a left hand turn and drove into the path of a guy on his motorcycle. That was pretty scary!! I thank God that I didn't kill him. Poor guy!! Well,3 days later after the insurance adjuster came to look at the car, which had been parked in front of my house. My neighbors came over screaming that someone just hit my car. I thought they were talking about the accident I was just in. But, someone did just run into the drivers side and took off. So now i have both sides damaged. It took about a month to have my car fixed. And in that time I ended up losing my job and then after all that, the car got repoed 6 months later. I swear that car was cursed!!! LOL

Answer 8

A few minor ones....not my fault. Two very serious ones....the first was when I was only 16 and yes, it was my fault. I over-corrected when someone came out in front of me and the end result was totaling my parents car. The second was when I was about 30....got caught between two tractor trailers on black ice. The first truck jack-knifed and I glanced off his back corner, only to spin around and be hit head-on by the truck behind me. Before it was all over, 4 more cars came up and hit the trucks. Again, the car was totaled, but I was blessed to walk away from that one. Out of the seven drivers involved, I was the only one that didn't receive a ticket. I've been driving about 42 years now.

Answer 9

Yes when I was 19 many moons ago. I was driving a mercury convertable and was eight months pregnant and passed out. I went down a hill into a freight yard right under a tractor trailor that was propped up there, took the top right off the car. I had no injuries as I had fallen over on the seat . Someone was watching out for me that day. One month later I had my daughter. I have been driving for a total of 51 years.

Answer 10

Yes, three in which I was the driver, not my fault and no injuries. The first two I was in my 20's. I hit a deer that ran in front of me and tore the grill up in my bf's car, no way to avoid it.

Another one was when my daughter and I were driving back from the grocery store on the main road and a teenager pulled out from a side street into us.

The 3rd accident I was in my 30's and waiting to pull out onto the main road. A lady pulled up behind me and hit the back end of my car. I've been driving 35 years.

Answer 11

I, too, drove before seat belts. I was going to the grocery store

when some one went through a stop and nailed me but good.

I wasn't hurt as I was driving a Mercury Marquis. Many witnesses

came forward and even the policeman said I can see you tried really hard to avoid him. He ripped out the front end of my car.

I had the car 2 days. I now feel sorry for him as he cried in the back seat and begged my forgiveness. As for how long I have been driving off and on since 16 and I am now 66 this year. I am so glad that you weren't seriously hurt either. Scary wasn't it??

Answer 12

Currently I've only been driving for half a year (no accidents yet), so I wasn't driving at the time (still a good story though). I was in the car with my nephew and 26 year old brother-in-law who was driving. If anyone had to guess who was going to cause an accident it would be us right? Well we were hit by a 30 year old drunken female on her way home from picking up pizza. Funny huh?

Answer 13

Yes. I was standing at a red light and a car ran into me. The driver was apparently girl-watching (or so the witnesses said). I had a sore neck but probably was just bruised. The car had extensive body work done. Was never the same after that accident. I can't remember my age!! Yikes!! I've been driving for 22 years. I started late. No it was not my fault.



Glad you didn't get hurt but feel real sorry for the steer.

Answer 14

I'm 66, but have only been driving for 20 years. Before that, we had only 1 car, & my husband took that to work. I walked.



Anyway, one day I waited at an intersection for every car that I could see to go past. There was a high snowbank. Really high. So, I inched out after what I thought was the last car. And there, coming up on the driver's side, was a little sports car - those low to the ground ones. Coming at me at 45 MPH. I tried to gun mine, to get to the other side of the road. Too slippery, wheels just spun. He tried to stop, too slippery. He was fishtailing, headed to the side of the road, next to that high snowbank. Hit my rear quarter panel. Spun me around.



My fault, of course, as I pulled out when a car was coming. But, I admitted that, exactly. Was very polite with the policeman. He did not give me a ticket, due to the high snowbanks and icy road.

Answer 15

Yes , last november I did roll my nissan pickup on the side of a hill to prevent the car from going into very busy traffic. I had to hang upside down by the seat belt before they could get there to cut me loose. That was the worst of it. Amazing thing was ,, I had not one scratch and no increase in BP or pulse. I had a wonderful guardian that day,, no doubt in my mind. 54 years old then. Been driving since I was 19 yrs old.

Answer 16

I was a passenger in one at about 24 years of age. I was the driver in another that happened when I was 33. The last one happened after my Naval retirement. I was driving to work when some "stoner" decided to make a left across two other lanes of traffic (including the one I was in) so he could get some "munchies" at a 7-11 store.

I wasn't hurt in any of them and none of the two where I was behind the wheel was my fault.

Answer 17

Hit head-on at 55mph by a drunk driver . Front end was demolished , engine was in my lap . Steering column was bent all the way forward and up towards the windshield from the impact with my CHEST . He fled the scene and left me for dead in the middle of nowhere . Got his plates though !! He went to jail and I went through many months of rehab .



But I'm ALIVE. . . and btw , I was wearing my seat-belt and the EMT's said that's the only reason I'm alive . But even so , I believe there's another reason I'm alive. . . GOD !!

Answer 18

UGH.

I drive 80 miles every day, round trip to school.



I was visiting my boyfriend (he's stationed on a base in a different state) HE rented the car, I was driving (don't know why) didn't see the red light (they're across the road on bars, as opposed to hanging down like I'm used to), hit and totaled both cars, I was nineteen and I had been driving for about four years...my only accident/ticket/anything. So, I'm still paying for the rental car, because the insurance we took out didn't cover me as a driver... I was the only one that was injured and I'm still kicking myself over it...

Answer 19

I have been in 3 accidents.



The first one I was in my 20's. The roads were icy. I was crossing a bridge when a car on the other side was in my lane and sliding. I stopped and braced myself for the crash. He did hit me, I broke both of my wrist (from bracing myself). My truck had to be towed in. The wreck was his fault.



The second wreck happened when I was in my 30's and in my drive way. My sister-in-law was with me and she was trying to get away from her boyfriend. He smashed his truck into mine to keep me from getting away with her. It broke my neck. The accident was not my fault.



My third accident happened when I was in my 40's. I was on my way to pick up my boyfriend (ex boyfriend now). I had just been released from the doctor that day to drive again after having a nervous break down. I was still on my medicine. All I saw was green (it was signs that I saw). But anyway I ran a red light, so they say as I don't remember anything about the accident. My truck was messed up pretty bad. It has since been fixed. I was sore from the accident but other than that I was fine. So that one was my fault.



I have had my license for about 35 years now.



EDIT: I forgot, another time I was also in my 20's and on my way home, late at night from work, a deer jumped out in front of me. That ended a brand new truck. The game warden was going to arrest me for killing a deer out of season.



The only other wreck that I was in was when I was in grade school. I was in a school bus wreck. The only thing on that one that I remember is we had to exit out the back door. Some of the kids did get hurt, but not me. We were right across the street from the school when it happened.

Answer 20

Yep....first was at 16 when I was ran off the road by a group playing chicken (driving without their lights) Car damaged....but I was OK. I headed for the field.....unfortunatly barbed wire isn't kind to a car..not to mention the poles.. Second....I was sitting at a stop sign..parked basicly.....a woman dropped her cig and hit me.....20's. Third....went through a green light and was t-boned by an illegal running a red light. Got really busted up. Bad. Life changing event. Been driving.... lets see.....37 years. Never charged with an accident....no parking tickets....1 speeding ticket.

Answer 21

Yes. I've been in 3.



First one was at age 23 when I was broadsided by a woman with two children in her car. Her fault. It was a block away from my house. My first car--a new Mustang was totalled.

I was hospitalized for several days. Missed going to the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1969.



Been driving for 40 years.

Answer 22

Many more than my insurance company is happy with...most have been hit and run, but I went through a period where every new car I bought was wrecked within 3 months of owning it. The worst was going down on my Godwing 1800, fractured a hip and banged myself up but good. Needless to say, I pay through the nose of insurance. PEace, Goldwing

Answer 23

At 18, I was acquitted in court because of a perpendicular sign blocking the view of the oncoming car and the sign owner was made to replosition the sign at a parallel, and I've been driving 44 years.

Answer 24

3 of them and I have been driving over 30 years. first one a motorcycle tried to pass as I was making a left hand turn. second was riding with a friend and he went off a dead end and we were very lucky. broke the windshield with my head. third one rear ended at a stop light. learned bumpers can cost 1,ooo bucks even though the cop said no report was necessary cuz the damages were not over that. he was wrong.

Answer 25

Yes. two of them;

1) 21, rolled a car in the ditch after an evening of celebration,

the driver was at fault (not I) -

2)40's, Got smacked into in front of my insurance office (car was totalled). Wife was driving and not at fault, Iwas honored with tree broken ribs. WEAR YOUR SEATBELT ! !

Answer 26

So many answers. Only minor ones, but one of my sons had a bad one, trying to be a hero with his girlfriend. Luckily all ended well and he even got his insuracne paid out. It was in our name. He learnt his lesson. Now he has children, they both do, so driving takes on an new meaning.

Answer 27

i have had a couple, but the one that still irks me is: being stopped at a red light; rear ended by a drunk drver mom knocked out;me being cut out of the seat belt along with the sound of scissors cutting my arm out of my jacket then going to the er and comming back to the police station only to have the drunk out in front of the building drinking while he was waiting to be processed. that happened when i was about 27, now i'm 53 and i still miss that car!

Answer 28

Yep, when I was 32. Three guys and my girlfriend were all out "backroading" and of course pretty drunk among other things and flipped his truck 6 times end over end. We all had broken backs and rods in our legs and cut up!! We all healed but you ought to see five people on crutches trying to celebrate getting out of the hospital!! My parents were extremely proud of me about that one!!

Answer 29

Yes. I was 23 and coming home from the grocer. I had my two babies with me and a lady ran a stop sign and hit me broadside. My children were okay and I was very grateful.

Answer 30

yes, three of them

the first one when i was 18. it was my fault

i had been driving for a little over two years.

the second one was also my fault. i was 23.

the third one wasn't my fault. my car was rear ended by a teen driver last june .

Answer 31

Three serious ones. But still very much around. Keeping my answers short and sweet.

Answer 32

No, knock on wood! I started driving at fourteen. Been driving now for forty nine years.

Answer 33

I'm 59 (banging on wood) and no, I haven't had an accident....please don't let this ruin my record!

Answer 34

NO