Let's hear your car crash stories

I was browsing some guy's (kid) blog and he was telling a good story of when he crashed his car so i thought it would be a good idea for a thread.

I'll post my personal one later but here is his:

copied from some kid's blog --
"I rolled my car down over a hill trying to Avoid a Moose (only in Canada) on a road that is 90 miles from civilization each way, and landed in a pond in the water, I had to swim out.

It was about 2 a.m. I was alone and had to walk for 3 hours before someone came along and picked me up.

They looked at me like I was a ghost and had no idea I had crashed my car, and I basically was because I have never been that scared in my life, I was crying going down the road. I wasnt hurt bad, but it was definitely the worst thing that has ever happend to me in my life. Fuckkkk I get chills down my spine just thinkin about that night.

Dont ever crash when your in the middle of nowhere with no cellphone service or civilization for 90 miles each way. Just don't. even if it means you have to drive 10 miles per hour. Walking on a desolate road at 2 am in the middle of the wilderness in Canada is NOT COOL. I was basically a little girl for 3 hours, crying my ass off, scared shitless thinking I was never going to be picked up, attacked by a bear and never be seen again. Terrible night."

[doubledip]

Wow that's intense...I would have been scared shitless as well..I've never personally been in a wreck aside a minor fender bender...I've had quite a few friends in horrific wrecks, unfortunately some were life ending. I'm a fairly cautious drivers...it just annoys me inside to know that regardless of how cautious/careful I am, it doesn't matter if someone else is being a fucking idiot.

[tylerdurden94]

I was in two car crashes on the same stretch of road about a mile apart.

[Randal Graves]

I have a few.

1. 3 days after I turned 16 I was racing one of my friends. The road turned from asphalt to gravel so I lost control when I hit that going 90 mph. I drove the truck I'd gotten two days before head on through about 60 feet of board fence. The truck was totaled and I had to re-build the fence which sucked. No injuries though.

2. About 10 months later I got wasted with this guy who bought me beer. We decided to go meet up with some chicks and he was driving my next truck. About 5 miles out of town he veered off the right side and I yelled at him. In his drunken stupor he pulled it back on and went off the other side of the road. We managed to slide sideways through another board fence before the truck started rolling down an embankment. It rolled a few times and ended up laying on the passenger side and the dude driving wasn't wearing a seatbelt so he ended up at my feet. I had to climb over him and out the driver's side door which was now the top. Then we had to bust out the windshield to pull him out for the paramedics. He was in a coma for a while and the truck was totaled, but I didn't have to re-build the fence this time. I walked away unhurt except for a few bruises from my seatbelt. Always buckle up kids.

3. About a year after that I was drunk again in my next truck. I ran over a stump when I was leaving my friend's house. I was so drunk that I never noticed I hit anything until my tire blew out from my dented in bumper rubbing against it. I then proceeded to drive about five miles through the middle of town on my rim. I decided to change my tire once I got on the other side of town because it took me that long to realize something was seriously wrong. I had to get my buddy to change my tire for me b/c I was too drunk. Then we had to use a torch to cut my bumper off at 3 am after I drove back into town to a shop that my was owned by my friend's dad. My truck needed a new front bumper and grill, but I got clipped by an 18 wheeler a few months later so I actually turned a profit getting it fixed.

So I've done some pretty stupid shit in my life and I'm probably lucky to be alive. Sometimes I feel like the dude from Unbreakable, but I'm sure my luck will run out at some point and I'll end up dead in a gutter. I've actually settled down a lot since I got out of college so I'm not actively trying to kill myself anymore. I am contemplating getting a crotch rocket so maybe I do still have a death wish.

[beastley]

My worst crash was on the turnpike, in Florida.

I was driving my gfs corolla home from gainesville to south florida, and ii was speeding since her mom wanted her to get home early to pick her sister up from the airport, etc etc....

I was probably going around 90 and my girlfriend was sleeping in the passenger seat. There weren't too many cars on the road, but it had been raining so the roads were a bit slick. My girlfriend was sleeping and I was driving, but there was a pillow in the back seat under some duffel bags so I was trying to get it for her while driving and steering(not a good idea).

I looked back for a split second cuz the pillow was just not getting unstuck. As soon as I turned back to look at the road, I realized I had turned the wheel to the left, and was now on those bumpy things to wake you up, and I tried to turn the wheel right to straighten myself out. I wasn't in time, and we ended up hitting the guardrail on the left at about a 45-degree angle.

As soon as we hit, the airbags deployed, my girlfriend woke up ("Baby, baby, what's going on?"), and we started spinning. We spun about 3-4 times through the two highway lanes all the way to the right lane and onto the grass on the right.

Whenever I'm in an accident, it happens sort of out-of-body, so that I really don't know what's going on. The craziest part was that neither of us was really injured(my arm and left foot hurt a lot, but I think it was because I tensed up when we crashed on the left side). I really kept expecting someone to slam into us while we spun out to the right of the road, but nothing like that happened.

As soon as we stopped, we got out of the car and my girlfriend started freaking out about the car about to explode. (the airbags were smoking...that was all) The entire front part of the car was totalled, and the driver's side door didn't open all the way. The windshield was cracked, but aside from that, everything else was fine.

We ended up getting towed to a service plaza and having to wait for our parents to come pick us up. We met a family friend there, so it was nice to have someone to talk to right then. All in all, it was so scary because I did not expect to survive. We literally spun for about 5 seconds on the highway, and luckily no one smashed into us.

The weirdest part was on the drive home with my parents, we saw about 4 other similar accidents. Everyone I tell about it suspects hydroplaning, but I'm pretty sure if I hadn't looked back for that split seconds, nothing would have happened.

[fatanduseless]

Mine>
I was going through a cross street in a 25 mph road. Driving a 1978 Buick Regal Station Wagon, pretty big car. Some asshole ran the STOP sign at about 40 mph. He was in a similar Olsdmobile. T-boned me between front and rear driver-side door. Flung the car into a telephone pole on the opposite corner. Broke every window in the car and buckled the roof up over a foot. I walked away with bumps and bruises and some glass imbedded in my back. That was 20 years ago and I still have the scars to show.

Group of friends>
I was the only person in the group that had NOT been in a rollover. Two were off road, one was slow speed in an accident and the last was a high speed drift in to a raised man-hole cover. They all walked away.

Katie> "the best"
One of our employees, Katie, told us the story of her accident. She was only 14 when she and her friend stole her parents jeep Cherokee for a joy ride. She had never driven before and was on a highway and took an exit ramp way to fast. She jumped the curb going through the curve and crashed the car into the woods. If that is not funny enough, one of the trees she ran through was rotted and had a huge bee hive in it. They ended up getting stung. Alot. No other injuries, just a totalled car.

[strommsarnac]

Nothing exciting but I have been a passenger in 27 accidents. 18 of those were the car being rear-ended. I quit telling people due to either all the stupid rear-ending jokes or that they were paranoid I was cursed and they wanted me to drive everywhere or not go with them.

I have never been in an accident with a passenger in my vehicle. But people are always doing stupid shit around me and I have to drastically avoid them. No I'm not a crazy, weaving, aggressive driver either. Don't know what it is, but I only get shit when someone is in the car with me, not by myself.

I've been sideswiped out of my lane into the back of a parked small toyota pickup. All that "time slowed down stuff" happened and still stupid me locked the elbow on my steering arm just before slamming into the truck. Tore the heck outa my shoulder.

I've had the floor mat (from older car in current car) get stuck below brake pedal yet over gas pedal. So when I goosed the car (1994 ImpalaSS) on a dry lightly dirt covered road and the back end started to slide, letting off the gas pedal didn't drop the throttle and snap the backend into line like it always did. Stupid me then slammed on the brake only to have that push the gas pedal down and launch my ass up over a 10' dirt embankment across the road. My two work buddies (also with Imps) ran up and over to me and kept yelling "Dude, your brake lights were on!!! What happened??". Luckily, the car's a tank and only minor bumper damage was done.

Last was some stupid old woman who shouldn't have been driving was a good 100' in front of me on a county road about 8 hours after a snow/ice storm and she decided to slam on her brakes just be going through a small snow drift. I just happened to be on the one she just went through and ABS didn't make a difference, off the road I went, through a farmers field covered in two foot of snow. I had plenty of speed to coast back onto the road and was angled just perfect to do so. EXCEPT FOR THE FREAKING BOULDER COVERED BY THE SNOW!!! Damn farmer put a line of them in his field every Winter to fuck with the dump-trucks who turf his field when they slide off into it. That did about six grand to my Imp, but nothing perm. Shop did a great job.

[dragosani]

I was cruising along at 55 mph on a 5 lane road when some jackass used the left hand turn lane as a merging lane and pulled out in front of me. I tried to swerve around him and clipped his bumper. My last thoughts were "this is going to hurt". My bike hit the ground and i went skipping across two lanes and slid into a Big Boy parking lot. After a few minutes the shock wore off and i got up and walked my bike off the road.

The tool who pulled out in front of me was pissed off because of the 2 inch scratch he had on the back corner of his bumper. Whiles he's upset about that, i'm looking at the caved in gas tank, the torn up cowling, my helmet dented in, and my watch which was torn off my arm as i slid.

The real disappointing part of it was i had just made my final payment on the bike that morning.

[Shasturbator]

I've been in countless (minor) crashes...how to be an idiot in KY...

we have "haul roads" for coal trucks (gravel road the size of a 4 land highway) pack a cooler of beer in a small car (Ford Escort 5 speeds work great) get crusin about 65 or 70 on a haul road....yank the e-brake and cut the wheel....yeah idiots...never rolled one, but have hit the ditch many, many times....

[Mr Saxon]

I was hit by a Car and woke up in 1973, does that count?