Have you ever been in a car accident?

Crash - car crash
Australia
July 25, 2007 5:37am CST
I have never, fortunately but I know many people who have. I like to think i am a reponsible driver who takes care on the road. Have you ever been in a car crash? Was it bad?
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@zabawaus (1730)
• United States
25 Jul 07
Yes it happened once and it was the moment i thought i was dying for the first time. 10 years ago ,me and my father took a highway to go another city. I drove half way and gave the car to him. It was highway so we were pretty fast and then the only thing i remember was we started making circles very fast. Luckily all cars behind us have stopped . So after crushing 5 or 6 times to viaduct rails we stopped. After a while we understood that it was a tire trouble. Thanks to safety belts.
@kimyat24 (42)
• Philippines
25 Jul 07
yes, i had 1 before, but fortunately, i'm still here alive and kicking. it was my last year in highschool when it happend. i was on the front seat and was sleeping the whole trip, but suddenly, i heard all my friends shouting, and when i woke up - BOOM! a head on collision with our tamaraw fx vs a 6 wheeler cargo truck. i wasn't wear seat belt that time, and so when i woke up, i was in another vehicle going to the hospital. i end up 2 weks in the hospital, undergone 2 operations due to fractured nose and damage on my left eye, fortunately i can still use them. almost a week of no food intake and bed rest. i thought life would be over, my grades then were affected but anyways, life goes on. i thought i would never be able to drive for the rest of these lifetime but here i am, employeed as a network engineer in a telecom, got to drive a 4x2 hilux toyota to do field works and as for my own, i have my honda xl 125s motorcycle. but i am now a much careful driver.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
26 Jul 07
Gee, that was a bad accident. You must be strong willed to have survived these operations & now do so well in your life.
@mayenskie (1307)
• Philippines
26 Jul 07
No, never happened thank GOd! But does bus accident counts? It was not really major accident, it happened while i was in college, it was really raining hard and the road was quite slippery. The bus i was in skidded and one of the front wheel got into a canal. No one was hurt though. But the impact sure made our hearts hammered. Anyways, i got a close friend who was a classmate of mine since high school. One night while on their way home from a party with his frat brothers, they crashed and those people at the back of the pick up flew and broke their bones. They all went to the hospital. 2 of them were 50-50. My friend was really in bad condition, i can't count the stitches he got from his face and body. It was really a horrible night. The lesson: never to drive when you had a drink.
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• India
26 Jul 07
i have fortunately not met with any car accident so far.but there was one incident that took place in my native place.me and my family members were traveling in a car towards a marriage suddenly the brake rod got cut and the vehicle was pulled aside to the left where it got hit in the bridge and we were al saved for life
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• Australia
26 Jul 07
Nope, I hopefully it stays that way too. I am always responsible and try to always be safe whenever possible but in saying that you are never exactly safe as somebody else could be at fault and crash into you. It's good to see that you too are a responsible driver. Keep it up!
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• India
26 Jul 07
Yes I did have an accident which i would never forget in my life it so happened that while I was driving my way back home from my dads shop I had to take the national highway cause their had been some problem in the route that I usually take to head home, as my house is about 25 km away from the heart of the city. I was driving on national high way at 60km/hr speed everything was going well my favorite song was being played on radio I was enjoying my drive just then I spotted a cow at a sharp Curve and even the road was quite narrow at that turning ,I immediately hit the breaks to avoid hitting the cow that night it had been raining so the roads were quiet wet because of which my car started to skid and turned 180 degrees right and the car behind me behind me just rammed in and the last sight I saw was the windshield break into bits after that I found my self in I.C.U with both my legs unable to move and a bump on head, I was later told that they had operated my left leg as it wad been badly damaged and my left had also had a rod fixed and the doctors told that it would take about three to four months to fully recover and stand on my legs again.
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• United States
25 Jul 07
Yes, but it was minor damages, nothing major.
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• United States
25 Jul 07
I actually have been in one car accident but it wasn't my fault. It was the CARS fault. It was the second time I had ever tried to drive too. My pregnant foster cousin decides to try to teach me how to drive her car. We lived out in the country. We had my sister who is five years younger than me with us. She pulls over about a mile or so from my house right in front of a three way intersection. As I turned left onto our road the steering wheel locked and so did the gas petal! We ended up in the ditch on our sides. We had to walk home and she explained what happened. Boy did she get chewed out because the car was known for the gas petal locking! Luckily we knew some people who was able to get it out of the ditch for us. I was about a mouth shy of turning 16 and it took me nearly two years before I would learn how to drive again to get my license. But that has been the only time I've been in an accident and I hope that that is THE only time too! I hate driving. It scares me and I do it only when I have to. Which most unfortunately for me is nearly everyday.
@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
26 Jul 07
I have only ever been in a couple of minor accidents, nothing that did more than break a tail light. My sister was in a very bad accident though. She was hit head on by a drunk driver. She was in a wheelchair for a long time. She still walks with a limp, but is able to get around now. I have also known a couple of other people who were killed in car accidents.
@naadia (828)
• India
27 Jul 07
i have broke my leg in a bike accident last week.me and my cousin were going to uncles house and a car hit the bike and we both fell down.this is second time i am facing an accident but first time luckily nothing happened...thank god. doctor told me to take bed rest thats why i am back to mylot!
• United States
25 Jul 07
Yeah, I've been in several, actually. The first was when I was newly 16, and had just gotten my license maybe three months before. My friend and I were skipping church that night, and when I went to make a turn, there were still cars coming the other direction. I couldn't see them, though, because of the way the intersection was set up. That was fairly minor--it just put a dent in my car, and meant that my friend and I had to go to church the next morning. :) When I was in college, the rear passenger tire on my mom's VW Bug blew out while we were on the highway (she was driving). We spun around a few times and dinged up the back of her car pretty good, but it still ran okay. The most recent one, though, was when I rear-ended a truck in my little Saturn. It was the day of the college graduation, and there were a lot of people in town who didn't know where they were going, so a lot of sudden stops. It was basically a chain reaction effect, where one person slammed on their brakes, and so on down the line. I hit my brakes, but there wasn't enough space between me and the truck, and I slammed into the back of it. Fortunately, my car was still new enough that it wasn't totalled--just was in the shop for the next two weeks!
@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
25 Jul 07
I experienced being hit by a vehicle before when i was in grade 1. I was walking down the road infront of our school when a tricycle was running so fast and hit me. He bring me to the hospital and i am so glad that it was only a minor accident.
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