Your Car accident stories - here

Thursday night, in my haste to get to Easter drinks up at the pub I made a really bad judgement call on a major road and wound up colliding with another car...

His car was totalled, mine almost so (and it was my first new car, only had it 3 months!).

It's the first time I've ever been in a moving accident (I've hit plenty of inanimate objects) - and it absolutely scared the shit out of me.

Luckily no-one was hurt and that's the main thing, but I'm still kicking myself.

Anyone out there got any stories of their own bingles which may be of comfort? Let me at least share in your experiences while I cry all over my insurance papers...

SLM

um.. i will come back to edit this in a while, cause i have to go home now..

but over the last 3 years i have paid over $17,000 in fines, infringments, insurance and excesses.

trust me slm, u driven aint that bad. nor is mine. is a combination of lots of kms and ....er..um...well stupidity.

i've had 3 accidents in under a year... all due to stupidity...

first one involved handbrakies into a parked car while on my L's. thankfully i've learnt how to do them more safely now

the other two were in wet weather and involved angry gutters.

damages > $2000

This is my type of thread

Been in a few accidents over my time.. again some of them my fault some of them not..

5.30 pm - Friday - Ferntree Gully Road - I'm driving my car home after a hard days work. It raining and so I was paying careful attention to the cars in front of me making sure I left a decent gap in case I had to break.

Lucky, for just in front of me three cars all smash into one another. Applying my brakes I easily manage to avoid the accident... However, the person behind me must have thought those three cars were playing dodgem cars and decided he wanted in.. for he hit me about 40 kms an hour and managed to write off all 5 cars!

.... about 30 minutes has passed...

My dad rocks up and looks at my car and shakes his head. He asks me to point out who had hit my car. I point out a middle aged gentleman and my dad wonders over to him.
My dad asks him 'what happened?'
The guy it seemed was not really in the mood for talking and replied back 'What do you think happened? We had an accident.' My dad nods and says 'Don't you think you were going a bit fast?'
The guy replied 'Fuck Off'

At this point, my dad didn't really want to talk to him. So he decided as any hot blooded male would do - To resolve this issue with violence. My dad sucker punched him a beauty. The look of shock on his face was a beauty.. the guy then crumpled to the ground... My dad then bent down and asked him 'If he could repeat that again because he didn't hear him properly.'

The guy replied 'Touch me again and i'll have you up for assault.'
To which my dad then replied 'You forget you have to be alive to press charges....'

At this point about 3 tow truck drivers had run over and were restraining my dad. While another person was helping the man up. I stood there stuck between supporting my dad and apologising to the man I knew was a crown casino senior lawyer... I started apologising!

My dad to this day still has a go at me! No family loyalty! No pride! Bah! Here I am apologising so my dad wont be charged and my dad goes off at me for backing down - I can never win!

F

^^ LOL! That's hilarious! (although I'm sure at the time it wasn't... ) Thankyou :D

my mates were stopped at a red light....

All of a sudden some crazy guy speeding down in the same lane, slammed into the back of them.... without slowing down at all.

Was crazy as!

I've been heaps; involving many reasons; drunkness, stupidity, unluckiness, or a combination.

accident one: K and I take his dad's car out, K is 16, I'm 15. Go over to B's house who is also 15, B decides to drive, smash. Straight into a light post. $3000 damage.
as you might have guessed none of our parent were too happy!!!
accident two: third day of my license, driving my cousin's 1988 Honda Prelude, go into the back of a BMW at 5km/h. mark his car. wreck the bonnet of my cousins Honda Prelude.
accident three: me, K & B (same ppl as first accident), 3 years later. all drunk. me & B didn't wanna drive, so K drives (my car), very wet, and he samshes into 2 parked cars. cops didn't come, thank god!! $2000 damage to my car, $3000 to another and $1500 to another, not good!!! mum never found out, dunno how??
accident four: around the corner from work, go into the back of a 4WD at 5 km/h, no mark at all on his car, however i got a smashed headlight and a fucked bumper, still haven't got it fixed, god i'm lazy!!!

in my first accident, i plowed into the back of this car because i was watching cloud formations.

they were pretty, ok.

the only other two i had also involved me smashing into the back of someone. one at a roundabout, where i was looking at oncoming traffic, and assumed the car in front had gone. the other one in pouring rain, where i slid into the back of someone that stopped for a really stupid driver that thought green was red . anyway, all up, the cost of these three is somewhere around the $4k mark. my pocket has hurt over the years.

and i'm not even mentioning the single car accidents. goddam kerbs, who put them there?

one of my friends wrote his car off by driving into a puddle....

puddle 1 : ooooh puddle... vroom vroom.... weeeeee

puddle 2 (bigger puddle) ... vroom vroom vroom vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom .......................
...........................
the car sunk

i had just braught a new car and was wearing some new shoes, at a round about 30m away from leaving my house i hit another car at about 30kmph. I was wasnt paying attention and looking at my new shoes (parts of them reflected in the light) and boom my car was written off, lucky I had insured it a week earlier.
that was a cool car to

jimbu said:

one of my friends wrote his car off by driving into a puddle....

puddle 1 : ooooh puddle... vroom vroom.... weeeeee

puddle 2 (bigger puddle) ... vroom vroom vroom vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom .......................
...........................
the car sunk

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LOL !! hmmm, better think before speeding thru the puddles!

^^^ Haha! I've done that too. Sped up approaching a big puddle in the middle of a country road... I think my theory was the faster you went, the more likely you were to get through it.

Obviously the experiment failed. The cows on the side of the road were extremely amused.

I'm proud to say that I've never hit another car, or have had a car hit me.

I'm not going to mention the incident with the No Standing sign..

jimbu said:

one of my friends wrote his car off by driving into a puddle....

puddle 1 : ooooh puddle... vroom vroom.... weeeeee

puddle 2 (bigger puddle) ... vroom vroom vroom vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom .......................
...........................
the car sunk

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only accident i have had was with the side of my driveway, a bit of scrapage.

Strawberry_lovemuffin said:

^^^ Haha! I've done that too. Sped up approaching a big puddle in the middle of a country road... I think my theory was the faster you went, the more likely you were to get through it.

Obviously the experiment failed. The cows on the side of the road were extremely amused.

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lol! yeah that's what my friend said ... he thought that if he went fast enough, no matter how deep it was he'd make it to the other side the water ended up being the level of the bonnet!

i forgot another cool car accident story that happened within days of this one to another friend of mine ... he'd recently put a set of mag's on his ute, unfortunately they didn't fit. whilst driving down the M5 at 70kph in peak hour traffic, one of his wheels managed to find it's way off his car to roll down the motorway ahead of him... his car somehow missed every other car around it and went out of control across several lanes of traffic and into a barrier at the side of the road. minimal damage to the car, no persons injured and his car was back on the road not long after thanks to some mechanics who stopped and helped him!

driving at about 100kph on an off ramp feel a pinch on my leg, look down to c what the deal is, same time the road curves but i keep going straight, i look up just as i'm taking out two of those little white post things on the side of the road and i'm heading towards an electricity pole, i turn the wheel sharply, over turn, go accross to the otherside of the road, down a ditch and into a bush...


i came off the highway cuz an ANT bite me.. that's gotta make u feel better

My first 4 years of driving were very unlucky and all very stupid mistakes which could been avoided and could have saved be about 6500 dollars in insurance and repairs
MY biggest acident was during easter a few years ago, when it was raining really heavily and i drove into the back of a rav 4, was waiting at the lights and was playing with the radio and rolled forward into the back of 4wd.
Most stupid accident was, well there was a few of them, Driving too quckily and misjudgest the distance and drove into the back of a little car and totally ruined the back off it. the vehicle i was in was fine .
A couple of reversing incidents were backed into a tree at a park somewhere and didn't see a branch and broke taillight and another one at my own house, had a plumber i think at out house, and in my dads 4wd, reversed into the front off his van, wasn't watching were i was going.
I could name a couple more incidnts but i won't
Thankfully i've been good the last couple of years and have been acident free

Shoo Roo

When i lived in Wagga i used to travel between there and Coota. One night coming home i saw a massive roo jump out in front of me. Not only did it hit me but it came straight through the drivers side door window and into the car with me. It proceeded to tear me and the interior up while i put the new VR (at the time) into a gully. It was damn scary, im not sure how many people realise how loud a stressed out roo grinds it teeth. The bastards tael was so long it put dents in the rear panels of the car while it was hangin out of the car window.needless to say the roo lived for a further 2 minutes and i was left with a mouthfull of glass and some serious gashes. Alot of people have a good laugh at this but the scars on me from the roos claws arnt that funny

Well, i've been in one proper accident, where traffic was banked up in the right lane cos someone was turning right and i tried to change into the left lane and mustve missed this 4WD when i checked my blindspot, cos i pulled out and *bam* the front left panel of my car ran into the front right of the 4WD.
Prolly more damage on the other car cos they swerved a bit and hit the gutter, tire popped... nothing too severe.

The other was when i was approaching a big roundabout on my way to work, which normally flows pretty quickly, anyway, the car in front of me didnt go, and i was looking at the traffic coming from the right, so i hit the back of her car at no more than 3km.
I was hell frustrated cos it left the tiniest little mark on the back of her car and she got all my details n shit, still havent heard from her. I bet my insurance co. will let me know... meh

I wasn't driving, but my mate hit a roo in my car at 110km at hawks nest, he came back to the house and told me and im like "Shit ay.." nothing could be done about it, ahh well

Adikkal

My first car was a sensational bright yellow 1976 Honda civic and I loved it to death. Driving home after work (at 10pm )down Queen St, I was tired and somehow I failed to see the Lt Lonsdale St intersection or the red light and sailed through. Once I was in the intersection I saw red light and thought "FUCK" and before I knew it a beautiful 60's model Mercedes Coupe had run into my drivers door. The next 5 seconds felt like 5 years as my car then spun out and smacked into a parked car. I remember thinking "why is the stereo still going" followed by "why is everything wet?" I managed to climb out my passenger door and realised I had knocked over a fire hydrant and water was spraying out 3 metres across and about 3 storeys high.

I was so confused. I can hear some guy and I turn around and there is an itinerant psychotic gentleman screaming at the water - I guess he thought either he or Jesus was responsible for it I gather my wits enough to check out the people in the other car who are all fine thankfully. Luckily some nice people loaned me their phone, the police and ambos turned up. The police took the psychotic dude off to Royal Park Hospital.

Eventually a dude from Melbourne water turned up to try to shut off the water. He wandered around the footpaths for at least 2 hours trying to find the right valve, while I sat in the back of the cop car to stay warm (the police were happy because they had to stay and "Secure" the area and it went into overtime for them!) Then a news crew turns up to film the water and the wreck of my sweet little car (like I wasn't humiliated enough). Eventually we were allowed to get a cab home, but the water was still gushing when I left. I think 1000's of litres were wasted because of me. I cried non stop for the next 3 hours.

I had to go to court for running a red light on P plates and got a $400 fine. My beatiful car (which had a reco engine put it about 3 months prior at great expense) was a write off. Damages to the Mercedes came to $6000 and the parked car was about $1500. Thank god for insurance. I will never forget the sound of the crash and the feeling of the car losing control, and I still get flashbacks when I am driving. I haven't had another accident since though as I realised I needed to wise up on the road.