Cars & Transportation Car Crashes

[Julius Seizure]

Only two serious accidents iv been in, in my life have been with my parents driving.

First, I can hardly remember, would have been four or five, mum changed lanes without looking, clipped a car, spun it out, and we swerved off the road. No injuries for either, other car written off.

Second, me and dad driving back from the river. I was reading so not paying attention, dad fell asleep at the wheel. Luckily we were in a town so were going at fifty. Went slightly into another lane, just clipping a car, but sent our boat swinging into the back of the other car, smashing it. Our cars front axle was destroyed, the back half of the others destroyed, no one sitting there thankfully. Brand new BMW, guy was driving it home after buying it in melbourne that day, poor bloke.

And my parents both still complain about my driving, despite me never even getting so much as a speeding fine.

 

[MoscowHawk]

I live in Russia. Have seen some sick sh!t. Can't count the amount of dead bodies etc I've seen. It's bloody frightening on the roads here.

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[gaskin]

Not had anything as serious as some of the stuff other people have posted in here. About 12 months ago I was broken down on the side of the road and some Asian woman wasn't paying attention and ran up the back of me literally 30 seconds before the effing RAC showed up. I was fuming as I had my hazard lights on and my bonnet up. Gave the bitch an almighty spray but I don't think she could speak much English.

 

[The Passenger]

Not had anything as serious as some of the stuff other people have posted in here. About 12 months ago I was broken down on the side of the road and some Asian woman wasn't paying attention and ran up the back of me literally 30 seconds before the effing RAC showed up. I was fuming as I had my hazard lights on and my bonnet up. Gave the bitch an almighty spray but I don't think she could speak much English.

plenty of people have been killed in breakdown lanes and/or broken down cars.

i remember reading advice that if you breakdown and you can't get completely off the road, that you should wait about 30-40 metres up the road from the vehicle (obviously once you've got your lights on and down everything you can to make it visible that your car has broken down) .... seems to make sense.

 

[Jeffers]

Russia due to their need for dash cams for insurance purposes has captured alot of pretty bad car crashes.
I would say take this video as a learning tool and please be safe on the roads

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Russia due to their need for dash cams for insurance purposes has captured alot of pretty bad car crashes.
I would say take this video as a learning tool and please be safe on the roads

That last guy might struggle to get the insurance to pay up...

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

In the late 80s driving to Kalgoorlie I was about 600-800m behind a car, it was just on dusk. The driver swerved onto the opposite side of the road to avoid a roo and went straight under a road train. Dad, mum and 2 little kids killed.

I happened onto another one a couple of minutes after it happened. A 4WD had left the Agnew Hotel heading towards Leinster. In those days the road used to be dirt. They came over a rise and there was a drilling rig broken down on the side of the road. The 4WB went straight under the back of it. 3 geologists and a surveyor were decapitated.

There used to be carnage on the roads here in those days.

When I was 12 or 13 I lived 2nd house back from a cross road in Geelong. I used to leave my thongs on the front porch on Friday and Saturday nights. Every week without fail there'd be a bingle. Bad ones too, no-one luckily was ever killed but there used to be some terrible ones. It almost always involved someone pissed either running into another car or hitting a power pole. I remember one with a bloke walking around the car looking for his wife. His eye was hanging out. We found his wife, she was under the car with the back wheel sitting on her chest. Luckily for her there was a little hollow in the ground that she was lying over so she wasn't taking the whole weight of the car on here.

Years earlier when I was probably 5 or so years old and before they'd put speed humps down our road, a bloke rolled his car about 5 times and it ended up on its side on our nature strip. When we got out there he was lying next to the car with all these tiny cuts all over him from where he'd gone through the windscreen. He was maggoted drunk. We asked him what happened, he said that he realised his brakes were shot as he was approaching the stop sign at the cross roads so he put his foot out of the car and tried to stop it Fred Flinstone style How the **** his leg wasn't ripped off I will never know. Mum and my neighbours mum but a blanket over him and try to comfort him. We didn't have a phone in those day so the neighbour said she'd go and call the ambulance, the bloke started abusing them because he was pissed and didn't want the coppers there.

Even when they were putting in a roundabout at the intersection to stop all the carnage there was a loud bang one night. I bolted out the front door only to see some pissed dickhead standing on the roof of his car in the big hole they'd dug out to put the roundabout in. That one was funny as.

Most of the drivers in all the crashes seemed to be Ford workers that had, had themselves a skinful at the old Sundowner Hotel. (Gateway pokie den these days I think). One actually smashed into a powerpole at high speed one pay day. When we got there he was trapped in the car, the engine block was pushed straight through into the back seat. He was swearing and yelling, carrying on. He reckons that someone pinched his paypacket out of his lunch box in the back seat. They cut him out and he barely had a scratch on him. Lucky prick.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

Have seen (and been involved in) a few where nasty injury seemed to be on the cards.

One accident which was harmless but sticks in my head just for sheer insanity of it happened in Joondalup about 2003. Was waiting to cross a road at a fairly busy intersection, and an ambulance headed for joondalup health campus turned through the intersection, travelling very quickly, siren blaring. The ambulance was travelling way too fast and rolled as it went around the corner.

For me it was mind blowing, I was standing at the lights and the Ambulance lost control probably only a metre or so from me, rolled onto its side, then onto its roof, stood like that for a sickening second before crashing back onto its side. Absolutely freaked the shit out of me, and I remember just standing there absolutely stock still and amazed whilst a paramedic climbed out the window, and then everyone rushed in to help.

The maddest thing- there was a guy in the back!!! And whatever he was in there for was clearly urgent, because another ambulance showed up on scene within 5 minutes, pulled the guy on a guerney sideways out of the back of the ambulance, loaded him into the new one, and tore off just as quick. I never found out what was wrong with him, but fair to say he was having pretty average luck that day.

Hard to describe how surreal it was, looked like something out of a crazy tv sketch show or something. I did get a chance to talk to the tow truck driver a bit later when the excitement had died down- interesting thing was apparently he reckoned it was not that uncommon- ambulances drive fast and have a high centre of gravity, so there is always a rollover risk.