Have you ever been in a car accident?

United States
November 29, 2006 12:34am CST
I've been in 2 accidents in my life. Once when I was about 10, some guy ran a red light & hit us broadside. The impact was awful but my parents, my brother & I were all unhurt. The other accident I was in was when I was in high school. We were on our way home & it had just started snowing when a pick up truck slid across 2 lanes of traffic & hit us head on. We were thrown around because the persons van that we were in didn't have seat belts.
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@infoman (98)
• United States
29 Nov 06
been in a couple. Worst was on my way to universty. Dad driving, mom in passenger seat. Me in seat behind. None of us wearing seat belts doing 55 down hwy in our van. Guy pulls out perpendicular in front of us from side road. BaAAMMM.... Mom to the hospital with broken nose. DaD and I had exact same injuries...scraped exact same knuckles...freaky. Caught a ride to the airport from a woman who was out taking her dog for a ride. She was a great samaritan.
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• United States
29 Nov 06
That must have been scary for all of you! At least there are still some nice people out there in this world!! It was very nice of that lady to take you to the airport!
@_hope_ (3902)
• Australia
29 Nov 06
no not that i would call as an accident had a car run into the rear of my car but it wasn`t any thing major
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• United States
29 Nov 06
Someone rear ended me at a light once, but it was more of a bump than an actual rear end. Glad you didn't have any major problems!
@kgwat70 (13388)
• United States
29 Nov 06
Yes, I have been in a car accident. The last one that I was in was not my fault and got rear ended on I95 by someone who was not paying attention. Fortunately it was bumper to bumper traffic at the time and I did not get hit very hard. I have been a passenger once before in an accident and had whiplash from it.
• United States
29 Nov 06
Wow!! When I first started reading your reply, I thought, "oh no! On the freeway, that would be a bad one!!" I'm glad to see that it wasn't a hard hit. Sorry that you got whiplash from another accident though!
@Crilli (2890)
• Italy
29 Nov 06
fortunatly not, i was very lucky about it
• United States
29 Nov 06
How lucky for you!!! :)
• Singapore
29 Nov 06
Never been in a car accident and don't want to : )
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• United States
29 Nov 06
That's great! I don't know if I know anyone who hasn't been in one before!
@Sandra06 (430)
• United States
29 Nov 06
No, I haven't been in a car accident. My mother has been in several. Both times the other person didn't have insurance.
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• United States
29 Nov 06
That's great that you haven't been in an accident! I'm sorry that your mom has had to deal with people who didn't have insurance though! :( I hope she wasn't stuck paying for the damages then??
@wvchell78 (564)
• United States
30 Nov 06
I have been in 2 car accidents. The first one was minor and happened after I first got my drivers license. I hit a car that was in front of me getting on the interstate. They stopped after getting the front of their car out onto the interstate and I started going before I realized they had stopped. The second accident was worse. My mother and I were driving and the road was wet. My mom lost control of the car and we hit one tree and the side of the car bounced off it and hit the front end into another tree. We hit the front end hard enough to bust the battery. We were not going fast but it felt like it when we hit. I was not wearing my seat belt and my head busted both the side and front windows. When I went to the emergency room the next day (I know I should have went that day) I found out I was pregnant with my first son. Thankfully all was well with him.
@Danniet (376)
• United States
29 Nov 06
I have been in several little ones when I was younger, riding with goofy friends. I was in one major one when I was 16. I was in the car with a friend and her mother was driving. She pulled out in front of a car and it was going about 55mph. I was lucky to walk away with a few bumps and bruises and a concussion. My friend was unhurt and her mom was severly injured, she was in the hospital for two weeks and had internal bleeding. To this day I avoid that intersection when I am driving.
@zgb_0001 (1381)
• Pakistan
29 Nov 06
Yes I also have been in few accidents in my life.
• United States
30 Nov 06
Yes I was in a car accident in 1999, beautiful day, dry streets stopped behind someone waiting on traffic so they could make a left turn across traffic, I was also waiting to make a left turn across traffic and some idiot plowed into me from the rear. He told the investigating officer I made a sudden stop. What made this even better the car ahead of me waiting to make a left turn was a detective in an unmarked vehicle and there were two marked vehicles passing when I was hit. My car was ttld. 88 cougar 2-door, trunk popped open,rear seat pushed up, rear 1/4 panel rippled and this was an old car with real metal not plastic. The officer said if I had been moving when I was hit I probably would've plowed into the car ahead of me.
• United States
30 Nov 06
I was in a bad accident in Gainesville, FL two years ago. It almost killed my elderly fil. A drunk driver made a turn in front of me and I t-boned him. I've been a nervous driver ever since then. Hopefully, one of these days I will be able to relax a little again.
@dextrus (146)
• India
29 Nov 06
i dont have my own car. so............
@suhascg (227)
• Australia
29 Nov 06
i have never had a car accident.. but i sure had a very severe bike accident..
• Romania
15 Dec 06
I haven't had any car accidents.
@_hope_ (3902)
• Australia
29 Nov 06
no not that i would call as an accident had a car run into the rear of my car but it wasn`t any thing major
• Bangladesh
29 Nov 06
no
@khysnews (742)
• Indonesia
29 Nov 06
notyet
@yogitha (1890)
• India
29 Nov 06
no not at that