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Worst accident you've been in?

  • 04-01-2017 11:08pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,844 ✭✭✭✭


    Trend suggests these are the types of threads to create these days so I'll try this one.
    When I was 17 I bought a pile of ****e 1.9d tempra with 4 working gears. 1,2,5 and reverse.
    Turned 18 and myself and a few lads took the car to go up a small mountain road to some windmills and have a few drinks.
    On the way up I was doing about 40 when I took a bend a bit too quickly and the rear right tyre caught the verge.
    Car starts to slalom and I'm desperately trying to get it corrected when the car gets full traction and heads nose first into a wall and flips twice before smashing against an electricity pole and is left dangling over the edge of the wall. Underneath is a stream.
    We all had the seat belts on but I came within cm of having the roof crush my head as it had creased and just stopped shy of going through my skull.
    Lads in the car had glass shatter into their eyes and mouth, cuts and bruises.
    Crawled out of the car which was still on and pulled it back onto the road.
    Adrenaline hadn't made us realise how lucky we were until we saw the car the next day.
    All in all a memorable 18th


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    My conception?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,844 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    My conception?

    Son?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    My conception?

    I always assumed that it had been Immaculate. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    My conception?

    My mother would tell me the same.

    Learning to drive, driving on a country road where there is only space for the one car and you have to pull in to let someone pass if they're going the other way.

    I pulled in too fast and hit a wall. A broken headlight.

    My dad was able to fix it. I had the car back about 20 minutes when I went out to the car. I wanted to start it up. That's when I learned you should always check what gear it's in. I was doing everything by the book. Leave it neutral, switch of engine. I didn't realise other people are different. My dad left it in reverse. I started to fly back and I didn't know what to do. I didn't have time to think with the clutch down and brake that I just switched it off at the engine. I came so close to reversing into a wall. Thankfully nothing since then and it's been over 11 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    Driving on a motorway a few years ago... car started to spin on compacted hailstone... hit the concrete central barrier nose first at about 120 kph... flung back across the road and ended up in the hard shoulder alive and very thankful that I was driving a big Volvo!


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Going along at a fast tip on a country road through forestry...big stag bounds over the fence and makes a beeline for car. Wrench wheel left...realise I'm aiming for trees...spin it right and connect with deer. Big bang and car left spinning around on itself and comes to a stop. Jump out to see deer limping away into the woods, antlers gouged out a big line down along the side of the car. Rang Park Rangers as kinda felt bad that the animal might have a slow death, hope they managed to find it and put it out of any pain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Smashed my car against a wall after skidding on black ice at a bend and losing control 2 years ago. Airbags deployed, seatbelt tore my top, glasses flung over my head into the back seat. Thankfully I wasn't going fast as I was driving through a village and was doing no more than 35kph. I walked away with a few bruises and shock but relived it in my dreams for months to come and still do occasionally.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Peugot 106 v Articulated Lorry.

    2 dead.


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    2 fractures in the sinuses, 2 in the temple, 2 in the eye socket, 1 in the jaw. Small fractures in neck and upper back. Broken wrist one arm, broken elbow in the other. 4 broken teeth. Unconscious for 30 mins or so. Fortunately medics were on the scene within a couple of minutes as I had swallowed my tongue.

    This was a fall off my bike while racing just outside Newry back in 2014.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Not an accident, a near miss. Cycling through Kerry with my 15-year-old son, on a minor road somewhere between Killarney and the Conor Pass, which we'd crossed earlier. Hugging the edge as we slalom down a series of hairpin bends. Suddenly there's an artic heading straight for us, blaring his horn. I'm gripping the handlebars, keeping my head down, praying my son's ok and wondering why that selfish bastard is blaring his airhorn at us - when I discover the reason: there's another artic coming up behind us at full speed and he hasn't seen us. It was a pure miracle his speed as he passed us didn't pull us in under the wheels. The guy driving towards us was trying to warn the other driver.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭fg1406


    Peugot 106 v Articulated Lorry.

    2 dead.

    Wow so sorry to hear that. That's a trauma you would never ever recover from.

    I came across a fatal accident in Wicklow about 14 years ago. At the time the person who died was still alive but it's something that haunts me to this day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Peugot 106 v Articulated Lorry.

    2 dead.

    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    I remember vividly falling off my bike at twelve, slapping my mouth of the ground and sliding for about three meters. Worst part was while sliding my two front teeth caught on the road and ripped up and out of my mouth leaving the roots hanging from my gums. So I was brought to the hospital and while waiting in agony I could feel a lump in my gum and I manged to spit it out, It was a stone lodge in my gum from the impact.

    Other than that I caught my foreskin in my zipper onces.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A taxi mounted the footpath I was walking on in Oxford years go, running over my foot and putting me in a cast and on crutches for a long while. The whole thing was witnessed by a local solicitor, who quickly settled a bit of compensation for me.

    I took my Granny on holiday to celebrate her getting the all-clear from cancer with the proceeds, although she doesn't know that part.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    From another thread:
    I narrowly avoided decapitation by milliseconds.

    A few years ago, I was riding my motorbike and in a freak accident, a tractor coming from the opposite direction had the boom from its chemical sprayer open out and cleave me off the bike. The only luck I had was that it hit me clean and square across the forearm, shoulder and helmet. The boom opened out and down so fractions of seconds earlier and I would have had the full force of it to the head.

    It was a life changing/ affirming moment. The Guards said engineer said that if you re-enacted that accident, nine out of ten times I'd have have ended up dead. The bike was written off
    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    When I was 14 or 15, I was a passenger in a car that skidded off the road and tumbled down an embankment, rolling several times before eventually landing on its side. There were four of us (and an Alsatian dog) in the car, with no seatbelts in the back. Every panel was damaged, including the roof, but nobody was injured. It was the kind of accident that probably looked a lot worse and more dramatic than it actually was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭highgiant1985


    I'd been over in the UK for work and my flight had been delayed getting back in to Dublin Airport. So I was driving home from Dublin Airport late at night, around midnight I'm nearly home at this stage, only about 15 minutes from my door and I nodded off for a second. Before I know it car wheels were locked and I was spinning in to a wall. Scariest thing that's ever happened to me and I always take a break now when driving if I feel tired.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    A lad I know was out on the beer all day and that night decided to drive home and on the way he overturned the car into a river.How he survived that I'll never know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    This..

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IgRiRkucMUA

    Was only 4 and with my dad and brother in the last coach thankfully. 13 people at the front didn't make it.

    Can't remember much about it now. Brother broke a rib when he hit the table edge. My dad and myself were sitting with our backs facing the direction of travel so were OK.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    I lost control braking in the rain from 100mph for a roundabout. I clipped the roundabout as I vainly tried to cut it and hit a lamppost head on. My 15 stone cousin was sitting behind me with no belt on. He broke an arm and a leg, and crushed me. I tore muscles and ligaments in my thighs, and destroyed my face of the wheel, nose smashed, plenty of cuts etc.

    There was a girl in the front passenger seat and another girl behind her got out of the car without a mark on them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Vote 4 Pedro


    When I was 19 I had been seeing a girl and we we're going out one Thursday night all excited I was ready a bit early so I went for a quick spin on my bike just to kill a bit of time, I was just ridding around when a drunken driver came straight out of a small side road without stopping and I had no chance to react or do anything, he ploughed me over and I was in a bit of a mess, I ended up losing a full leg right from the hip, nackered my back cut my finger ends quite bad and cut my face almost losing my nose, he carried on but crashed his car into a wall a little bit past me but he had no injuries, I was in hospital for a good bit and the girl visited me for a while but dumped me, I ended up marrying a nurse from the ward I was on and we are still married 30 years later so it wasn't all bad.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    On a boat on the Danube from Vienna to Bratislava that crashed into the riverbank when the driver was distracted. No one was seriously injured thankfully, and nearly all the passengers walked right off the beached boat.

    Fortunately I've not been in a very serious accident.


  • Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭CaptainR


    I've been lucky so far, my only injury was a broken arm. I still can't believe how I broke it though, I was 12 or so and the parents were away for the weekend. I went out to play football during the day and ended up in goals.

    We're all having a great time and two older lads around 17 joined us. One of them took a shot and I stuck my arm out to save it...

    SNAP!

    Broke both of the bones in my forearm cleanly, ruined the rest of summer.

    And do you think my parents believed me?


  • Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭md23040


    About 15 years ago was driving on a straight part of the road that lasted more than a kilometre with a slight down gradient, and noticed on the opposite carriageway an approaching van that was weaving slightly but still 500 metres away. As the van approached it started to swerve more and more and noticed the driver terrified at the steering wheel trying to control the van. I immediately reduced my speed to about 70km/h.

    Anyway the van began to fishtail and then noticed it was coming more to our side of the road. There was a car 10 metres in front of me and I kept saying "go to the other side of the road" again and again as the van got nearer very quickly. They went into the layby on their side of the road and reduced speed at last second to about 50km/h. The van crossed the road and careered head on into the car, and at the last second I hit the brakes and went over to the opposite side of the road.

    The next moment was like something slow motion out of Inception. Saw the whole blast of metal and impact and was waiting for the van ricochet, and terrified with over a tonne van bouncing over to the opposite side of the carriageway. However, the van did a flip into the air and landed on top of another car that had been behind me, roof meets roof. The cars roof was so badly concertinaed that it was impossible to survive, and diesel was coming out of the van all over the car. Other drivers where on the scene and acting as first responders and I phoned emergency services.

    The driver of the van had no injuries, the girl in the crushed car was in hospital for 4 months and the car in front of me were all dead. The parents and a boy and girl under ten. What made it more devastating as it later transpired, was that they were on there way to collect the youngest child from school who was waiting and waiting outside the playground for them.

    There's a memorial on the road and pass it regularly and the sadness of the tragedy still gets to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    On my motorbike riding behind a van on a country road, I was well behind him, he was slowing down indicating right for about 15 seconds, I was wondering what he was at, he came to a complete stop, I positioned myself in line with his left mirror, no space to actually move ahead of him, I was at a standstill at this point too, and what does he do but only reverse quite quickly , he hit my bike, I had to jump off to the left, looking back I was lucky I didn't get my right leg caught in the collision or caught under his wheel. My thumb slipped off the horn, it happened very fast.
    He was delivering couches and he had some of the cushions on his dashboard preventing him from viewing his left mirror and centre mirror , he said he saw me behind him a mile before but thought I had turned off elsewhere and that he would 'TAKE A CHANCE'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    When I was 21 I bought myself a Mitsubishi FTO. Beautiful 2 litre manual Mivec model that was a joy to drive and I was rolling into college like I was the mutts nuts. Life was good until one day some bird t-boned it in a car park. Me, my passengers and the other driver were fine. But it took her insurance company 3 fecking months to fix the car and it was never really right again afterwards. It still hurts to think about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    fg1406 wrote: »
    Wow so sorry to hear that. That's a trauma you would never ever recover from.

    I came across a fatal accident in Wicklow about 14 years ago. At the time the person who died was still alive but it's something that haunts me to this day.

    Nah you never really get over it, the flashbacks are horrible but they at least become less frequent over time.
    jacksie66 wrote: »
    I wasn't involved but I came across an accident just after it happened. A child killed by a car. The sight of their mother cradling their lifeless body is one image that'll never leave me..

    I was held back from mine and wasn't given the bad news until in the hospital. I feel so sorry for the people who witnessed that that day. The stuff of nightmares.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    A very close near miss on my road bike, losing control on a corner. My options were over the bonnet of an on coming car, or a brick wall and ditch.

    Managed to line up the bike with the ditch, with the impact sending me over the bars, and clipping the wall. Various scraps and bruises on arms, torso, and legs, from the wall, pedals, and handle bars of bike.

    Was only later when I realised how lucky I was.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,596 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    I've been fairly lucky, got rear ended by a bus, car was squashed but I walked away without a scratch.

    I took a turn on a motorbike, poor grip and the bike fell trapping my arm, fractured in 7 places.

    When I was 1, my dad had a bad accident, a lot of damage done to him, he had to learn everything again, from talking to walking and everything else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    I've been lucky in that I've never had any major accidents.

    I did come across one on the way to work one morning though.

    6am and I'm following an artic on a single carriageway. He brakes quite hard and I stop behind him. On the opposite side of the road is an Audi that has ploughed into a mini digger, so much so that the digger had been moved some 30 feet.

    Four occupants in the car, three dead. Fourth occupant is struggling to breath so we wrapped a blanket up as a support to his neck but he's not doing good.

    It felt like the emergency services took ages to get to us but in reality it was about six minutes.

    Police turned up shortly afterwards and told all of us (there were a few more of us stopped by then) to clear the scene without taking any of our details.

    Carried on to work as normal and got grief for being late.

    Read in the paper the following week that the fourth had died at the scene.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Peugot 106 v Articulated Lorry.

    2 dead.
    sorry


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    are you posting from the afterlife?
    boards has gone underworld

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

    Hilarious.

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,609 ✭✭✭blue note


    Never been in one myself, but my mother nearly died from one. From embarrassment!

    She was reversing into a parking space and she hit the curb 3 times. She was getting more annoyed each time so by the 3rd time she was getting fairly mad. Then to make matters worse there was a guy in the car in the space behind her who started gesturing at her! So she rolled down the window to see what his problem was. "You keep reversing into my car!"

    There was no damage done and the man couldn't have been nicer about it. He even carried my mother's cello for her to her classroom (which my mum was very annoyed by - she was mortified and wanted to get away from this man as soon as possible!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Myself and GF was involved in a very serious accident while on holidays in NZ a few years ago

    we were driving in a hired car in a very remote part of the north island
    the car skidded on some farm effluent spilled on the road
    went across the road, through the fence, hit a few small bushes, rolled down an 80 degree hill 5/6 times at least and came to rest against a tree
    car was destroyed
    strangely the airbags didn't deploy. seatbelts 100% saved us both

    we had just got a fill of fuel and there was liquid dripping out of the back of the car and I was full sure it was petrol.
    I dragged as much of our stuff out of the car as I could in 1 minute in case it exploded.
    after 10 minutes of looking at the car I went over and tasted the liquid.

    we had just gone shopping and all the food, and beer was smashed. It was the beer that was dripping out. the inside of the car had egg and veg/fruit smashed every where.

    almost ruined our holiday. and lives

    the local farmer whose field we ended up in was so nice. put us up for the night, gave us dinner, brought us to the train station next day


    wait, I can't post a photo?

    http://i.imgur.com/0G91xYu.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,657 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Wasn't the worst accident in the world but in 2009 I had a shunt where a loaded ford transit came out a side road without stopping and hit me as I drove along main road pushed my car across the road to the other ditch.

    All soft tissue injuries but I damaged two discs in my neck, one of which can be seen on MRI and it presses onto my spinal cord coving all sorts of pains and sensations in my right arm. Permanent debilitating injury, had to quit my job and look for other work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Driving 120 km/h on the motorway in Holland and getting a double sized mattress on the front window wasnt fun.
    Only had a split second to react but was just enough to avoid that thing ending up in the middle of the screen. It now caught most of the right side/window pillar.
    Only a small dent and a broken mirror as a result.

    Had a few scraps with more damage but they never had the potential to take me out of here. That mattress had.

    Secure your loads, please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭LaVail


    Caught under the wheel of a tractor

    Warning: not for the squeamish


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    are you posting from the afterlife?
    boards has gone underworld

    Seriously, think a bit before you post. If the poster has been in an accident that involved 2 people dying, maybe joking about it isn't going to be the best course to take. And don't use the 'Ah, sure it's AH' defence…


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭jimbis


    Had a night terror episode as an infant, our car was hit by a drunk driver on the way to the hospital.

    I was on a bus in Wales that crashed head on into another bus but thankfully at low speed and I was uninsured.

    Had many motorbike accident but the worst was almost losing my left arm. Major surgery later saved it but still pains all the time.

    Was a passenger in a car that went off a cliff up the mountains and landed inches from the river Liffey. Many anxious days later I was very lucky to be actually able to walk from the hospital.

    My oddest one was another passenger one, the car was rear ended. I was in the middle of treatment for cancer at the time and had a broviac (tubes that go into your chest for receiving chemo). What ever way I was thrown about the car it ripped the tubes out of my chest, Did even bleed.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    12 year old me vs car.

    Got some pins and plates, missed 2 months of school.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    jimbis wrote: »
    Had a night terror episode as an infant, our car was hit by a drunk driver on the way to the hospital.

    Was that the narrative of your night terror?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    My worst was in a rally car back in 2008. About half way through the stage there was a fast right hand bend over a little bit of a bump, there was supposed to be a round bale at the bend to slow down the cars but on the first run over the stage it wasn't there so we removed it from the notes.. Unfortunately, it was there on the second run and I wasn't expecting it.. We came into the corner flat in 6th gear doing about 120mph which would have been fine had the layout of the bend been the same as the first run but because the bale was now there it pushed the car into gravel on the other side of the road.. We hit one of Galway's finest stone walls head on and ended up on top of it. Had it been any other car, I would have died there and then but thankfully ended up with a badly bruised back and neck. That put an end to the rallying for a while...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Seriously, think a bit before you post. If the poster has been in an accident that involved 2 people dying, maybe joking about it isn't going to be the best course to take. And don't use the 'Ah, sure it's AH' defence…

    Leave it to the mods mate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭LCD


    This thread is scary!

    Fell off my bike, lost my top lip, 2 complete teeth & the bone under the gum, chipped a load more teeth. Completely missing 3/4 hours of my life. My helmet was fine.

    I now however a perfect upper lip, thank you plastic surgeon. I should also have 2 new teeth in the next month or two.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Thankfully, I've only had two near-misses.
    Once was when I was about nine or ten, we were all in the car going to Mass. On a stretch of straight road with high walls on either side, we saw tractor coming towards us weaving all over the road. Time just completely slowed done as we waited for it to hit us. Luckily, it hit the wing and not the main body of car. The driver was drunk as a skunk but sly enough to head straight for the nearest pub, so he couldn't be breathalysed. In the months that followed, he and some of his pals started driving slowly up and down the road outside our house to intimidate my parents into not taking him to court.

    The second near-miss was on a bus on the motorway in Wales, a car had a blow-out and went right into the side of the bus. Left a massive dent in the side of the bus but no-one was injured. Luckily the car didn't go into the front of the bus, or hit another car.


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,936 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Fell out of a tree when I was 6. It was this huge cypress tree in my local park that was surrounded by raised roots. All the kids in the neighbourhood used to climb it and it was a pretty easy one - lots of knots to use as hand and foot holds.

    I was climbing up it and all of a sudden the knot I was holding started to come away from the tree. I remember in slow motion frantically looking to see if there was anything else to hold on to and coming to the realisation that I was going to fall. I don't remember the actual fall and I was knocked out on impact with the roots at the bottom. My prevailing memory is waking up and seeing about 20 terrified faces gathered around me (every kid in the neighbourhood) they were all chalk white cos apparently I looked like I was dead.

    I actually got up and walked back to my house (bawling) and my poor mother got the shock of her life - there was blood pouring out of me, my clothes were soaking and bright red and I had left a trail all the way across the road and up the drive. Luckily the local GP was able to patch me up and I didn't need to go to hospital. Still have a big scar on my head but luckily it's on the back so covered by my hair.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Luckily, I walked away from my worst one with a bit of shock more than anything, but reading this thread only serves to prove I got very lucky. I was driving up to Loch Lomond in Scotland one summer and had to go through Glasgow. Anyone that's driven through Glasgow, knows the god awful motorway running through the city, anyway I had just got to the part where the motorway becomes 5 lanes, 3 lanes are joined by two merging lanes. It was a wet day and a blue Z4 in front clipped what looked the corner of a wet cardboard box. It wasn't until it came flying towards the windscreen that I realised it was carrying more weight than a piece of wet cardboard.
    Turns out it was the corner of a wooden pallet and it cam straight through the windscreen, the glass shattered and I couldn't see out of it. I was doing about 70mph in the 4th lane. I remember going into auto pilot mode and somehow making my way over to the hard shoulder amazed I hadn't crashed. Turns out I had gone Ace Ventura style out the window and the car behind was also hit by debris so she had slowed down and moved when I moved across the lanes.

    Weirdly the one I still get flashbacks and nightmares over is a bicycle accident when I was a kid. We were absolutely belting down a hill repeatedly, slowly making our way back up and then bomb back down again. On the way back up for the last climb the chain broke, I lost balance and smashed my face off the floor, nothing more than cuts and bruises, but I keep fretting over if that had been downhill.


    A drop in the ocean compared to stories on her so far!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,748 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Was in a car with two friends that went under a lorry one night 27 years ago. My two friends died and i suffered broken bones and scars but lived to tell the tale. Suffered mentally for many a day and a lot of sleepless nights probably because I survived and they didn't. Had swapped seats with the back seat passenger a few minutes before the crash. God love them RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    jimbis wrote: »
    Had a night terror episode as an infant, our car was hit by a drunk driver on the way to the hospital.

    I was on a bus in Wales that crashed head on into another bus but thankfully at low speed and I was uninsured.

    Had many motorbike accident but the worst was almost losing my left arm. Major surgery later saved it but still pains all the time.

    Was a passenger in a car that went off a cliff up the mountains and landed inches from the river Liffey. Many anxious days later I was very lucky to be actually able to walk from the hospital.

    My oddest one was another passenger one, the car was rear ended. I was in the middle of treatment for cancer at the time and had a broviac (tubes that go into your chest for receiving chemo). What ever way I was thrown about the car it ripped the tubes out of my chest, Did even bleed.

    Jonah!


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