Bad Accidents & Close Calls?

starbelgrade · 26-09-2010 08:47PM #1

I've never had a really bad accident (thank God), but I had a really close call a few years ago... I used to drive a Vespa - a really lovely 1980 vintage Italian one, but it was a bastard to stay safe on when it was raining or icy, as the weight of the engine in the back gave it a tendency to slide when cornering.

Anyway - one day on my way to work, a car pulled out in front of me, the bike hit the front of the car & I went head-first over the bonnet & landed on the other side of the car.

Another car, coming in the other direction, saw me on the road & managed to brake just in time to stop from driving over my head as I was on the ground.

It was a close call indeed - one which I walked away from with just a few grazes & bruises.

So, have you ever been in a bad accident, or had a close call?

abouttobebanned · 26-09-2010 08:49PM

I almost clicked into this thread blah blah..only kidding...

I once slipped on a mountain's edge and fell, grabbed the top of it and was pulled up by some mates.

AckwelFoley · 26-09-2010 08:52PM

I once told my missus i though she looked fat in "that" dress.

chin_grin · 26-09-2010 08:55PM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

I once slipped on a mountain's edge and fell, grabbed the top of it and was pulled up by some mates.

Was one of them John Lithgow?

FreudianSlippers · 26-09-2010 08:58PM

I was almost in a plane crash once. Didn't even know it until after we were already safe, so not like crazy scary... but makes you think.

Asphyxia · 26-09-2010 08:59PM

I was in a bad car crash last year on the way to Dublin had to be brought to hospital and my heart rate dropped rapidly and had to get shocks straight to the heart. Very scary!

Pookah · 26-09-2010 09:01PM

I was in a motorbike in town a few years back, in the lashing rain, when, as I was going round a corner, a guy pulled a u-turn in front of me.

I slammed on, the bike went, and I went sliding up the road, in tracksuit bottoms, and smacked in to your man's car.

It tore a fair bit of skin off my leg, wrecked the bike, and then your man has the cheek to get out of the car and start going on about the damage my head did to his car when it hit off his side-panelling. :pac:

ChopShop · 26-09-2010 09:03PM

Summer 96, i was working for a data warehousing company.

Went to open the motorised shutter of one of the warehouses.

Shutter stops half way up, 6 inch diameter metal gear/cog falls from about 12 foot above me and lands 6 inches in front of my feet.

Ever since then i've learned to make the most of every da... oh wait not i haven't.

The pay was crap too.

26-09-2010 09:04PM

Nearly had one this morning myself.

Just managed to find a jacks in the shopping centre in time.

Damn Guinness.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 26-09-2010 09:05PM

Walked out in front of a tram once, just daydreaming, not looking where I was going...

Tram was a write-off.

26-09-2010 09:08PM

I've had numerous close calls:

When I was younger, say around 10 or so, a friend and I were climbing down into some boats that were located at the pier with the tide out. I was leaning over the edge watching my friend climb down when I fell. It was a good 12 foot drop and, about half way down, I managed to grab on to a rope and slid down, badly burning the hell out my palms. Had I not grabbed on to the rope, I would have fallen head first into the boat.

Few years later I was out cycling and was trying out my new cycling shoes that clip into the peddles and was out on a real narrow country roads. Next thing you know this truck comes up the other way so I pull in. Only at this point I hadn't perfected the art of getting my feet out yet, and I lose balance, narrowly missing the wheels of the truck.

Princess Zelda · 26-09-2010 09:09PM

Was meant to work in Omagh the day of the bombing. The area I was meant to work in was a promotion near where the bomb was. I didn't go because the person who was meant to drive a group of us up got a last minute holiday, so another company took the job. They showed up late, just after the bomb went off and they couldn't get into the town.

Absurdum · 26-09-2010 09:09PM

I was knocked unconscious and suffered concussion in a tobogganing accident on a mountain in Norway!

Devil08 · 26-09-2010 09:10PM

I was once eating some chips and I picked up the salt to shake some on but it was actually the pepper!!! I just about managed to turn it back up the right way before the pepper dispensed all over my chips! I put it down and picked up the salt this time and continued to dispense the salt then. It was so close though! I could have ruined my chips.

starbelgrade · 26-09-2010 09:10PM

Pookah wrote: »

your man has the cheek to get out of the car and start going on about the damage my head did to his car when it hit off his side-panelling. :pac:

What a complete & utter wanker.

The guy whose car I hit was the total opposite. His only concern was for my well being... he wanted to ring an ambulance, but I wouldn't let him - I was grand & I was more concerned about being late for a meeting!

His car was fairly wrecked too, but he said he'd pay for any damage to my bike or any hospital or doctors bills. And to be honest - it wasn't totally his fault... I was overtaking on the outside of stopped traffic & he probably didn't see me as it was bucketing down.

Anyhow, I rang him later that day to let him know that I was OK & he was really relieved. He was sound, unlike the f*cker you ran into.

Cakes. · 26-09-2010 09:18PM

I fell out of a Kayak while going down the river Liffey. I didn't even have time to pull the cover but all i can remember is standing on a ledge screaming and climbing up a ladder to get back to the part above the weir I fell out on, it was dead old and I thought I was going to fall into the water again. I was only 12. It was scary. Was a bit shaken up after it.

Nolanger · 26-09-2010 09:29PM

Was in Rathmines back in the '90s at 3 in the morning and a group of men were standing in an empty street looking at me. One guy had an uzi sticking out of his jacket. Was too tired to be bothered!

dashboard_hula · 26-09-2010 09:33PM

Me + Dad vs. articulated truck.

Trucks arse went across the road going around a bend at speed, back of it caught the car and sent us upside down into a ditch.

999 Lady: "Do you require the Guards, an ambulance or the fire brigade?"
Me: "ALL OF 'EM!"

Ickle Magoo · 26-09-2010 09:34PM

I was run over while on a pathway, as a youngster...broke 7 bones including an indent fracture of the skull. Explains a lot.

Last year a lorry changed lanes on the motorway and tried to occupy the same part of the road we were already driving in...completely mashed our car which ended up facing the wrong way up an embankment but thankfully the traffic wasn't going anywhere near motorway speed or I doubt any of us would be here now. My daughter was closest to where the lorry first hit us and her car seat was cracked in three places. Scary biscuits.

Devil08 · 26-09-2010 09:35PM

Id say you needed a new pair of pants as well...

Ickle Magoo · 26-09-2010 09:37PM

Devil08 wrote: »

Id say you needed a new pair of pants as well...

Yep, a new car, two new car seats and four new pairs of pants.

Devil08 · 26-09-2010 09:42PM

I was actually refering to Dashboard Hulas story but you could equally do with new pants I suppose!

Ickle Magoo · 26-09-2010 09:44PM

Sorry, I should have checked the times of postings before assuming it was aimed at me. My bad.

Saganist · 26-09-2010 09:45PM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

I almost clicked into this thread blah blah..only kidding...

I once slipped on a mountain's edge and fell, grabbed the top of it and was pulled up by some mates.

Same here. Shat myself

26-09-2010 09:48PM

Articulated lorry, overtaking at a junction, smashed into the peugot 106 I was traveling in. There were fatalities but I got away with a broken sternum from the seatbelt.

Red Hand · 26-09-2010 09:52PM

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

I was run over while on a pathway, as a youngster...broke 7 bones including an indent fracture of the skull. Explains a lot.

Jeez...how were you run over????

Ickle Magoo · 26-09-2010 09:54PM

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Jeez...how were you run over????

A motorbike mowed me down & literally run up my left side when I was five, not sure why or how it all happened - it was a hit and run on the pathway in a park that went between two roads. :mad:

26-09-2010 09:56PM

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

A motorbike mowed me down & literally run up my left side when I was five, not sure why or how it all happened - it was a hit and run on the pathway in a park that went between two roads. :mad:

:eek:

That's scary

Devil08 · 26-09-2010 09:56PM

Ya gotta be a decent soul to run over a 5 year old, leave him a heap, and fly off...nice guy alright!

FlutterinBantam · 26-09-2010 10:00PM

Was in the jacks in Mcdonalds and this thick stumpy set fcuker hosed out out a streel of loose midden into the washbasin.

Could have been contaminated by the backwash.

Bang of gherkins and onions nearly fugged the kip up.:mad:

Erica<3 · 26-09-2010 10:04PM

On a horse and he slipped on black ice, and fell on his side with my left leg underneath him.

I lay there for about 15 minutes, crying in the blistering cold and the snow thinking i'd never walk again because i could feel nothing in my left leg, no pain, zilch.

Luckily I only had to wear a knee brace after for a few weeks. I was VERY lucky.

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