Bad Accidents & Close Calls?

dashboard_hula · 26-09-2010 10:04PM

Devil08 wrote: »

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

I did - The windows buckled and the nurses came after me with a dustbuster in A&E because glass went absolutely everywhere!

Superbus · 26-09-2010 10:05PM

I was playing indoor football when I was 9. It was training, but it hadn't really started yet, so we were just messing around, I was in goals. Someone scored (I'm a really, really bad goalkeeper) and while attempting to retrieve the ball from the net, something which really shouldn't have been a difficult procedure, I somehow got my foot caught in the netting. I then tried to get it out, but I only succeeded in pulling the goal down on top of me. They were big, heavy, metal posts, and it only just missed my head.

Did land on my arm though, which wrecked. Spent 7 hours in Loughlinstown A&E with my mum getting increasingly stressed until we just left and went home. Couldn't move my right arm for about a week, but could have been a lot worse.

c-note · 26-09-2010 10:06PM

i was once gored by a bull in a feild while my father was showing bulls to a prospective customer,

i didnt even have time to let out a shout he was that quick.
i cant tell you exactly what happened but i remember being properly airbourne at least twice,

when my father saw, he and the man ran towards the bull, who paid no heed, my father grabbed a 3 pronged pitch fork from the jeep and had to jab it into the bulls side before he disisted.

i had some quite impressive bruising for a few weeks, but the man who was with my father said that he was quite worried the bull had hit my head while i was on the ground, he was surprised to find me concious. the bull had avoided my head and got my shoulders/back/arms and chest and not my head.

The bull wasnt old at the time, maybe 15 months,
He had a quick trip to McDonalds after that, and my father presented me with the ring from his nose which i still have.

*******************************************************

i've just thought of another!

I was drawing corn late at night and had just pulled into a feild which had a slight downhill slope.
parked straight in front of me, at right angles to my tractor was another tractor and trailer.
i stopped my tractor just inside the feild, applied the parking brake and went to talk to the other driver.
i opened the door of his cab and stood on the steps into his cab
was chatting for at least 5 minutes when the other driver, yelled "f**king jump", i looked behind to see my tractor carrerring twards me, i jumped clear and it hit the side of the second tractor, mangling the steps where seconds earlier i had been standing. close!

ahh farming

dashboard_hula · 26-09-2010 10:06PM

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.

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.

Was your daughter alright? Christ above that must have been terrifying...

LizT · 26-09-2010 10:18PM

Not me but my mum, sis and bro were in a car accident. My bro was going back to boarding school and some f**ker in an uninsured car took a corner to fast and crashed into the driver side of the car. The car was completely written off and my mum was told if she had been in a small car (she was driving a Seat Alhambra) that she wouldn't have survived. She had three broken ribs, my sis had a burn from the seat belt and my brother was fine, just very shaken. Worst past of it all was when the ambulance arrived, they didn't even look at my family, just went over to the guy in the other car who broke his leg. My mum had to ring my dad to come out and bring her into the hospital - where they told her she was just bruised. She was in pure agony for a week and kept saying her ribs were definitely broken, so we brought her back and they confirmed she had broken 3 ribs - nothing they could do but at least she knew it wasn't in her head!

In a way it was a blessing in disguise because if my mum hadn't been driving the guy would have come off the road and hit some kids that were playing on a grass verge beside the road.

Absurdum · 26-09-2010 10:23PM

I was driving along the Nangor Road in Clondalkin a good few years ago, 3 stolen cars flew past me but the last one cut in front of me to avoid a traffic island and lost control and crashed - I hope he posts here so I can call him a ****.

I was fine btw, trucks > Toyota Corollas

Oranage2 · 26-09-2010 10:27PM

Broke a red light and nearly mowed down 2 junkies and their kid - missed them by like a foot -

Devil08 · 26-09-2010 10:28PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Broke a red light and nearly mowed down 2 junkies and their kid - missed them by like a foot -

Pity...

Ickle Magoo · 26-09-2010 10:28PM

dashboard_hula wrote: »

Was your daughter alright? Christ above that must have been terrifying...

Yeah, she got checked over but was fine, the seats are supposed to crack to absorb impacts - we were very, very lucky that we were going relatively slowly & all impact bars, crumple zones and air bags did their jobs admirably and other than giving me an everlasting fear of overtaking large trucks, we're all fine. :cool:

crixus veritas · 26-09-2010 10:29PM

Was driving in mountains in Spain, well father was, 3 of us in the back. Were stuck on a narrow winding road behind a bus load of kids who were gesticulating constantly. Anyway we get a chance to pass, and after we do the mother says hope we dont regret doing that - 2 bends later we slip off road and slam into side of mountain, but fortunately wheel got stuck in a small storm drain, otherwise we would have bounced off that side across the narrow road and drop a couple of hundred feet to the bottom.

Another day, was bringing young fella to see the inlaws in Poland. Was in Cork airport, had just handed over ticket and was about to step onto the savage high and long escalator, with the tiny baby in my hands, when i put one foot on but wasn't sure of my balance so teetered awkwardly and it looked and felt like we were about to plummet - a few people queing actually gasped or shouted at what looked like was going to happen - anyway somehow managed to launch other foot back onto solid ground and throw myself back off the escalator. To this day i still get palpitations at the thought i nearly killed my young fella.

Didnt dodge the married to a tempermental, cranky, non-sport loving, wagon though, but swings and roundabouts i suppose.

bnt · 26-09-2010 11:06PM

Been in a couple of weird car crunches:

Age 4, Scotland, Dad rolled the Morris Minor when a tyre blew as we were coming out of a bend. I was tossed around the back like a sock in a tumble dryer, but had only a few minor bruises.
On my 16th birthday, we were returning from dinner in a restaurant, when a minibus cut a corner at high speed and clipped our car. A foot closer, I could have had my legs crushed, but the car took the force and I was unhurt. One of the mag. wheels was smashed to pieces, which says something. :eek:

Celly Smunt · 26-09-2010 11:07PM

went on a crazy day retreat in paris ontario with the local indians (cowboy and indians type indians),so they brought us on canoes down a river and brought some stuff for a bbq which was in my boat all tied up.Well to cut the story the boat over turned and i caught my foot on the rope holding all the bbq stuff while it went through rapids,i was banging my head of rocks and being brought under the water all the time,i couldn't catch my breath or anything and i actually thought i was going to die.

DON'T TRUST INDIANS WITH BBQ EQUIPMENT!

kielmanator · 26-09-2010 11:29PM

Before anyone thinks of saying it, I'm not stereotyping, or being racist.

Back when I was 17, I'd just had my provisional licence a few weeks and was heading home with my mam at lunch time for a bite to eat. For the record she was driving a 02 reg Toyota Avensis (thank God).

Now, to describe where I live is difficult. The road to our house is cutting through a big woods and it is a very steep, bendy road.

So we were trotting along at about 30 k/ph and we came to the last major incline on our journey, which is about 200m from my house. It is also a completely blind corner.

Just as we approached the bend, WHAM!

A Polish guy driving a 90's series BMW (RWD) slapped head on into us at about 45MPH.

I was lucky because I had my chair so far back to stretch my legs, the seatbelt was really slack. I was reading at the time though, so my fingers got broke off the airbag. I was hemmed in by the ditch on my side, and my mam was bolloxed so I had to kick out the windscreen. I then dragged her out of the car because I saw fluid under the car and I thought it was petrol (turned out to be water from the radiator).

Of course the bellend in the other car was only concerned about picking up his bits and pieces and going back to work.:mad:

Ambulance, gards, fire truck all arrived anyway.

He got put off the road for four years.

Me and mam lived.

Seriously lucky that the Avensis had a long front to absorb the impact. Funnily enough, the insurance company wanted to give my mam a Nissan Micra as a cover car while we waited for things to settle. Feckin' eejits.

EDIT: I wasn't driving, just in case you think I was reading and driving.

Celly Smunt · 26-09-2010 11:32PM

kielmanator wrote: »

Before anyone thinks of saying it, I'm not stereotyping, or being racist.

Back when I was 17, I'd just had my provisional licence a few weeks and was heading home with my mam at lunch time for a bite to eat. For the record she was driving a 02 reg Toyota Avensis (thank God).

Now, to describe where I live is difficult. The road to our house is cutting through a big woods and it is a very steep, bendy road.

So we were trotting along at about 30 k/ph and we came to the last major incline on our journey, which is about 200m from my house. It is also a completely blind corner.

Just as we approached the bend, WHAM!

A Polish guy driving a 90's series BMW (RWD) slapped head on into us at about 45MPH.

I was lucky because I had my chair so far back to stretch my legs, the seatbelt was really slack. I was reading at the time though, so my fingers got broke off the airbag. I was hemmed in by the ditch on my side, and my mam was bolloxed so I had to kick out the windscreen. I then dragged her out of the car because I saw fluid under the car and I thought it was petrol (turned out to be water from the radiator).

Of course the bellend in the other car was only concerned about picking up his bits and pieces and going back to work.:mad:

Ambulance, gards, fire truck all arrived anyway.

He got put off the road for four years.

Me and mam lived.

Seriously lucky that the Avensis had a long front to absorb the impact. Funnily enough, the insurance company wanted to give my mam a Nissan Micra as a cover car while we waited for things to settle. Feckin' eejits.

EDIT: I wasn't driving, just in case you think I was reading and driving.

you'd be suprised at the amount of people you'd actually see reading and driving on motorways,serious gob****es

RMD · 26-09-2010 11:54PM

I was nearly shot dead when out hunting after a person with us fell. Stupid ****er didn't have his gun on safety. Still have a scar running about 2 inches along the top of my skull where the bullet slightly grazed my head.

FreudianSlippers · 27-09-2010 12:01AM

RMD wrote: »

I was nearly shot dead when out hunting after a person with us fell. Stupid ****er didn't have his gun on safety. Still have a scar running about 2 inches along the top of my skull where the bullet slightly grazed my head.

Teaches you to go hunting with Dick Cheney!

CorkMan · 27-09-2010 12:13AM

GOING to bed the other night, I heard
5 cats who were stuck on top of my roof,
I phoned the fire station but was told
no one was in the area to help.
They said they would send someone
over as soon as possible.
I hung up. A minute later, I rang again.
‘Hello,’ I said, ‘I called you a minute ago
because there were cats on my roof.
You don’t have to hurry now, because I’ve burned them alive.’
Within minutes there were 4 fire brigades trucks,
2 squad cars in the area, plus the garda helicopter
and the emergency response unit.
They saw there were no cats left.
One of the firemen said:
‘Why did you burn them?’
To which I replied:
‘I thought you said there was no one available.’

Then again, it might have been just a dream ...

starbelgrade · 27-09-2010 12:36AM

crixus veritas wrote: »

Didnt dodge the married to a tempermental, cranky, non-sport loving, wagon though, but swings and roundabouts i suppose.

Eh... no-one forced you to marry her.

Pretty_Pistol · 27-09-2010 01:32AM

When I was younger I was on a theme park ride in the States with my brother. When the rollercoaster car went upside down I nearly fell out of it, at about 25+ feet up in the air, luckily my brother caught me and pulled me back in and held on to me until it finished.

policarp · 27-09-2010 01:59AM

Pretty_Pistol wrote: »

When I was younger I was on a theme park ride in the States with my brother. When the rollercoaster car went upside down I nearly fell out of it, at about 25+ feet up in the air, luckily my brother caught me and pulled me back in and held on to me until it finished.

What kind of cheese was that?

Pretty_Pistol · 27-09-2010 02:04AM

policarp wrote: »

What kind of cheese was that?

Cheese?

LoanShark · 27-09-2010 02:58AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Broke a red light and nearly mowed down 2 junkies and their kid - missed them by like a foot -

Some people have all the luck!!

LoanShark · 27-09-2010 03:06AM

When I was very young my mam was driving our car with me and two of my brothers on board,A big Fugger in his white van came over to our side of the road, causing mam to swerve on to the bank and our car hitting a telegraph pole with the pole landing down on top of the car, leaving me well and truly jammed into me baby seat...Good job I was wearing a nappy that day...

Royal Irish · 27-09-2010 03:17AM

My first one was in a car crash in my teens. The car was wrecked and I walked away alright, but seconds before the crash, I had just put my seat belt on. I would of been thrown out the wind screen otherwise.

Another one was while trekking in the jungle in Thailand, and I was inches away from stepping on what I later found out to be a very poisonous snake. Death within 30 minutes and I was hours away from the nearest hospital.

Seaneh · 27-09-2010 03:33AM

Was standing on a footpath talking to a friend at 2.30am on April fools day 2008 and got a honda civic in the face.

I was knocked the **** out, woke up about 20 minutes later with 3 firemen holding me down (I was trying to get up), entire left side of my body was in agony, friend was holding my head, glass everywhere, two other people were hit.

Driver was speeding drunk and his front right hit the back left of a taxi , he spun up on the footpath, the back left of his car hit me, was lucky, cuts, lots of bruises, some soft tissue damage in my neck and back and a bit of concussion, released about 10 hours later, besides being tender and not being able to fully move my neck for a few months no injuries.

You'd think the scumbag drunk, speeding driver would get a long ban or jail? Nope, one year ban, small fine and nothing else, if I ever meet him I'm going to knock the sh!t out of him.

Flojo · 27-09-2010 03:53AM

Seaneh wrote: »

Was standing on a footpath talking to a friend at 2.30am on April fools day 2008 and got a honda civic in the face.

I was knocked the **** out, woke up about 20 minutes later with 3 firemen holding me down (I was trying to get up), entire left side of my body was in agony, friend was holding my head, glass everywhere, two other people were hit.

Driver was speeding drunk and his front right hit the back left of a taxi , he spun up on the footpath, the back left of his car hit me, was lucky, cuts, lots of bruises, some soft tissue damage in my neck and back and a bit of concussion, released about 10 hours later, besides being tender and not being able to fully move my neck for a few months no injuries.

You'd think the scumbag drunk, speeding driver would get a long ban or jail? Nope, one year ban, small fine and nothing else, if I ever meet him I'm going to knock the sh!t out of him.

You never told me that! :eek:

Emm I was a passenger in a car that was travelling down a small enough winding road. My friend who is a bit of a speed nut thought it would be an awesome idea to go faster. I told him to cop the Fuck on and slow down, which he did because he saw how angry I was... and just as we were coming upto a corner, we just about managed to dodge a truck which was also going a bit too fast around the corner. If I hadn't have stopped him he wouldn't have been able to control the car at that speed and we definitely wouldn't have survived the crash. I nearly died with just the shock. Fucking idiot.. never got into a car with him again.

liah · 27-09-2010 05:28AM

Oddly, despite having very little luck in every other possible aspect of life, I've never managed to have grievous bodily harm done to myself.. nothing that's landed me in hospital, though I suppose I should've gone for a lot of things. But a few scars and back problems later I'm pretty much fine.

Two things do come to mind, though, that I'd actually be willing to share (there's some worse stuff but it's sensitive and AH isn't the place for it):

1) A really bad fall off a horse. It was a stupid decision on my part; the horse was very young and only just broken and it was the "grey hour" of twilight where everything kinda loses its definition. Stupid me decided I'd like to take him for a go in the arena. He got it in his head that he'd seen something he didn't like, took me for a 90mph spin around the arena, and then promptly bucked me off (well, not THAT promptly, I did stay on for about 30 seconds of full-fledged rodeo style sh!tfit bucking which I'm kinda proud of).

The horse was a 17.2hh warmblood who weighed in around 1300+ lbs (if anyone who knows horses is reading this; if you don't, let's just say he was a big bastard). I was 5'5" and about 8 stone. I flew up in the air about 5 feet above him, then plummeted about 10-12ft back down, straight on my back. Couldn't breathe for a good 3 minutes and scared the living daylights out of myself. My back's been completely messed up ever since, but I'm lucky he didn't land on me or that I didn't break my back. Seriously scary.

Had fallen many times before and since, but that one was the worst.

2) When I was youngish, maybe 13 or 14, I was walking out in the country back from a job interview at a kennel to my home. It's all back roads, didn't really have many options there. I was alone, it was the middle of the day.

This old beat-up car pulled up to me and a pair of very large black guys (Jamaicans, I would assume-- a lot of them pick fruit during the summers in Canada) tried to convince me to get into the car while their mate leered at me from the back! I ignored them and kept walking and they kept following, shouting things at me and demanding I get in the car with them. I took off down a field once I saw them starting to open a door. Just legged it, didn't stop running til I was home.

Scariest bit was hearing a radio report a few days later about another girl being abducted. :eek:

No idea what the hell would've happened to me if I hadn't run.

EDIT: Just remembered another one from when I was very, very young, between four and six. Lived in California then and earthquakes were common enough, but one night there was an absolutely MASSIVE one, I must've been scared that night anyway as I was in bed with my mom. We had this really big heavy mahogany bookcase filled with books and magazines near the end of the bed, it was about 8ft high. Earthquake knocked the whole thing right down onto the bed and resulted in both of us getting trapped and me losing it. Can't even remember how we got out, mom must've got herself out somehow and let me out or something I guess. But man, that was scary, for me being so small.

Terry · 27-09-2010 08:20AM

A very large branch fell from a tree and landed about a foot in front of me.

Almost went under a truck after losing control of my bike on a very steep hill.

Passenger in a truck that ploughed a merc through some traffic islands. That was quite spectacular to watch.

A few low speed car crashes.
Nothing major.

blaze1 · 27-09-2010 08:29AM

had a few,

this is the best one though,

was cycling and crashed into a car... had no brakes on my pushbike and the foot on the back wheel didnt work quick enough. I crashed into the front wing, rolled up the bonnet smashed the windscreen and rolled over the top... I got up and smiled

27-09-2010 09:45AM

A massive telephone/esb/something pole fell over one morning - it had been a windy stormy night. We were driving under it at the time :pac: I personally was fine but my mother was driving, windscreen smashed. Everyone was ok in the end.
Other than that, I duno. had a few horse accidents, thrown into a wall, fell with the horse falling on top of me etc. Was fine after all of them though.
There was the time I was driving on the m50 - some complete gobshíte was queuing for one of the exits and that queue was completely at a standstill. Up I come and he decides right at the last second to pull out in front of me with no speed. Luckily there was nobody in the overtaking lane as I swerved in. :mad: Thought I was a goner!

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