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Ever been in a car crash?

ScummyMan

Driving back to college this evening, narrow enough road between Tipp Town and Limerick with bends everywhere. Got caught behind a Corsa going slow enough, not crazy slow mind you, around 70km/h. Some lunatic stuck behind me decides to overtake both me and the Corsa, coming towards a bend on a solid white line.

Of course just as he was passing me a car comes round the corner towards him. He had nowhere to go it looked like there was a head on at speed coming. I slammed on the brakes and he managed to squeeze in between me and the Corsa and skid into the hard shoulder, but there was literally inches in it.

Not going to lie it shook me up a bit, I'm not driving long and that's the closest I've come to a crash. I can only imagine how terrifying an actual crash is, anyone have any similar stories?

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DeadHand

Luckily, the rise in the price of petrol and diesel over the last decade has made the boyracer an endangered species.

liquoriceall

About 3 weeks ago on the N20 just before you go down onto the M20 a tractor pulled out of a side road in front of me crossing the road, I slowed down a little; however I hadnt spotted that hè had a trailer on the back, in the dark, with no lights or reflectors....I had to swerve down the road he came out of and thank god nobody was coming up that road! Had to pull in for a minute to recover

twin_beacon

ScummyMan wrote: »

Driving back to college this evening, narrow enough road between Tipp Town and Limerick with bends everywhere. Got caught behind a Corsa going slow enough, not crazy slow mind you, around 70km/h. Some lunatic stuck behind me decides to overtake both me and the Corsa, coming towards a bend on a solid white line.

Of course just as he was passing me a car comes round the corner towards him. He had nowhere to go it looked like there was a head on at speed coming. I slammed on the brakes and he managed to squeeze in between me and the Corsa and skid into the hard shoulder, but there was literally inches in it.

Not going to lie it shook me up a bit, I'm not driving long and that's the closest I've come to a crash. I can only imagine how terrifying an actual crash is, anyone have any similar stories?

passenger in a very serious crash around 7 years ago, very similar situation, car overtaking over a solid white line on a bend ploughed into us.

OldNotWIse

Graces7 wrote: »

Took great delight recently in keeping a boyracer behind me on the winding road from Killarney as far as Derricunnihy... he huffed and roared, headlights full on so I slowed right down like the little old lady I am....enjoyed it and anyways he was so close I could not have safely pulled in until the big layby there.. I kept braking but he took no notice :P Odd that! He then exploded off up the road.... what a stench

Idiots they are. What in God's name is wrong with them? As for those morons with the big spoilers and exposed exhaust pipes? Nothing says, "I have a one inch manhood" like a big spoiler does. I had some stuck behind me on a country road a while back, yer man was giving it loads throwing his hands up in the air etc. I didn't slow, but I kept at my slow pace which was appropriate to the type of road we were on. He eventually could not take any more and pulled out to overtake me. I guess he didn't see the car parked facing us on the opposite side of the road. They literally had to stop dead in their tracks on the wrong side of the road and facing the wrong way to stop from ploughing into the car. Sadly, they managed to get away uninjured. Better luck next time.

Edit: which reminds me we'd a similar situation a while ago when some morons tried the same trick driving up a hill and on a white line. Needless to say, a car came down the other way as they had begun to overtake and the overtaking car had to go up onto the path to avoid a collision with the oncoming car.

...but it's learners that cause the accidents :P

Graces7

Reminds me of the early SUnday morning two winters ago when I was setting out stil dark to get to a distant Craft Fair...round a bend ( forestry lane) and there is a car in the ditch.. light still on etc I tried to get past him and sank in the ditch on the other side... had a shout at the other driver who mumbled.. ARE YOU DRUNK ! I shouted.. nah was my reply then he slumped in his seat again. Hand on the horn had no effect so I had to climb over my market stuff to the passenger door and go to a nearby house who refused to answer the door for ages.. I was nearly in tears by then of sheer frustration.

Little man comes to the door and I explain and he know the guy well and tells me he will have been there all night and does this all the time... yep drunk as a skunk... o he gets his big van out and pull me out then I have to backtrack and go the long way round and he set about pulling the other car out... no idea why as the man can barely stand up...

I learn later that this is one of the local drunks who doe indeed spend many night stuck on the top lane... when the little man who pulled me out met me much later he said, oh he was asleep!

Months later he totalled his car

never had any of this before I came to Kerry!

Graces7

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Yes, my parents were nearly wiped out by "boyracers" a number of years ago. Thankfully my Dad was going slow at the time. Mam ended up in hospital for months. No sympathy when these f.uckers go out and smear themselves on the road, but I feel sorry for the people coming towards them.

Took great delight recently in keeping a boyracer behind me on the winding road from Killarney as far as Derricunnihy... he huffed and roared, headlights full on so I slowed right down like the little old lady I am....enjoyed it and anyways he was so close I could not have safely pulled in until the big layby there.. I kept braking but he took no notice :P Odd that! He then exploded off up the road.... what a stench

Highflyer13

Winter 2010 takeing a bend slow hit black ice and cross the road and into a wall. I was helpless at the time so all I could do was brace for the impact. Anyway happy enough no injuries I got out to check the damage to the car. Had damaged left wheel and front bumper and light smashed.. Walking around the far passenger side I manged to slip and flip up in the air and smash my head off the ground. (rte man style) Took a few minutes to pick myself up after that lol.

Ronan|Raven

Driving in the middle of December on icy back roads and flipped my van several times down a large enough drop but managed to walk out without a scratch.

BBDBB

no
but somewhere theres a database that says i definitely have and that im entitled to compensation
so i must have been cos i keep getting these phonecalls from simon angela and kevin who insist i must have

I should add that simon angela and kevin all have accents that make me doubt that those are their real names, goodness gracious me

Joeface

Good few years back now , Back road in County limerick , Between Herbertstown and Old pallas ,
around around 10pm , I was also on the tired side , bendy sections on that road, wasn't traveling that fast but fast enough for the events not to help. Car came around the bend a head of me full lights on, fairly blinding , As soon as he went past I realized I was in pretty much the bend, so it went something like Ditch > Evel knievel > Tree > Dike.

had to stand on the passenger side door on open the driver side Door , and climb out , Didn't get hurt only ego and felt stupid after it. Actually kinda annoyed at the driver that was behind me cause he didn't even stop or look , just drove on by.

Hoop66

Nearly had one inbound on the Nass Road this morning, somebody in the middle lane just after you come past Red Cow decided she would just pull into the gap between me and the car in front without indicating, despite there not really being enough room for the manoeuvre.

I could tell she was going to do it, so was prepared, but someone else mightn't have been so lucky...

DeadHand

Got rear-ended by a chap in London once. In fairness, he was a total gentleman about it and we became firm friends after.

Back on topic, I've crashed by myself 4 times and was a passenger in one crash..

The most recent was this morning.

anothernight

Hoop66 wrote: »

I was driving from Leamington Spa towards Banbury/M40.

I've never had a crash, but I've witnessed a good few around the M40/M42 area. My friend took this picture on the M42 last year while we were stuck in traffic (he was driving) and it made me really scared for a while of having to drive around here.

John T Carroll

This makes for "sober reading"
http://www.rsa.ie/en/Utility/News/2014/1-in-5-Drivers-and-Passengers-Not-Wearing-Seatbelt-at-Time-of-Collision/

Mr. CooL ICE

Luckily, no. Been a few close ones though.

I did witness two separate rear-endings in the space of about 15 seconds. I was passenger in a taxi and there was a road accident in the right lane on the dual carriageway. Traffic was being detoured through the exit before the crash, so all traffic was naturally merging into the left lane with an empty right lane. Tailback of no more than 200 yards. Some smartass decided to try overtaking the entire lane and to cut into traffic just before the exit, but it was moving so slowly that there was no room, so he stopped in the lane, indicating. Another guy came around the bend, screeched his tyres and hit him. Another driver did the exact same thing and hit the 2nd driver.

If there are tailbacks and flashing blue lights in the distance, be fcuking patient.

CrazyRabbit

Aged 5, I was standing in the back of a van in the gap between the two front seats. In those days seatbelts were not commonly used. We were hit by a small lorry and I was thrown forward. I hit the (now thankfully) cracked windscreen and went through a little. I ended up slouched over the dashboard unconscious.

I woke up in the hospital while stitches were being placed in my upper lip and forehead (I still have the scars today). Getting the stitches was far more traumatic for me....well that and seeing blood all over myself. By some miracle, nothing was broken. My dad bought a Ford Cortina after that which I loved as it instinctively felt safer, especially with the seatbelts.

About 3 years ago I was in a taxi on the way to St James's hospital. We were stopped at red lights for a few seconds and this car smashed into the back of us. No injuries thankfully.

And a few months ago I was in another accident, but don't really want to talk about that here.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

One serious one. Totally my fault.I was a young lad, 19 and had been out the night before. I went playing football the day after and was knackered getting back into the car after it. Stupidly agreed to drop some of the lads home. Out the country roads we go and we get to a junction. Me being 19, knackered and thinking I am the best driver since cars were invented, pulled straight out without looking. I remember the guy in my passenger seat screaming "O **** watch out" followed by an almighty bang. I had t boned a car driving along the road I had pulled into. He stopped, I stopped. No major damage to either car, mine was definitely worse off and no body hurt. If I had arrived literally 2 seconds earlier he would have t boned me at 80 km/hr. My passenger would almost certainly have died. Still scares the absolute ****e out of me to this day. I never drive tired or hungover now.

The One Doctor

Minor tips, one idiot slapped into my rear because she saw a Mayo flag. Left the car an inch shorter and her €550 poorer. The other was a rear tip, nothing damaged, but I got pissed off as it was the second time someone had hit me from behind. Most cars aren't designed to be hit from behind - they're not crash tested for that type of impact.

I notice a few idiots on this thread not wearing their seatbelts. WTF? Only a moron drives with no seatbelt on. It's the equivalent of consciously jumping off a wall to land on your head. With no helmet.

smcgiff

razorblunt wrote: »

How did you get around for 2 months? Who covered the cost of that?

3 Pages in and it's already been proved, wear your bloody seatbelt!

I got a rental car for a short period on the insurance. I bought a Toyota Carina for €3k and sold it on for a couple of hundred less.

I was given the price of a new car and was allowed keep the write off.

Ilyana 2.0

I was driving my mother's car, with my dad in the passenger seat. I was on a little mickey-mouse roundabout when a big van crashed into the left hand side of the car. We went spinning off to the other side of the road, turns out he hit the left back wheel, twisting the axis and writing the car off. Had he hit us a second sooner, my dad could have been really badly hurt. We were also lucky that there were no cars coming when we span off.

The driver tried to claim I was bombing it through the roundabout, which was a lie, I stopped because it's a desperate roundabout and I was only in second gear. The gardai were really good to me about it; it was clear he hadn't been paying any attention. With his wife and baby in the van, too.

I was only a learner, it put the fear of god into me ever since.

chopperbyrne

One, which I was the cause of on the N7 about two and a half years ago.

Coming up to Newlands Cross everything was green lights ahead and I changed from the middle lane to the left lane behind a lorry because I wanted to take the M50 North after the junction.

Lights went orange when I went behind the lorry and I didn't brake in time.

Thankfully I only had some scratches and internal bruising and nobody else was injured. My car was about a foot shorter though.

westernfrenzy

Not me. My dad and my brother were in one just over a year ago.

They were driving back from his house to drop my brother home. My dad noticed this other car speeding and driving recklessly, he slowed down and the other car crashed into them almost head-on. My dad broke his sternum and my brother had several minor cuts to his legs as he was in the back. The two guys in the other car then ran off somewhere and they still haven't been found yet. Think they were drunk too cos drink bottles were found in their car.

I wasn't in the car because I was recovering from major spinal surgery I had 6 weeks before the crash. I shudder thinking about what would've happened to me if I was in the car at the time.

gidget

Almost in one when I was a passenger with my dad driving just after the Red Cow driving towards the ring road there, three lanes of busy traffic driving away when these two young fools in a BMW driving along one of the outer lanes suddenly tear across the three lanes of traffic in front of us causing all three cars to break hard. Thankfully no accidents but could have led to a disastrous pile up nonetheless.

Graces7

Hoop66 wrote: »

I was driving from Leamington Spa towards Banbury/M40. An American guy in a layby pulls out and drives on the wrong side of the road. The woman in front of me slams on and goes right, I slam on but there's nowhere to go so I hit him. Car written off, but no injuries. He admitted full liability, as well he might, and my company car insurance sorted everything.

Despite all this, his insurance company sent me forms to describe the accident 3 times. I asked my company solicitor about it and he told me to ignore them - he reckoned they were just trying to get me to make a mistake so they could call into question the whole accident scenario and deny the claim.

Sounds about right. Thankfully I never heard from the Italian hire car insurance but he had taken full responsibility.

Lost count of the number of close shaves with tour buses on the Killarney to Moll's Gap road... one was so close it moved my wing mirror. On another occasion I saw two buses coming way ahead of me and stopped in a small lay by to let them pass... and waited and waited.. there was a sheerrock face blocking visibility.. finally edged round and the tour buses had also edged off to wait for me.. I know many of them now from the markets.. we all waved.

Kevin McCloud

Alot of people getting rammed in the rear.

Graces7

blacklilly wrote: »

I've been in 5.
3 of which were minor.

One was when my ex was driving out from the avenue entrance to my home house, there's a bend to the left and right of the entrance so you have to take extra care when turning right in particular. Anyway, on this day, the sun was very strong and it impaired his vision somewhat, he pulled out just as a car came around the bend to the right and it collided with the front of his car, it did a a 180 turn and ended up on it's roof in the ditch.
It was terrifying to watch, car was occupied by a mum and 2 kids, thank God, none were hurt but it could have been so bad.

The last one, was nearly 5 years ago, I was a passanger, my mum was driving on the Dunboyne to Maynooth road, those of you who know it will know that there are some pretty dodgy bends on the road. We approcahed one these bends and an oncoming car took the bend far too quickly, lost control and hit us head on, sending our car in a solid brick wall.

As we saw the car approach us, we both said "fu*k" at the same time and for weeks after I kept thinking that that could have been my last word/thought.

My mum has permanant nerve damage to her right arm and will probably require surgery in time on her back as some of the upper discs were damaged.

I have been left with compressed discs in my lower back. Both cars were completely destroyed. We were all so lucky to get away with what we did.

It amazed me that both times I was rammed by a youngster the only term I couLd get out was "STUPID! YOU ARE STUPID!"

Graces7

razorblunt wrote: »

How did you get around for 2 months? Who covered the cost of that?

3 Pages in and it's already been proved, wear your bloody seatbelt!

I know but one of my family got trapped in a crash because she was wearing her seat belt,..

iDave

When I was 10ish. Some eejit came round a corner and edged over the white line and hit the side of our car. Had about 7 kids in his car, 2 in the front seat. Laughably tired to claim my Dad who was driving actually went onto the wrong side of road. The judge saw it differently.

bear1

OldNotWIse wrote: »

At least your story has a happy ending...that is...there was nobody else involved.

And Thank God for that. Utterly stupid carry on by myself.

Graces7

Summer wind wrote: »

I've been rear ended 3 times while sitting in traffic at the lights. One fella said he was lighting a cig on approach to the lights and didn't realise they were red! It has made me nervous you never know when it's going to happen again.

Ive noticed in towns and at road works that the car that has stopped ahead of me switches his hazard warning lights on and it makes sense so I do this now. Now I know why from reading your post... thanks