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Traveling home last night about 11:20pm, I had the misfortune to witness the immediate aftermath of an accident on the M6 north, Walsall.

Looks like a car hit the central reservation and then stopped in the outside lane to then be rear ended by a following car, at speed.

Whilst nothing was confirmed to me at the time, I was told to expect to be attending a coroners hearing/ inquest.

I stopped and went over to see if I could assist - wish I hadn't tbh - I am now somewhat haunted by what I saw.

I won't, I know, but **** like this really makes me consider hanging up the keys for good.

/rant :/
 
I've also witnessed the aftermath of an accident. A G-wiz cut in half when it crossed the A41 and a Toyota/saloon (maybe it was a Skoda can't quite remember) coming the other way hit it. The person went flying out of the car as the two halves separated. It is worse when it is fresh but eventually it gets better.
 
Yes it's a horrible thing to see, as said above it does get better.As a professional driver I'm surprised you haven't seen more TBH. I can only assume that the people that drive like complete arses have never seen a bad smash. :(
 
Bombing down the motorway with the missus on the back.
See signs for 50MPH, 40MPH, 30MPH
Ignore them, still doing 90+
Car in front slows right down.
I drop the anchors
Missus climbs off my shoulders
Traffic at a standstill.
I filter to the front.
Fiesta with a front end totally smashed and strewn across Lane 2 & 3
No-one helping anyone.
Pull over to hard shoulder.
Park.
Me and missus grab the fiesta people from wandering about on the motorway and put them on the embankment.
Other people start to help, off-duty medical people etc.
10mins later the emergency services arrive.
Luckily there were no major injuries, just whiplash and a couple of scrapes, and the pregnant fiesta passenger still popped out a healthy sprog a couple of months later.

A white van had moved from lane 3 to 2 and clipped the front of the fiesta and just carried on.

After an hour, the missus and I jump back on the bike and head home.

True story yo.
 
Yup, not nice. I witnessed the aftermath of a bike splitting the front end of 4x4 in half, must have missed it by a minute. (quiet country road)

The biker wasn't in 1 piece.
 
Sorry you had to witness that. Humans are quite fragile in the grand scheme of things :(

Years ago I drove past the aftermath of a cyclist versus car incident. Later on I learnt from the local news that the cyclist had died at the scene, which I had unfortunately presumed was the case due to the large pool of blood. Not as graphic, but it still stuck in my mind for a while afterwards.
 
Uther said:
Yes it's a horrible thing to see, as said above it does get better.As a professional driver I'm surprised you haven't seen more TBH. I can only assume that the people that drive like complete arses have never seen a bad smash. :(
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I've seen plenty over the years, the worst a biker being decapitated on the M2 in Kent, went to bed at 8, just got up, sleep won't come.

Thankfully off tonight.
 
Used to do vehicle recovery for Surrey Police after accidents, fatal ones were never very nice.

Having to inventory the contents of the car back at the yard could be haunting, seeing undelivered Christmas presents in the boot of a family car after a fatal will always give me nightmares.
 
It does get better over time. I worked in a shop as an 18yr old. Looking out the window one afternoon I saw "two sticks", a little old lady who would drive into the village, park up and get her two walking sticks out and go do her shopping. She was very opinionated and head strong, never took advice. One of her worst habits was to think she could stop traffic just by raising her stick and then walk out and cross the road. Despite everyone in the village telling her to either use the pedestrian crossing or pelican crossing that were only 500yds apart she always crossed in between.

On that day she tried the stick trick on a fully laden artic, are they around 50t?, with him doing 20-25mph through the village. Needless to say when she stepped out in front of him he couldn't stop, so I watched her roll under pretty much the full length of the wagon until he stopped with his rear wheels where her head should be, I can still hear the sound it made........

Shook me up for a good few months, took a few years to fully accept what I'd seen, but can still vividly remember it 25yrs later!
 
I once found a car with a young lad in who had gone too fast around a corner, he must have clipped something and as the car started to roll it hit a lamp post roof first! The roof of the car was touching the floor of the car and the seats were on the road! Unfortunately for him, he was between the roof and the floor of the car :/
 
JOSH86 said:
seeing undelivered Christmas presents in the boot of a family car after a fatal will always give me nightmares.
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Its strange - I've somewhat become desensitised to death - but seeing personal items in the aftermath of a crash and thinking about how they fit into that persons story and how they won't be in the future and the things the person intended to do with them but now won't affects me these days far more than seeing the body.
 
Can be grim.
My step-dad was a police officer but his best mate was a traffic cop. First thing he had to deal with was a double decapitation. There was a third person trapped in the car with their two friends for about 45 minutes until they were cut free.
Another particularly grim one was a motorcyclist who performed an over-take on a blind bend and went head first in to a tractor pulling out of a field. That was a suspected decapitation and they had dogs in the fields searching. They called them off after the body was recovered and they realised the head was still there but that gives you a clue as to the state of it.
 
Dis86 said:
Another particularly grim one was a motorcyclist who performed an over-take on a blind bend and went head first in to a tractor pulling out of a field. That was a suspected decapitation and they had dogs in the fields searching. They called them off after the body was recovered and they realised the head was still there but that gives you a clue as to the state of it.
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Seen one of those :(

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Heading down that road towards the turning on the left - infront of us was 2 horse transport type vehicles - the front one slowed to let someone out of the left turning (turning to their right) as we were going to overtake but a motorcyclist pulled out from behind us and gunned it - straight into a BMW that pulled out of the turning on the left into the lane going the other way - pretty much game over (combined speed was probably like 140mph).
 
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Seen a few bad things, one was a girl in a Corsa who had a head on crash with a RR, girl was stuck being the wheel with a towel to her face, the towel was soaked thick with her blood.

Second was a guy on his mountain bike, he had no crash helmet on, came off skidded down the road and my parents had to basically hold his skull together while the ambulance came.

I was almost the third when a truck came crashing through the central reservation on the M6, lucky we managed to avoid it but the people directly behind didn't get so lucky.
 
Dad's a fireman so has seen his fair share of it all, the tale that always sticks with me from many years ago is a first generation BMW Mini that hit a tree head on at speed and rolled quite a few times, the car ended up neatly "parked" on someones drive but with it's engine a few houses down.

Front two passengers dead on impact with the drivers chest the size of a fag packet between the seat and steering wheel, two girls in the rear were alive but legs crushed completely causing them to be stuck. Doctor in attendance wasn't happy with how quickly their condition was worsening so instructed to "get them out. Now." Can't have been pleasant having your legs amputated whilst still semi-conscious.

Possibly embellished slightly as a way to **** me up and make me drive sensibly, but the thought still freaks me out.
 
delta0 said:
I've also witnessed the aftermath of an accident. A G-wiz cut in half when it crossed the A41 and a Toyota/saloon (maybe it was a Skoda can't quite remember) coming the other way hit it. The person went flying out of the car as the two halves separated. It is worse when it is fresh but eventually it gets better.
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Those G-Wiz things should be banned, they are death traps.
 
Voxination said:
Dad's a fireman so has seen his fair share of it all, the tale that always sticks with me from many years ago is a first generation BMW Mini that hit a tree head on at speed and rolled quite a few times, the car ended up neatly "parked" on someones drive but with it's engine a few houses down.
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My old fella did a stint on the traffic cops, he remembered his first proper chase that ended in a fatality. Was many moons ago, in the 70's. Ended up like this, chased a burglar who was caught in the act by the owner and the owner ended up getting a right kicking so the cops really wanted the burglar. While being chased he hit a tree at around 70mph and went through the windscreen into it, no seat belt as they didn't need to be worn then. The post mortem found most of his head 'parts' inside his chest cavity!......
 
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