Who here has been in a bad crash

evulboo

evulboo

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Hey guys just wondering who here has been in a bad crash, i'll start with mine

Coming up for 2years ago when i was working with my dad doing marble work we had a contract for flooring in Bodmin whilst also working in St. Ives, this involved a lot of driving and hard work as our stupid boss overlapped our contracts. Anyway we ended up working throgh the day in St. Ives then driving to Bodmin and work through the night then back to St. Ives etc etc

I had not passed my test at this point so was left with my dad to drive. We had just finished the job in Bodmin and was driving home (St. Keverne) for the 1st time in about a 1 1/2 weeks, both of us completly shattered i was fast asleep without my seatbelt on (stupid i know) anyway we was just under 3/4 miles from home and my dad must have fallen asleep at the wheel coz the next thing i was doing was screaming, i had somehow hit my back on the dashboard and broke it, while my dad had broke 2 ribs and knocked out his top teeth.

What had happened after talking to dad, he said he was drifting off and the van was labouring, at a Y junction we went straight up an embankment into a castiron signpost

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Thats my mate next the van

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Side view

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My back after a couple weeks healing



All i can say is someone must have been looking out for us that night
 
Back in the day (around 5 yrs ago) i was a bit of a speedy driver, 18 and just got my license. I have a Fiat Punto, and had been driving about 8months, and i pulled out of a country lane onto a major.

I looked right, all clear. Then i looked left, waited for it to be clear then pulled out. Unfortunately i didnt comphensate for *** time on the right and pulled out on an OAP bus :(.

Lukily no one was hurt at all, just shaken up, and before the feds turned up the OAPs went home so it was just me and the bus driver and we were pretty shaken up.

The bus slammed into me at about 30miles an hour on the front drivers side whell, and pushed my car about 10meters before a stop. After the crash there was antifreeze and water all over the road, but if my car had been out about a ft more my leg would probably be broken, or worse, so i count myself very lucky.

Back then i was pretty annoyed about the car but the more i look and think about it, it was only an object and im extremely glad no one was hurt at all.

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D4VE said:
Ouch what speed do you reckon you were doing when you hit the post?
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just asked dad and he seems to think around 30mph as he said it was laboring. If u ask me seems a lot for just 30mph but then i dont know what a van would look like at 30 + he was drifting in and out of sleep
 
I ploughed my old company car into the back of a berlingo van on the motorway bypass/ roundabout on the outskirts of Edinburgh. For those of you who don't know it goes motorway ... motorwaayyy ... oh roundabout.. BRAKE BRAKE.

I was tired(long hours), lost and didn't expect to have to stop until birmingham on my journey from Glasgow (hence lost). Poor astra.

But within 2 hours i was back on the road in a brand spanking bmw .. gawd bless fleet services & national rent a car :)

Scary as hell, still suffering from shoulder/back problems 3 years later.

I'm lucky to say that was my only EVER accident in over 6 years of driving
 
idiots. both of you.

you for not wearing a seatbelt, your dad for driving whilst tired and putting his own son's life in danger. Appauling! :mad:
 
evulboo said:
just asked dad and he seems to think around 30mph as he said it was laboring. If u ask me seems a lot for just 30mph but then i dont know what a van would look like at 30 + he was drifting in and out of sleep
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Well, there isnt much give in a post like that so its an instantaneous 30mph to 0mph and hence basically a head on collision. Its a huge impact.
 
cloudy said:
idiots. both of you.

you for not wearing a seatbelt, your dad for driving whilst tired and putting his own son's life in danger. Appauling! :mad:
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Yup i agree, but come to think of it, in a way it had saved my dads life as he had an aortic aneurysm at the time which had been undetected before the crash, if it wasn't for the crash it may had split costing my dad his life

Makes me think sometimes, that do certian things happen for a reason?
 
evulboo said:
Makes me think sometimes, that do certian things happen for a reason?
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Everything happens for a reason :)

I've had one fairly serious accident that I walked away from with no cuts or bruises, just a slightly sore back.

Copper tells me I was lucky that I missed the trees. I think so too.
 
Whoah, you were very lucky :eek:
Were you thrown out of the van during the crash? Are you still suffereing from your injuries or have you made / will you make a full recovery?

Back in November 2002, I was driving along an A road at about 60mph. It was a wet night but not that bad. I was approaching a petrol station on my left and could see about 4 cars waiting to come out of the petrol station onto the main road. Just as I drew level with the entrance to the filling station, the first car pulled out of the exit and stopped dead in the road. I hit the brakes but it was far too late to even slow down a bit, before I knew it I slammed into the side of the car at about 50mph. When I realised I was screwed, by pure instinct (probably due to my motox days) I jumped upwards from the bike. Luckily enough the bike took the impact and I was catapulted over the car, catching my right knee on the roof. I landed the other side of the car and skidded down the road to a halt. Next thing I knew someone was trying to pull my helmet off but was stopped (thankfully) by a police biker who had been in the filling station. I was carted off to hospital where they put my right kneecap back into place as it was round the side of my leg. I had badly bruised my back and had some cuts and gashes but apart from that I was fine.

According to the police biker who seen it happen, had I not have jumped I'd probably be dead now. When you're told things like that it really hits home. It turned out the silly bint who was driving the fiesta had had one drink too many:mad: It's a good job the policeman was there because she tried to drive away while I was lying in the road :mad:

These things happen though, all part of driving I suppose. Best of luck with your recovery if you haven't already made it :)
 
Scuzi said:
Whoah, you were very lucky :eek:
Were you thrown out of the van during the crash? Are you still suffereing from your injuries or have you made / will you make a full recovery?

Back in November 2002, I was driving along an A road at about 60mph. It was a wet night but not that bad. I was approaching a petrol station on my left and could see about 4 cars waiting to come out of the petrol station onto the main road. Just as I drew level with the entrance to the filling station, the first car pulled out of the exit and stopped dead in the road. I hit the brakes but it was far too late to even slow down a bit, before I knew it I slammed into the side of the car at about 50mph. When I realised I was screwed, by pure instinct (probably due to my motox days) I jumped upwards from the bike. Luckily enough the bike took the impact and I was catapulted over the car, catching my right knee on the roof. I landed the other side of the car and skidded down the road to a halt. Next thing I knew someone was trying to pull my helmet off but was stopped (thankfully) by a police biker who had been in the filling station. I was carted off to hospital where they put my right kneecap back into place as it was round the side of my leg. I had badly bruised my back and had some cuts and gashes but apart from that I was fine.

According to the police biker who seen it happen, had I not have jumped I'd probably be dead now. When you're told things like that it really hits home. It turned out the silly bint who was driving the fiesta had had one drink too many:mad: It's a good job the policeman was there because she tried to drive away while I was lying in the road :mad:

These things happen though, all part of driving I suppose. Best of luck with your recovery if you haven't already made it :)
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Na wasn't thrown out just a bit back to front in the van, ive made as good a recovery as i can but in the cold its agony with constant lower back pains :(

Woah seems u was damn luck aswell mate, i hope the drunk bint got what she deserved. and i agree its not nice when someone tells u that u was this close to being dead/paralyzed.
 
I wont go into detail but i flattened (as in bent at right angles flush to the floor) 2 full size lamp posts after sliding sideways over them.

My MR2 Turbo was almost split in half, the "dent" went just short of half a foot away from completely through the car, this was a combination of the impacts from the lamp posts as they gave way.

Didnt have any injuries, except my bank balance thanks to third party insurance :/
 
Jez said:
I wont go into detail but i flattened (as in bent at right angles flush to the floor) 2 full size lamp posts after sliding sideways over them.

My MR2 Turbo was almost split in half, the "dent" went just short of half a foot away from completely through the car, this was a combination of the impacts from the lamp posts as they gave way.

Didnt have any injuries, except my bank balance thanks to third party insurance :/
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What were you doing getting sideways in a MR2 Turbo with TPO cover? :D:D;)
 
I think the worst I've been is when my mate rolled his Metro. I was sitting in the back and smacked my head on the roof :/

Still got out all OK and at least we got a Metro off the roads forever :p
 
E-class Merc Brabus on the A1 at about 3am.

I fell asleep in the passenger seat and woke up inverted with sparks flying at my head as we slid down the central reservation at (quoting the police) "speeds approaching 100mph".

I found out later that we'd hit a pheasant at 'about 140' which caused the tyre to blow, spearing us into the central reservation where we flipped and slid...

*n
 
And that woken you up! :p

On the road i've managed to throw it into a tree :(
Glad I didn't have a passenger, but then, I wouldn't have been giving it the full treatment with guests.
 
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