Who here has been in a bad crash

[Foghorn Leghorn]

No pics sadly, but about 12 years ago my gf of the time had a good go at killing us both.

Gf and I were off for a night out, she was driving her mums fiesta down a very steep windy hill near home, it was icy and temps were below freezing. She was driving like she usually did (too fast and not concentrating). I asked her to slow down, and as I finished my sentence she swore and lost control. Battered the car down the hedgerow on the left hand side, she overcompensated and we spun out of the hedge backwards, across the road and down the bank on the otherside of the road and finished up upside down in waist deep freezing cold water in the pitch dark.

Cars fill with water FAST

Fog

 

[Spanker]

Hit ice on my way to work one morning, under breaking the front wheel lost traction slid and threw myself and the bike down the road, lost the use of my right arm as a result. Lost the backend of my 535i on ice down a very dodgy back road and managed to just roll it on to it's side lol luckily no damage to me but the car was sadly written off. Had work mates following me and helped me out Very trecherous road, myself and my mrs wrote 2 cars off (she turned the car didn't, hit a tree stump and span her 180') within 2 months of each other due to ice and i could name 20 work collegues that have had accidents along many of it twisty turns

 

[kippermitten]

1) Talbot Chrysler thingy- driving 1 month(19yrs old), dropping mates off after clubbing(no drinks in me at all btw), dozed off slightly woke up to a crump-no noise-SPANG-crunch-grind noise. Went straight on at a bend so jumped up the kerb onto grass, slid sideways into a lampost and spun round it to rest perched on a wall half into a front garden - paid for lamposteek and wall as was TPFT - no injuries.
2) Mini clubman with mg a+ lump, twin carbs and fast cam etc etc driving for 1 year, 20 - ran wide on a tight bend on wet leaves at 60mph, clipped back of a van with back of my mini, spun very very fast into a high kerb which knocked the front wheel and bits through the bulkhead which missed my right leg by microns then head on into a tree, left car looking like james from earlier - paid for damage to van, wall repair, replaced tree and fence Id mashed for the lady whose house was nearby - only me in car, seat belt ripped out of the housing so I got a busted nose, 3 ribs busted, cracked patella.
3) Mini clubman estate driving for 2 years, 21 - crested a hill bit too fast , cars stopped in road as someone turning right so I pulled into the outside lane to brake hard as I could and plow into a field if need be, some one started to do a U turn FFS! so I spun as I locked all the wheels and went between a micra and a van still spinning and backwards into a tree at 40+. Seat came off mountings and ending up in the boot with me - no injuries just one very bent clubman estate.

I learnt my lesson after no. three, shame it took so long.
12 years and no accidents now.

 

[Andy100]

10 years ago at the ripe old age of 17 we were in my mates MKII fiesta coming back from dropping a friend off in Sevenoaks at about 1am.

He was driving and I was in the back lying down with no seatbelt on, trying to get a bit of sleep.

As we came down the sevenoaks slip road onto the M25 the back axle snapped! We were accelerating and it snapped at about 65mph. This caused us to spin round so we were facing the wrong way. At exactly the same time an MR2 turbo was coming along the motorway at around 100 mph and hit us head on.

The force of the impact flipped our fiesta end over end twice and left the car on it's roof in the slow lane. The MR2 skidded off the central barrier and then crashed into a verge at the side.

The miracle was that no one was injured! I hit the ceiling and the floor of the fiesta twice as we flipped over but came out fine. My mate was fine too. The guy driving the, now obliterated and on fire, MR2 got out and ran over to us. He was fine but most certainly in shock. He wanted to go and get his bag out of his car and we had to pin him down to stop him from trying to get into a burning car.

When the police and firemen turned up they couldn't believe no one was dead.

I still rate that as the luckiest day of my life.

 

[Jonny69]

Mine looks pretty tame in comparison. Lost it in my 100E and spanked a Saxo.

I had no seatbelts so I ended up upside down in the passenger footwell and I'd smashed all the dashclocks off with my knee and put a big dent in the steel steering column.

Mine wasn't that damaged as I could roll it out the way (old car built like a tank) but the Saxo was smashed in past the back seat, not one piece of glass left in it and the axle was a V shape. The police reckoned if I'd been driving a Fiesta or something I'd have lost my legs.

 

[Dandle]

Back in Nov 1990 I was going a around a one way system on a saturday night to get some money from the bank on my DT50 moped. I was coming up to a 90 degree bend in the road which was wet, so I had slowed down and got in position and was starting to turn when a cavalier SRI came around the one way system the wrong way. I tried to get out of the way but just didnt have the power to do it(my speed was to high for second and not yet on the small power band for third). I watched as the guy and his girlfriend were looking in debenhams window coming straight for me with nothing I could do. Anyway he hit me at about a 45 degree angle on my r/h side, crushing me leg, spinning the bike and throwing me onto the bonnet of his car. I got taken to hospital were they diagnosed and broken tibia and fibula and a fractured ankle.
As it was a saturday night they said I would have to stay in until monday to see the physio to teach me to walk on crutches. I dont remember Sunday much but Monday morning at about 4am mum and dad got a phone call to get to the hospital quick. When they got there I was basically going mad punching nurses and not letting anyone near me with a needle, it took six people to hold me down to get the blood test and sedate me. What had happened is some of the marrow in my bone had come and and formed a blood clot which had lodged in my lungs(called a fat embolism), which causes the lungs to fill up with fluid trying to get rid of it. Was in intensive car for two weeks and given a 5% chance of survival, I was on pure oxygen for two days which they told my parents was a bad sign as that mean the lungs just arent working enough to oxygenate the blood.
While i was in intensive care the father of the driver phoned my dad up and told him do you realise your son dented the bonnet of my car(sons car but insured under daddy), my dad went mad and told him I was probably dieing in intensive car. Anyway the guy starts phoneing the hospital to check if he was lieing(my parents couldnt believe someone would do that).

I survived and came out of hospital after about 4 weeks. The fat embolism is a 1 in 10000 chance of happening and i was a celebrity in there with all the student doctors getting a chance to deal with one(first one in 15 years at ashford hospital). What I cant describe enough is the affect the whole ordeal had on my family, dad was put on blood pressure pills then and it aged both my parents due to the stress.