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So since reading through my BAD CAR BAD! thread Ive been inspired to ask what is everyones worst/bad car accident story is. Im not talking like blood on the highway garbage, try and keep it tasteful folks.


Ive only been in 2 accidents in my life, and one was just dumb and not worth mentioning. The other however, always made me feel like a badass
I was in the passenger seat of my brother truck, and his buddy was sitting in between us. Some douche bag ran a light and Tboned our truck something fierce. It hit right on my side, and Ihad my arm up in the window. The guy hit us so hard it pushed the truck over into the other lane. My brother had some pretty bad damage from the steering wheel twisting his arm all up in it, and his friend was covered in glass and scrapes. Me on the other hand, I was sitting there, with the truck stuck to my door, and the A hole staring at me. I was so PISSED the dude did that, that my brothers friend and 2 other motorists had to pull me off the hood of the guys truck.

It was awesome

Driving to Dallas last Friday, was passing a car in the left lane. As soon as I got into the lane the truck in front of me braked hard. So I started braking and swerved to avoid hitting him. Spun out going around 90 mph on a crowded two lane highway.

I hit no one and nothing and ended up on the side of the road with no damage to my car.

Not really a very bad accident, but a sorta interesting one.

A little under 10 years ago, I had a Subaru WRX, right when they came out. I was driving it on some dirt roads in a national park. I got more and more cocky as I went, so I kept going harder and harder.

I came to a fork in the road, tried to go left, but was going too fast, and started to understeer. I lifted off the gas, the car's weight shifted onto the front wheels, and then it started to come around fast. I overcorrected right, and it snapped around so I was now sliding sideways at about 50 mph.

Then there was a LONG period of sliding, during which my passenger was having a running commentary on how we were going to be fine.

The car slid sideways about 100 feet, then hit the crook of the fork. The tires on the driver's side popped off their beads, deflated instantly, then the rims dug in, and the car rolled up on the driver's side. My window was open, so I actually reached out, pushed off the ground, then the car fell back onto all four wheels.

The car was mostly fine, just two flat tires and a chewed up side. I called a two truck, but they wouldn't come out into the forest. We slept in the car overnight, while I wondered if SERIOUSLY I was going to just have to leave my car out there forever, because multiple tow companies wouldn't come out.

In the morning the passenger's girlfriend came out with a tire pump. We reinflated the tires, drove the car home.

$2000 in bodywork, good as new.

Subaru makes a tough little car.

July 10 this year I was heading to Historicon on the PA turnpike in my Ford Ranger with a load of wargame terrain to sell in the flea market there. It was raining HARD that morning and I was driving gently so as not to jostle around and damage the terrain due to my hasty packing job.
About ten miles from the Valley Forge exit on a long downhill stretch I began to hydroplane badly. Fought to keep straight but the back end came around counterclockwise and slammed into the concrete medial divider. Truck bounced off that and then rolled on to drivers side and then onto the roof. There I was upside down facing the wrong way in the passing lane.
The truck was totaled. By the grace of God i was unhurt.
I never got to Historicon that day but when I got all of the boxes home and unpacked them the terrain was completely undamaged.

snurl wrote:July 10 this year I was heading to Historicon on the PA turnpike in my Ford Ranger with a load of wargame terrain to sell in the flea market there. It was raining HARD that morning and I was driving gently so as not to jostle around and damage the terrain due to my hasty packing job.
About ten miles from the Valley Forge exit on a long downhill stretch I began to hydroplane badly. Fought to keep straight but the back end came around counterclockwise and slammed into the concrete medial divider. Truck bounced off that and then rolled on to drivers side and then onto the roof. There I was upside down facing the wrong way in the passing lane.
The truck was totaled. By the grace of God i was unhurt.
I never got to Historicon that day but when I got all of the boxes home and unpacked them the terrain was completely undamaged.

Whoa! That's fething scary!

I have a historicon story too that is related to a car accident of sorts, but nothing of the magnitude above.

We went to historicon in 1997. We drove down from Toronto four of us in a car with a bunch of terrain and stuff. Anyway, on the Saturday morning we went to Denny's and my one of us ordered the Grand Slam breakfast. Not me. I was way too hungover after drinking an entire bottle of vodka the night before with some gamers from Chicago. While walking back out to the car, he started to feel a bit queasy. As we we're driving back to the hotel (i was staying in the Apple Inn, or whatever across the road), he started hollering to drive faster because he needed the toilet. Well, we we're in a car accident literally, but it didn't end well. Buddy had to take a couple of hours to clean himself up and regain his composure to come face us again we we're laughing so hard.

About 10 years ago, I had a '96 firebird and was going with several carloads of people to get a drink after work. We were at a light making a left. The light turned green and the first few cars went through. Only one person knew where we were going so in being more concerned with keeping with the rest of the group than paying attention to the light, I had failed to notice it was a green light instead of a green arrow. As I pulled through the intersection, A brand new green Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer hit me directly at my passenger front wheel doing around 50. I only remember snapshots of the accident and one that I remember vividly was of this giant green SUV on top of the front of my car. He had gone right over the front end which spun me completely around twice. I was flung over the center console, but thanks to the seatbelt and airbags the only injuries I sustained were some bruised ribs, burns and bruises from the airbags, and a some nasty cuts on the fingers of my right hand.

The car however didn't fair as well. The right fender exploded in a million little pieces over the road, the hood was laying over the side of the car, still connected to one hinge by a single bolt, the entire intake and one head was completely sheared off the engine and the unibody frame made about a 30 degree angle to the left at the firewall. Went to get my things out of it at the junkyard and noticed that I had also somehow managed to bend the steering wheel and the cuts on my hand came when my hand flew off the wheel and took out all the knobs on the radio. I was pretty damn lucky not to have been seriously hurt or to have hurt anyone else (the other driver and occupants were completely unharmed).

I'm a hell of a lot more careful now in general. The other funny thing is I used to never have a problem riding in cars while someone else is driving, but after that accident I'm a nervous wreck if I'm not behind the wheel.

A couple of months before my dad died, he got drunk at a friend's place and tried to drive back home... with me in the car.

At the time we lived out in the country on a hill with a big fething gully down the middle and the only road up was all twisted and muddy. Long story short, he couldn't drive straight, so the went over the edge of the gully and almost split in two after hitting a tree side-on. I was literally a foot away from dying at the time and I didn't even understand why it had happened.

Suffice to say I don't particularly miss him.

I bought a real crap heap for £225.

That was an accident involving a car.

While playing street hockey one day a teen driver came speeding down a school street, hit the accelerator instead of the brake, and preceeded to use my body for emergency de-repairs on the front of her car. I broke my knee and split my head open (both front and back from hitting the asphalt) I then got up and attempted to run to my house. My neighbor, who heard the crash, ran outside and stopped the frankenstein movie in fast forwad from continuing and laid me on the ground while she dialed 911.

I was 7

Although i think that story kind of falls under "accident WITH a car"...

Kornholio: The whole thing would not have happened if they hadnt insisted on moving Historicon to Valley Forge.