My goat car accident
7So Monday morning I was in a car accident. I’m not physically hurt besides my pride. I have horrible headache (again) and my back hurts and so does my car. I was driving to a new dr office, didn’t know the area, lady was in my blind spot and Fucking BAM. I was actually up on her car, she had to drive off me and left quit a few pieces of my car in the road. Then I spent 2 hours in my car trying to get it to go into gear bc it wouldn’t. It was a horrible day. I pride myself on being a good driver (no tickets/accidents in over a decade) my sister gets in accidents at least once a year, has totaled more cars than I can remember. My moms horrible, stepdads is scary as fuck to be in the car with, like seriously close your eyes and pray. My brothers aren’t any better. I must take after my dad who is a good/safe driver. And yes I obviously got a ticket for this whole ordeal for impeding traffic.
So when’s the last time you were in an accident and how bad was it? Was it your fault?
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Not that long ago.
Person in front of me stopped in the middle of traffic for a bird. I hit their hitch, spent the day in the hospital, got my spine x-rayed, totaled my car.
No one got a ticket but in Florida it’s automatically your fault if you rear end someone.
Really bummed about it. Was my dad’s car.
Last Dec, I started out with some weird spasms in my neck, shoulders, back. I ended up in PT until mid Aug. Go get yourself checked out if you are feeling any pain. Better to be safe than sorry
Oh jeeze that stinks! I agree with @tinamarie1974, get checked out!!
My last car accident was about 8 years ago when I was considering buying & “test driving” a tiny red convertible! (Sunbird or Sunfire, don’t remember) I was coming around a blind corner and a young kid in a HUGE Dodge Ram came speeding into my lane side swiping my entire driver’s side. He was going 65mph in a 20mph zone. (That’s what HE told the cops!) After I spun around and flipped over, I slid into a telephone pole. It took forever to peel the car off me with the jaws. I ended up with only 1 broken ankle and a whole lot of broken glass and scratches on my arms & face. We did find out 3 months later that my spleen was injured and had been bleeding the entire time. THAT was actually a minor accident compared to the one 25 years ago when I had a brain injury, broke both legs in several places, both ankles, shattered my hip and had a degloving of the scalp. (like in the days of the Indians, scalped)
Now THAT was a terrible car accident and i’m extremely lucky to be alive!
@Lynnerizer
Wow, you definitely have a guardian angel. I feel bad for even bringing up the subject now. Really dumb question and don’t mean to sound insensitive but did you have to pay anything when you totaled the dealership car? It’s just something I always wondered.
@Star2236
Well that’s a whole other story!
I answered a add in the newspaper for this car being sold. The guy tells me he works at a dealership but he’s selling the car on his own. He bought it at auction. When he came to pick me up for the test drive I didn’t check out the license plate other than to see there was one.
After the crash, the man who was selling the car (he wasn’t injured) tried to take off. He called his wife for a ride but wasn’t able to leave before the cops showed up. Wittneses said he also exchanged the license plate with a “dealer plate” from the trunk. Obviously something fishy about WHO actually owned the car, OR more so about who’s plate. IDK, I never heard from the guy again! (i’ve known lots of car salespeople who take advantage dealer plates) Since I wasn’t at fault in any way what so ever, I don’t think I could be held responsible. In THIS case i’d think that the kid driving the Dodge Ram, who was at fault, his insurance company would be held responsible. Who knows, he could’ve actually made out with how much money he got for the totalled car instead of selling it used! Ha ha ha…
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@Lynnerizer Oh wow! Broken ankle sounded painful until you mentioned the second accident…
I’m so sorry you were in a car accident…glad you are ok…I was in one about 3 years ago…not even 1/4 mile from my office (was leaving)…in the left lane going straight when a moron in a corvette in the right lane next to me suddenly decided to do a u-turn in front of me…honestly we were lucky that despite oncoming traffic that no other cars were involved…pissed me off to no end that cops in Dallas don’t bother with traffic accidents and didn’t give this idiot a ticket…despite the fact we were totally impeding traffic…the moron totaled my car and luckily I walked away with only some bruises all over me…the downside was that it was a nissan juke…cute little car that they’d discontinued making
…my worst one was when I was 18 or 19 and was going home after dropping a friend off after a concert…a car exiting the interstate at an intersection I was going through on a green light…he ran the red and t-boned me into a median and rolled my car several times…he was going that fast…again I luckily walked away with only bruises but was a mess emotionally while riding in a car with anyone for awhile…I also refused to drive again for the longest time until my parents forced the issue (not driving ever again wasn’t really an option)…I’l also never buy a convertible due to this experience.
So here’s a somewhat interesting accident story that recently involved my son. There was a collision between 2 vehicles in an intersection near my son’s apartment. A pickup hit another truck, causing some injuries to the second driver. My son’s car was parked a ways down on the cross street and a spare tire was dislodged in the collision and came rolling down and scuffed the bumper of his unoccupied parked car. He later found a note from police on his windshield with contact info. There was only minor cosmetic damage on his 18 year old Corolla, so he did not pursue it.
Three months later, a letter from a Beverly Hills personal injury lawyer comes, demanding his insurance information for a claim. From info in the copy of the police report that I saw, I’m guessing there is a good chance that neither driver in the collision had insurance, so the lawyer was apparently casting a wide net. My son’s insurance looked at the case and flatly declined the claim, but, wow, brass balls!
@macromeh Why won’t sharks eat collision attorneys?
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Professional courtesy.
@PocketBrain It’s the 99% of lawyers that are crooks that make the other 1% look bad.
Lemme see, last year I had a minor contact with a city trash can on pickup day (oncoming car swerved into my lane) and wrecked my mirror. Last contact with another vehicle was being tapped on the rear about 9 years ago. Last major accident was head-on as oncoming car turned against the lights (I had right-of-way). Car totaled. 1992. I remember the engine stopping dead and the cassette tape parked clicked in and started playing (Weird Al, if you must know). The kid driving the other car obviously expected me to stop for some reason? He was getting unhinged, and the cop on the scene said something like, “Okay, buddy, calm down.” then the kid was like “You’re not my buddy!” And I thought, “Not now, he ain’t!” Fun was had by all.
Don’t think I never cause the damage; I have scraped my rear fender on my garage door frame, and I did tag the barriers that they put up to force us to slalom on our way out of the Navy base. Not sure why they do that. There are signs up that say “NO LANE CHANGE” and then the slalom barriers that physically force you to swing back and forth between the lanes several times. We’re being conditioned to ignore posted signs.
No injuries as of yet.
@PocketBrain If it’s the kind I’m thinking of, the barriers keep someone from speeding through, like if someone decided to attack the base by crashing a truck through the checkpoint and into the base to blow up a bomb. The ones I saw were strong enough so you couldn’t just plow straight through, would likely hit them and lose control, have to slow to navigate through, giving guards time to bring up the pop up hardened barriers by hitting what I assume is a big red button somewhere.
@PocketBrain
/youtube I’m not your buddy
@kevinrs
They have active barriers for that. The slalom barriers are plastic: i could run thru them in a big pickup truck.
@kevinrs @PocketBrain I think you are thinking of frontal barriers. To STOP cars. vs the ones they put up on the sides to redirect traffic around lanes when they are working. Around here usually cones/barrels/flip up signs a car could ignore… Then the driver would go to jail if caught/hurt someone. And they are enough but sometimes they drop those solid concrete interlocking chunks along the sides. Sometimes they are orange water filled plastic which is easier to deploy.
A truck would not make it through either unless they were plastic an not filled. Just saying
@kevinrs @unksol
Exactly, the orange plastic ones, empty. I have seen the gate guards pick up one side of one and swing it aside. Maybe they’re supposed to slow you down before you hit the speed bumps just outside the guard shack. Seem a tad unnecessary.
@kevinrs @PocketBrain maybe they are using it as a cheap security gate since they already bought a ton?
@kevinrs if you ever see those stacks of “Garbage” cans when you go down the interstate. That’s because if you went off the road into that over pass peir that water is going to absorb/distribute most of the force. Helped by your air bag Same way those barriers would. And probably not kill you. deceleration over time. Surprising how it adds up.
Concrete has almost no give. Water has a ton of mass and alot more time to absorb the force. At least at vehicular velocity. Relatively.
@PocketBrain Ok, different from what I saw then. What I saw was pretty permanent concrete, the lanes have been repaved in the slalom pattern, with concrete between each lane, so you have to slalom, combined with speed bumps, leading to the popup frontal type. I suppose this is the higher security setup. This is 8 miles of basically straight road from town, then you reach the “visitor’s center” where you have to get authorization to enter if you aren’t military, then some slaloming, the gate, where they had most of the lanes blocked with caltrops, then more slaloming, then you pass over the popup barrier.
@kevinrs @PocketBrain @unksol I crashed into one of those giant yellow ‘garbage cans’ once, years ago; pushed off the road by some idiot driving a huge old Chrysler Imperial (or similar - it was around midnight so I’m not positive).
It was not filled with water but some relatively lightweight granular material like vermiculite. The stuff was still raining down on the roof a few seconds after stopping the car. Still totaled it, tho.
@kevinrs @PocketBrain interesting… That sounds either a littel extra or why the construction barricades were up. I won’t ask where lest the fbi come for me lol.
@PocketBrain @unksol I’ll tell you where: Edwards AFB. You can even look at the road in on google earth and find most of the features I’ve described. I actually had a one-off job to do in the gas station store on base, waited at the “visitor center” for like 45 minutes while they contacted the manager and confirmed I was supposed to be there and got me sponsored in. It is the base where they have tested most of the new and experimental aircraft, and groom lake is even administered from Edwards.
@compunaut @kevinrs @PocketBrain well. Fair enough. Water would not make sense in winter climates I just assumed and I’m an ass. Either way a material to slow you down before you hit a bridge piere. By dispersing energy. I would think. As you pointed out water would not be ideal long term cause leaks and freezing. Now I wonder what is in them
Oh no
I’m so sorry that happened and I hope you are ok and don’t have any lasting pains from it 
I’ve been hit a couple times sitting in traffic from the back when I lived in LA, and once in college t-boned by a kid who I now realize was drunk (I was too dumb at the time to analyze his behavior). When I was 17 I smashed my dad’s car in a Dukes of Hazzard type move after sliding on some black ice. I’ve had a crap ton of speeding tickets but I eventually figured out in my middle age that they have places where you can take your car and drive it fast so you don’t have to do that when the cops are watching lol.
So sorry to hear about your awful day. Please get your back looked at if the pain continues.
Honest to god, I once actually hit a goat and I was thinking that was what this topic was about. It jumped out in front of me from the woods, I slammed on my brakes, but I was unable to stop in time to avoid impact. No damage to the front of my vehicle, but the goat was lying motionless at the side of the road. When I got close to check to see if he was breathing, he immediately sprang to life and bolted back into the woods.
@DrWorm
Sorry but I was cracking up at your story, I can see why you thought it was about a goat and hitting it. Never thought anyone would reply saying did.
@DrWorm lol wild woods goat
When I was 18 coming home from school, literally at the end of my street, I was in the intersection waiting to turn left. Light turned yellow no one was anywhere close in the oncoming lane so I started to turn and this car slammed into me. I still think they were already speeding, floored it and ran a red light cause I’m not blind. And made that turn 5 days a week for probably 2 years and know that light. But I could be wrong. Either way cop decided it was my fault cause I turned in front. That sucked and so did swapping the engine into the parts car in the middle of winter.
The one that’s definitely my fault was working two jobs one summer 60-70 hours a week with a mix of day/night shift and an hour drive each way to one. And coming up to a light I was already slowing down/braking and just blacked out for a split second. And ran into the back of a pick up. With a saturn. So… His bumper went straight into my headlights/hood and stopped me. Did nothing to him. Thankfully. And did not deploy my airbags. Thankfully. I just pulled the front out with a hand winch got headlights from a junk yard straightened the hood out enough and built up the latch and drove her for another decade. She still runs but at like 250K miles has a bad crankshaft bearing. Those manual saturn’s are… Awesome.
No one’s ever been hurt. I’ve been rear ended. Side swiped. Backed into. Etc. Multiple times. I’m kinda like. My cars fine or the damage is irrelevant. You clearly hit me… So what do you want to do.
The most recent one was a winter or two ago and I was turning right. Snow. Etc This SUV was turning left onto my road while I was coming out. And they cut the corner so sharp cause idk why. Paranoid and thought they deserved to cut across lanes instead of making a real turn? And side swiped me and cracked my fender. I pull over to check on them. Guy jumps out and comes over. “You ok” “yea, you guys ok” “yea… Look my wife was driving and she’s having a fit that it’s your fault but I know she cut the corner” “it’s fine it’s a 20 year old car if you’re good I’m good we both got places to go” he seemed pretty relieved
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