How many car accidents have you been in?

[Deleted]

Four.

(1) backed out of garage and hung side mirror on garage trim.  Replaced and repainted trim which is pain in rear. (2) Came out of grocery and someone had wiped out my side mirror to the extent of caving in passenger door.  Truck was POS so fixed mirror to driveable condition and ignored rest.  (3) Woman at WalMart claimed I rear-ended her and PD agreed.  Funny thing was, her "damage" was rusted.  Oh well.  (4) Sitting at red light when crazy woman plowed into us.  She was stoned with her mom and kids in car.  Car wasn't titled to her and she wasn't named on the owner's insurance.  Took months and months of work but finally got my replacement rear bumper and my rear seat passengers medical expenses paid for by her insurance, minus my deductible.  

Untold near misses, including some that would have been fatalities.  My town is infamous for its traffic and the reputation is only half as bad as the truth.  Local driving instructors teaching elderly Chinese immigrants to drive use our convoluted subdivision streets for practice    

[suesinfl]

Early teens on the back of a street bike with BF and went down a sugar sand road and we wiped out. No other vehicles involved, him a couple of broken ribs, me just sore.

Sixteen and a new driver, so I didn't judge the distance of the truck that was coming, no injuries but rear end damage to my car and the bumper on his truck.

Mid 20s new car not paying attention, traffic stopped and I was not paying attention. Thankfully it was in town so probably only going about 15 mph, hit the unmarked patrol car in front of me and pushed him into his wife in front of him as they were taking her car in for radiator repairs.  Scraped her bumper, small scraps to the patrol car and bumper damage to mine.

Early 30s and 8 months pregnant, passenger in a car that was rear ending by a drunk driver he took off but was later found. Light damage to the car I was in and no injuries.

Late 30s pregnancy brain and rear ending a car on a city street, so slow mph. just minor damage to both cars.

[chiver78]

one major that was weather/my fault. I've been hit a couple times, once while a passenger in a parked car.

[Tiny]

Jul 1, 2016 17:20:45 GMT -5 tskeeter said:

Jul 1, 2016 13:09:43 GMT -5 Tiny said:

What are you considering an 'accident'?

I've bumped bumpers in parking lots - either I did the bumping or I was bumped. No damage. I've scrapped the rear panel of my car backing into my garage a couple of times of the last 20 years (Left a 'scuff' mark on the car - no dent). About 30 plus years ago I accidentally scrapped the rear fender of my mom's car along the side to the brick house - again - a scuffed rear panel (no dent) - no damage to the house.

the closest to an actual accident: I did leave a line/mark on the local hospital's mini-bus when I tried to squeeze between it and line of cars backed up at the local rail road crossing (the train had stopped - for 8 minutes). The mark was from my passenger side mirror - the mirror was fine - it had a quarter inch rub mark on it. I had no idea I had even touched the mini-bus - until the driver started yelling as I done passing it. Insurance took care of it - I would see the mini-bus often and I'm guessing they took it in for 'detailing' and had who ever washed it "buff" the line of 'rubber' off the finish.

I have a friend though, that's been in atleast 10 major auto accidents (5 trips to the hospital/5 totaled vehicles and then atleast 5 or more 'fender bender' type accidents on the street or in a parking lot that required police/tow truck). It's like she's an accident magnet.

Not an accident magnet.  Uses poor judgement and/ or takes chances.  According to the National Safety Foundation, it takes an average of 600 unsafe acts for every accident.  In my book, your friend is truly an accident going some place to happen.  You don't ride in her car, do you?

As little as possible.  I volunteer to drive.     

[alabamagal]

I still think DS is accident magnet. 4 times he has been in accidents totally not his fault.

Oh and you can add in the time he was sitting in the living room and a car hit my house.

And I also backed into his car when it was sitting in the driveway.

[happyhoix]

Jul 4, 2016 10:30:54 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Jul 1, 2016 17:20:45 GMT -5 tskeeter said:

Not an accident magnet.  Uses poor judgement and/ or takes chances.  According to the National Safety Foundation, it takes an average of 600 unsafe acts for every accident.  In my book, your friend is truly an accident going some place to happen.  You don't ride in her car, do you?

As little as possible.  I volunteer to drive.     

I had a co-worker like this. She claimed she couldn't drive without talking on her cell phone because 'driving is boring.'

I don't know all of her accidents, I only started working her when she was in her late thirties, but in the seven years I worked with her, she had several.  The worst was when she was speeding down the highway, in the rain, talking on her cell phone, didn't realize there were flashing blue lights ahead until she was almost at the wreck, tried to slam on the brakes and ended up striking and almost killing a woman who had pulled her car over to the side out of the highway and got out to look at the wreck. Having not learned her lesson from that, she totaled her next car (talking on the cell phone and drove off the road at a curve) and had a couple fender benders with her pick up (again - talking on cell phone).

She bitched constantly about how high her car insurance was. I pointed out if she stopped talking on her cell phone while driving her insurance costs would probably go down. She looked at me like I was crazy and said "but I NEED to talk to people."

If we went anywhere to lunch together, I always volunteered to drive.

 

[lexxy703]

I had a co-worker like this. She claimed she couldn't drive without talking on her cell phone because 'driving is boring.'

She sounds like an idiot.

[sesfw]

If we went anywhere to lunch together, I always volunteered to drive.

That's the only way I would be around her.  She is definitely a fatality looking for a place to happen.  Hope she has a lot of life insurance for her family.