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and uh, that's about it
I'm either an incredibly boring driver or just really lucky
This drunken asshole bounces off four other cars before plowing into the back of mine. Impact was at about 30mph and I was doing 70 at the time. So, in theory, this guy was doing 90 even after hitting four others.
His car was fuuuuuuucked. Jaws of life style fucked. My trunk was crushed in, essentially totaling the car, but it was still drivable. Had my cop friend with me so when the Baltimore PD showed up he flashed his badge, told them the guy stank of booze and they were off and running.
Fire and police rip the guys car to shred and restrain him, leaving him temporarily handcuffed to a sign post while the ambulance shows up.
Insurance on that one was a nightmare because he didn't have any.
That way, if somebody is not paying attention to the road, they'll smash into the $50,000 Crown Victoria that can be replaced in weeks rather than the $350,000 Custom Peterbuilt that can be replaced in months.
There is nothing badass about me being an ignorant twat.
EDIT: or the months of rehabilitation, the tens of thousands of dollars in Govt property I destroyed and had to pay out of my pocket, or the vehicle I had spent more money then God building.
I only relate that story every time we have this thread because hey, "Don't be a twat"
It had a dent before but holy crap what the hell happened to them last night.
And I mean they're home so I guess they're alive and all but.
Seriously that is not something I walk out to every day.
I backed into a truck's hitch in a parking lot once cause the fucking thing was sticking out of the parking spot by at least a foot. Crumpled the back corner of my car. It looked really bad but ended up costing about $200 to fix.
Sometime before that when I opened the driver side door the wind caught it and the edge of the door got bent a little on the wall next to me. It was a tiny bit of paint lost and a little dent on the door. Cost almost $1000 to fix.
I don't fucking understand.
They managed to rack up a grand or two of damages.
Satans..... hints.....
Wrecked cars all over the place but only 2 drivers.
I could see the owner in the window doing her dishes, all I could see were her arms below the curtain. It was actually pretty funny. I look over and I see her washing and then just stop and stand perfectly still when she realized that someone just hit her car. In the end I did something like $3000 worth of damage to the Buick and we just used some chains and a pick up truck to pull out the Suburbans frame.
-I broke all of my ribs (punctured lungs)
-broke my pelvis (had to wear a pelvic fixator for a few months. two metal rods protruding from my crotch 6 inches)
-head injury. don't remember the accident or my first two weeks in the hospital. completely delirious.
-nerve damage. my left leg and right arm are still numb
-facial lacerations.
oh yeah and my computer and my tv were in the trunk and backseat of the car at the time. they were destroyed.
here you cant register a car without insurance
third party insurance
they dont care whether your own shit is insured just so long as you arent fucking other people over
Jesus I hope I never have a major accident like the ones described here, only ever been involved in minor ones when I was younger, never had one on my own.
But man, driving to and from work every day in peak hour traffic makes me realise that it's probably only a matter of time until I have an accident. Even if I'm driving safely, I lose count of the number of fuckwits who take it upon themselves to drive like pricks, speeding and weaving in and out of heavy traffic, suddenly pulling out of backed-up lanes into lanes with traffic moving at high speeds, failing to merge correctly at high speeds in multi-lane roads, tail-gating in heavy traffic. It's only a matter of time... just hope I don't get t-boned by a truck.
Also I've never been in a car accident.
hey satan...: thinkgeek amazon My post |
Vivienne is look at getting her learners and I was talking to her about safe driving practices.
Really two car accidents occur most often when two people aren't paying attention.
Now to be fair, one person is usually completely in the right and it isn't their fault that they got hit. But if they were paying attention they would be able to drive defensively and avoid the problem. And you know even if it isn't your fault the better of the two options is to pay attention like a hawk rather than to chill out and get hit and have to put up with the hassle of getting your car fixed.
Satans..... hints.....
But yeah, I totally agree that that is how most accidents occur, but being attentive like a hawk won't really stop someone ploughing into your rear end when you're backed-up in traffic is all I'm saying.
That's true, and that's how I got my last bump, (though that was fairly low speed and I couldn't see any damage, I basically grabbed his details and told him if I find anything wrong with the car in the next week or two I will give him a call but otherwise not to worry about it and didn't end up calling him)
Satans..... hints.....
god DAMN stale
So anyway, because my car is such a piece of shit and repair costs would have been unworthy of the car, my insurance company, instead of paying for repair of the car, gave me a 3000 dollar cheque.
Ching, ching.
So now I just gotta pay around 200 dollars for scrap parts and my dad's mechanic friend will put a new door on for me
I get my licence in about a month!
When do they let you get it in California?
TEEN TEAM, ASSEMBLE
It seems to be the youngest people on SE get
Satans..... hints.....
So he is probably around my age, likely older
:winky:
When I turn sixteen, and complete driver's ed, I can get a license.
At least we don't live in New York or somewhere that you can't get a licence until you're eighteen
And yeah, I know you're fifteen, you're an entire week younger than me
didn't have a car until 21
That's a perk of being a hillbilly
13 and crashed it within a minute of actually being in the seat.
I got most of my accidents out of my system while I was racing down firebreaks in bushlands.
Satans..... hints.....
The first time I got on the highway when I was driving with my mother I cut off a dude hard-core on the highway like a boss.
I almost punched a lady in the face (not really but wanted to) because she nearly t-boned my car doing an illegal left turn, and she tried to act like it was my fault. She called me a "motherfucker" like ten times while I was trying to pull into the parking lot to talk to her, and all that happened was a fucking paint chip.
she fucking asks me for a copy of my insurance when we touched just barely, and that was all in thanks to my good sense. Needless to say I did not give her shit.
edit: oh, and I told her to call the cops down there, nay, betted her to do so. After that she got really nice and told me that it "wasn't that bad really"..
I hate driving.
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