First wreck...and a genuine shitty week

[bhuddistmonk]

Hey guys, I was in my first car wreck last night. Im 16, and Ive had my driving permit since august, which means I can drive with someone over 21 riding shotgun. My dad was in the car with me, and we were driving in semi-heavy traffic just after dark. The guy driving in front of me stopped suddenly, and we slammed into the back of him. The airbags deployed and my dad and I were ripped forward. 5 cars were involved in the accident, and 3 of the drivers recieved citations for "failure to control speed", including me. I will probably be refered to as the "driver at fault", according to the insurance company, but they will still cover the damage. The 2003 nissan altima with 11000 miles I was driving was totalled, and I recieved bruises, scratches on my arms, and my thumbs were burned from the airbag deploying. Everyone else was unhurt.

I came home and realized how lucky I was to be alive. 50% of all people dont survive their first wreck, and I was truly lucky to survive. A revelation like this also makes you reconsider what is important in life. Art, school, and my guitar are what I have really going for me, and Im giving up computer games except on weekends and rare occasions when I have nothing better to do. I am going to spend more time drawing to hone the skill; art is what I have as a career goal. I will be taking pictures and posting more here, and I am going to work my ass off to become worthy of the title "artist."

As for the "shitty week", I just found out tonight that my grandmothers liver is failing and she went to the emergency room. Bummer.

As for you guys, how bad was your first wreck, and what happend?

If you read this: thanks, I know its lengthy, but I had to get this out.

[Phuzion]

You're lucky you only got bruises... my first wreck took two of my front teeth when the seatbelt didn't work properly, and I hit the stearing wheel. I had three friends in the car, one of which suffered a couple cracked ribs, one a hair fracture in his arm, and the other a seatbelt burn. I was the only one with permanent damage, thankfully, since I was the driver, I would hate myself if one of them had been hurt as badly as me. It sucks, and it certainly makes you think, but spend your time dwelling on it, then move on. It's not something you want to fill your mind with too much, becuase there is so much negetivity involved. But if it helps you get your priorities straight, then it was worth it...

Sorry to hear about your grandmother :[

-Daniel

[Alex Outbreak]

Getting in a wreck that invlolves airbag deployment definatly is the suck. I think it was my sophomore year in highschool (now that I think about it, it might have been my junior year) when I was in the back seat. asleep at that, of my friends car as he slammed into the rear of an SUV at 40 mph. I woke up to a filthy black cloud of smoke, emitting hastily from the dashboard as the front two airbags deploid. The collision was hard enough that my hands ripped out of the front pockets of the hoodie I was wearing. Since I was asleep I was a little more lucid during the impact, so I escaped unscathed. My friend's younger brother, however, got smacked in the face with the airbag. It also happened to be the day after he got new braces. Lucky him. It didn't hit hard enough to do any major damage, though. This was, by no means, the first wreck I had been involved in.

But, hey, like you said, you were lucky you were unharmed. I'm also sorry to hear about your Grandmother.

[Sinix]

I'm 21, never been in even a small accident as a passenger or driver. Is that 50% accurate? Seems way to high.

[bhuddistmonk]

phuzion- wow, sucks about your teeth, I bet that hurt. cracked ribs are no fun either.

alex- whoa, that was lucky.

sinix- you are one lucky fellow, I hope it isnt building up to get you back later :S .....

[Lauren Short]

sorry to hear about your grand mother man :S


yea my first wreck was when i was like 11, my back is still fucked up by it, but nothing serious luckily


i have gotten into a couple since then, the one that was bad was when my bro fell asleep in the car(driving) and we slammed into a parked car, and took out a road sign :dead:

i woke up to smoke and my brother waking up screaming "are you okay?!"

so yea kinda sucked


sorry about your situation, sucks when people don't know how to drive and you get blamed for it :[


take care man, and best of luck :wink:

[Rkhon]

Sorry to hear that. Its rough.

My first accident (not my fault) was when merging on a highway I normally commuted on to school, while other people were getting off not to far ahead. Some ass cut me off, I locked up, then BLAM! though I hit the guy, but some lady got me from behind. Now I know what its like to back up traffic on a morning commute :) The front end of her Nissan Maxima was TOTALLED! shit all over the road...but all i had on my 93 chevy euro, with failed inspection, 200k + miles and mix matched parts was a scuff on the bumper and bent tailpipe. haha. didnt file any damages, cause it was shit anyway. luckily state troopers didnt see the failed sticker.

Oh and the cop said my license fell between his console. I had to get it later from the station.

[nardfrog]

My sister rolled a car 2 times, the car was obviously destroyed. Somehow, even though the roof was totaly caved in, she was completely untouched.

My grandma died in a crash in 02 and my grandpa was in the hospital for a month because his rib crushed and went into his lungs.

My best friends hit a telephone poll at about 45, one of my friends head's when through the windsheild, needless to say he wasnt fine.

ANd come to think of it i have three diffent friends that have totaled cars from telephone polls. My one friend got air off a little brigde doing almost 100mph and lost contol on the other side. Lucky there was a telephone poll there to stop his car. UNfortunaly his car has demolished. Somehow he only got bruses and blood.

I could name about 10 other bad accidents my friends have had. Luckly every single one ive been in has been minor!!!!!

[flex mathews]

i hate accindents. i got into a pretty hectic accident in high school. i was riding shotgun when my friend decided to race some guy. we were going 80 in his m3 on a side street, just touched the curb and flipped the car 4 times. we crashed into the car he was racing(another m3) and flipped that car. both cars flew over the median into oncoming traffic. the one i was in hit a pathfinder and sent it flying over 100 feet into a tree. the other luckly didnt hit anything. it was proabaly a bad idea to race on a street where there was running trails. after the accident, we talked to some lady walking her dog in the median and she said that our car flew over her head. the crash made the front page of the metro section of the newspaper the next day. good thing we were in bmws, cause i walked away with a cuts on my head but the drivers both went to the hospital. they were out of the hospital that night though. both cars were totalled. the only thing both drivers got was a ticket for "failure to stay in lane." i ll try to find the picture from the paper and post it.

[bhuddistmonk]

wow, you guys have had some bitchin shitty experiences. Flex wins for the worst wreck, though. I gotta talk to the insurance guys now on a phone conference... :blahblah: :canadian:

[Slash]

Wow.. this thread is kinda depressing...

I don`t own a car or have a licence for a few reasons.

1. I can`t really afford it.
2. They pollute. Most people that drive to work drive ALONE. So instead of 50 people in a bus, its 50 people in 50 goddamn cars spewing out shit and clogging up the roads.
3. I like public transportation. I can draw, listen to music, read shit, and even fall asleep.
4. Cars kill. I have never been in an accident myself, but i have seen so much shit, and nearly lost several loved ones. (Seeing a loved one lying unconscious in a hospital bed with tubes and stuff into her body isn`t that great.)

[young paddy1]

Sad to here about eeryone's misfortune, but the only crash I've had is into a people carrier t about 5 mph, the guys tow bar went through my bumper and as I backed off it ripped it off my car £15 and three hours later no one was any the wiser.

I had a pretty big near miss when a BMW tried to get off the motorway really late and sideswiped a truck, and ricocheted across the road infront of me, missed my car by about 2 feet at 85mph, the guy in the next lane wasn't so lucky it put his car on its side and caused a 15 mile tailback according to the radio.

[bizarre]

my first wreck... eek.

i was taking a left hand turn, green light, clear sight, all that. i was driving an old, '87 shitbox. drove like a boat. non-responsive, nonexistant acceleration, the whole bit. anyway, this fucker comes roaring down the road at about... oh, fifty, sixty miles an hour. he doesn't bother changing lanes, of course... because he's in a minivan, mister family man... so he decides to take the back of my car with him. yeah. everything from the gas cap back. bumper, trunk, hatch, everything. strewn all over the fucking intersection.

it hit so hard my car got turned 90 degrees, and i drove off the road into a drainage ditch. yeah. five foot drop. straight fucking down. woot.

so i either black out for a while or i get out right away, whatever, i open the door onto the ground... i mean how fucking vertigo is that when you open your car door ONTO THE GROUND...

i step out, and i notice i've got a lot of stiff joints, stiff parts, the works. i almost thought about patting myself down to check for wetspots, mighta been bleeding, whatever.

i walk over to the fucker's van, but not before holding my arms out to stop traffic and all that, and picking up my license plate, my tail light plastic covers, odd bits and pieces, and clearing them off the road. there was glass, plastic and metal all over the intersection. fuckin... modern art style.

so i walk over to this schmuck's van, thinking i'm gonna fucking castrate him in front of all these people in broad daylight, but it turns out he's some middleaged fucking halfdead yuppies and his shitstain wife, they're both fucking crying cuz they thought i was dead or something... whatever

i knock on the side door, yell 'hi!' all that, pull out my cell phone which miraculously wasn't crushed in this careening, cataclysmic carfuck that just happened, and i dial 911. tell em what happened, all that. then the fucking plungercunt wife asks me if i've got insurance, and, squinting from the pain, i reply, yeah. i think. she starts to think it's alright to broil my fucking ass because i scared HER....

so anyways, the car was totalled. when the fire/police/emt folks showed up, they looked at the car, they looked at me, they looked at each other, and started gathering up a stretcher. one of em did the whole 'does this hurt? does THIS hurt? does it hurt now? how about this?' and of course, i replied 'it's probably supposed to, but i'm real fucked up on adrenaline right now.'

so they took me to the hospital, xray, all that

just a few compressed vertibrae, and some pulled muscles. thank god i'm like... a human... fucking... tank.

my second wreck, ... ooh you'll love this shit.

my second wreck, i was in my car with one of my friends, pulling e-brake 180's off in a relatively sparsely crowded parking lot. starts to rain. i go for one last one, didn't pull it tight enough, and SLAM!

i butt-fucked a truck. not just any truck, but one of those trucks some hilljack buys for his wife just to get her to shut the fuck up, the kind that's covered in the 'my kid does this, my kid does that, my kids beat off to the teletubbies, nyah nyah' bumper stickers.

so, i shove it into reverse, and i pull out, and the fender's a little dented. big fuckin deal. so then, i hear WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING, ASSHOLE?

yup, just as i imagined it. mullet and everything Miss Mississippi herself comes roaring out of Dick's Bodacious Barbeque and attempts to verbally assault my stupid ass.

anyways, her hysteria must've done something because the cops wrote me up, i had a misdemeanor and a nice record to go with it. wow. i felt special. community service and everything.

yeah, so... that's my car crashing story.

[Yoell]

I feel ya, my ride was wrecked a few months back. :(

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[jetpack42]

hope everything is getting better.

Hang in there little buddy.

when you're at the bottom, the only place to go is up.

[acuna_read]

Unlucky Buddah.

Bizzare although I dont wish anything bad on anyone, you probably commited a henous(sp) crime in some past life.

Been in one accident on a motorbike. Some dopey cow in a Land Rover (posh old bird) decided talking to her equally posh dopey passenger was more important than paying attention to the oncoming roundabout and went into the back at 15mph. Result slightly scratched bike, me and dad on floor.

Bike picked up, then headlight smashed and bonnet dented by dads carbon knuckled glove. On we go.

And I think being able to own an M3 at High-school, ie 16-18? is very irresponsible. We get dickheads in Nova's and Astra's (a European thing) and theyre a feckin menace.

[Presence]

Bhud I hear you on this one, 10 days into owning my brand new sports car I was T-bard, $16000.00 to fix her up, they wouldnt write it off because it would have cost them too much to replace the car, so in the end I am left with a car worth half of the list price and was struck driving a hyundai all summer!!!

Don't worry man, it sux now but at least you can look forward to the statistics...you, I, and probably everyone else will be in another one in this lifetime.

[bhuddistmonk]

bizarre- whew, that is some hairy shit, and the last one is kinda funny....in a sick way.

jet- danke

presence - ag! insurance companies wont settle for less than your soul. :devil:

[OLSEN]

My first and only crash was a couple of years ago, a friend of mine was driving on a small dirt road in his company car in the middle of nowhere, i was in the drivers seat. Everything was fine until the dirt road dissapeared and we crashed down into a fairly deep waterfilled ditch. The water smelled like shit, the engine was ruined, and over 30 of my CDs ended up with ruined booklets because the car got filled with water (something like half the car was waterfilled...). Luckily we went off the road on the right side, on the left side there were trees and other lethal plants.