Post your worst car accident

I was returning from Denver in 2000. I lost my job and came back to Utah to start a new life.

I was towing a U-Haul trailer behind my vintage 1969 Ford Fairlane, it held everything I owned. My comic book collection as well as a very nice Star Wars collection, several nice home theater electronics, a sweet recliner and my paintings.

About 80 miles from Salt Lake and I was driving slower than the traffic. Cars and semis were flying by me, but I continued to drive slower than the traffic. The speed limit was 75 MPH, I was going between 55-60. (As per the speed limit of the trailer I was towing.) Yes I had my flashers on.

Suddenly I hear a weird noise, the trailer disconnected from the ball hitch and my car spins out of control. No matter how I tried to steer into the turn, I could not regain control.

I drifted to the shoulder and the trailer's wheel caught the soft dirt. It flipped at least 6 times dragging me and my Fairlane along with it. Luckily my Fairlane didn't flip.

The safety chains wrapped around the hitch cork-screwing the Fairlane's tail end. It caused it to bend up. I was wearing a lap belt but was still thrown about within the car, the steering wheel almost broke both my thumbs and that little button on top of my ball cap shot into my head like a hammer! But I was alive.

However in one last act of XE, the trailer swooped out into the highway and the locked door busted, spewing the contents of the trailer out. Semis and other cars destroyed what the flipping trailer did not.

The friction even ignited a box of matches I had in a box and started a small fire, I was able to put it out with snow.

I was alive, I guess that was the most important thing. Haha.

my worst was in my first focus(it was all stock, including the firehawk tires)...i just made a poor choice of speed for a particular corner on a country road. walked away with a cut on my hand and a sore neck/back, focus was totalled. that happened in january of 2003, less than a mile from my house.

I was negotiating a right-handed, off-camber turn and the back end let go, spun around and a tree on the left side of the road on the outside of the corner hit the passenger side...i guess the car spun around at least once...I was the only one in the car.

If your trying to get some, make sure the road is deserted. and if you get caught, watch out for the gravel on the road when you take off angerly.

As the title says, let's see em. My worst was not in my car... I was riding in the passenger seat of my buddy's sonoma. We were making a left turn and there was an F-250 pulling a trailer coming toward us. My buddy turned out in front of him and he came straight through my door. I remember seeing him coming and then waking up in a field. I guess when he hit us, we spun several times.... taking down a some phone lines and a power box. My right arm went through the passenger side window and my face went half way through the windshield. The aftermath: stitches everywhere, surgery on my forearm/elbow, 3 breaks in my pelvis, 2 broken ribs, several broken bones in my foot, and a cracked cheek bone. I ended up missing a semester of school and was stuck in bed for damn near 6 months. My buddy was fine.

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I feel ya man, I was riding in my friends focus, and some dumb bitch in a minivan tried to turn across oncoming traffic, my friend swerved, and crunch. I broke my pelvis in 6 places, had internal bleeding, and a concussion. I was out of work for several months and could not walk.

Were you wearing a seatbelt? I’m guessing no since your head hit the windshield, and I guess the vehicle had no airbags. I guess I faired better than I otherwise would have being in a car with side impact airbags. No major upper body injuries.

i got cut off by this guy:


Over $8,000 in damage, it was fixed.

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holy lord that is a hell of a crash. and you survived which is awesome. but holy god that is a hell of a crask

Mine was 3 years ago(just came off my record in Auguest) I was off roading in my 1992 Ford Explorer being stupid (I was 16 so yeah being stupid) and When I went around a turn doing 40+ I lost control slamed into a wall of dirt from where the dirt met on the sides of the road and tipped it on its left side and slid about 20 or so feet to end up the other way around. No Air Bags because of the year of the vehicle but Cut up my left arm pretty good(Broke the drivers window with my arm) and slamed my chest into the steering wheel (With the seatbelt on mind you. But it did save my life) I still have this picture at home alone with a sticker from the drivers side window that I broke that says "Buckle up, It saves Lives" Which it did that day.


THE CAR AFTER I GOT IT HOME.



Salvage title but still fixed it. New Front bumper, Left Front Fender, Drivers Door, Left Rear Passenger Door, Left Rear Quarter Panel, Rear Bumper, Left Rear Tire and wheel, and a New Rear Cargo Door.

worst one ive been in isnt much compared to Mr side inpact boy over there but mine was in my first car a 1986 300zx with 418hp at the block not good for a first car well i was a dumb idiot doing high speeds when it was wet i went into a turn ontop of a bridge and gunned it yes in the rain on a turn in a rearwheel drive car and i bet you can guess what happen dmy assend wanted to lead and well it did right into the wall. I spun 3 times hitting the walls everytime smashed in every pannel on the carexecpt for the doorsand cracked the rear rims. The rear end was slammed over 4inches so the drive line was compressed against the frame of the car. but i was ok as much as i didnt want to be after i delt with the parents.

yep well i dotn have any pics

downhill swooping left hander... hit water coming across the road.. spun... now facing backwards.. slid along curb, hopped up small access driveway, plowed a wood post over... plowed through 50 feet of chainlink fence and poles.. knocked over a porta potty.. came to a stop.. 10 foot fence pole was through drivers window .. between headrest and bpillar and out the back window.. didnt get hurt.. oh and i was going fast too.

or this one

coming bak from a trip when i was 11 or so.. riding in a 80s suburban.. freeway speed 65mph~ . driver wasnt paying attention, drifted into oncoming lane.. panicked when she turned back and saw a car coming at us.. swerved.. flipped.. rolled about 6 times.. wasnt hurt.. 2 others in car were put in halos.. had broken ribs, cuts, etc.. and the other one had broken ribs and cuts

Dude shikatoi that could have been bad really easy. My dad witnessed the accedent that made it illegal to have people in the bed of a truck in WA. He was going up I-90 over the pass and a truck passed him with about 15 cubscouts in the bed and about 5 more in the cab with the driver and next to him was a cop. The back tier blew and the truck rolled right infront of my dad he was going up to the ski area were he was on the ski patrole so he had his med pack with him. so he pulled over as soon as he got to the crash cop was already there coverd in blood trying to help but everyone was dead execpt the driver and one the one kid in the front who had his belt on the rest were thrown and then crushed by the truck.

Worst not being in car:
I had a 69 buick skylark parked on the street in front of my girlfriends(now my wife) and my parents car was parked in front of that. A lady had just left the bar down the street and drove right into the rear end of my Skylark, pushing it into my parents car. She hit it so hard that the headlight bucket from my Skylark was under the front bumper of my parents car (85 bonneville). She pushed the back bumper all the way into the back seat of my car.

Worst in car:
My friend was driving his girlfriends Chevy Caprice with her in the front passenger side and me in the back on the drivers side. It was raining out and we proceeded to make a left out of a store parking lot onto a main road. He didn't see that the light at the corner had changed and a mid 80's Cutlass was coming our way fast. I saw it and said "oh [censored]!!!" and laid down on the back seat. Good thing because the rear window I was next to shattered all over me. The couple in the Cutlass tried to swerve and ended up hitting us sideways. The guy driving the Cutlass ended up on the passengers lap from the impact. My friend had a sore shoulder and leg but otherwise we were not hurt. We replaced the front clip and drivers side doors, had the frame straightened and they drove the car for another few years. The Cutlass had to be junked. It was unrepairable.

Worst out of car (tie):
1. Was sitting outside talking w/ friends at around 10pm and we heard a big bang from a ways off. We thought it was a transformer due to summer heat, and we heard sirens almost immediately. So, we hopped in a car and drove out to the city limit which is a country road. Turns out, a lady driving back from the indian casino ran her light and got T-boned by semi towing loads of tomatos between the fields and the canneries. We heard the impact LOUD from exactly a mile away (Cty. road 98 - Cty. road 99)

2. Driving into Sacramento we hit some traffic. We crested the overpass over the Sac. River and saw what looked like a big field of blood on the other side where the rest stop is. A lady in a Camry driving north had fallen asleep, crossed over onto the southbound side and had a head-on with - you guessed it - a tomato truck.

3. Thank God I didn't witness it, but I knew a girl in college who was riding her bike on the outskirts of Davis, CA, and - yep - a tomato truck apparently didn't see her in the crosswalk as he turned right and he killed her.

I'm not a fan of the tomato trucks

Worst in car, my friend locked up his brakes on a wet road and rear-ended a car, which hit the car in front of her. No major damage, no injuries, no real story...

when i get home i'll put the pics up,but i flip my svt about 5 times on the freeway going 75 mph. (walked away)