Here's what I did to my first car, back in the early '90s. It didn't fare nearly as well as JLatte's Celica:
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this was our older 21.5 chaparral we wrecked the motor
now we have a 34 rinker cruiser
this was our older 21.5 chaparral we wrecked the motor
now we have a 34 rinker cruiser
Holly crap! The airbags didn't even deploy! Wow! That would be worth a law suit nowadays!
The day they take humans out from the wheel and replace us with well-designed computers with redundency will be a happy day for me. I just do not think people in general are capable of driving safely (though there are exceptions to every rule and computers aren't perfect, I think a well designed self-healing system could do much better than most of us).
This isn't my car and I didn't take the picture, but I did drive past it a couple of times. It was parked by the River Don in Sheffield in June when the river burst its banks. The river mud won't just be on the outside - total right off (one of many in Sheffield that day).
A couple pics of my nephew's car, he recently got into a head on wreck from a man in a SUV racing his girlfriend home drunk.
Couldnt take the curve & went well over into my nephew's lane.
Shattered his left wrist & Broke both legs, Very badly bruised & battered, but thank god he survived.
Couldnt take the curve & went well over into my nephew's lane.
Shattered his left wrist & Broke both legs, Very badly bruised & battered, but thank god he survived.
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iJon. I remember your post from your tragedy. I also was in a car crash, where things went pretty ******. I though I killed my friend. It's funny because the moment I regained consciousness and got out the car, I remembered your thread. Anyone who wants more details just ask on this thread. This will always haunt me too.
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Mmmm, no??
They show far worse in schools today, to attempt to knock some sense into the drivers of tomorrow.
And iJon obviously still needs to get this off his chest.
Same truck, two different incidents.
1- rolled it down a hill into Dry Creek in Sonoma County. Then I rebuilt it.
2- rolled it again on Kit Carson Pass by Kirkwood Ski Resort. Me and my buddy both walked away unscathed and spent the rest of the day skiing.
I sold that rig the next week to a guy who wanted a project. I also warned him that I had 2 near-death experiences in it. I hope he has had good luck.
1- rolled it down a hill into Dry Creek in Sonoma County. Then I rebuilt it.
2- rolled it again on Kit Carson Pass by Kirkwood Ski Resort. Me and my buddy both walked away unscathed and spent the rest of the day skiing.
I sold that rig the next week to a guy who wanted a project. I also warned him that I had 2 near-death experiences in it. I hope he has had good luck.
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Last week, my best friend (almost 18) was driving with one his friends over to one of his other friends houses to hang out that night, and after he left, he was kinda upset at them for some reason (I don't remember why...) and he wasn't paying attention and accidentally blew a stop sign and t-boned another truck at 55-60 mph, flipping over a Ford F250 and rolling into a ditch, with a baby and dog inside.
The truck did not have its lights on (at 10 at night). He lives in a country area, so it wasn't like it was a busy intersection. He just didn't have good luck that night. He called me, all scared, and told me that he was OK and all. He said his friend might have a broken leg, but he checked out OK. Just some bruises. All my friend had was two minor gashes from the air bag on his wrists. Luckily he was wearing his seat belt, or he would have been killed.
The other person, along with the baby and dog, were fine. Baby didnt have a scratch on it, just shaken up. The dog was fine, and the truck driver was a bit shaken up, but for some reason was refusing medical care and didn't know what happened, even though he ended up checking out just fine after being forced to the hospital (because of the baby)
The next day, we went to see the damage, and here it is. He didn't even check out his car after the accident, so he is seeing it for the first time himself. He's on the right in the last picture. He was devastated his car was wrecked, but happy to be alive.
The truck did not have its lights on (at 10 at night). He lives in a country area, so it wasn't like it was a busy intersection. He just didn't have good luck that night. He called me, all scared, and told me that he was OK and all. He said his friend might have a broken leg, but he checked out OK. Just some bruises. All my friend had was two minor gashes from the air bag on his wrists. Luckily he was wearing his seat belt, or he would have been killed.
The other person, along with the baby and dog, were fine. Baby didnt have a scratch on it, just shaken up. The dog was fine, and the truck driver was a bit shaken up, but for some reason was refusing medical care and didn't know what happened, even though he ended up checking out just fine after being forced to the hospital (because of the baby)
The next day, we went to see the damage, and here it is. He didn't even check out his car after the accident, so he is seeing it for the first time himself. He's on the right in the last picture. He was devastated his car was wrecked, but happy to be alive.
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This accident happened in October 2007 - guy in a Ford F-150 ran a red light @ about 35mph, t-boned my car and I rolled into another car. Attesting to Honda's good build, I survived with just a broken collar bone. Car barely had 7,700 miles on it. 
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HANG UP AND DRIVE!
If you need proof that you're not in as much control as you assume-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPB6EH2tMkE
My housemates car, a Dax Rush.
Half an hour before the crash
After
I was following behind. Not nice to see at all. Could have easily been killed if it had hit the lamp post in the centre of the car rather than on the rear wheel. Luckily he was just winded and a bit beaten up by it all. Car got airborne!
Half an hour before the crash
After
I was following behind. Not nice to see at all. Could have easily been killed if it had hit the lamp post in the centre of the car rather than on the rear wheel. Luckily he was just winded and a bit beaten up by it all. Car got airborne!
Some, really interesting, and disturbing stories here.
Anyway, heres my story. A friend on I were on our way home from a party that we had been at all night (we weren't drinking for the record). It was snowing, but nothing w were worried about since we were familiar with driving in snow storms. But we ended up hitting a path of black ice at about 35mph. The car rolled into a ditch and we ended up being stopped by a telephone pole. Other than a sore neck and a black eye we walked away just fine thanks to our seat belts. The aftermath:
Anyway, heres my story. A friend on I were on our way home from a party that we had been at all night (we weren't drinking for the record). It was snowing, but nothing w were worried about since we were familiar with driving in snow storms. But we ended up hitting a path of black ice at about 35mph. The car rolled into a ditch and we ended up being stopped by a telephone pole. Other than a sore neck and a black eye we walked away just fine thanks to our seat belts. The aftermath:
Fairly misleading, imo. Pretty hard to actually enforce those laws, making the study a failure.
Using your mobile phone (texting or talking) will take attention away from your driving.