One night I slowly reversed into the neighbours car...it was parked right behind me to the right(where I usually turn and where no car is usually parked)nobody knows until this day..also no scraches/bents on both ends..I would have paid for the damage of course.
I'e never been in a crash I have my driving permit not my licence (but i have been cut off 3 times. one of them evolved my slamming on the brakes to avoid a crash). I have seen one crash when I was about 8-10 years old. A red 2003-ish Ford Focus tried to turn left in the right lane. (You know how this is going to turn out.) We were 3 cars behind him in an SUV with 2 trucks in front of us. So seeing behind him must have been impossible. A minute or 2 passed when he tried to make the left turn in the right lane. Right when he tried to do that a silver Honda, sorta small SUV smashed into the front left quarter panel just in front of the drivers door. The Focus side was smashed in quite bad. The front left wheel had at least 30 degrees of negative camber. The Focus limped to a back road. luckly we were right next to an intersection so he could limp of into. The Honda went of to follow him. So your life lesson here is if you have to turn left in the right lane just keep going straight and turn on the next road. I have also races cars called Quarter Midgets if you want to here some of those crashes I can post some later.
Once in 2nd grade our school bus PIT maneuvered a Honda Civic and made it roll down an embankment. We just kept driving.
Road stuff: Spun out in a Subaru Justy in the rain at night in a sweeping corner on a very rural road by my very rural house. The butt started to come out but a little throttle was holding it there for about 5 seconds. It wasnt intentional but it started to slide and I was just holding it on the edge trying to make it through the corner. All going well until the tiny little 12in tires started hitting the painted center line and reflector bumps! Hit the gaurdrail on the outside of the corner after spinning just over 180, then dragged along it for a bit. I remember how bright the sparks were haha. Popped both tires on the passenger side but I was only 2 blocks from my house so I stuck it in 4wd and limped it home. Scrapped it after that. Learned little to nothing. In my nearly mint 1969 Corolla, I was rear ended from a dead stop at a light when it turned green. The guy behind me in the Future Shop van was probably texting, saw the light go green and mashed the gas. Meanwhile I was intending to make a left turn so was just creeping into the intersection. I don't think a driver could be more retarded than that. Learned never to shop at Future Shop again, and to install an aftermarket 3rd brake light in my Corolla. Track Stuff: Crashed my Corolla drift car, we were doing a layout at the local track that entered the big banked corner in reverse, which was very odd because it was decreasing radius and camber after the apex. My ebrake cable had snapped earlier in the day so I was just chucking it in really hard with a clutch kick. I went in too hard and the front tires started to wash out. At this point I would use my ebrake to keep the car pointed the right way, but it was broken, so the car snapped out towards the wall. I lost most of my speed before hitting due to the car being so light, but still ended up bumping the nose into it going maybe 20kmh forward and 50kmh sideways. The car was quite rusty, so the engine bay rail punched right in under the clutch pedal and the strut tower and fender just sort of exploded in chunks of rust and bondo. Glad I didn't hit harder. At said track there is a decreasing radius corner with overly tall curbing on the outside that we call "learning curb" because every noob hits it eventually and fucks up their suspension. My friend let me borrow his rx7 for a few laps, and I of course proceeded to take the corner too fast and essentially destroy the entire rear suspension subframe and all. He was quite pleased. I helped fix it of course and have since performed a lot of other work on the car, so amazingly , he still lets me drive it on occasion. Final track story, I had a stock 1982 Corolla Liftback as a daily driver. My drift car was out of action so I took this onto the track with some donut spares. When the donuts where used up, I put the regular wheels back on, and a friend challenged me to an actual race (during a drift day lol) With a combination of bad driving, mixed wet and dry track, and a horribly loose worn out car, I got sort of a tank slapper loss of control and hit the wall at about 60kmh and a very shallow angle. Funny, the rx7 I crashed is in the background of the photo too haha
I had a car that cemented my hatred of fiats. Had someone run into the back of me on a country road and it unclipped the side of my rear bumper. which leads me to my advice which is try and pull your bumper off after a rear ender if you don't want to destroy it. Didn't look like enough to worry anyone, it just wobbled a bit. Duck tape it to the bodywork when I get home and I'll be fine. I see plenty of people do that. Insurance only needs to know if the person who ran into me admits he ran into me. Thought I was good to go otherwise after exchanging details. I didn't think to check how loose it was till I pulled up to examine the source of a new scraping noise. I realized that I'd made a massive mistake because it had actually unclipped more than I saw. The air had caught it and snapped the passenger side of the rear bumper back. Do you know how crappy they have to build these things if the airflow at 60mph will break parts of your car? Required more tape than I initially suspected.
I've never been the driver involved in any crashes, My grandfather on the other hand managed to run over a parked Toyota Prius in the Kenworth K100, Luckly no one was in the Prius. Kenworth had a bent bar and broken headlight, I don't have pictures but the Kenny looked like this:
I started clapping when he hit it and then I started laughing, Je looked at me strangely then he realised what he hit then he smiled... Us car people need help...
Good ole' K-whoppers. I had a beautiful bright orange die cast that looked just like that red one years ago.
Nah, people who need help are people who buy a prius Sent from the 3rd galaxy via the talks of tapping
A few close calls in 3 days......the last one was a hit, but not hard Also: Someone reversed into me cracking my rear bumper in Malawi. I reversed into my mothers car with my sisters car because it wasnt parked as usual-minor scratches to both cars. Someone with a Mitsubishi Colt crashed into the back of My mother and I after the guys in front of us stopped to help a guy that was being robbed-boot destroyed My mother drove into the back of a Pajero because she and my sister were arguing-hood and radiator gone Just after my sister got her license and her car, she turned into a one-way, I told her to turn around and she drove over a high pavement (its a Fiat Punto)- a few scratches on the bumper My dad fell asleep behind the wheel and hit the car in front of us-no damage ect...
My mom was picking me up from school few years ago... And when she was in backyard of the school, Jaguar reversed into side of my mom's Jetta.
When I was about 7 or 8 or 9 My mom, grandma, sister, me and my sisters friend were driving back to our condo in Wolf Creek Utah when we hit a 'Baby' cow. Nothing happened to us but the cow had a possible broken leg. The only thing that happened to our van is the hood was dented so it looked like someone threw a tennis ball at the hood at 80 MPH.
My daily driver is my mother's '08 Saturn Outlook, one of the last models made before the brand went kaput a few years back. Last December, I was driving in a nearby city when I took a left turn too sharp, and ran headlong into a concrete median, blowing the tire out and bending the rim. The vehicle had a spare, but I didn't have the tools or know-how to replace the damaged wheel. Thankfully a good Samaritan was driving just a few car lengths ahead of me and saw the whole thing. He grabbed a t-wrench and helped me get the vehicle patched up, allowing me to make it the full ~55-mile journey home. In my four or so years and 27-30,000 miles of regular driving, that's thankfully the most serious incident I've had.
Stick the jack under the car but do not lift the car yet, just raise the jack so it is touching the jacking point (in handbook). Loosen the wheelnuts a little. Jack car up (preferably in gear, handbraked and chocked with something). loosen the nuts fully and remove them. Wheel comes off. Spare goes on. Tighten nuts a little, lower, tighten fully. Its difficult to tighten or loosen the nuts in the air so really its just that very initial "cracking" force thats needed to be done on the ground and the opposite for tightening. Or for brake work, you can use your spare wheel as a chock, not so useful when actually trying to change the spare wheel. Tyre iron and jack should have been included with the car, thats all the tools you need for a quick roadside job. Depending on the car the jack/iron might be in different places. Usually in cars where the spare is under the boot liner, the jack is either next to the spare or if the spare is large enough then it is sometimes kept *under* the spare. Sometimes its kept in one of the side pockets in the boot, many cars also have a side pocket for a first aid kit or share the pocket. A few SUVs and Crossovers have a panel on the inside of the rear door which can be removed, jack and wrench will be in there. Or in our old shogun. The spare was mounted to the rear door, the iron was in a panel on the inside of the rear door along with a flashlight and a few screwdrivers, jack was in a pocket in the side of the car. Handbook will say. But unless someones nicked it over the years since manufacture, your car *will* have at bare minimum a cheap scissor jack and a crude tyre iron, only real exception to that is if the car has the roadside repair kit instead of a spare. Ideally you want a torque wrench instead of a tyre iron but the iron is fine. A torque wrench wont allow you to overtighten the wheelnuts which can damage alloys and on steelies overtightening can damage the studs (steel wheels themselves arent damaged but it) and typically has a longer handle which makes the job alot easier. I do keep one in my car.
I don't have my license yet, but I will tell you my dad's crash. He was driving to work, a big semi was beside him (this ain't gonna end well, and he was in an oldsmobile intrigue with an entirely rusted out frame) and on the other side of him, their was a truck stop, the semi started pulling into the truck stop, the car went under the trailer...but fortunately, the driver of the semi heard a small *crunch* and stopped, luckily their was only a small dent in the quarter panel of the olds.
Welp, time to revive this thread, I guess. I was just involved in an accident about 45 minutes ago. Dad and I (and the dog) were driving back from the farm, with me being the driver of a 2013 Ford F-150 (Lariat, I think). At the last full intersection before my neighborhood, I pulled up at a red light behind a Chevy Equinox headed East. When the light turned green, the Equinox went through the intersection, with me fairly close behind. Just as I began to enter the intersection, a high-school senior in a Chevy Silverado came barreling around the corner of the street we were crossing headed South. Of course, I neither of us noticed this until an instant before the crash, in which I slammed on the brakes. It was a fairly straightforward T-bone, with the Silverado losing its momentum by doing a 360 onto the median to the right of the intersection. My airbag was deployed, and the truck turned itself off and called 911 immediately, which was nice. The other driver quickly got out of his truck to apologize and make sure we were okay. Police arrived, licenses were shown, dogs were walked, and a really nice witness talked to us and the Police. All involved are completely fine. The only thing that I'm annoyed about is the fact that I put permanent dashcams in 3 of our vehicles, and not the truck. I even put a temporary dashcam in the truck every other time we drove it to the farm and back, except this time. I am now buying dashcams for every single vehicle I ever drive. Picture time, above is the scene of the accident after the police arrived, with both vehicles in the same position they were right after the accident. 2nd angle, with bonus dog picture. By this time, the Silverado was moved off the median a little. This is the 3rd angle, in which you might be able to see some of the damage to the two cars. You can judge the winner of this Ford VS Chevy for yourself. I'm gonna say it's neither. If you really want to, you can probably figure out exactly where this happened. I don't really care. All that I've gathered from this is that I can say that I've watched a high-school senior crash at College boulevard.
I have been in one car accident but it was when I was so little I dont remember it and some idiotic women a few weeks ago almost caused me to slam into her and get 5 other cars to slam into the back of me when I had to throw everything out the back of my Jaguar to slow myself down when she tore out infront of me not even caring and I had an unusual sense to check further ahead and I flagged her as a potential hazard and she turned into a major one when I was less than 30 yards from her and I had to put my foot into the engine block to slow the Jaguar down....I almost buried the nose of my car into the road I should have been on the horn but I didnt....
Probably the worst I was in, about six years ago it was my Brother my Mother and I and we were going to see my dad for Thanksgiving on the 20th of November 2009 and it snowed hard the night before and we were in a 96 Monte Carlo Z34 and the tires were worn to hell. So you obviously know what happened, about 35 miles from our destination we hit a patch of black ice and did a complete 360 into the median of the highway almost crashing through the other guard rail but somehow managing to stop in time. It was a sure miracle because if we went through I wouldn't be here typing this because there were three semi trucks that were along side each other on the other side. When we were down there, we were in about two feet of snow. So we powered out the car. Our plan was to keep on going but we were so in shock we ended up driving the opposite direction and didn't even know it. That is what our car was in case you didn't know what a Monte Carlo looks like, basically a sporty Lumina.
