Sooo, car accidents are fun. - by june gloom
Rug Burn Junky on 5/9/2009 at 14:57
Quote Posted by Turtle
Comedy 'Obama Health Care' reply.
A death panel for grandpa would have saved that poor Lexus.
BrokenArts on 5/9/2009 at 15:59
Glad everyone is ok!
Sulphur on 5/9/2009 at 17:46
Whoah, thank fuck nothing really bad happened to any of you. Sounds like you guys were really quite lucky, all things considered. And thank fuck for insurance, too.
Can't say I ever had anything like that happen to me, nearest was the time when I was sitting in back and talking to a friend when the cabbie ploughed into a concrete barrier to avoid an oncoming car, at which point I found myself jerked forward and had my my face smashed, nose-first, into the back of the front seat. Hurt like hell, but apart from being slightly dazed, no injuries and no casualties. And that's the important bit, eh?
Starrfall on 5/9/2009 at 18:02
Try falling asleep while driving along a coastal highway at midnight.
WORST FUCKING WAY TO WAKE UP EVER
BrokenArts on 5/9/2009 at 18:06
Are you speaking from experience?
Harvester on 5/9/2009 at 23:22
Glad to hear you guys were ok, dethtoll.
37637598 on 6/9/2009 at 01:14
Quote Posted by Starrfall
Try falling asleep while driving along a coastal highway at midnight.
WORST FUCKING WAY TO WAKE UP EVER
This one time I was driving on the highway with my roomate going about 80 on a very dark overcasted night, and the headlights in my car went out. I hit the brakes abruptly but safely and when the car stopped, she (my roomate) turned on the flashlight that I keep in the glovebox, pointed it in front of the car out the window, and we were stopped about 20 feet from hitting a guard rail above a 200 foot cliff. My breakfast was delicious the next morning. Cheerios.
and I'm glad no-one got hurt dethtoll, vans are not a fun thing to be thrown around in.
Muzman on 6/9/2009 at 04:00
It's always kind of sad to watch old drivers deteriorate. After walking becomes less fun they can still drive. Once they get nervous about that it's a pretty big blow.
My gran must have got her license taken off her a dozen times. Eventually my aunt had to get rid of the car and secure the keys of any others lying around.
Be assured, she was a genuine road hazard. Puttering defiantly around at ten Ks an hour she still managed to get into accidents and crush letter boxes, fences etc. It didn't help that her much younger boyfriend was still pretty spritely, but blind as a bat, and used to do the same thing.
Lucky in a way they didn't live in the city or anywhere major. Still, all the windy mountain roads and enormous road trains that barrel through town several times a day didn't let anyone rest easy.
Was there any chance Gramps' knee problem might have contributed?
june gloom on 6/9/2009 at 04:08
It wasn't his knees that was the problem as his knee operation was close to twenty years ago, it was his hip most likely. He hadn't been driving for very long since he fell and broke his hip back in June- he'd been driving for a week without incident, but he wasn't confident in his own driving yet. Hitting the car behind us was one thing, but speeding forward was because when he tried to put the car into neutral, it slipped into drive and he barely had enough time to react to turn the car so we didn't hit the wall head-on because he couldn't move his leg off the pedal.
Starrfall on 6/9/2009 at 16:37
^lucky there weren't any pedestrians in the way, that would have been awful
Quote Posted by 37637598
we were stopped about 20 feet from hitting a guard rail above a 200 foot cliff. My breakfast was delicious the next morning. Cheerios.
We probably didn't have a chance of actually going into the ocean, just a chance of crashing very badly. Which I managed to avert by over-correcting, spinning out across three lanes of what would have been three lanes of traffic if it hadn't been so late (there were a few cars on the road but very luckily for us none were around when this actually happened), and coming to a stop facing the wrong direction after hitting a concrete barrier surprisingly gently with the back end of the car. Astonishingly little damage to the car and occupants, given the circumstances, just mostly scary as shit.
