Just had my first car accident

[Gizmo1990]

Backed into a parked car, it was raining and my brakes did not kick in as quickly as they normaly would. The other guys frount bumper is wonkey and one of his tail lights is out along with one of mine. Luckly he seems cool with it and we exchanged info and everything so it should not end up costing either of us to much money. I have only had my license for about a year and it could have been alot worse.

Anyway share your stories of your first car accident.

 

[Elfgore]

It was raining pretty hard on night as I drove home from Friday Night Magic. A driver a couple cars ahead of me had no clue where he was going. So he was frequently braking and then speeding up again. Finally after doing this for about five minutes, he found his way and did a complete brake. The girl behind me thought he would just speed up again, so she didn't break as hard as she should. She rear-ended me going about 10mph. We pulled over, my bumper had a small crack and her hood was completely peeled up. Since it was raining and we were both young, 17 and 16, we just decided to exchange phone numbers and call if our parents wanted us to do something. Never got a call.

 

[Isra]

I've never collided with anything, but I almost hit a deer at 75 MPH. It was dark and it seemed to materialize out of nowhere about 10 yards in front of me. I hit the brakes and jerked the wheel to the left, lost control and fishtailed. Went into the other lane, spun 180 and ended up back in my lane facing the deer again, who only then decided to move. Left probably 50 yards of rubber on the road, I was lucky there was nobody else in either lane and that I didn't swerve into the ditch. Could have easily been a lot worse.

Now I never drive on a rural highway at night without my high beams on.

 

[shootthebandit]

I came off a roundabout too fast and lost control luckily there was no other vehicles involved so my insurance didnt need to know. The police pushed me into an layby. Luckily I had a cheap french car and I managed to get a new clutch, gearbox (which was only broken because the recovery guy tried to start it) and a front bumper for less than a new car

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I've been fortunate enough to have never been in a collision. I have however spun 360 degrees on an incredibly icy road in front of traffic going both ways. That has been my scariest driving experience to date but fortunately the people in the oncoming lane saw it and slammed on the brakes and those behind me drastically reduced speed, allowing me to right myself without any damage.

Still relive that whenever I drive on ice. Take it slow folks, even when you think you're going slow enough.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Mine is pretty forgettable. Mostly because I slept through it. I was asleep in the backseat and then I woke up in a hospital with my right leg messed up, strained neck and a horrible headache. Some kind of wire went through my thigh muscle. It hurt like hell. Strangely enough my head was 100% preserved. Not a scratch.

 

[username sucks]

Mine wasn't too long ago, I just backed over some mailboxes while coming out of my driveway. I had done it hundreds of times before without hitting anything, but for some reason that day I thought I could start turning before I even made it to the end of the driveway.

I didn't need to get insurance involved, I just let my neighbors know and then fixed all their mailboxes.

 

[Username Redacted]

That doesn't sound too bad. I was worried this was going to be about one of the two accidents I saw on my 10 minute drive home today (one meh accident the other epic fail; rain likely contributing to both).

The first serious accident I was involved in was when a stolen (or uninsured car) slammed its breaks in front of the car that was in front of me. The car in front of me slams their breaks and I, due to the fact that I'm driving a shit car, rear end that car. The stolen/uninsured car speeds off and the other driver and I are left to sort out a lot of shock but not a lot of damage (mostly swapped paint).

 

[TechNoFear]

I can't remember my first accident, too long ago...

I do remember the first car I killed dead though; a 1975 Honda Civic.

As I came round a sharp corner at 110 Kmh I hit a block of wood and blew a front tyre, over corrected and rolled the car.

We went on the passenger side first (I remember seeing sparks coming in the window), on to the roof, on to the drivers side, hit the kerb and flipped end over end (I remember seeing tree tops in the headlights).

The car landed upright, engine screaming, in the only patch of median strip without trees for 200m each way (I would be dead if I had hit a tree).

The car looked like a golf ball, with the passenger side roof crushed into the passenger seat (a solid tube roof rack and 1960's Malibu surfboard saved the driver side from being crushed in).

The only injury I got was a scratch on my cheek from my sunglasses, which broke from being thrown around the car.

 

[Tiger King]

was coming up to a blind corner on a narrow road, another person came flying from the other direction in the middle of the road and I had to swerve to avoid him/her.
managed to avoid the oncoming car but the back end went out from swerving so hard, ended up hitting some poor family's garden fence and wrecking my car.
The other driver didn't stop either.

Was seriously angry because to the people who owned the fence it looked like it was my fault, I imagine they must of thought I was some kind of boy racer!
but if I hadn't of swerved to avoid the oncoming car I guess I could have been seriously injured.

That's pretty much why I hate driving, too many idiots on the road. I think some young lads are the worst, you know the ones, they buy stupid spoilers and exhausts for their cars and drive flat out everywhere. I know one teenage driver that got his license and within a week he had rolled his car because he was driving too fast.

 

[Denamic]

10 years driving, zero accidents. Well, save for maybe getting stuck in snow. I was in a car accident as a kid though. Me and my grandfather were going somewhere, when an oncoming car were gliding over onto our lane, which forced my grandfather to dodge it, which caused him to fishtail and go down the ditch. Could have been much worse, seeing as no one was hurt and there was mostly just superficial damage on the car.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

My car exploded and then I died a horrible mangled screaming corpse.

Oh wait, I'm confusing the future with the past again.

Been driving frequently for 7 years. Never been in an accident.

 

[generals3]

Never been in an accident yet although it came close to it twice. It was snowing, the road wasn't cleared and i had summer tyres and on top of that it was a downwards slope. Despite me driving slowly and leaving a safe distance when the car in front of me started slowing down i started to slip and almost hit it luckily i had the reflex to zig-zag a bit (to increase the distance) and slightly hit a pole on the sidewalk though. (without any damage but a few scratches)
The second time was again under snowy conditions, had to take a sharp turn and ended up doing a 360, if i had been any faster i would have probably ended up in someones back yard.

 

[Leemaster777]

I had my first accident a few years back. I was in the left-hand lane of the highway, and some moron tried to merge into my lane... while I was still in it. He banged into the front right of my car JUST hard enough to make me lose control and drive into the center median. Fortunately, the center median where I ended up was grass.

He turned around and came back, but this SOB was doing everything in his power to try and get me NOT to call the cops, and then when the cops came, doing everything in his power to get me NOT to file an accident report.

Fortunately, I made the right decision, filed the report, and got the insurance check from his insurance company... which I then promptly used to fix the air conditioning on my car (the actual damage to my car was entirely cosmetic). So it all worked out in the end.

 

[BeerTent]

I've been into a lot of close calls. Ones that would have likely killed me. I don't have all of that metal between you'an me. I'm a cyclist.

Bit of a story on this collision. The particular BMW I hit had splashed a co-worker recently. I remembered the license plate, and later keyed the car as we had confronted the bastard while he stopped to get gas. He response was "Don't want to get splashed? Don't go outside without a car. You can't do anything about it." So, I grabbed his license plate, I keyed the fuckwagon when I saw him later in MY parking lot.

This was very shortly after such keying. 1AM, just a light sprinkle. Not really fair to say it's raining again, and my backpack was full of drinks. Fatigued I lowered my head on a street where lights were sparse, and the very same BMW was parked on the side of the road. I barely even noticed it when I looked back up, and when I did notice it, It was too late. I tried to stop, but my front wheel hit is bumper, my backpack broke and flung over my shoulder, hitting his trunk. Another little dent. Not enough noise to wake anyone. When I realized it was black, BMW, and had funny white lines along the side of it, I decided to pick up my backpack, grab the handlebars, and walk the rest of the way home.

As for close calls? I'll give ya one. Phoof... One of the roads I drive on is Bayers. There is not enough room on Bayers for cars, let alone busses and bikes. But I needed to go on it. Did I mention that the road is an atrocity? There's potholes as large as me on there!! Well... On the way to work, I had to ride on the road. I was avoiding potholes going down the hill when I hear a buss behind me. That's okay, I can keep up with his speed downhill, and there's a bus-stop coming up soon. I'll stay ahead of him and turn into the parking lot near where I work.

The bus decides to pass me, about, eeh, 50 feet before the bus stop. I'm going at a good clip. He's going at a better clip.

The bus turns on his signal to turn right. I cannot see this, I am side-by-side.

The bus goes into my lane, I am not about two feet behind it, very, very concerned.

The bus gets very, very close to the curb and slams the breaks, at this point, I had just swung a leg over to jump onto the sidewalk, taking my bike with me. If I had stayed the course... I probably would have hit the corner of the bus at about 30-50 kph.

Dem busses.

 

[purf]

All three of them:

First accident was similar to the OP's story. Wouldn't call it an accident, even, more of a "contact" a couple of days maybe after having my license: Tight parking garage, no free spots, I was apporaching the ramp to leave again and thought that I might be at an angle here that will have me contributing to the streaks of carpaint on the wall in front of me. So I backed up. Without looking. Like, for a car that may have come up behind. Clonk! No harm done, though.

Second one was when some guy thought my indicator was set for the small driveway he came out of, not the big crossroad some meters ahead. It sounded and felt like quite a collision, and I was expecting the right fender to be a mangled mess, but... not a scratch ? A tiny dent on his car. We just went our ways.

Third and only "proper" one with actual damage: An unexpected patch of slippery road + a sharp corner = "Huh? Why am I going straight?" Knocked over a portion of someone's garden fence of the railway sleeper variety. Luckily, sturdy stuff while not buried in too deep: A good stopping force that also softened the blow - a few meters further in, I could have hit a gas tank.

360 degrees on an incredibly icy road

And then there were the two accidents I did not have. Icy Roads? Yay, Empty Parking Lots! (serious word of advice, this!)

Spoiler: A close call

So, the German Autobahn! I'm zooming down that very bridge, from the far side. Nice downhill view, wheather is good, traffic is low, only two trucks chugging along on the right lane, so I go well over my usual comfortzone of 130km/h while closing in on the trucHOLYFUCKITPULLSOUT! And I find myself racing towards a wall of metal, 100 meters above ground, a ground only a barrier away which an out of control car can easily flip over

By the time I was down to the truck's speed, you couldn't have fit a person between my hood and its rear.

 

[Kaymish]

lets see i was 2 months into my restricted license when i came round a bend in the motorway when suddenly a wild traffic jam appeared going from 100 to 0 takes a long distance i ended up writing off 3 cars but luckily someone else fell into the trap and hit my wreck

second i was some what more experienced this time being a couple of years into my license we wer at a roundabout and the lady in front of me had a clear path and started going so i looked to the left to see if there was any traffic there was none so i accelerated i then look ahead and see the lady in front of me has randomly stopped and then her towbar went through my front bumper didnt help that it was raining too

and the last time i didnt really crash but i was having some fun on a slippery wet roundabout and put the car into a bit too much of a slide and did a 360 onto one of the islands separating the entrance from the exit lucky it had one of those popup signs

 

[Safaia]

My first was pretty basic. I hit black ice and went into a snow bank when I was sixteen. I walked down to the gas station at the end of the on ramp (since I was getting on the highway) and the owner told me the store phone was business only and to use the pay phone. (This was like 2003 so I didn't have a cell phone yet). When I told him I didn't have cash he told me it was business only so I had to stand on the side of the on ramp crying until someone pulled over and took pity on me.

My second was the interesting one in the sense I nearly got decapitated. I was going over an overpass that crosses over a major highway. I, again, hit black ice and was going too fast. I bounced over either side of the bridge three times before hitting this very small patch of dirt that didn't have me going into oncoming traffic. If I was in a SUV instead of my little suburu I would have gone OVER the edge of the bridge instead of into it. Anyway here is the fun fact of the day: when you have a hatchback car everything in your trunk becomes a projectile weapon when you get into high speed crashes. I had a casarole dish in my trunk from moving and it flew forward and embedded itself in my headrest. Less than an inch up and it would have taken off the top of my head. The bodyshop that I took my car to (and eventually deemed it totaled because my frame went INTO my engine) freaked out because they had known me since I was thirteen.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

An old couple who must have been at least 90, drove straight through a round a bout without looking and smashed into the side of my car.

They should have stopped driving long ago.

I had another one that was fucking scary, but somehow nothing bad happened. I was driving down a winding mountain road at night, hit an oil slick coming out of a corner. I completely lost control, spun around twice and came off the road, somehow I ended up stopping backwards, between two massive trees without a scratch to the car. The gap between these two trees was about 12 inches wider than the car.

I quite literally shit my pants.

 

[Fijiman]

My first and only accident was a case of third time's the charm. That day I had already had two retards nearly hit me because they don't know how driving works and later in the afternoon when I was driving my brother to school for football game(he's in the band). I just so happened to get stuck behind someone who's car decided to die right in front of me in the middle of rush hour. I finally spotted an opening and decided to take it the same time someone coming off the highway wanted to. Neither of us saw each other until it was too late so my front right corner went right into her side. We decided to go ahead over to the school since it was literally a minute away and not block traffic more than it already was. We exchanged information and went on our separate ways.