What's The worst Auto Accident You Have Been Involved With?

[rekit]

1968 or so me and 3 friends were headed to Austin for some camping, and came upon an accident. 10 or 20 people already there, Trans am upside down in a creek. After about 10 minutes enough guys were there to try to flip the car, which was in about 3' of water. We were up by the roadway, and as the car flipped we saw (our first) deceased guys in the car flop around as the car rolled upright. Wow...
We drove a little more carefully the rest of the trip, for sure. Anyway we got some beers and set up our tents and had just about forgot the earlier event and were ready to hit the sack when George says "hey remember them dead guys?", and we all beat the crap outa him.

 

[rekit]

1968 or so me and 3 friends were headed to Austin for some camping, and came upon an accident. 10 or 20 people already there, Trans am upside down in a creek. After about 10 minutes enough guys were there to try to flip the car, which was in about 3' of water. We were up by the roadway, and as the car flipped we saw (our first) deceased guys in the car flop around as the car rolled upright. Wow...
We drove a little more carefully the rest of the trip, for sure. Anyway we got some beers and set up our tents and had just about forgot the earlier event and were ready to hit the sack when George says "hey remember them dead guys?", and we all beat the crap outa him.

Not transam, Camaro/Firebird-misremembered

 

[Skippy722]

I’ve bumped into stuff in reverse….

Not directly involved but 2 weeks ago I watched someone drive off the road and into a very very solid tree at 55-60mph. I was first on the scene. If I hadn’t stopped to pet the kitten or had driven a little faster they would have hit me.

I have since stopped driving that way to work.

 

[BrianF]

Only minor stuff for me, thankfully. But have been to plenty of bad ones. Lost a good friend to a moose collision.

I tell my kids that we always wear searbelts, look both ways at a one way and drive safe, not for us but for all the idiots and drunks out there.

 

[DirectRejection]

This is my miraculously non fatal head on collision with a Ram truck. It was enough of an angle, and a perfect hit, so as to not be much worse.

As the driver of this PriusC, that's my head almost going through the windshield on the passenger side. The steering wheel airbag did not deploy.

I almost bled out, let alone avoiding serious injuries. The driver of the Ram was 100% at fault, with no insurance or assets.

 

[Delta]

This was in 2017. Me and a co-worker were traveling West on the PA Trunpike back from Eastern PA when we we had to stop due to a small accident ahead. Unfortunately for us a semi was not paying attention and we're rear ended and wound up on our side as we went up an embankment. Managed to climb out and saw the whole story. There was a full size Lexus that was behind us that was a buffer in between us and the semi, and was completely obliterated. Only thing that saved us from any major injuries. Unfortunately that person did not make it halfway through the life flight to Hershey. I have pictures of the car, but will not share those, only our van.

Truck driver had multiple log books and alcohol in the cabin, which is a big no-no. I only had one scratch and my co-worker had nothing.

 

[andrew_j]

Thankfully nothing really.

As a kid just got head bumped hard on window on black ice(skating rink) when mum driving AMC Eagle slid spun low speed taking ice bank impact on corner. Car looked barely damaged but totaled since frame bent enough wheels sagging in.

 

[RedSpider]

Not cars, but motorcycles. I wasnt involved directly but when I was in grade school there was a fatal accident in front of my house. Two guys and their dates (we found out later they were all drunk) were racing their motorcycles through our neighborhood around 1:00 a.m. and a girl fell off the back of one of the bikes and slid into the stop sign and telephone pole at the intersection out in front of our house. My dad was awake watching tv and heard it, and my mom woke up to the sound of the bikes and a girl screaming and looked outside. I'll spare any detailed description because it would probably violate forum rules but after I finally woke up and went out there to see what was going on, it was several magnitudes of awful. Turns out the girl who was screaming was on the back of the other bike and was a girl from the neighborhood a few houses up that we knew who had moved out about a couple years earlier.

I know the topic is auto accidents but we lived a couple miles away from a (now closed) general aviation airport and a Piper twin, with six onboard (all died) went down a few streets over. Our power flickered off, and about a minute later it was all sirens and within about 20 minutes word went around that a plane had crashed. I hopped on my bike and rode up to where all the noise and smoke was and when I got there the fire trucks were still putting it out. I saw one landing gear, one engine, part of a prop, and lots of chard and/or burning sheet metal. That was one horrific sight.

 

[72C10]

Rolled my pickup truck when I was 19. Got the right front tire off the pavement just enough in a left-handed curve. When I brought it back on, I lost control and slid upside down on the cab until it rested on the side in a church parking lot.

I ended up slightly cut from glass but otherwise okay.

The stupidest accident I had was driving a truck. I was driving west of St Louis on I-44 when someone dropped a treadmill right into the lane of the interstate at night and I plowed right into it. The people who dropped it took off and I pulled it over to the shoulder will air lines cut to my front brakes.

 

[ZZman]

As a police officer I witnessed dead people in car accidents. Most weren't grisly however.

The wildest one was a drunk guy who took out a light pole. When I got there he was walking around and talking with one of his eye balls hanging by the optical nerve on his cheek. You could look right into the eye socket hole.

 

[slo town]

1973. Left front wheel snapped off (because of my own mechanical error) on a downhill, tight, high G, 55 mph right hander. In an instant we shot off the road and over a cliff, going completely airborne and broadsiding a redwood tree with the passenger door on the way down, then landing upside down in a creek bed a hundred feet below the road. Both of us made it out alive, injured but more or less under our own power. Recreate that scenario 100 times it would be fatal for at least one of us 99 times.

Scott

 

[Sumboodie]

I forgot to open the barndoors tailgate I installed on the truck a few days prior last week and backed to the conveyor like I've don't a thousand times, just without a tailgate.