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

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I have been fortunate. Probably 18 years old with a friend, he was driving a 1963 Chevy Impala one night.
Icing drizzle and the road turned into ice. Most likely he was going about 50 MPH and slid into a ditch.

No seatbelt and my head cracked the windshield. I was a bloody mess and sore, but no major damage.
Other than that, a couple slow runs into the ditch, on icy slopes. What I have encountered is a whole nother story.
 
I was in the passing lane (3rd lane) of I-17 North in Phoenix (about 40 years ago) when I noticed a vehicle in the first lane experience a blowout tire, drift to the shoulder, hit the curb, lose control and began skidding back across the freeway. I was immediately on the brakes when they lost control and almost completely stopped when I collided with them as they slid sideways into my lane. No injuries to anyone. In another instance, a driver attempted to cross two lanes to enter a freeway and merged into the side of my vehicle causing very minor damage and no injuries. No other collisions in 57.5 years of driving in MN, IN and mostly AZ.
 
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Just before Xmas 1972 we were driving on a narrow highway (Highway 5, just East of Saskatoon) when we came upon a head-on crash just over the crest of a hill. I don't remember the other car but the one I was involved with was a '63 Impala. Xmas presents and a few loafs of bread scattered all over the road. I sat holding the young lady driver (maybe 20 years old) as we waited for an ambulance. She whimpered a little at one point. When they arrived, the ambulance crew said she was dead - she had died literally in my arms.

I'll never forget the scene, never forget the spot. I started Medical School the next year.
 
In volved in a roll over in my buddy's 57 chevy, missed a turn and rolled it, nothing serious but had a lot of bumps and bruises, senior year in high school.
 
Fingers crossed, knock on wood, never directly involved...well... that I remember...

apparently when i was an infant (1979), like a few days home from the hospital, Dad was at work, and mom had to pick up my brother, or sister from school ( they got sick, call from the nurse, etc..) no car seats/carriers like today, mom couldn't just leave me home alone... she put me in a box cushioned with blankets on the passenger seat...
on the way, back from the school, she swerved to miss a deer, and we ended up down in a ditch. fortunately none of us were injured. but of course mom was extremely shaken up, cuz... new baby in a box on the seat next to her in a car accident.

around age 20, I was at the local Goodyear store to get tires. they crashed my car into their building. they did pay to repair it. ...in their defense... the car DID have non-standard equipment, the car had a secondary accelerator to the left of the brake - it had been my grandpa's car, and his right leg had been amputated - so the kid COULD have mistaken it for a clutch....

back in the...late 60's/early 70's.. My uncle was cruising along a country road, there's an S curve, if you don't make the curve, you'll go straight towards a house.
he didn't make the curve..likely going a bit over the speed limit....but didn't hit the house, instead he hit a massive Boulder, that was kinda hidden in a bush on the front corner of the property. He ended up breaking his Back in the wreck, put in a full body cast, and lost function in one Kidney.
while he was in the cast...his Draft Number for Vietnam was drawn. draft board wouldn't accept a Doctor's excuse, He had to appear before them, on crutches in a Body cast...he was excused.

then in '96, we moved a couple miles outside of town, and you have to drive right past that site to get to/from our house. every time he comes to visit my parents, he has to go past where he had that terrible crash...I'm sure that can be a "fun" experience at times.

Summer of '97, on our way back from a fishing trip to Rice Lake, ON doing 90mph in our Ford Aerostar pulling a boat down the 401 through Toronto, I'm in the middle of the back seat ( great view of the road ahead) cars are of course passing us like we're standing still.
I look out at the road, see a Taurus, go sideways, skidding right at us ( looks like we're gonna t-bone him @90mph) before dad can even start to brake, the Taurus hooks a little, goes out and around us, back into our lane right behind the boat, and starts barrel rolling down the lanes behind us.
it all took just a couple seconds, ( going 90mph) but it's forever burned into my brain.
 
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Summer of my jr year in college I was driving home from summer practice and looked down to open a bottle of Gatorade. At around 25-30 mph I ended up hitting the left rear quarter panel of a rusted out van. The van was totaled and it was the work van used by my roommates employer. I did about $5k in damage to my mother's jeep. One of my coaches got me a decent deal on the repair at the dealership.
 
Was a rainy day, driving home from work on a curvy section of back road in central Florida. Noticed a green 70's Ford pickup truck getting squirrely in the other lane coming towards me. With nowhere to go, I started slowing down but, by then, the truck was sideways in my lane. Then WHAM! The next thing I saw was the hood of my '84 Camaro blocking my vision out of the windshield. I saw smoke coming from the engine bay and tried to open my door, but at first it wouldn't open. When I finally got it open, the driver of the truck, a teenage girl, was laying on the ground next to my Camaro. She was conscious, but bleeding from a pretty good sized cut on her forehead.

She was taken away in an ambulance. The tow truck driver gave me a ride home (their business was near my house). Both vehicles were totaled. I was wearing my seatbelt but was sore for a week.
 
When I was about 5 years old I ran across a street without looking and was hit by a car. I went half way across the hood. Luckily I was not injured at all.
As a teenager I was a passenger in a car (Ford Falcon) doing about 100 mph down a steep hill. We went around a curb and we lost traction and went into a spin. The centrifucal force plastered the four of us against the doors. No seat belts. Fortunately the doors held and the car didn't roll or hit anything. We came to a stop and were astonished to be alive. We then drove home at about 25 mph. It clearly was not our time to go.
 
I hate car crashes. Back in September of 1997 my brother was killed in a crash less than a half mile from our house. It was awful and still feels like yesterday. I still remember the clothes I was wearing the helicopter landing etc…I was going into my sophomore year of high school he was entering his senior year. Don’t know the cause, don’t know that I care but I miss him.

A few years later 2 miles away from his crash site I was a passenger in a 95 z28 convertible six speed. It was late we were heading back to a friends house when he was cruising in 3rd or 4th I said to upshift when he floors it around a bend with railroad tracks I remember skidding sideways in a ditch then nothing. I woke up hanging by my seatbelt bleeding. I was tried to open the door didn’t open, so I kicked it saw my friend and blacked out again. I looked back and we were suddenly 50 yards away and the car is upside down and on fire. Seven staples in my head stitches in my hand and chin. Seatbelt saved my life the windshield header was below the headrests. My poor parents I still feel bad about putting them through that angst again. After that I never let anyone else drive. Wear your seatbelts and be safe.
 
Oct 1st, 1998
Was leaving my house, on my way to a new job on my 1997 Honda Magna.
It was drizzling, but it was the only vehicle I owned at the time.

I made it 4 blocks, when a lady driving an Acura Integra 4 door blew a stop sign, entering the intersection directly in my path, and I had the wonderful experience of t-boning a car at 30 mph, getting forcibly separated from the motorcycle, cartwheeling in the air at full body length, and then crashing into the ground, where my left femur ball was fully separated from the femur neck.

I learned about that injury when I tried to get up, in order to go have a conversation about stop sign function with the driver in the car, and I promptly fell back to the ground in agony.

Had a trip to the ER that day, and was kludged back together using three long medical bolts that held my femur ball to my femur neck.

Had to have a full hip replacement in March 2009.
 
Winter of 13-14, I went to pass a 2004-style Impala on a 2-lane country road with snow drifts, they tried to match my speed, lost control, hit a railroad crossing lights, and the passenger died at the hospital.
 
Divided freeway, 3 lanes each side. Grassy median had a swale along the length of the frwy for drainage. So, I'm in the slow lane going 70 and in my right mirror I see a guy in a "race" car entering the frwy behind me really fast. He passes me doing? 90 or more, spins around backwards and ends up in the grassy median backwards guided by the drainage swale-still passing cars mind you-goes 1/2 mile or so and disappears at an overpass. He dropped right down to the ground. Circled around and he was gone. Amazing no one got hurt afIk.
 
Was hit head on by a drunk driver in 1994. Thankfully it wasn't at high speed, and I wasn't seriously injured. I've witnessed several fatality wrecks, which were all horrible.
 
I have never been involved in a serious accident myself although I've seen a number and ran on a few back when I was a volunteer fireman. Nothing like your first fatal, amputation at the scene or entrapment Wife has been rear ended twice with thousands of dollars in damages but no injuries to anyone.
Knock on wood.
Driving is serious business and should be treated as such. It's not a video game nor is it time to spend on the phone surfing or texting. Proper regard for conditions matters as well.
 
Luckily nothing too bad. In 2016 someone rear ended me and totaled my Camry. I was fine though.
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I’ve been in 3 car accidents in my lifetime. None my fault. Worst was probably the one where my mom rear ended a Subaru Outback in her 1994 Corolla when I was 3 months old so technically I don’t remember anything from it. But she said sun was in her face and slammed into that car at a stop light and tore it to pieces. All it did to the Subaru was ripped the back tag off. The two where I was driving one was in my truck lady sideswiped me in the front end trying to switch lanes just damaged the bumper and tore up one of the lights. The other one while I was at work taking a car to another one of our lots and my coworker pulled out behind me, switched lanes and sideswiped a truck which spun into the car I was in. Damaged that car pretty good. It totaled the car I was driving so they had to give the customer a new car for basically free lol. The guy who caused that failed a drug test but they never done anything with him. Personally I hate driving and only drive to and from work unless I absolutely have to drive somewhere else.
 
Back around 1990, I was the first to roll up on a car upside down in a ditch. Turns out it was driven by 2 upper class men from my highschool, though I wouldn't realize it for quite some time. The car was a beautiful 60's Buick Wildcat.

I got the story months later from the driver. He had given it the beans and the car got squirrelly on wet pavement and he over corrected, bounced the rear quarter off a telephone pole, then ended up upside down in a ditch with the windshield smashing into a culvert. The steering wheel saved the driver but the passenger took a header into the culvert and probably died instantly from head trauma. The driver was still messed up emotionally many years later.
 
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