Saw a car accident

[evilhomer 0]

I didn't see the whole thing, mostly just the collision, but the gist that I took away from it was this: 3 lane street, 2 cars in centre lane, parked cars in inside lane, no traffic in outside lane. Driver A (front) cruising along normally; Driver B (behind) speeding down the street, needs to get around driver A. Driver B guns his engine (obvious from the sound) and cuts around driver A in the inside lane, but fails to notice a parked car and slams into it without even hitting the brakes. (For the record, no apparent injuries, no passengers in parked car, no contact with driver A, driver B walked out looking unharmed).

 

Driver B is screwed. He's looking at thousands of dollars in insurance fees now, plus numerous charges which will depend on how he can spin it and the mood of the cop. And I can't help but laugh thinking about it. I strongly condone speeding, but it's morons like this that ruin it for the rest of us. First, don't do it on city streets, save it for the highway. There are far too many variable possibilities on the street. Second, he didn't look where he was going. There was enough room to pull the dumbass move between where he cut in and the parked truck 200 yards up, just not enough with the parked car that he obviously didn't see. You want to speed, you have to see at least 10 - 20 seconds ahead of where you are. But the thing that makes me laugh the most (and I'm sure has got this dumbass kicking himself) is the poor decision making. He broke one and two, which is bad to do, but with luck you can get away with it, but the decision he made to cut right instead of left is what really screwed him. He cuts left, into an empty lane, he races off to his heart's content. But instead he wanted to be the hotshot and zip in and out, and he paid for that bad decision. While I hate to see a driver who actually knows what that funny pedal on the right was designed to do have some trouble, I'm laughing that someone who uses it so badly got what was coming.

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0]

As long as he is okay, I'd laugh at him.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Pics?

[evilhomer 0]

Pics?

Sorry no. It would have made a great video, but I saw it from my balcony which didn't give me a good angle and was too far away. And I was too damn lazy to run down and get any.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Fuck him. I don't care if he did get hurt. Assholes like that need to be off the street.

[tominator89 0]

I'm with KKK on this.

 

I hate those types of drivers who think that they own the streets. If they don't abide by the rules then I have no sympathy when stuff like this happens.

[EricMM 0]

The only accident I've seen was somebody turning right into traffic in a minivan and absolutely being broadsided by a ford truck zooming down Rockville Pike and just absolutely not stopping at all. The driver must have been getting his dick sucked or something because it was the stupidest looking accident ever. The last thing I saw was the minivan just absolutely rolling away, down an embankment and out of view.

 

I don't think my dad noticed it (he was driving at the time) and I was too young and flabbergasted at the time to mention it.

[Guest Smues]

Fuck him. I don't care if he did get hurt. Assholes like that need to be off the street.

 

 

Amen

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I think you can laugh all you want, but Karma would kick you square in the ass if you do.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Not if the guy was driving like an idiot. Now if a landslide buried an unfortunate motorist and I drove by and started singing "U got OWNED," then I'd agree with you about the Karma Gods bringing their wrath down upon me.

 

Years ago I was visiting my half-brother in California. This vehicle carting something around (lawn equipment, I think) took a wide turn and sideswiped this Mexican who was sitting in a parked car. The Mexican blared on the horn. It was at that time we noticed that the Mexican was parked in a "no-parking" section.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

I'm glad I've never seen a bad traffic accident. The following happened to a friend of mine last year:

 

He was outside his house doing some yardwork with his dad, when a van came driving by, down the street. Suddenly, the van kind of veers to the right, and ends up hitting a tree, quite hard. Accident looks bad, so his dad runs into the house to call 911, while my friend goes over to check on the driver...to find the driver was dead. Bones sticking out of her neck and blood everywhere.

 

I think what happened is the lady had a heart condition and lost control of the vehicle. Pretty terrible experience I wouldn't want to be a part of.

[NoCalMike 0]

I was at an intersection a few years ago(Walerga and Elkhorn, for my Sacramento bretheren) sitting at a red light on the way to class. A Toyota Tacoma is driving down the street at normal speed, and a Van that wants to exit their apartment complex decides they can just pull out onto the road and force the driver of the truck to screech his brakes to let the Van in. Well the Truck Driver DOESN'T and slams in the van, turns on it's side and spins in place a few times. Both Cars are wrecked, and I was gone too quick(my light turned green) to know if there were any injuries. The sound of a collision when you are close is freakin' loud, I think I was surfing the radio stations, and I just happened to look up before it happened and witnessed the entire thing.

[Jericholic82 0]

when I was in like 9th grade, I was waiting for the bus at the stop, annd checking out my math hw, when this car came barreling down the intersection, trying to beat the light I guess, and slammed into another car coming straight. The guys rim came flying off and rolled down the hill a bit. No one was hurt too bad I dont think, cuz I left right after.

 

once I was in my dads office at his job, and we suddenly heard a loud crash. Some idoit drove his new car into the side pole and wall there. The guy wasnt hurt but was crying and freaking out about his car.

[Red Baron 0]

I was involved in a car accident when my gf was driving her Cavalier, and the owner of a local bar pulled out to turn left, right in front of us. He was driving a GMC 2500 Truck, with bigger wheels overlooking us, and he said he couldn't see over top of the other cars, but clearly the truck was taller than all of the other cars.

 

In Vancouver a Lincoln Town Car smacked into the first generation Beetle, and the front end of the Beetle was rolled a block and a half, while the Town Car had minimal damage.

[evilhomer 0]

You all just reminded me of the first car accident I witnessed and had erased from my memory. Light turns green, Taurus wagon goes, and gets slammed by some asshole running the red light. I say running the red, but it was so far gone from the light changing that he wasa actually going straight through a red. I mention this because it freaks the shit out of me thinking about it. The Taurus got broadsided and spun around in my direction (standing on the corner as a pedestrian). I was simply shocked and mesmerized by the whole thing and didn't move a muscle. The whole thing missed me by at least 20 feet, but it scares the shit out of me that a couple of inches differences in the collision would have sent a car straight at me. I'd like to think that I would have moved if it was coming at me, but who knows.

[Maztinho 0]

Once as a kid, I was going to a drive in with some friends of the family, sitting in the back of their truck, just chilling, watching people drive behind us and acting stupid. When suddenly the car behind us tries to whip around us, hits a slick spot on the road (it had been raining earlier in the day) and totally smashes into an electric pole, breaking it in half, and all of the sudden all these sparks start raining down onto the road.

 

It was pretty cool.

[Ced 0]

Only accident I've ever witnessed was at the grocery store near my house when I was about eight. An old Buick made a completely ill-advised left turn trying to go into the parking lot and the truck coming from the other side couldn't stop in time and nailed in on the passenger side, lifting the car onto two wheels, skidding a bit then slamming back onto the pavement hard. I remember people running towards the wreck while I ran back to my house in sheer terror. I felt bad later on because it was an elderly lady in the Buick and she died due to the injuries sustained.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

When I was three, my family and I were hit by a drunk driver. Nobody died and I heard when the drunk driver tried to get out his car, people had to hold him cause he was so drunk.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Shortly after turning 16, I was driving around in the middle of fucking nowhere smoking a joint with a friend of mine when he looked ahead and said "Animal." Plowed this deer with a beat to hell '68 cadillac. Took the hood ornament off. We stopped and poked it with a stick.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Deer are the worst. You really have to look out for them driving here in Wisconsin, especially at night. One time a friend and I were driving back from Milwaukee towards our home town (after seeing Monday Night RAW, actually), and as he was driving, a deer jumped out in front of us. I SCREAMED, and was stomping on the "brakes", even though I was in the passenger seat. Basically, what was so freaky is that in the darkness, the thing looked completely white in the headlights, and I couldn't tell what it was at first. Fortunately, we missed hitting it by probably about three feet.