Huh, thats a rarity these days. When I was a kid my mum managed to spin her car off the road with my sister and I in it, ripped the front wheel off as it mounted the kerb and totally crushed the rear end as it smashed into a tree, was an insurance write off. Stuff in the boot got shifted forwards through the rear seat forcing 1 half of it down (split rear seat deal), thankfully my sister was on the other side and I was in the front, that could have been rather nasty. How many people stopped? 1 guy. Busy road aswell, we waited for half an hour for someone to come and pick us up and everyone else just drove on straight past without a care in the world as for whether we were alright or not. The 1 dude that did stop did it right at the last minute, as he walked over to our car the person that was coming to pick us up pulled over behind him... When the recovery truck went to remove the wreckage a few days later they found the stereo, catalytic converter and the entire engine had been nicked??? Just a shitty ford sierra if I recall, who would want the factory stereo or the engine from that?
Most people that go to church on wednesdays are pretty religious. That probably had something to do with it. It was a pretty minor crash anyway. You probably couldn't see any damage until you got close. We came across a wreck that had literally just happened right before we came over the hill on I-75. Impala came across the median and got wedged under a cable fence. Those things save lives. If it wasn't for the cable, it woulda ended up on our side of the interstate (north). There were probably 10 people around the car, and a bunch of cars stopped on the shoulder. The few people that were on the interstate slowed down all the way from 70+mph and asked if they were okay. Maybe people are just nicer down here.
Yesterday I was pulling the lawn mower out of our garage when two cars crashed right in front of my house, I saw it all happen, and I ran over to see if everyone was okay, and take big pieces of car out of the road. The first car (A Mazda SUV) had a trailer and the car in the back (A little Chevy Hatchback) was riding really close behind the Mazda at 35 mph, the Mazda had to stop quickly and the Chevy rammed into the back of the trailer, there was an undercover Crown Vic like 3 cars ahead of them, and I got to give my very first Accident report to a police officer!
A few years ago a teenage girl lost control of her car on a long hill in our neighborhood. She took out a transformer, cutting the power and cable to my whole street.
My road (state route) right in front of my house has idiots crashing all the time on it. Just the other day, a trailerparkian smayashed some woman who was turning right to get in her neighborhood, and of course she did not use her turn signal AND was on the phone. That's not the worst of it yet. PM me if you want to read the burning trailer story.....(not related to cars but funny/stupid).
I live on the B645, rather long road and I do commute along most of its length to reach uni, seeing either a freshly crushed hedge or some churned up mud that wasn't there the day before is a daily occurrence, coming across a full car on its own along there is also fairly common. Actually this is the same road I span off of Someone was actually killed along the stretch of the road "in front of" (ok I live a good half kilometer back from it being on a farm) my house a few years ago. Remember just going to look out of the window late one evening and seeing some cars parked up on the edge and peoples shillouettes moving around the car headlights, a few minutes later I saw flashing blue lights turn up. Next morning went out and sure enough there is a car upside down in a ditch with most of its side torn off and its door located further along, roof fully caved in and alot of blood. Was gone when I came home 7 or 8 hours later. The weirdest thing I saw along that road was last march coming home from work 1 night. Police car stopped along the road at midnight, lights on, officer waved for me to stop so I did, he asked had I seen a horse because 1 was on the loose. I told him that I hadn't. Next morning I went out again. Turns out someone found the horse, with their car. The police were back again with a tow truck and were trying to pull a horse corpse out of a ditch by its ankle using the tow truck winch. Was a big old horse. The RSPCA got involved with the horse owners and seized the surviving horses for neglect and poor conditions.
Well, here is a Google Map I made of my house and the crashes. https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zILdXJqqpINM.kbRwdtK-6MUg
Okay, I've decided to list all the crashes my family has had: My mom: She used to own a nice Ford something and someone smashed into it when she was backing out of a driveway. Then my grandma bought her an older worse model of the same car which she smashed into a tree on an icy uphill road at night. (At Ski Sundown which is where I go to snowboard.) Then she had some red sedan (Or a hatchback or something.) which she actually didn't crash. Then she had a Dodge Caravan (Like a '99 or something.) which in around '06 she spun out on a wet road and hit a tree head on. Then she bought a used '05 Chrysler Town and Country minivan. This is her last crash and the only one with a passenger. (Me) We were driving through the center of our town and someone hit their brakes hard and the person in front of us did so too. Crappy brakes and a heavy minivan meant we crashed at like 15-25MPH. The woman in the car we crashed into (Happened to be my brother's friend's mom.) got whiplash and was taken to the hospital. Their car (Santa Fe) just needed a new bumper. My moms car? Broken bumper, hood, headlight, grill, radiator leaked coolant everywhere, and the side panel was pushed back and the driver door wouldn't open. Still worked good enough to drive onto the loader. She bought a 2010 RAV4. Base model. (I4, 4 speed auto, FWD, nothing fancy at all.) It has around 30k miles on it. (I wanted to get an '06 Ford Escape hybrid. It had leather seats, good mileage, GPS, all that. My mom went for the RAV4 because she wanted something more reliable.) My dad: None at all. Unless you count a tree falling on his '03 Saab in the driveway during a big snow storm in 2011. Because of the strong pillars the roof didn't actually crush. It was totaled but it was still driveable until he got his '04 Nissan Maxima 3.5SE. 3.5L V6, 6 speed manual, leather seats, heated steering wheel/seats, all that. It was around $6-7k used. Right now it has 160-170k miles on it but the engine isn't burning oil or anything like that and nothing has broken that he couldn't fix. Sister: She has a '00 VW Passat V6 with 5 speed manual. She has crashed once. In the snow she slid and hit a car at pretty low speed. Nothing was broken except a big dent in the fender (Still there) and eventually the blinker basically cracked and fell out. (It was replaced and now the right blinker is the only clean part of the car.) It was fairly cheap but stuff keeps breaking. It had to get new catalytic converters which had to be fixed recently due to a failed weld and the engine isn't that reliable and it burns oil. (One time it randomly wouldn't start like it wasn't getting any fuel or spark. Then it started just fine later.) Me: I don't have a permit or anything yet but when I was 9 my mom started letting me back the car in/out of the driveway for her until I was 13 and it was dark. Her car was parked in the road so after my sister left I drove it into the driveway. I was going backwards but apparently my sister stopped or something because I hit her car. The only damage was a dark bumper mark on her car. (And I'm not allowed to move the cars anymore.)
My worst wreck ever that I remember is my mom accidentally rear ending a school employee at something like 2 mph. Worst one I don't remember happened while I was still a fetus. p Serious) My mom was driving home from work in a snowstorm in Texas, fell asleep, spun out, crossed 4 lanes of same-direction traffic, rammed the median, jumped a lane, crossed another 3 lanes of oncoming highway traffic, and two lanes of oncoming access road, then drifted into the shoulder; facing the right way. Her, I, and the car were fine.
i find it funny that your mom said that about the rav4 vs ford, as the ford actually has better crash ratings than the rav4 OT: quite a few close calls in the parking lot of walmart and lowes lately, because of assholes who don't know to check behind them before reversing, but no crashes yet (hoping to stay that way, but there will always always be those assholes)
The worst (and only) one I've been in was back in '07...it was the first car I ever purchased (94 cavalier, convertible, with the 3.1l v6...one of the funnest cars I've driven to date)..... there was this girl (of course) that I had had a crush on at the time, and I was going to go ask her out.....so I went to the car wash, which was no more than a mile away, spent like $14 washing the thing....and on my way back, ended up hitting some kids in a tacoma. the speed limit on the road was 45mph but I was approaching an intersection, so I was doing about 40. My light was green and I was in the left lane because the right lane was ending soon. Well the tacoma was turning left and somehow didn't see or hear me (white car, headlights and driving lamps on, and I may or may not have had two 12" subwoofers....so it was pretty loud too, lol) I saw them wanting to turn, which was the reason why I had taken my foot off the accelerator and started hovering over the brake, just in case....despite that....I was still going too fast and he started to turn too late....I swerved to my right, and he swerved to his right, but we both hit driver to driver. My cavalier was totaled and so was their tacoma. When we hit, his truck sort of climbed my hood, and bent part of my windshield frame down, and with no airbags, I hit the side of my head (very close to my temple) on the edge of the frame....needless to say I was a bit out of it. I do remember at one point, while waiting for the ambulance, I was coherent enough to open my eyes and look forward...I just remember seeing his grill right at eye level, no more than about a foot in front of my windshield....I could literally have reached out and touched it if I wanted to. I was obviously hospitalized, by ambulance, where I had to get both stitches and staples, and also crutches since I sprained my ankle and wasn't able to walk on my own for about a week... and even to this day, I have an inch long or so bump on my head that's numb and has no hair..... fun times... >_>
Its the assholes who don't know to check behind them before reversing that are responsible for the fact that my drivers side door is not the factory original. I think he said reliability for the rav v ford not crash ratings. Personally I'd go ford though, don't like the rav at all. Nasty. Did you at least get the girl for your efforts?
Nothing big but this happened 2 weeks ago. My dad borrowed my car and a taxi reversed out of a driveway right into the bumper. (imported from here)
hey! give credit where credit's due, lol.....even the underpowered 3.1l v6 in a car that small can make for some surprisingly funtimes.....despite it's lack of umph above 4k rpm's think: light enough to hang with a mediocre hothatch in a corner and enough torque to lay down 40 ft. burnout marks..... but to answer that question....I replaced it with a 94 camaro with a 3.4l v6, 5-spd....until I got the settlement money from my insurance....where I then proceeded to get yet another 94 camaro z/28...I dunno what was done to it engine wise (was a 5.7 lt1).....but I know for a fact it was ungoverned....because at one point I pegged the speedo (150mph) and it just wouldn't...stop...accelerating....I finally backed off out of nervousness. Sidenote: My avatar is a gif I made from a video I took of the z28 camaro I had. at that time I also just got my motorcycle endorsement, and acquired an 86 honda rebel 450....then a tropical storm came and all the water destroyed the opti in the camaro....and with a bunch of other stuff going wrong, I got rid of that and got a 96 buick oldman....I mean skylark....with a (you guessed it) 3.1l v6, lol.....then got rid of the rebel and got an '02 suzuki intruder 800....then got rid of the buick and the intruder and moved to washington.........where my brother eventually gifted me his 94 caprice wagon (5.7 lt1 as well) which I still have now.....I got an 85 honda magna vf700 a little over a year ago.....but now that's inevitably ended up in my brother's possession because I'm moving again soon...which is going to be replaced with a 2014-15ish Suzuki Boulevard M109r one day in the very near future. I plan to hold on to Rumbelina as long as I can though, to be replaced only by any other overpowered, v8, rwd stationwagon. I feel the need to throw in the obligatory "'murica" because my lust for overpowered, rwd things seems to be insatiable! except for the fiat 500 abarth......that thing holds a special place in my heart.....also the toyobaru...and the 1st gen rx7's....also the 1st gen miata's.....oh and I can't forget about the new focus st.....and for whatever reason....the honda cr-z >_> /salivate
After trying to write to this thread SEVEN FEBREEZING TIMES, I will try again. Long story short, I was about 2, sister was still in the womb, and my mom was driving a Civic I think. We got caught in a Suburban's ass who was part of a collision already. Semi truck eats our ass of our Civic, and if I was not wearing a hoodie that day, then I would not have been typing this and I would not be friends with a vegetable. (not sure if Potato is actually challenged but ya know) I just have been told that it was one ugly ass scene to be in, for a car, not people I guess. Also my dad was somehow hit by a train in a Gremlin a little after he met my mom, in, like, the 80s. He is still here doe. I did witness a van catch fire at my school. Burned for about a half hour, and it exploded. I think some kid got hit by something metal but it was a bit ugly. And of the worst, I witnessed one dismemberment and one decapitation in my lifetime. One kid in my 3rd grade class lost his entire left arm, and a bit of his shoulder, so it was really close to being killed. Then some dude with road rage got decapitated by a semi, so yeah. (the semi was in about 7th grade)
Nah du I'm fine I am not a socially or mentally challenged person. I do consider myself pretty messed up mentally, but in a twisted sick way. You can't tell until you get to know me though.
