[Kit Gerhart]

I had my first accident my third year in college, in 1966. It was a very small accident. My '57 Chrysler had a bad master cylinder which allowed the brake pedal to slowly go to the floor when pressure was applied. This happened while I was un-parking the car, and I clipped the corner of another car at about 1 mph speed. Since the other car was a Corvette, it did some minor damage. Had it been another car like mine, there would have been no damage. Since I was driving a defective car, I got a ticket and had to go to court. That turned out to be my first, and last traffic ticket.

The most recent of my three accidents was in 1974 when a car ran a stop sign and drove into the side of my car. No one was hurt, but both cars needed trips to the body shop.

In all, I've been very lucky to have had few accidents over so many years and miles of drivng, and to have had no accidents where anyone was hurt.