When Did You Have Your First Accident?

[Koko Ed]

I was 22 and recently got my lisence. I had rented a Chrysler K car. I was talking to my mom at work who was in an accident on Monday(she was pulling into a Hess gas station and the guy behind her rear ended her and gave her whiplash). I went to go cash in my check and I got to four corners in Webster and for some reason hit the gas pedal instead of the brake and then for some reason hit it again and slammed into this poor woman's car. After going "NOOOOOOOO!!!!" and pounding on the steering wheel I went to see if she was alright. Her first words "My neck..."
When the cops showed up I offered to get drug tested and do an alcohol test. "Do you take drugs or alcohol? he asked. I said no. He told me to just take a seat on the curb and relax. They were more interested that a rental company gave a 22 year old a car (supposedly they're not supposed to) and the dealer was more mad about having a tow truck take the car to someone else's garage than they were about me wrecking thier car (they actually asked if I wanted another car ).
When the car was taken to the dealership my stepdad completed the disaster trifecta when he was servacing a Dodge ram that was idiling in the garage. He reached in to get the keys and it took off while he was hanging on the outside of truck. This poor woman witnessed her car which was just in for an oil change get slammed through the back garage door into a pair Shadows outside and get totaled. Fortunately my stepdad got the keys out and killed the engine before the truck slammed throught the other back garage door and kill him. All he ended up with was bumps and bruises.

[Allison K]

In a little over two years I've put over 40,000 miles on my car and I still have not tickets and haven't ever been in an accident.

I did have a few close calls. Once I was driving home fairly late at night and I realized another was in the wrong lane comming at me. It was going aroung a turn so for a second I just thought it was my mind not seeing it right. I don't really remember what I did. I jerked out of the way and the car spun around a few times and at some point I think I threw it in reverse. By some act of God I didn't hit anything and ended up sitting in the right direction on some side street. The car and evrything was fine but I was a little shaken up.

In general I love driving, especially at night. I find it relaxing.

~Allison

[team222badbrad]

One Accident
No Tickets Yet!!!!

I have included the Journal Entry I had to write for my College English class on my accident:

Be safe and WEAR your seat belt, It saved ME!

I have a significant memory or wrecking my vehicle in February of 2004. It was a cold winter morning at about five a.m. I was supposed to get up at four a.m. that morning and meet at a teacher’s house around four thirty a.m. I was going on a trip to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this day to be at an education conference with my high school’s robotics team. I distinctly remember getting up one hour later that I was supposed to. For some reason I cannot remember if I just woke up or my mom came and woke me up. The first thing I did when I got up was to call the teacher’s house to see if they were still waiting for me. After a few rings the phone was answered by the teacher’s wife. She said that they had just left and I should call his cell phone. I called his phone and told him that I was on my way; I also asked him if he could turn around to wait for me. Once I calmed myself from hoping that I would still be able to go, I quickly threw all the belongings I needed into my vehicle. At the time I had a black 1990 Geo Tracker convertible. After getting the car started I sped off on my way not thinking about the road conditions. Within a half mile of my house I suddenly hit a combination of ice and cinders that sent my Tracker out of control. I tried to gain control of the vehicle, but could not and then realized I was heading right towards the left bank. While heading towards the bank I suddenly thought I was just going to get stuck in the ditch. I was very wrong! My vehicle ended up flipping over and landed back on its wheels. Once my Tracker came to a halt; its front end was 90 degrees from the road. Both front wheels were in the ditch covered by a foot or so of snow. I did not realize what had happened for a few seconds until I had looked at the surroundings. Luckily God watched over me that day and I came out of the accident without being seriously hurt. I ended up with one fun rollercoaster ride, no car to drive, one cut pinky, and a small bruise on my forehead. I drove the car back home and called the teacher to come pick me up! Yes, I ended up going on the trip despite the mishap and I even got to see Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell.

[Ryan Albright]

WAIT WAIT I DO REMEMBER ONE ACCIDENT I HAD! I POSTED EARLIER SAYIN NONE BUT I HADE ONE.

I was 13 and i had just finished cutting hte lawn and my grandparents always let me move the cars back into the driveway, so i preceded to do this. When i got to the front of the house instead of hitting the brake i hit the gas right intot he living room and i am talking that the whole car was in the living room. My grandpa was just yelling at me and i was trying not to laugh.

[Michelle 236]

Originally Posted by Michelle 236

I haven't been in an accident yet, but I've only had my license for about 9 months. My bumper is missing a little paint though from last week when I went to back out of the garage and forgot to put the door up first, no serious damage though, I caught myself and I just tapped it.

How ironic, I think i jinxed myself with this post because I got in an accident today.

[Dorienne]

Originally Posted by Michelle 236

How ironic, I think i jinxed myself with this post because I got in an accident today.

Oh my goodness! I hope everyone in the accident and everything's okay! =( What happened?????

[Michelle 236]

Originally Posted by Dorienne Plait

Oh my goodness! I hope everyone in the accident and everything's okay! =( What happened?????

Everybody's fine, except my driver's side front door. I was picking up my boyfriend for school, and his driveway is on the slope of a hill. When I was pulling out to turn left up the hill, I looked and there was no car coming over the hill. So i pull out to go left up the hill and then a car comes over the hill and we both tried to swerve out of the way, but he ended up hitting my car on the driver's side front door. Luckily though, he was able to slow down enough so that there is only a HUGE dent in the bottom of my door, but it didnt crush in on me. Legally, of course, this accident was my fault, but it was pretty obvious the guy was speeding an the cop only gave me a warning instead of righting me a ticket. The most important thing of course, is that no one got hurt, and I got to miss statistics class.

[Bcahn836]

i just saw a really bad accident yesterday. My Dad and I were heading down Rt. 5 and this truck cut across 4 lanes of traffic and pinned this little dodge neon up against a curb, the neon flipped over on its roof and slide on the concrete median for about 20yrds. My dad pulls over, pulls the girl out of the car who is screaming loudly hanging upside down held in by her seat belt, and i called 911, which was busy the first two times trying to call. No one was hurt (except the dodge neon) A very scary incident, i saw the neon go up on two wheels and I'm thinking this is not good, then when she went upside down i though this is definitely not good. I just can't believe the guy driving the truck didn't see the car.

[gsensel]

I had 2 in little over 90 days after getting it. No tickets though, just a few close calls.

[Spammy Badame]

My first car accident was just over a year ago when i still had my permit. I was driving to the library with my mom, and i had been telling her that i didn't know how to park, but she said i was fine. So she told me to park in the first spot on the left side of the parking lot after a turn. I didn't swing out far enough, and I hit the Volvo in the spot next to me. Luckily i was going slow enough that i just knicked the wheel cover, but i was totally freaked out. It turns out it was the cousin of one of my old friends who I had known. That was her second volvo that got hit in a parking lot within the past month, and the last person did more damage and didn't even leave a note. I didn't get into any trouble for it, and she didn't call the insurance company or anything.

I would love to say that that was my only accident that I've been in, but I got into one on the second day of school this year. And to make things worse, I was driving a car that I wasn't insured for (it was my aunt's car, so my parents weren't even insured on it) because my older sister was too tired to be driving that morning. The kid was an IB student in my grade and he got whiplash.

[Yan Wang]

About a month ago, I was driving downtown on a part of the main road that was under construction. Only one lane was open so cars were stopped or either crawling forwards at a mille per hour. I noticed that the left brakelight of the car in front of me, a station wagon, was broken. At one point, I stared left at some people walking by and bumped into the station wagon going about 1mph. The shock was pretty big. We pulled over. No damage was done, no one was hurt, so we just went our way. Upon pulling back onto the road, I noticed that the force from my bump fixed the guy's brakelight

Quite a positive accident.

[MisterX]

Luckily I have been in no accidents while I have been behind the wheel but...

Mother's 4runner hit a tree
Dad's car got rear ended at stop sign
Sister's vehicle backed into another car
Sister's vehicle rear ended at stop light
School bus got rear ended at my own bus stop
Firetruck backed into a k-9 unit
Dad's pickup truck t-boned at intersection by guy flying over hill
Rear ended by an accura at a stop light (they were estimated at going 80-90 actually wedging themselves under the truck)
Friend's Grand Chereokee rolled it avoiding a deer going down back roads (shoulda just hit it)

And apparently I was in 2 more as a child but I dotn fully remember them so they dont count

Guess I am not very good luck am I

[Matt Attallah]

All rookies!

Do I win something?

[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.

1 accident, 1 ticket on my record...

In fact today I got a call from my insurance agent telling me that im 3 years without an accident, so I can file for some program which will reduce my insurance cost by another 15% in addition to the money dropped from the accident.

Basically I was driving and it was a bit wet.....i was slowing down at a stoplight next to the highway and I stepped on my brakes and just kept rolling, I had my choice of hit the car or, slide over into the turn lane and roll out onto the highway and get t-boned on the drivers side by a semi going about 55....so yeah I decided that a little damage to my car wasn't as bad as possible death.

The car I hit had 1.59 worth of damage....the glue required to put the reflective trim back on the bumper... and yeah my front bumper was basically hanging off...but fortunately nobody was hurt.

I got rid of that car (finally) a year ago last July and it was way past due for that...

We'll save the ticket story for another thread