When Did You Have Your First Accident?

[Dorienne]

So yeah, when did you drivers have your first car accident? it can be big, small whatever.
Reason I made this thread is because today I was taken out driving for the first time by my sister. She took me into this parking lot, and there is an area where there are dumpsters and a big trick was in one of the parking spaces. So she tells me to pull into one of the parking spaces near the truck. So I do, and then she tells me to pull out so I can drive back out. So I do, but I accidentally drift pretty quickly (we're on a slanted hill doing this) and hit the back corner of the truck! (Take note I got my Learners Permit on October 12th, and this is my first time driving.) Luckily, the truck wasn't damaged. What we had to worry about was my sister's car, which has about $1500 worth of damage on the right front around the headlight. I'm so upset about it! I feel horrible.
Anyways, so when did y'all have your first accident? Was it bad? Who/what did you hit? Did you total the car or did you just make a few dents?

[Mike Ciance]

dori, what are we going to do with you? i've gone driving about 8 times already and i've missed all obstacles by at least a half-inch. i might go out driving today though, watch me total the car

[Mini-D67]

Ah, new drivers.

I've had my license for close to 2 years, and the only accident I've been in was when I got pushed into another car by someone who didn't really know how to drive a manual.

[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.

[tkwetzel]

I have been involved in one accident, and it wasn't my fault. I was rearended in DC on Oct. 16th. There was no damage to the other car, but my dad's Passat (the car I was driving) needs a new bumper. I have had my license for about 2 years and had my learners permit for a little over a year before that.

[Bcahn836]

Mine was a few weeks after i got my license. I was going across an intersection in my 1988 oldsmobile (solid Steel) and out of no where a ford foucus T-bones me in my passenger side door. Lets just say the Foucus lost that battle. He was going about 40 mph when he hit me, but the state trooper gave me the ticket cause i was the youngest and had too go to court, the ticket was dropped in court immedietly and that was the end of that.

[greencactus3]

well ive had no accidents thankfully buti did blow out my front driverside tire tho. still not sure how that happened

[Ryan Albright]

no accidents here and i will have had my license for 3 years in march. Thats kind of amazing because how i drive and i live in Florida. If any of you have been to florida and been cut off by those !#@$@ drivers....well i am one of them 0

[Katie Reynolds]

Don't feel too bad, Dori!

The first time I ever drove was with my dad ... he took me to a parking lot of an abandoned store. There were big light poles and I, um, was kind of headed right towards one. Luckily, I stopped *just* before hitting it, but I realized that I, somehow, had my foot on both the gas and the break. My said, "lift your foot off of the gas and step on the brake." I guess I wasn't qucik enough, because my car idled right into the pole! We never had the damage assessed, but the fron of my car still has that nice dent - I'll post a picture later!

As far as a "real" accident, I was rear-ended this past June. I was stopped at a stoplight and I looked at my rearview mirror and saw a car that didn't look like it planned on stopping. It hit me going about 45-50 mph. Apparently her "brakes locked up" because of the wet roads. Her car wound up going under mine, knocking off the entire exhaust system and shattering the back bumper. The other car was totaled. She got a ticket for wreckless driving and a wrecked car -- I got a new bumper, exhaust system (which actually needed to be replaced anyway, 'cause it was old and falling apart) and some back problems to go along with all of it. Mostly whiplash in my back (but none in my neck, surprisingly) but I still have some lingering back pain. Ick.

[evulish]

The closest thing to a damaging accident I've been in was I was doing a U-turn in the middle of the road that wasn't wide enough. I thought I was just taking the car off the road and over some tall weeds. Well, apparently they weren't tall weeds.. but short weeds on a large mound of dirt. It scraped up my bumper a tiny bit and jolted me.. but that's it. I've come really close to being in some bad accidents. The worst close-call was when I was going 65 on a 3-lane road (two going my way) and some guy was doing a left-hand turn heading my way. I was in the right lane so I wrongfully suspected he was going to go into the left lane. My brakes were screaming as I slid nearly sideways about a foot away from him.

[Kyle Fenton]

Wow, this is a freaky thread.

I just had my first accident yesterday. Another car avoided a stop sign and hit me head on the side of my car. My car needs a couple of days of repairing now.

But it is freaky being in an accident, you don’t know what is going on until it happened.

[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.