Everyone's best crash story

[MNR-Chicago_S13]

Here's mine.
One saturday after a 12 hour workday, i was driving home. I was slowing down for a red light, some cars in front of me were already at a complete stop about 30 yards away. Next thing i know, BAM!. I had fallen asleep and let off the brake. I rear ended a red jetta at about 30mph. To make it even funnier, the VW's passengers were an indian family going to a wedding, with the old *** grandparents in the back seat. What makes it funny? I hit them so hard, the back doors were jammed shut, and these old farts were stuck inside, screaming even though it was no deal. They were seriously screaming like the car was on fire while they were trapped. I was driving a tank at that time (1996 Ford Taurus)

[SmOkIneLf]

in my friends go-kart i was messing around in a parking lot doing wearing out his tires to no end. was having fun when one of my friends decides to jump in front of me. I immeditaly make a sharp right turn end up goin on two wheels :eek:. i almost **** my pants swerving back left to balance out and next thing i know im headed staright for a wall :(. i slam on the brakes and try and turn right trying to avoid the wall, i didn't hit the brakes in time and the right front tire hits the wall denting the rim in and axle so the tire is mostly off. he ended fixing it that weekend though. btw im 16 in NY so i can't drive a car yet but thats my crash story :D

[Ian]

haha when i was 11 driving my go kart...goin down a gravel covered hill...it was a turn onto the straight hill...it was out of a yard into a street...i was goin full throttle...15 mph lol

but still. lost control...went straight off the side of the hill, my first "drift" experience...right into a tree...it was hilarious cuz the car didnt have reverse...it was a lawnmower engine kart, there was go and no go...

so me and my cousin had to pull the go kart out of the ditch/tree...nothing broke...it took us 2 hours to get it out of hte hole tho haha

[SmOkIneLf]

heh its fun messing aorund with those things :D . there great to just thrash around and run to the ground. would be great to put performance adders on them if i could find any :cool:

[MNR-Chicago_S13]

Briggs and stratton engines are capable of running on alcoholl, that makes em pretty fast in my experiences

[SmOkIneLf]

cool :cool: well since im 16 im saving up for my 240 :D

[wingsnthangs]

I'm taking my cousin to Redondo Pier at around noonish and its heavy traffic on Hawthorne going north (right by Del Amo Mall). I had my license for about 4 months. 1992 Toyota Camry LE.

I guess i was gating too close so I rear-ended a 1997 GMC Safari. Its chrome bumper was smashed in. Twisted metal. We pull over to the left shoulder (rare, i know) and we exchanged info. Ended up paying off the husband and wife $700 w/o insurance hassle for a friggin bumper. Didn't occur to me til later, but the woman driver had a cast on her whole right foot (could i have argued it even though i rear ended?).

Here's the kicker. Not a single dent or scratch on the Camry's body or paint. The front left headlight was pushed in about a centimeter, but not noticeable unless pointed out. Anyways, since then, I leave plenty of room in front of me and havent gotten into another collision since.

Domestic cars. Built tough my ***.

[Sniper-X]

I crashed racing/Drifting against Signal Auto's Drifter X driven by Fumiaki Komatsu.

[Phlip]

Manager at my old job (still PT as needed, as this case happened to be) lives on a dead in street. I dropped him off and it had JUST started to rain. I pull off from his house and start to cut a U-turn and decide that I don't like 3 point turns too tough after all (Had just gotten a clutch the day before) and I am going to SLIDE it around. It slid, I didn't reel it back in and wound up buying a new wheel the next day.

[SilviaNinja240]

the worst accident would probably be when this SUV cut me off and a surved and flew into the sidewalk the whole frame got bent :mad:

my other accident was drifting into curbs:( I have to take it into the shop to get it allignend, but hopefully that's all that's wrong with her

[xLSTONEx]

In the early days of learning how to drift. I was driving and got on the gas before I started the turn. Big mistake for me, massive understeer and strait into a ditch i went. Or it was kind of like a drop off into some guys front yard. Well I drove out and I had a crack front bumper. Got a new one, only accident to date. Now I drift extremely well and have my racing licences, no more screw ups for me.


Oh yea this needs to be on the Off-Topic Section next time.

[ellinikomangas]

I was in Canada driving my uncles mid 90 explorer (ones with the bad firestons) towing a fishing boat. So i pass this guy and im going 90kph by him then slow down to about 70 kph, when all of a sudden the car starts to swerve to the left, right at an oncoming car luckily im able to get it back to the otherside, to shorten the story I went into a ditch and flipped it 3 times except for the whole near death experince it was actually kinda cool everyone was alright except my uncle needed 3 stitched. Car= totaled.

[thx247]

fwd drive car and Id only been driving maybe 3 months. Enter a decreasing radius turn too quickly and I enter the adjacent lane to make the turn. The adjacent lane unbeknownst to me had a large bump. Struts bottomed out and I lost control. Rear of car comes around to my left (right hand turn here) and I scrape the front bumper at about 70 degree angle to the concrete wall. Tires regain traction as we slow down and I roll backwards into the wall 2 lanes behind me.

Passenger could not get out as his door was 1 inch away from the wall.


Best accident I could ever have asked for while going 70mph.

The front plate scraped the wall so perfectly that the numbers were scratched off but the rest was untouched. I kept the plate. Dumped the car for a tint job on a different vehicle.

[WhiteNissanS13]

my friend LYNN CHAU was driving her 92-96 toyota camry 4cyl and we were on the freeway, we were switching lanes as this CIVIC SI was switching at the same time. LYNN swerved to avoid hitting the CIVIC SI and as she tried to regain traction she started to fishtail and next thing we were SLIDING across the freeway, and we hit the front driverside against the gaurd rail and the car bounced back in reverse back into the freeway lanes and this made multiple cars have to swerve around us, and then the car hit the rear against the gaurd rail. THERE WAS 5 OF US IN THE CAR , the rear middle passenger RAINIER VENUA didnt have a seatbelt so he almost flew out the damn car, CAMRYS ARE SAFE!, v6 one are FAST!?

[DarkRaptor42]

my first and only accident:

Had a hot *** chick in my car. We were at a dead stop tring to leave the parking lot of my school in my Escort. I see this plymoth lazer coming with its turn indicator on and is trying to pull in right next to me. My fine passenger looks at me and says "shes going to hit you". I reply, "I know". Next thing I know there is an 6'' indentation in my car right behind the drivers side door. The girl who hit me was an exchange student who had just gotten her license that day.

Damnit.

[SilviaDriver]

me slamming into a guard rail in the moutains.

[flip240]

Originally posted by wingsnthangs
...I guess i was gating too close so I rear-ended a 1997 GMC Safari. Its chrome bumper was smashed in. Twisted metal. We pull over to the left shoulder (rare, i know) and we exchanged info. Ended up paying off the husband and wife $700 w/o insurance hassle for a friggin bumper. Didn't occur to me til later, but the woman driver had a cast on her whole right foot (could i have argued it even though i rear ended?)...

Thats funny, same thing happened to me as i hyrdoplaned my 1990 camry but i hit a gmc envoy. envoy's chrome bumper was dented and pushed in a little, and my camry's hood and fenders were smashed up to the engine head.

I drove that car like i stole it, and it lasted 200k+ miles with only a minor oil leak as a scar. As far as i know, its getting into whole lots of trouble up there in wisconsin... (dmv still sending me notices about its whereabouts\accidents\crimes)

[silvsx]

90' nissan pickup.........driving on wet roads, with mud tires on. Enter a long sweeping turn and lost the rear end. counter-steered and kept a decent angle through the trun, but it still slipped up and over the crown in the road. I slid down the other side of the crown, into a ditch and hit a tree head-on at 60mph. I put two cracks in the windshield...........one from me forehead, and one from my nose. When I came too, I was happy as hell because i still had my teeth.

[fastpace]

Well I hve to stories to tell. Well I was taking my brother to work and we were running late and I was going about 55-60 mph. There was a car on my right comng out of an apartment, so I swirved to the left to not hit the car and ended up on the other side of the road where there was oncoming traffic. Luckily there was no traffic on that side for another 100 yards and just landed in a ditch. The legacy was still in good condition and just needed to be hosed down.

[fastpace]

the other story was when I was first beginning to drive (16) and I wanted to prove to my brother that I can drive so he gave me the keys and we were going to my uncles house. I drove okay there, but coming back was a different story. My brother kept on telling me that I was to close to a curve and I needed to get over. I told him yeah whatever and preceded to drive. Before you know it I was on the curve and with 3 popped tires. My brother was ****ed as hell, but for some odd reason he didn't rub it in.

[turtlepower240]

my best wreck was my first wreck... i was driving with this guy i was dating at the time and our friends were behind us... i was going through a GREEN light when all of a sudden this homeless drunk man runs out in front of my car so i had let's see... not a lot of time at all to slam on the breaks in order to not hit this guy... ok so i didn't kill him, but the next thing i know my friends behind us come crashing into me... i went hysterical... i had never been in a wreck before... needless to say i started screaming and crying and acting like a big fat baby... anyways i got out of the car, no shoes on (i can't drive w/ them) and i started chasing the homeless man because when you're that mad you'll do anything... i was seriously about to kill this guy and if any of you know me, i'm not the strongest girl in the word, especially when it comes to hurting drunk homeless men... anyways, luckily there was a cop nearby so he went to get the homeless man and for some reason called an ambulance... as i was runnig through some big field i stepped on a rock and hurt my foot so when the ambulance got there and asked me if i was ok, i said no... cause my foot hurt... hahaha so then they decided it was best if they rushed me off to the emergency room... i feel so sorry the people who's time i wasted but it's still a fun story to reminisce about :)

[Steeles]

I was driving a buddy of mines car.. a Renault P.O.S. just finished a nice light spring rain and we are on my way to pick up my little brother. long straight away into a hard bend left that flips back right. fun road. in my z I could take it at 60 with the tail sliding out coming right. knowing that this POS renault didnt have the handling of my Z I wasnt going that fast and was just over the yellow line. well a REALLY big chevy Dually was coming the other way... also on th eyellow line due to the sheer width of a Dually on this narrow road. I lifted the throttle and countersteered as the tail end went right and held it for all of a second then it went all the way around and I'm looking at the back of the dually we just spun around. cltuch in and still moving backwards we ran out of raod. big ditch. my buddy jumps out of the car and was like "that was AWSOME!!!!! 20 dollars says you couldnt do that again if you tried!" he still owes me that 20 ;)

[zspturbo]

I only have one crash story. first time I drove on real roads, I was pulling into the driveway, and the garage door was closed and I bumped into the garage door at like, 3 mph. did a rediculous amount of damage to the garage door, but just barely scratched the paint of the car, lol.

[NZO]

We had just gotten out of a movie like 12 at night and went to a friend’s house to get a drink and chill and were bored so we decided to go cruising on a nice driving road nearby in my friend’s newish WRX. I'm sitting shotgun. He wasn’t driving super hard or anything but we were going pretty fast maybe 40-45mph and there are no streetlights at all on this road, it just goes up a mountain so no nearby houses or anything either. Well myself and another friend in the car knew the road pretty well but the driver didn’t and we kept warning him about this one right-hander that is pretty crazy. Its like a hairpin and goes up and to the right really steeply without any warning. We both weren’t sure which turn it was exactly so for about 2 or 3 turns before we actually got there we kept warning him to slow down on every right hander. By the time we got to the actual dangerous turn I guess he had had enough of listening to our warnings and wasn’t going cautiously anymore so we took the steep inclined 35 degree turn going ~45mph. Since its such a steep incline there’s no warning and you cant see it with the headlights because the light doesn’t hit it until its too late. Needless to say we slid off the road and hit the wall sideways at 45. Can’t remember much of what happened during the accident I just remember coming to rest with the driver’s side of the car almost perpendicular to the ground and passenger side way up in the air since there was a ditch on the side of the road. Luckily no real injuries except for my friend in the back driver’s side who busted the window out with his head during impact and had some neck pain. We were really lucky because if we had gone off the other side of the road there is a straight drop of ~200feet down to the bottom. When we called the tow truck guy he said he pulls Porsches and stuff out of the other side all the time and it’s not a pretty sight. Anyway, it was an interesting experience. ;)

PS. btw none of us were wearing seatbelts except for the driver. This was particualrly strange for me because I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt. This experience reinforced just how important seatbelts are, and how lucky we were that no one was seriously hurt. Wear dem seatbelts guys! :D

[zspturbo]

Originally posted by NZO
We had just gotten out of a movie like 12 at night and went to a friend’s house to get a drink and chill and were bored so we decided to go cruising on a nice driving road nearby in my friend’s newish WRX. I'm sitting shotgun. He wasn’t driving super hard or anything but we were going pretty fast maybe 40-45mph and there are no streetlights at all on this road, it just goes up a mountain so no nearby houses or anything either. Well myself and another friend in the car knew the road pretty well but the driver didn’t and we kept warning him about this one right-hander that is pretty crazy. Its like a hairpin and goes up and to the right really steeply without any warning. We both weren’t sure which turn it was exactly so for about 2 or 3 turns before we actually got there we kept warning him to slow down on every right hander. By the time we got to the actual dangerous turn I guess he had had enough of listening to our warnings and wasn’t going cautiously anymore so we took the steep inclined 35 degree turn going ~45mph. Since its such a steep incline there’s no warning and you cant see it with the headlights because the light doesn’t hit it until its too late. Needless to say we slid off the road and hit the wall sideways at 45. Can’t remember much of what happened during the accident I just remember coming to rest with the driver’s side of the car almost perpendicular to the ground and passenger side way up in the air since there was a ditch on the side of the road. Luckily no real injuries except for my friend in the back driver’s side who busted the window out with his head during impact and had some neck pain. We were really lucky because if we had gone off the other side of the road there is a straight drop of ~200feet down to the bottom. When we called the tow truck guy he said he pulls Porsches and stuff out of the other side all the time and it’s not a pretty sight. Anyway, it was an interesting experience. ;)

PS. btw none of us were wearing seatbelts except for the driver. This was particualrly strange for me because I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt. This experience reinforced just how important seatbelts are, and how lucky we were that no one was seriously hurt. Wear dem seatbelts guys! :D

sounds like some initial D **** there man :D :p

that reminds me, I havent watched any initial D in a long time....:D

[240GURL]

I was TEST DRIVING an eclipse GSX and some as*hole T-boned me. I ended up on the other side of the road facing the other way. The cops made me drive the car back to the dealership, the rear wheel was smoking and my cousin had to hold the passenger side door shut because it wouldn't close.

The salesman was *****d when I got it back to the dealership, but after he called the cops (they told him it wasn't my fault) he tried to sell me another car. Needless to say I quit car shopping for a few months!

[Brian]

fell asleep at the wheel after being up for a day and a half. ended up smashing into the rear of a parked big rig truck that was on the side of the road. i guess i was probably going 50 miles per hour or so. i have no memory of anything that happened. i don't remember leaving my friend's house a good 6 miles away. i don't remember driving at all. the only thing i do rememebr is waking up to fire fighters pulling me out of my car and then the next thing was being on a table in the hospital. i had some good cuts on me and a sprained ankle that i could not move for a week. overall it was a good time because i got my s14 after the crash.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4290566885 a few pictures. car was mitsubishi mirage sedan.