Have you ever been in a terrible car accident?

I've been in a few bad car accidents myself, but none that were life-threatening.

One of my best friends, Sarah (her pic is in my gallery) was in a bad car accidents on Saturday. Her and her friend were driving from Chicago to L.A. with a brand new car her friend purchased three days before. They were driving through New Mexico and hit some black ice. The brand new car rolled over several times. She was basically scalped (half of her head was stripped completely bald) and her face was cut up real bad. She has severe back and neck injuries. She's a popular dance choreographer in the Chicago area. Her career might be ruined

I feel bad for her...

Any of you been in life threatening car accidents? What were your injuries?

 

Yeah luckily I don't remember it. When I was six a old man in a pick up truck had a heart attack while he was driving down a highway and ended up somehow colliding with my dad's car. I was on life support for a week or so... had some internal bleeding, lots of glass in my one eye, two broken bones and needed fifty stitches. They said the only reason I didn't die was because I was wearing my seat belt... put me on tv and stuff.

Sometimes it makes me wonder.. I consciously remember nothing but when I was about sixteen I would start to have panic attacks sometimes when driving or riding on highways... don't know if that had anything to do with it or not but I have wondered.

 

Stuff like that can be stored in your subconscious.

 

I was only ever in one car accident, and it wasn't bad at all. I just bumped my head off of the window, but my car door was all smashed in.

My friend died 2 years ago from drunk driving. He was driving home from a bar and was going really fast and wrecked into this brick wall thing. He died right away. After that happened, I would get anxiety attacks, and get real panicky when I would drive, but now its gotten better.

 

Well, the accident itself that we had last Spring wouldn't generally have been life-threatening, but had we been speeding, I would have died. We kept a jack in the trunk of my car, and the backseat folded down on the inside for easy trunk-access. The impact of our car hitting the other car chunked the jack from the very back of the trunk straight into the back of my seat. I got bruised up pretty bad, I smacked my teeth on my chest (boy, the physics that made me bend my neck like that were insane), and I walked with a limp for days after, but because Daniel was driving the speed limit, my seat stopped the jack. Had he been going much faster, the impact of the stop would have slammed the jack through the seat, either breaking my back and rendering me paralyzed, if not worse, for the rest of my life, or splitting me in half.

Poor Daniel, though...the reality of it all hit him the very next evening after the accident. He's usually the calm one, he doesn't live in the world of "what if," he can keep ahold of himself...but god...he cried. And it was one of the hardest things for me to have to watch, because I knew there was nothing I myself could do to make him realize that what mattered was that I was still alive. The whole incident shook me pretty bad that night (I still remember exactly how I felt...physically and all), but I had a very hard time accepting that it had happened at all for a couple of days afterwards, then when the reality that I almost died hit, I just broke into pieces. It was strange, though...I wasn't crying for myself. I was crying for my family, for Daniel... I can't imagine what my death would do to them...because if I die...well, hey, what will it matter to me? It's them that really matter.

When you have a near-death experience like that...it really helps you realize the things in life that mean the most.

Anyway, I thank my lucky stars everyday that I've never been injured badly or sick enough to be hospitalized, and that I can still feel somewhat safe within a car.

 

two good friends of mine recently died in a bad car accident, like a couple blocks away from my house. i seen them like 2 hours earlier

and my best friend since i was 12 was in a horrible car accident last january. he was the only survivor, and he was in a coma and they told us all he wouldnt make it. then he hung in there a few more days and they said that he might live but if he did he would be a vegtable for the rest of his life. when he finally woke up, he was kind of a vegtable but got better in the hospital over a few months. he proved the doctors wrong, hes a fucken savage. i was always visiting him in the hospital. he couldnt talk or move his arms, he couldnt walk, and his eyes were facing different directions. he wasnt himself and it hurt for me to look at him. now, like a year later hes walking(with a cane tho) he can talk (a little slow but hey), his eyes look normal, and he can use his arms but not his left hand. im so glad to have him back hes a fucking miracle. the doctors said he was going to die and thats what we all thougt but hes back =D awww i love him here he is

haha hes the mexican one

 

I almost forgot to mention, in my long ass rambling, when I was a senior in high school, one of my very good friends moved away the weekend I turned 18. We had his going away party and my birthday party together. Anyway, New Year's Day, I woke up and got online to be bombarded by messages telling me that he had been in a horrible car accident the night before and might not make it. He had been driving, completely sober, and hit a patch of black ice on a winding path, rolling his SUV.

He was paralyzed from the chest down and had extremely limited mobility in his arms after they started bringing him back, and after a few surgeries, he regained use of his upper body and arms. He's in a wheelchair and might never walk again, but he's had one hell of a cheerleading squad backing him up. He's been with the same girl for about 3 years now, she's stuck with him through thick and thin, and he's happy. I'm really happy for him...and wish that I could visit him.

 

i've never been in one in which i've gotten killed.

my previous lives were on tecnologicly advanced worlds that did not worship automobiles the way the dominant culture on this one seems to.

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Oh no Annie! That's horrible what happened to your friend Sarah! Many healing blessings her way!

 

ive been a few but nothing too serious. the worst was on the way to cheerleading practicei just had to go to the chiropractor for a while for my back and neck

 

3 of my friends died in a car accident while they were travelling around new zealand.

ive been in 4 accidents. one caused by me. none too serious. only minor injuries. i was in my boyfriends car and he was showing me there was something weird going on with his brakes. he then drove 6 hours up the coast with some friends and thank god made it safely, then when driving to the corner shop his brakes failed and he went colliding down a hill, hit the curb and rolled into a ditch. if that had happened on the highway im sure he would have died.

 

Jeez I'v been in so many bad ones I couldnt even count! And 3 of them involved tractor trailers. For some reason though, even in the accidents I've been in were people had to go to the hospital, I never even got more than a few scratches.

 

When I was 5 or 6, my sister and I were in a car accident with my grandpa driving, I was in the front seat with a box on my lap...a woman ran a stop sign and would have t-boned us, but my grandpa saw her coming and was breaking so she hit the front of the car instead, spinning us around.

She went into a ditch and when my grandpa tried to ask her if she was ok, she snapped at him "leave me alone" What a BITCH. Could have killed two little girls and can't be civil.

The box was torn out of my hands by the force of it...I remember that clearly. If I hadn't been wearing my seat belt I would have gone through the windshield...

Another time, a few days before Xmas 11 years ago, I was driving to work very early in the morning on a country road, so they hadn't plowed yet...I lost control around a bend and rolled my car. I was ok, but in major muscle pain for about a week...

 

Oh those sore muscles are a bitch...that's the worst memory I think I really have of our car accident. We took enough aceitaminaphen and ibuprofen to kill a horse for the week afterwards. Prolly really should've gone to the doctor, but my dad was being an ass and told me to wait it out so that insurance wouldn't start asking questions about whether or not I was in school and make him pay for it. What a guy...

 

Wow! I am really sorry to hear about that! I have never been in a bad car accident. But, being a firefighter/paramedic, I see my share of car wrecks. Very serious ones as well. It is very stressful situation to be in, especially if it takes us a while to extricate. "The Jaws of Life" work great tearing apart the car to get to the patient, but sometimes it takes a while. I can actually go on for a long time about what I have saw in my short past in this new career. 2 months ago, I had to do a surgical cricothyrotomy (cut a hole in someones throat and insert a tube in) to help someone breathe because her face was crushed and she had no airway. Talk about feeling like ice..............



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Sorry if I grossed anyone out.................

 

I'm sorry to hear about your friends accident. I was in an accident when I was 14 when my whole family. A woman ran a stop sign and we hit her. She died on impact, my Mom crushed three vertebrae my brother and sister where ok my Dad's heart was bruised and my stomach looked like hamburger because of the seat belt, I also had a concussion. It was very sad because the women who did was the best friend of my best friends mom.

 

As a pedestrian I was hit by a drunk driving a ¾ ton diesel pick up – it almost killed me but you should have seen the truck.

 

A couple of years ago, 3 friends and I were riding in my cousin's truck. We were all on at least 4 xanax bars each, including my cousin, who was driving. Everyone else was in the cab of the truck, but I was in the bed of the truck, about fukt up as a bitch. We came to a railroad crossing while we were traveling at about 70mph, and we went off the road and ran into the steel railroad crossing poll and fookin leveled it, because we were going so fast. It almost tore the truck in half and my friend, who was in the passenger seat, got a big gash in his side. Keep in mind that I was in the bed of the truck when all of this happened, and I was sitting with my back to the cab of the truck. When we crashed, my head hit the rear window of the cab and shattered it, and my head was bleeding and I had a concussion. I also recieved gashes all over my body from the broken glass. The entire passenger side of the truck was unrecognizable.

After we crashed, the truck still worked well enough to drive another mile or so to get to the girl's house we were going to. So my cousin was charged for leaving the scene of the accident. We were all fukt up as shit and none of us remember very much about the night. The truck was totalled. I was lucky I didn't die, being in the bed of the truck, and all. We were all lucky.

 

quite a few only 2 really bad ones, one of which still affects me to this day unable to read at times/ daily headaches/body aches and it was a few years ago

 

I've been lucky to only have been rear ended at slow speeds with no injuries, but a friend from work and some lady friend of his were in a rollover in her truck/suv on the hiway a few years ago... both were quite drunk, neither was wearing their seatbelt... needless to say they were both closed caskets.

It's a really strange feeling to see your buddy at work one day, smoke a jay with him and say see you next week, and then see his picture on the front page of the newspaper a few days later. You never forget things like that...

Otherwise both my parents, my brother, and a cousin have totalled vehicles and walked away without a scratch, I've been lucky with so many close calls but never a major crash. (yet)