Have you ever been in an accident?

[Are_grits_groceries]

Draw Your Accident: http://draw.accidentsketch.com/

Here's a site that lets you draw a diagram of your traffic accident: Accident Sketch.

Draw a perfect sketch of the accident online just with a few mouse clicks and add your sketch to your personal digital accident report. Including helpful advices for your settlement of claim.

Here's a sketch I made of a nasty accident involving three cars, a truck, a bus, a motorcycle, a bicycle, and a pedestrian.


http://j-walkblog.com/

I guess this might help at some point. It would beat me trying to draw it by hand.

[closeupready]

1. Yes, twice, as a teenager, and both times it was my fault. I was a horrible driver.

My license was even suspended after the first time. The second incident, it was amazing - this is a small town I'm from, and the guy I hit knew my father, and decided not to report the damage because 1) it wasn't all that bad and 2) he respected and liked my dad.

Anyway, short of it is, I haven't had a car since high school, and I don't really enjoy driving, except on deserted highways, and out West, where the scenery is so beautiful.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. When I defended clients for "reckless driving" in municipal court, it

involved a collision with another vehicle, and it really was a preliminary for a battle of insurance companies.

My defense included drawing a detailed street map and purchased Matchbox cars (the exact make of the vehicles for more realism), and I demonstrated to the judge exactly how the vehicles were moving and how the collision was caused by the other party, the "victim".

We obtained an acquittal.

[SidDithers]

3. You might want to copy that link into the ongoing seatbelt thread...

maybe the program has the ability to draw in passengers ejected from their vehicles.

Sid

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. LOL!

I'm not sure that thread can be saved.

[blondeatlast]

7. *roffle* nt

[Toucano]

8. Splat! n-t

[blondeatlast]

4. Very cool. It'll come in handy in my new profession of paralegal, too! nt

[Ezlivin]

5. I use Grand Theft Auto to recreate my accidents

[Sinti]

9. Got into one at a red light with an 18-wheeler and a concrete mixing truck once

while driving a Honda accord. Much fun. The 18-wheeler didn't see me, didn't notice he had hit me, and was trying to get closer to the concrete mixer (unknowingly crushing me in the process). It had to get out of the car and wave my hands to make him stop. Funny stuff.

[liberal N proud]

10. Might be something to have handy if ever needed.

Pray I never need it

[baldguy]

11. I've been in two.

The first, I slid through a stop sign on an icy road in the winter. The front bumper of my Escort caved in the entire side of an Oldsmobile. My car didn't get a scratch.

The second, I was waiting to make a left turn at an intersection & a delivery van was doing the same across from me. When I thought it was clear, I started my turn and an oncoming car appeared from behind the van & collided with me. He was going about 60 through the intersection (the speed limit was 40) but I got a ticket for failure to yield.

[tammywammy]

12. Bookmarked to check link later

I can't get on there at work.

[ieoeja]

13. Numerous

Innumerable motorcycle accidents. But then I drove it off road where accidents were just part of the fun!

Drove the motorocycle through a barbed-wire fence my dad neglected to mention building across the road a couple hours before telling me to take that road to check on the cows (I still outlived the bastard; ha!). Ripped the side out of my shirt, took off my shoe, sliced the bottom off my sock ... and didn't put a scratch on me. Weird.

Hit or ran over various items around the farm with various vehicles (trucks, tractors, cars).

Bull attacked the truck for some odd reason denting it up a bit.


Now to real accidents...

Truck door caved in by someone doing about 70mph not noticing my left-turn signal and deciding to pass me just as I started turning.

Ditched the car a few times on side roads on the ice and snow.

Lost control around a sharp turn once in wet weather. Car spun around and ended up between two fence polls. Narrow enough that I could not open either door, but didn't put a scratch on the car. I was able to just drive away when my nerves calmed down enough.

Ran into a grain bin when I stupidly jerked the steering wheel as I topped a rise and saw a raccoon in the road. Gave myself whiplash on that one as the car spun around and struck the grain bin backwards. Who gives themselves whiplash?

Lost control on a wet curve. Spun right, then left, then right, then left, then right, then left, then finally hit the person driving alongside me the entire time who neither accelerated nor braked the entire time. Still my fault, but jeesh guy, f'ing DO something.

I finally went back to rear-wheel drive and, aside from hitting a hole I never saw in the dark, I haven't had any problems. I did have someone on a four lane road decided to exit left from the right lane directly across my path. Brake, spin left, punch accelerator, brake, spin right, why are those semis facing me (!), punch accelerator, shift, shift, brake, spin right, punch accelerator, cross median, brake, spin left, punch accelerator ... relax. First sports car I ever owned. I think I'll stick with them from now on. They handle really, really well.

Almost forgot, I was rear-ended sitting at a stop-light just over a rise with the sun blinding the guy who hit me. Not enough damage to bother with, so we wished each other good luck and went from there.


I am operating on the assumption that using bumpers while parking on crowded Chicago side streets does not count. Otherwise I would have to add a hundred or so more "accidents" to the list. Heck, I once managed to park my car where both bumpers ended up touching the cars in front and to the rear when I was done. Don't want your bumpers bumped, stay out of the big city.

[datasuspect]

14. thank god i was drunk when it happened.

i was in a head-on collision, after drinking jack daniels for about two days straight. i think my saturation-level BAC allowed some fluidity in my body's movements upon impact.

[Staph]

15. It's worthless.

The only accident I ever had involved a deer. Where is the icon for the dead deer?

;)

[Mrs. Overall]

16. This is very helpful! I am just about to sue someone (I really hate to do this) but

she almost killed me when she ran a red light in an SUV going 45 mph in a 25 zone, talking on her cell phone, and reading papers. She didn't have insurance. She didn't see me at all (she was looking down reading on the phone) so she didn't even hit the brakes. My car was thrown (air-borne) across an intersection onto the steps of a bank (almost went through the front window). Thank God, I didn't have a passenger--he/she would have been killed as the impact was on the passenger side.

Thanks for this info.

[juno jones]

17. A few.

My favorite accident occured back in IL at a very busy intersection on a fast road. We had just gotten the green light and my ex-DH has just begun to inch forward when someone ran the red light from the left hand side. We felt a whoosh like a strong gust of wind, and watched our front bumper surreally tumble end over end down the road in pursuit of the rapidly disappearing red-light runner. There was no other damage to the car, but if we had been further out in the intersection it might have not ended so well.