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Bitter Cactus
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Have you ever been in a car crash?
#22097317 - 08/16/15 02:05 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Discuss the car crash please.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#22097326 - 08/16/15 02:10 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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i saw one, but have never been in an acual car wreck.
i did back up into someones truck in a parking lot, really high on dope(and more with me). luckily i only damaged my car, so i ended up weaseling out of any sort of trouble
i also totaled another car, but i was the only vehicle involved. and the car still technically worked, but it was more expensive to fix the body and pass inpection than it was to get another cheapo
Edited by Adolin (08/16/15 02:12 AM)
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Bitter Cactus
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Adolin]
#22097332 - 08/16/15 02:13 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have never been in a seriour car crash, just a light tap with no damages. A real one would be scary as fuck.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Adolin]
#22097334 - 08/16/15 02:13 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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havnt driven in a long time though. its probably been about 11 months. kind of learned my lesson with mixing drugs and driving
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#22097337 - 08/16/15 02:16 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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More than one. More than 2 depending on what you count as crash.
First one was in a stolen car (I didn't steal it and wasn't the driver) that resulted in a high speed chase of speeds exceeding 120mph on unlit 2 lane back roads and even jumped some railroad tracks Dukes of Hazard style. Ended up crashing because the driver tried to make a right turn onto a 2 lane feeder road at 90+. I guess you could call what happened drifting in a strict sense, but there really was no curve to it. Car just turned side ways and followed a straight path across the 2 lanes and slammed into the far side of a ditch. Went airborne and flipped multiple times, landing on the roof (shit really does slow down like the Matrix in instances like these).
Car basically looked like this: 
No seat belt on either. I just braced the best I could when I saw the turn coming up and we were still doing 90-100mph. Walked away with only a bruise on my knees from them slamming together.
Second one was a lot more minor. Kinda fuzzy on the details and will always maintain my innocence, but I was driving through an intersection at about 30 mph and about 10 feet before crossing it saw a car in my path. I slammed on the breaks, but it was pointless. I doubt the car even slowed down any significant amount. Full contact into the passenger side door.
I still swear up and down I had the green light, but there were "witnesses" to say I ran it. What doesn't make any sense is it is a very busy road (the cross road of what I was driving across) and I hit that car good. The other car didn't hit anyone because no one else was in the intersection. If they had the green light, there should've been a car next to them that the force would've pushed them into. The only two cars in the intersection was me and the car I hit. All the witness statements will also state that they were "waiting at the light" when I hit them. Yet they still had the green light somehow.
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
Edited by Shroomslip (08/16/15 02:19 AM)
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#22097354 - 08/16/15 02:29 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm a valet. I crash cars for a living. It still amuses me and scares others how desensitized I am from the dangers of motor vehicles. It's to the point that when someone dings my pos, I keep driving.
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Bitter Cactus
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Quote:
Giftofdeprivation said: I'm a valet. I crash cars for a living. It still amuses me and scares others how desensitized I am from the dangers of motor vehicles. It's to the point that when someone dings my pos, I keep driving.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#22097397 - 08/16/15 02:49 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes. It's been 4 years since any kind of crash, as of now. I have also been the passenger in a more than one crash. As a result, I am a pretty severe backseat driver, I apologize for it all the time, but I still do it.
I have a weird neurotic tic where I have to drive completely straight all the time, without exception, and I have to ride out every single turn in the most smooth and balanced way possible. I get weirdly anxious if I don't, and if the person I'm driving with doesn't(but I try to hide it in that case). I do drive fast, but so does everyone in the area. I pass on the left, and then move to the right, and I get all bent out of shape when people try to sit in the left lane driving slower than the flow of traffic. I hate to use the term 'OCD', but I do have a friend in medical school who did a rotation in a psych ward and described it as such.
I think it's honestly from growing up riding dressage(horses). I spent years learning how to ride the perfect 30 metre circle(with perfect straightness, balance, cadence, impulsion, etc. etc...it's a whole regimented system used to internationally train riders/is taken more seriously in europe), and that's the beginning of the weird compulsive nature of my whole childhood.
On another note, I have also crashed my car in a really death-defying way at 18 - thanks to my own stupid reflexes, I reached for my bag on the passenger side floor(I had 3 other people in my car, including someone riding shotgun). Someone asked for a banana, and I always carried fruit with me for snacks, I then had to turn the wheel very abruptly to avoid hitting the median .
We were going 75-80 on the PA turnpike during rush hour, it was actually very crowded. We didn't hit anything else...except the median...while going backwards. I don't know how I pulled it off. We really should've been dead.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: pirate-blues]
#22097402 - 08/16/15 02:53 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, couple of times, twice as an inexperienced driver, two or three more times as a passenger. Would have been injured pretty seriously if not for seat belts in two of those instances. Always wear them!
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: pirate-blues]
#22097423 - 08/16/15 03:03 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I hit a Ford F-250 head on in a Chevy Celebrity without a seatbelt on. It hit my front passenger side and crushed it clear up to the windshield. The front seat was like a couch so I slid instantly in the passenger seat and up against the door.
If I had bucket seats or a passenger at the time things would have bad. I was only 18 so I was invincible at the time and suffered no serious injuries. Totaled my car though and I almost didn't graduate from being late or missing school so much. 4 fucking study halls my senior year.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#22097429 - 08/16/15 03:07 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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You asked.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Astral Pain]
#22097434 - 08/16/15 03:13 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Astral Pain said: I hit a Ford F-250 head on in a Chevy Celebrity without a seatbelt on. It hit my front passenger side and crushed it clear up to the windshield. The front seat was like a couch so I slid instantly in the passenger seat and up against the door.
If I had bucket seats or a passenger at the time things would have bad. I was only 18 so I was invincible at the time and suffered no serious injuries. Totaled my car though and I almost didn't graduate from being late or missing school so much. 4 fucking study halls my senior year. 
yikes. Nothing like a good old brush with death to set you straight(or make you sob into the phone while trying to tell your mom what happened a few hours later after working up the courage)
I still drive the same car I did when I was 18(now 23), it's a tiny little old subaru, but that shit has kept me safe.
I will drive it until it dies - or I die, whichever comes first. I've only ever crashed it into inanimate objects as a result of a lapse of attention( ), so I don't know or want to know how it'll actually fair against another moving vehicle - let alone an f-250.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#22097436 - 08/16/15 03:15 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Oh and SOMEWHERE out there is video of the entire chase. I so badly want it, but I have no way to find it. I don't even remember an approximate date of when it happened. Much less a case number.
The driver of the car while sitting in the state trooper's car, got to watch the entire thing (the trooper was reviewing it and showing other cops (a large number were involved by the end) the tape. They were laughing and joking about it.
I would kill to get my hands on that footage. That chase was fucking intense. There are a bunch of times I thought for sure we were gonna die. Not even out of fear, I mean literally analyzing the situation and realizing we were skirting death multiple times. When we jumped the railroad tracks for instance, while in mid-air we missed an off duty officer responding by 3 or 4 inches. It was close enough I was sure, as well as the cop, that we were going to hit.
The fact that we all even lived through it with no real injuries, is astounding. None of had seat belts.
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#22097448 - 08/16/15 03:22 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, I still remember looking at that tree and that fear I felt as I was sliding sideways towards it just looking out my window, helpless, thinking I was for sure about to die. And that relief when I finally got some traction right before my drivers door smashed right into it, the car then went up on two wheels and I thought for sure it was gonna roll, I was still kind of freaking out but at least I knew at that point that I wasn't going to die, then it came back down, someone pulled me out of the ditch, I drove home feeling all "light from the adrenaline surge, called my friend and told her I just almost died on her road.
And OI was with my sister when she hit a deer, that'sit I think.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22097452 - 08/16/15 03:23 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: Oh and SOMEWHERE out there is video of the entire chase. I so badly want it, but I have no way to find it. I don't even remember an approximate date of when it happened. Much less a case number.
The driver of the car while sitting in the state trooper's car, got to watch the entire thing (the trooper was reviewing it and showing other cops (a large number were involved by the end) the tape. They were laughing and joking about it.
I would kill to get my hands on that footage. That chase was fucking intense. There are a bunch of times I thought for sure we were gonna die. Not even out of fear, I mean literally analyzing the situation and realizing we were skirting death multiple times. When we jumped the railroad tracks for instance, while in mid-air we missed an off duty officer responding by 3 or 4 inches. It was close enough I was sure, as well as the cop, that we were going to hit.
The fact that we all even lived through it with no real injuries, is astounding. None of had seat belts.
goddamn.
I didn't see your first post until now.
You win. /thread?
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22097461 - 08/16/15 03:30 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: shit really does slow down like the Matrix in instances like these
Yep, I had a pretty bad atv crash when I was younger, had a legit out of body experience, I birds-eye viewed myself crashing in slow-mo.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: PLURAL]
#22097462 - 08/16/15 03:31 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wouldn't call it /thread. But yeah I am here to tell a story that in all probability I shouldn't be able to. That day I actually started to wonder if there really was a God (still don't believe, but I really started to question it). There is no way any of us should have been able to just walk away from it.
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
Edited by Shroomslip (08/16/15 03:32 AM)
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22097468 - 08/16/15 03:34 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Say what you will,
but you guys are right. Things do certainly slow down, and nothing is quite like that moment before impact.
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: pirate-blues]
#22097472 - 08/16/15 03:37 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was lighting a cigarette while making a left turn on a green light when I was used to having an arrow at that time of day(  )
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Re: Have you ever been in a car crash? [Re: Astral Pain]
#22097474 - 08/16/15 03:42 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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At least your weren't reaching for a goddamn banana(that the person sitting next to you could've grabbed) while speeding in the left lane on a busy highway during rush hour. I will never live it down.
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