Auto-SummaryThis forum post discusses various tragic and harrowing car accident stories, touching on topics such as road rage, impaired driving, and the dangers of distracted driving. The author shares personal experiences, including witnessing a middle-aged woman intentionally drive head-on into a truck, a UPS driver killed after a woman dove under his tire, and a logging driver who lost control while transporting logs. The post highlights the shocking frequency of accidents, the negligence of drivers, and the lack of concern from the general public. The author passionately argues for stricter licensing requirements and emphasizes the need for drivers to take responsibility for their actions on the road.
Canadian Jesus said:
One time he had a middle aged woman use his truck as a means to commit suicide. They were driving in opposite directions down some highway and at the last second she switched lanes and drove head on into his truck. Nothing I have seen IRL even comes close to that. That was in the US by the way. He had to take a week off to show up for court for it and everything.
My god that's terrible.. I hope it didn't knock his noggin too hard. I've heard of drivers quitting after hitting and killing someone. A guy in MN killed himself after experiencing the same thing your father did. We lost a UPS driver in the Portland area after a woman allegedly dove head first under his tire and didn't miss. He said she dove under the tire like she was trying to steal home plate.
The logging driver who hit the kid was all fucked up. His hands were quaking I guess signing something for the cops and one patted him on the shoulder, kinda held his other and looked in his eye and squared him up. I can't even imagine.
In some of these mid-mountain towns it's 55 then 35 with little-to-no warning, and in this case was a school zone, so he came barreling down with a truck loaded with logs and I guess just couldn't make the stop. Or didn't care or didn't see who knows.
Last year I did seasonal UPS delivery driver / driver helper. On Christmas Eve, we were sitting waiting to take a right turn and I guess this one pedestrian just didn't care or thought traffic would stop, idfk. Bent him in half the wrong way. I told my driver I was about to be sick and he said just focus on the route, it wasn't us, it wasn't you or your wife just let it go, we can't help him or nothing just continue until we are done. I vomited a few times at the next stop but not a lot I was just glad to be away and not seeing a white coat quickly turning red with a torso going the wrong way and multiple fractured arm just laying there with fingers looking like a meat grinder. Can you imagine driving Christmas eve and you kill a guy? Or losing a family member like that? There was no open casket on that one.
You can't unsee shit like this. Just straight legs behind his ears but no head in the hood of his coat. We were 30 feet away from a crosswalk in a 50mph, he had to be high or wanted to die or both. The flow of traffic was too heavy to even chance that in any situation.
As far as traffic being bad in America, lol, yea. Kids who never had to pay for their car and treat it like a toy. Adults who treat them like toys. People who take intoxicants they can't handle and then go driving. Female Asians can't drive, typically from countries wherein there aren't any women drivers at all. Young kids get drunk and kill people. Blowing a light, texting, all that shit make for horrible accidents. And it's as if nobody cares. In most cases you can't though, or you'll get hit or you'll obstruct traffic etc.
The worst auto related damage I've ever seen done was when I was almost 16. This old guy had apparently pulled out of a CVS onto Main Street, lost control of his car and he "forgot which was the brake". I saw it at a distance and told my buddy to keep an eye about a click or two up on his side, and I don't know what to expect then I hear "watch the fuck out!" and zoom this guy hit a pile of leaves and then a slope and went full on Dukes of Hazard, cracking a telephone pole in half (transformer landed 10-15 feet away from us), and finally ended by splitting a tree in half.
It was scary as fuck and my first thought is help the driver, and I reach for the door and my friend grabs me and yanks me to the passenger side. I didn't realize we weren't being electrocuted because our car was grounded. Just wires slapping all around us it blew my mind and I've (thankfully) never had to experience that again.
It happened right outside a firehouse, and two guys came running from there and pulled the guy out and the power got cut within maybe 2 or 3 minutes. Just damage everywhere. 100 year old tree gone. Lawns up and down main torn up, four cars in the CVS parking lot just ripped apart, a stop sign, a crosswalk pole, a kid's bike (who had thankfully ditched it and survived), and a telephone pole which are pretty freakin hard to break. Cadillacs are tanks man.
The guy took his pain pills in CVS, didn't turn on his oxygen, and I guess just lost it from there and kept on rampaging. But nobody cares. When the guy's car was all fucked with ambulances en route and wires all over the ground people were honking at me.. and it's like, can you not see the toppled telephone pole and the tree split in half with firefighters and shit running over? Jesus christ, are you deaf, there's three different sirens coming and the firetruck partially blocked more oncoming traffic. People don't pull over for emergency vehicles, either. I'm glad it became illegal to obstruct cops/fire/ems. I think it should be enforced more than it is, they've got plate scanners and dash cams now just mail the fuckers tickets.
Whenever I see people taking a selfie in the car with a coffee and cigarette in one hand and their phone in the other it's like.. just fuck you lol, drive off a cliff before you kill somebody.
And to be honest, I fully support 2-5 year license testing for renewal depending on MVR. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to drive. 96 year old man on oxygen eating his opiates in the store and tearing up town? Texty girl getting her friends killed? Well, she's off the road now, but her friends didn't deserve to die like that. But there's tens of thousands or more fuckin everywhere, every fucking day.
Edited by Adden (05/10/17 01:49 AM)
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