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    #221

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:07 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Cat1864 View Post
    Stringer, I am very glad that you weren't in that upside down car. I don't even want to think about joking about losing you. :(
    That was kind Cat, thanks.
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    #222

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:10 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by adam_89 View Post
    Ok, pics then Bear? I gotta see.

    Once I was driving home and it was raining and I threw a cigarette out my window and I thought it came back in so I looked in the floor and then back at the road. By that time my vehicle had left the road and I was heading straight towards a phone pole. I only had a lap belt in that thing so I dove to the right in my seat and it still slung me back and placed my mouth right into the steering wheel. It was a metal steering wheel with wood on top and bottom, well my mouth busted the wood and bent the metal. I now have over $4,000 in my mouth. Haha. I split the pole in two and continued through the woods taking out some trees until I came to one big enough to stop me. I miss that van, my good 'ol shaggin waggin. If I was in anything else I would have been dead.
    Glad that it was not a life threatening crash Adam.

    What scares me a lot is with this push for more economical cars that are so tiny that it makes one wonder how you or your loved ones could survive a crash in it?
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    #223

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:12 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by albear View Post
    a year ago i wrote my first car off, went round a corner, caught some loose mud or something (it had been raining heavily before i went out) swerved to avoid an oncoming car went between a tree and a telegraph post into some bushes pulled out hit a post and flipped it, i wasnt joking about that photo either, i got the paramedic to take one of me stood next to it :o
    Wow, lucky you didn't hit the post or tree Bear. Can you post the picture?
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    #224

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:13 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by adam_89 View Post
    Ok, that is fine Bear. You don't have to post any of the pics. You don't have to be shy in front of your family though. My accident wasn't that bad, I was just thankful my van was very durable. I had stitches in my mouth and both legs and had scratches and bruises all over. In bed for a week. It was nice that week. Wake up in the morning, take 3 different pills and pass out minutes later. Wake up in the afternoon, take more pills and pass out, same thing in the evening. That is all I did was sleep and take pills.
    Wow, you've seen what happened to me, I crawled out of that, OK it was upside down so I got the doors mixed up, but I was fine, I could have walked home if it wernt for persistent paramedics wanting to take me to A&E
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    #225

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:13 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by adam_89 View Post
    damn right bad joke bud. Don't say that.
    :) k.
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    Dec 10, 2009, 02:14 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    Wow, lucky you didn't hit the post or tree Bear. Can you post the picture?
    Before


    After


    You can actually see the tree and the telegraph post in the background, and as for the post I did hit its now about 3 feet behind me on the floor
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    #227

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:16 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by albear View Post
    Before


    After


    you can actually see the tree and the telegraph post in the background, and as for the post i did hit its now about 3 feet behind me on the floor
    Man, I have been a few accidents in my life Bear, never in one where the car overturned though, that is scary. Did you have your seat belt on?
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    Dec 10, 2009, 02:18 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    Man, I have been a few accidents in my life Bear, never in one where the car overturned though, that is scary. Did you have your seat belt on?
    Yeah I did, never driven without it on, it was weird though being suspended in mid air upside down being held in by my seatbelt (after id landed)
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    #229

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:20 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by albear View Post
    yeah i did, never driven without it on, it was wierd though being suspended in mid air upside down being held in by my seatbelt (after id landed)
    After that accident, I wouldn't be too concerned about unclicking the belt and dropping on my head my friend. Did the paramedics take you to the clinic?
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    Dec 10, 2009, 02:25 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    After that accident, I wouldn't be too concerned about unclicking the belt and dropping on my head my friend. Did the paramedics take you to the clinic?
    Yeah although there wasn't any need to, I just ended up waiting 4 hours in A&E for someone to say 'you look ok' so I could leave,

    Sorry I think I got a little competetive with comparing crashes :o
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    #231

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:26 PM

    I didn't read back. Bear, when did this happen?
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    Dec 10, 2009, 02:26 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by albear View Post
    yeah although there wasnt any need to, i just ended up waiting 4 hours in A&E for someone to say 'you look ok' so i could leave,

    sorry i think i got a little competetive with comparing crashes :o
    No you didn't, this is interesting to me anyway.

    Did you receive a ticket from the police?
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    #233

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:29 PM

    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/humor-...on-423862.html

    Take a look...
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    #234

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:31 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Altenweg View Post
    I didn't read back. Bear, when did this happen?
    A year ago, well, late Nov 2008

    Like I said I think I got a little competetive when stringer mentioned his crash, and the little voice in side my head 'thats not a crash, THIS is a crash' :o

    Quote Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    No you didn't, this is interesting to me anyway.

    Did you receive a ticket from the police?
    For what? I was doing roughly 45 mph on a 60 mph road

    I did have to give my insurance details to the police because the sign I hit was a council sign so they were obviously going to claim on my insurance to put it back up

    They didn't even bother to breathilise(sp) me, the reason being they told me if I was speeding id have died.

    Quote Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    I read them before, made me chuckle :)
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    #235

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:35 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by albear View Post
    a year ago, well, late Nov 2008



    for what?, i was doing roughly 45 mph on a 60 mph road

    i did have to give my insurance details to the police because the sign i hit was a council sign so they were obviously going to claim on my insurance to put it back up

    they didnt even bother to breathilise(sp) me, the reason being they told me if i was speeding id have died.
    Hmmmm... well it just seems that at any opportunity here they slam a ticket on you... revenue you know.
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    Dec 10, 2009, 02:41 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    Hmmmm...well it just seems that at any opportunity here they slam a ticket on you...revenue ya know.
    Yeah I've heard some parking wardens try that over here, because they get bonuses the more vehicles they get or something like that so they'll try any little reason to write you a ticket, there was a case of one guy whod parked and then theyd painted yellow lines where he was parked and they gave him a ticket, of course it was over ruled in court because of the pictures taked when the guy left because there were gaps in the paint where his tyres had been :D
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    #237

    Dec 10, 2009, 02:50 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by albear View Post
    yeah ive heard some parking wardens try that over here, because they get bonuses the more vehicles they get or something like that so theyll try any little reason to write you a ticket, there was a case of one guy whod parked and then theyd painted yellow lines where he was parked and they gave him a ticket, of course it was over ruled in court because of the pictures taked when the guy left because there were gaps in the paint where his tyres had been :D
    That's stupid (they're a**es) and funny at the same time. Glad he was smart enough to take the pictures and follow through with court. Here it is always a hassle to go to court, you wait forever and sometimes they don't even call you that day and you have to come back the next...
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    #238

    Dec 10, 2009, 03:26 PM

    Welp... I guess other that "This" ain't no one interested huh?
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    #239

    Dec 10, 2009, 03:38 PM

    I have a crash story that can beat all of you. Yup, I'm competitive too. ;)

    This happened around 15 years ago, 1 year before hubby and I got married.

    I was in college, finishing my degree. It was finals week. I stayed late to help a fellow classmate that was having trouble with the material. I left 3 hours later then normal, ended up in rush hour traffic, in Edmonton. Not fun.

    I was on the highway, going over a really crappy area, there's a little hill, then a set of lights. I get over the hill (you can't see what's in front of you until you get over it) and the car in front of me slams on the breaks. I react, slam on mine, look back to see if I'm going to get hit, but the care behind me also stops. I breathe a sigh of relief, we're all okay, about to look straight ahead again when CRASH! We're hit by an ambulance. No, he didn't have his lights or siren on, he was transporting patients.

    It turned into a 4 car pileup. My car was totaled, as was the car behind mine and the ambulance.

    Because of this crash I spent over 2 years in physiotherapy, 5 days a week. It didn't help. I have what they call "loss of lardodic curvature of the spinge. Also, my collar bone slipped, is now crushing the artery between my collar bone and first rib. Because of this my left arm is constantly numb. Yes, I can still use it, but summers are hell. I can literally stab a knife through my arm and not feel a thing. Surgery is the only correction, but it's risky.

    Beat that boys. ;)
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    Dec 10, 2009, 03:39 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    Welp....I guess other that "This" ain't no one interested huh?
    ?

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