I was going home this morning from a party last night. I was driving 60mph a honda civic with a fart can muffler came flyin up behind me got on my tail the a$$ hole went to pass on a hill, as he was passing me another car came over the hill I slamed on my brakes so he could pull back into my lane but he hit the other car head on. I pulled over threw 3 flairs out ran over to see if everybody was ok at the same time calling 911. Everybody was ok the guy in the honda has a broken arm the person he hit has a bump on her head from the air bag the lady was driving a brand new chevy blazer just picked it up from the dealer. thank god everybody was ok pat
Pat, I'm so sorry you had to witness something like that. I saw a car flip on the road last fall. It definitely made me think twice about what can happen on the road.
It's good that everyone was ok and it's also good for there's now one less honduH and it's idiot driver out there.
Glad to hear everyone came out in one piece! I had a close call with a Civic 3 years ago. I guess he didn't like my Wagon beating him off the line... the guy came up behind, tailgated, then went speeding past. He couldn't make the turn up ahead and wound up high centred on the concrete divider. He wasn't hurt, just looked mad as all hell...
I've noticed the fart can is to retarded ricers what bright colors are to certain poisonous frogs. It's a warning that they are dangerous to those around them. Sadly, it seems the frogs are smarter. I hope that lady had gap insurance on her SUV ou:
I am also glad everybody was not majorly injured or killed, but people that are retarded enough to pass somebody on a hill is going to learn one way or the other that it is dangerous, and the guy driving the honda, found out the hardway Thankfully, everybody made it out alright. -Cody
I work for a company that supplies body shops with sheetmetal, bumpers, etc. for late model insuarance claims. When I first started, I noticed that most of the parts we sell are for American built, full sized trucks and my first reaction was that people who drive trucks are stupid because they keep smashing them up. Then I noticed we almost never sell any import car parts, ever, and then it dawned on me, when you smack one of those tiny cars it is always totalled-no insurance company ever writes an estimate to put one of those things back on the road, but the truck with a full frame(like a classic Buick) and steel bumpers(like a classic Buick) simply gets a few parts bolted back on and it's good as new. I have seen the same Chevy Silverado put back together 5 times already and each time you can't tell it from brand new. The import cars are slow moving death traps with their only redeeming quality of good gas milage.
Got to watch the same accident a number of years ago. Out cruising with friends when a guy we knew came up beside us to say hello. He was busy trying to yell over to us & didn't notice the Horizon NOT using the left turn lane and waiting for traffic. He damn near went right over her (4x4 with a lift). Sent the Horizon's back seat passengers to the hospital for a while. Everybody healed ok. She learned to use turn lanes, he learned to pay more attention.
Yeah i remember my accident with the Apollo. It was a beautiful spring day (the first in a long time) and i was taking out to the country to give a few friends a ride home. A girl from school was borrowing her dads s-10 truck and pulled out from a 2 way stop at an intersection (she had to stop not me) i slammed the breaks and locked them to no avail (hell i was goin almost 50). I remember seeing that truck go flying past on its side it gave me the worst damn feeling in my stomach to see it. Thank god everyone came out ok and if i never see it again in my life i will die a happy man. Oh and i almost forgot my point the Apollo survived (all though the body shop took four months to do it after me and my father rounded up all the parts) and the frame wasn't bent which really surprised the crap out of me the wreck was pretty hair raising. I guess old buicks do save lives!! Happy Motoring, Patrick
I'd hope the girl got her license taken away or something. How's the weather in Janesville? Pretty nice here in Watertown.
Damn I could spend all day with dumb accident stories. A guy put his big Ford panel van in the back of my wife's Mini when she was waiting at a red light in February. He "mistook the brake for the gas" and accelerated into the back of her. Idiot. A guy on a 2 lane decided to do a U-Turn in the road and head-on'd my friend in the process. Totalled a real survivor '72 Rover sedan too. At least my friend's kids were in kiddie seats correctly fitted in the back seat - I hate when I see parents driving round with 2 & 3 year old kids just jumping about on the back seat with no restraints. A woman pulled out at a busy intersection and hit another friend's car. "it was my turn" is all she would say. Dumb *****. An old woman pulled out from a minor road into a main road when my wife's cousin was on his bike. She pulled out and he was about 20 feet away and doing 50 - 60 MPH (60 limit). He spent 4 years with his leg in a steel cage after that accident. She said "if he hadn't been going so fast he could have stopped!" She had her licence revoked. Same story happened to a friend of mine's brother. He died at the scene. Bizarrely enough the 85 year old lady driver asked the ambulance driver if he was OK, the ambulance man says "no he's dead, you killed him" and she dropped dead on the spot with a heart attack. Not a good day that one. Last story, I promise - years ago my Ex's father knew this guy. he bought his 17 year old son a Peugeot hatchback for his birthday as a first car. He totalled it within like 2 months. So they went to the Peugeot dealer with the insurance money and the manager their said "No way, I won't sell you a car because I have seen how your son drives and I will not be responsible for putting him back on the road!" (small town, y'see). Now this should have been the warning, but the dad then lent the son his own car to go to a party (A Peugeot 405 Mi16 - which was considered the hot import sedanto have back then) anyway about 2 am the kid left 300 yards of skid marks on a road I could never manage more than about 50 MPH on even in my wilder days, put the car into a tree, killed himself and 3 others in the car. I see the ricers (and some guys old enough to know better) flying round here at speeds WAY too fast for the road. Makes me wonder how more people don't die.
Back in highschool me and a buddy prowled the streets in his mildly built up `78 Z28 looking for random people to have a quick race and a chat about their cars with. One of those nights we ended up at a stoplight next to a guy with a nice sounding 60's mustang. Of course we both launched and took off but the road we were on ended up winding next to a golf course and after a short burst my buddy got out of it. The mustang didn't and I clearly remember him saying: " He's not going to make it! ". The mustang dissapeared down a hill and out of sight then we saw his headlights going around and around and as we cleared the hill saw him come to a stop about 100 feet off the road across the grounds next to the golfcourse. Of course we stopped to make sure he was ok. Amazingly although both rims on one side were folded under the car and there were deep gouges in the grass all the way to where he stopped he didn't flip or even get injured. Lots of good reasons to keep it on the track.
Glad everyone lived, but that friggin moron in the Honda needs to go to common sense training camp, passing on a hill like that. What an idiot. He's lucky he's alive. Jerk.
Actually she was let off with two tickets reckless driving and failure to yield (i think she kept her licence). And it was nice here on the 24th too, now its gone back into the tease season (nice one day crap for the next week grr mother nature is a tease). Hopefully it warms up but i'm doubtful. Hoping for good weather, Patrick
I wonder if their are more or less accidents with modified cars than in the 60's. Todays imports handle and brake a lot better, but sometimes I think that causes overconfidence. I wonder how often the 50's greasers crashed their T-buckets, or if they drove conservatively when not racing since their cars were death traps.
I think overconfidence and bravado are the twin causes. I've seen plenty of dumb and delerious wannabes weaving into traffic and watch plenty of brake lights flash across a busy highway as morons weave and bob through it. Also i've heard many bragging how their [insert generic japanese car] can outhandle the best of them and their near close (and very unnecessary) ends on multiple occasions. Its really sad considering how far carmakers have come with breaking, handling, and safety since the days of t-buckets and drive in movies, when that it turns out in many cases its the driver who should be made safer considering the car is doing all it can to keep the driver on the road. And i won't get started on cell phones because i just might explode. Just my two cents. Living near morons who don't know how to drive, Patrick
And what about those idiots that drive around steering with one knee yakking on the cell phone? KABOOOOOM Damn, I think I got forum member all over my shirt. :laugh: The one that really freaks me is people who are reading the newspaper while driving. I just can't believe anyone is that dumb.
Cell phones? I got rearended at a stop sign coming home by a woman on a cellphone, then on the same drive home, this other lady is in my lane until about 50 feet in front of me when she swerves out of my lane while she was on a cellphone. Women+Cellphones=Stupidity.
