fell asleep at the wheel, responsible to 2 deaths many years ago - never forgiven myself

1972 brand new Ford Cortina 240, returning home from work turning right on a green arrow, and that was the last I remember, luckily in front of a police station with officers on the porch, when my father saw the car he nearly passed out, so I was told, as I was turning right a screaming fully loaded semi Traylor came through an amber light took my left hand side blew the back tyre, spun me around to face the way I came from,car folded in half, My pride and hard work ended up on the scrap heapEdited 26-Aug-22 23:25pm

Once on a two lane road, another driver passed and went between me and another car, my husband on blood thinners.

My worst accident was a two kind rollover, rolled the car round ways then long ways, ended up upside down, crawled out the tiny drivers side window was 2 in the morning, lost my little dog.

When some idiot stopped in a 100km roadway, with no indication, I think I stopped just in time but the person behind didn't and pushed me into the idiot.

When I rode motorcycles I had a few close shaves because of others. Were they my fault? I doubt it as you can't be stupid on a motorcycle and expect to live long. My eyes never stopped looking, and my mind never stopped processing the road ahead.

Got to be when two giant bananas in striped blue and white pyjamas jumped out in front of me when I was parked in the car park at the fruit market.. I was so scared I nearly split my sundaes..Edited 26-Aug-22 22:39pm

It didn't involve another car. We were taking a drive one hot day over the easter long weekend when we came across a red belly black snake crossing the road. He should have been in hibernation, but I think the day was too hot, my husband who hails from backwater Queensland and thinks he's a bushy stopped to get a better took which seemed to annoy the snake no end because it stopped right in the middle of the road and reared up flattening it's head and looked at us through the front windscreen. Hubby stepped on the gas and swerved to the opposite side of the road and we didn't look back. It was pretty scary.

No accidents or close saves ever Touch wood better not happen now I've voiced it Edited 26-Aug-22 20:48pm

no accidents ever, no incidents either, I was responsible and bloody careful

Having a motorcyclist pull a gun and shoot it at our car because we and the car next to us in their lane were too close together for him to drive in between. Which is illegal in the US. If the girlfriend riding on the back hadn't have lifted his aimed arm up into the air, the bullet would have come through my passenger window instead of up in the air. But what goes up, must come down so someone could have been killed that day. God definitely had his protective watch on me/us that day. Do good, make good choices, be kind and considerate and it's bound to come back to you somehow. I know this like I know the sky is blue. Edited 26-Aug-22 19:48pm

Hitting a kangaroo and couldn’t stop or help the kangaroo as was dead and car front bumper all smashed and was on a long road trip

Embarrasing..i was rushing to get a workvisit kit and left the Hospital car with the brake off- came back and it had rolled into a handrail. ThankGod it didn't hit anyone. Also left handbrake off when rushing our newborn pups into vets for checkup. Dented car and didn't want to tell hubby and managed to sneak it to panelbeaters and get it back next day fixed without him knowing. Er there's been a few other handbrake incidents too. I try to avoid parking on hills or slopes these days.

Last Saturday night we were coming home from my young daughter, along a poorly lit road, and as it was night time I was taking my time,when all of a sudden, what I presume was 4X4 Vehicle came speeding to me, I just drove carefully, but he kept coming closer to,and flashing his lights at me,he was almost hit me when he over took me on a continuous white line, and just a short distance further on,I found a car coming from side St on my left side, so I was to slow right down, which the motorist time to reverse, meanwhile 4X4 had sped off, I would hate to think what speed he was

I was making a left-hand turn into a bank. Someone came speeding up on the wrong side of the road to pass us. As I was turning I almost turned right into him. He was in the wrong.

Rolled the car on a dirt road, down the bank, through a creek bed, into barbed wire fence and thrown back upside down in the creek bed.

My scariest road accident was when a Moron backed our of his driveway without looking at top speed hit the side of the car and left me in a coma for three days with head, back and leg injuries not to menage my face Edited 26-Aug-22 18:53pm

On a motorcycle. Head on with a car driving around a bend on the wrong side of the road. Didn’t end well. Edited 26-Aug-22 21:41pm

Was driving on a country road and tried to drive round the corner. There was a lot of blue metal spread on the corner and my VW slid sideways. I could see a 4 wire barbed wire fence heading for me and no control on the slide. I thought " this is it! As luck would have it, the fence was old and I burst through the fence. After getting my breath back the farmer arrived to ask what was I doing. When I explained he said, "yeah that's a bad corner. Don't worry about the fence it was long overdue to be re-fenced". For the next few weeks I had 3 big scratches like a lion's claw had scraped the hood of the Beatle.

On a family holiday in the 70's and I was 12 years old, driving in a mountainous area on a rainy day. In a time when you were allowed to, the back seats of our station wagon were laid flat, making an area for my brother, sister and I to have breakfast, so Dad could make good time on the trip. Going around a bend, the car began to slide out of control, Dad tried to keep the car on the road, but we crashed over the side of the mountain and down a gully, with Rice Bubbles and milk going everywhere. We were all OK, but took 1/2 a day to tow the car out up the side of the mountain. Edited 26-Aug-22 16:38pm

Got rear-ended, had a bad case of whiplash for quite awhile.

In a roll-over, someone else driving. One broken collar bone and counted my blessings. Could have been so much worse.

Sliding on black ice with van 18 wheeler following behind me

Definitely me, I had my licence a day, drove out of my drive way straight into the car parked on the other side.

Years ago I miss hitting a car going down a hill and the owner chasing down the road.

I was driving in the left lane of a Freeway, next to the carpool lane. Some impatient person was in the car pool lane and decided to exit before his turn, glanced off my car, spun out, and really hit a small pick up truck. He had 2 kids in the car and no insurance. Fortunately none of us were hurt.

Got run over by a Ford LTD when i was a kid...Ouch!

Car accident when I was 11, car rolled 3 times.

we were stopped at a red light, heading straight through a signal light, the light turned green so we proceeded forward, a pickup truck turned right in front of us and hit our car, causing considerable damage to our front end. He never even slowed down. We pulled over to see if he would come back. We called the police, and waited for the other driver to return, but he never came back.

Some ahole plughing into my stationary vehicle (red light) at 80kmh, and then he took off...I chased the bastard.

I really don't like driving in bad weather

Touch wood, i have never had an accident while moving. Once while stopped at a red light while on my P plates, i had a car run up the back of me (it had been stopped but then decided to move forwards, hitting the back of my ute). I got out to check for damage (none to me thanks to my tow ball) and ask why he did it, his only response was "because i am in a hurry and don't want to wait for the light to turn green". I did grow up on a main road, so got to see far too many accidents out the front of our house during my childhood as well as some of those turning into fatalities. :( My most memorable would be a bad 3 car accident which involved a girl about my age being trapped in the car. When they got her out, their family was put on our front lawn while ambulance tended to their family. I took my blankets off my bed for the girl and her family. Thankfully all the family survived and the family would drop by our house each year for a chat and to let us know how their family was doing.

Several years ago I was driving to work one morning in a storm and lightening struck the road right in front of my car. It was a huge flash and upset all the electronics on my car. It was really scary and I was in shock for a while.

Had 1 minor one a woman hit me from behind no one hurt but have seen a few near misses

My car was side-swiped by a truck as I was stopped on the side of the road.

A combination of diabetic retinopathy, the morning sun and a truck entering from the left. Suddenly, the tray of the truck appeared through my windscreen destroying it and the right pillar (right hand drive car). I recognised my joint culpability and handed in my license the next day. I have not driven since.

My fault. Drank too much, hit a power pole.

I would say it was going down I-80, and I was behind two semis. When I pulled out to pass them, the one in front of me decided to pass at the same time! I had nowhere to go except for the berm. I went down the road with two semis side by side on my right, and me using the berm as the third lane until I could get slowed down enough to get back on the pavement. It was a little dicey because on the berm, there were yellow poles every so often that I had to avoid on my left while avoiding the semis on my right! I often wonder what they said. I thought it was kind of fun until after the event! Then I was amazed at my quick-thinking and good driving skills. I never panic or slam the brakes. That would have been disastrous. Never slam the brakes if you can avoid it. Gradually slow down, and NEVER hit anything head-on if you can avoid it. I hit one deer, but I turned quickly so I wouldn't hit it head-on and take out the grill. It did very little damage to the car and to the deer! I almost hit a bank head-on, but I did slam down the brakes and turned a hard right to keep the damage minimal. To my surprise, I had hit nothing! I was headed the wrong way, but I did not damage anything! I have a couple other stories too where I came out with no damage, but I've said enough. One guy told me that I did some fancy driving! LOL

Not had one yet

All accidents are scary

It was about 20 years ago when a friend was driving and didn't stop at a T junction and we drove straight into a small ditch. Luckily no one was hurt in the accident.

I was in an accident whereI hit a car in front of me and then someone hit me in the back

A few near misses over the years, especially from stupid driver's overtaking and pulling in half a second before hitting me head on.

Nearly hitting at least 50 or more sheep coming home from a road trip a few years ago lol...Would not of been good had any of them been run over.

People doing really dumb things in front of my truck like passing and then cutting back in 2 meters in front. Nobody ever thinks of the affect that their driving has on other users

I am 85 and have been driving since I was 16 never had an accident or a fine but I had a close shave one time when a driver pulled out in front of me.

i am lucky i have never had a road accident

Being hit by a Toyota Cruiser from behind, which was so forceful that my car moved and hit the car in front of me and that car hit the car in front of that. The guy driving the Toyota said he was sorry coz he was talking on his phone and didn't realise the cars in front of him had come to a stop. Which is interesting, coz it was during peak hour traffic.Edited 26-Aug-22 12:15pm

Oh, that would be when by rights I should be dead. Walked too far out on country road, woke up coming out of operating theatre. I actually thought someone was talking about a movie theatre so I said “B/S there aren’t any movie theatres here.” Was living in small country town at the time.

Accident when younger. Country road. Car hit tree and rolled. Driver killed. Accident considered driver's fault but car was faulty.

I was 6 months pregnant and stopped at traffic lights. A huge truck beside me decided to turn into the left lane and I had to try to get out of the way. They ended up going into the back door.

Following a fully laden logging truck which lost its load going around a bend! Luckily it was on a 2 lane area and we were able to avoid the carnage by steering into the other lane, then we parked our car across the median with the hazard lights on, to warn other drivers.

I hit a lamp post one foggy morning and wrote my car off. No serious injury but looked like a panda where I hit air bag. And a few bruises.

I was riding my bike to bicycle to work one nice sunny Sunday morning and a driver answered his mobile phone and drifted into the bike lane, and sent me flying 6 months in hospital, lost a lot of blood only still here thanks to the red cross society [bless them] lots of stitches lots of physio but here enjoying the grandkids with thanks to the docs and nurses at the royal Adelaide and the Lyell hospitals and the big guy upstairs who had a bit to do with it

Nothing much on the road for me but the worst road incident I was involved in was writing an engineers report on the damage to a car that had left the road and hit a tree on a narrow country road that took the life of a cousin. The car hit the tree on the front right hand corner and should not have suffered the damage that it did which resulted in the steering Colum being driven through the drivers chest and impaling her into the drivers seat. The steering wheel collapsed as it should have the steering column collapsed as it should have but the panel work collapsed as it should not have and reduced the length from several feet to under 6 inches.

just about going over the edge of a steep cliff my ex partner

My dad stop on green light with his car. I called dad its time to driver. He was lock in like a coma no answer no move as a driver. In second a mad driver fast i. Front of us not stopping at red lights as show. Driving fast this car. When the light change to red our side. My dad wake up from the coma seeing the red light. I am thankyou to dad and i live. Maybe heaven stop us being killed for something

I was a passenger and my boss was the driver. At an intersection he was busy thinking of other things and went straight on without stopping , a car that was speeding hit us and removed the front of our van right indent of my feet We spun round and ended up in the front of a shop window I got out of the van and started to run them realised I was ok

Driving in QLD were driving down a winding road I saw a cloud of dust lower down and told my husband to pull to the cliff beside us to give the approaching car room to pass when a log truck came fast around the corner. It stopped with the logs over our Bonnet. We were not scratched but our nerves were shot.

Couple of scary close shaves. God looking out for me where a couple seconds one way or the other could have made a difference.

When the accelerator cable snapped.

When I was 11 I went for a drive with Dad driving to Port Melbourne to see relatives, he was a terrible driver Dad, and we went through one of the old stop signs. A car hit on the side and we went skidding and we eventually rolled onto our side. I remember thinking it's alright we are okay, left our number with other car as no one was hurt no police were called. When the car was put right with a bit dent in the side we went home. It was very hard telling my Mum how this went down. We could have been killed.

When a Casino Jitney in Atlantic City ran a red light and t-boned myself and my husband in our vehicle. Such a nightmare! I still have anxiety when I am in a car.

I have never had a scary road incident, touch wood.

Being in a car in Uganda seeing a bus come around the corner on the wrong side of the road.

This is going to be hard to believe, and I called it a "Miracle", but I was driving to work when a car from the opposite lane started coming into my lane. Oh, by the way, my left arm was hurt, and I was driving with my right hand only, while my left arm rested on the window edge. I'm left-handed. Without time to think, my "car" went behind a car in the opposite lane passing me, around the car coming toward me, in front of a car coming toward me in the opposite lane...then I pulled off the road and thanked God for sending an Angel to steer my car! Talk about "Jesus, Take The Wheel"! This is absolutely a true story! ;-D

as an ex ambulance officer (for 15 years service) in country towns, i saw a lot of scary road incidents...believe me...i dont know where some people get a license or if indeed they have one at all....

The scariest one I have had was many years ago, I left home in the car and everything was working well, I get to my third intersection put my foot on the brake and absolutely nothing there. I hit the back of the car on the left hand side before I went down a slight bank. Luckily no one was hurt and minor damage to the cars.

90% of accidents are caused by complacency such as myself going into the back of a parked truck at 70kph on my motorbike. Ummmmmm. Did I have my eyes on the road ahead ..... no..... and I am still here doing Rewardia. Ummmmm.Edited 26-Aug-22 06:33am

Last close shave was on Sunday. The Maserati who was reversing out of his park and nearly into me. He got a long blast of the horn. However, the accident when I was 17 has affected the whole of my life.Edited 26-Aug-22 06:14am

11 years ago a car drove in front of me. He may have been on the mobile. He was found to cause 100% of the accident. I was sent to hospital for a broken leg and required stitches to my knee. Lucky I survived.

thank Gos I never had any

Neither of us were at fault. Dad had the car serviced by someone who didn't know what he was doing. The left-rear wheel came off on a freeway which meant no brakes. - really frightening!!!Edited 26-Aug-22 06:02am

I have been in 2 big car accidents, neither my fault. I was a passanger in both. 1st my brother was driving and we hit black ice on the road, the car spun around, we went through trees which ended up in the car and then we went through a fence. Just in shock, but luckily not hurt. 2nd was driving home with a friend and a was the passanger, a man had taken his daughters car, with no license, he got drunk and was driving with no headlights on and hit us head on. I broke my back in 2 places, my jaw in 3 places, my teeth were embedded in the dashboard, broke my nose, checkbone and eye socket. I had part of my bowel removed. I was in hospital for 5 months and had to learn to walk again. The drunk driver twisted his ankle and got a $400 fine and loss of licence, like how can you get a loss of licence when you didnt have one in the first place. Discusting punishment for what he did to me.

I never been in accident before.

I think any accident where there is injury is scary. Fault doesnt matter. It is not a time for blame.

My accident was someone else fault but I miss my carrrrrrrrrrrrr!

When practising driving under age on our farm I had a smoke whilst driving and ran into the letter box..had to tell dad when he got home. I started with "You know how you taught us that we would never get into trouble as long as we told the truth..." Needless to say he couldn't growl at me LOL

I left for work some years ago in January in the south and my car hit black ice and spun around. I went home and called into work and stayed home.

Driving home after church. Came to a four way stop because of a blinking red light. Waited my turn and upon crossing I was broadsided by a car that went right through the red light. Spin me around and I didn’t know where I was after that!

driving off the side of the road in my Dodge Challenger back in '72 at over 100mph, took the whole passenger side clean off, nobody with me, and i did not get hurt other than a lot of bruises

I do not drive (vision issues) - NEVER been involved in a scary road incident as a driver or passenger. However, I have been almost hit (numerous times) by drivers of car as a pedestrian - the buttholes were on a cell phone while driving - you cannot drive a car and talk on a cell phone at the same time!!!!!!!!!!!!Edited 26-Aug-22 19:36pm

I was driving in a duel carriage way when someone ran in front I me. I miss him but the driver in the next lane hit him. I can still see him going up in the air.

Driving down a strait road and seeing a power pole right in front of us. I screamed stop and fortunastly he did. Still see that power pole at night sometimes.So annoyed he was drunk.

Driving on a motorway with cars on both sides and getting a blowout...there was some metal crap on the road...God there is a real surge when you (and everyone else) survive that...I've done that one twice, many years apart...in different cars and different states....I've had a pigeon come through my windscreen...while I'm on a motorway .....and lost control of my car on black ice too...... somebody up there likes me! Edited 26-Aug-22 00:41am

I always hoped I'd never get lost in a big city on a rainy night. Well it did happen. I did find my way eventually back to where I was staying.

About 4 months ago, My friend and I were heading down Route 16 to Route 146, and a tractor trailer ,came too fast off the highway and headed right toward us. Luckly, I saw the truck and stopped just in time. He rolled over about 1/4 mile ahead of us and landed on the side of the road. We were OK as we stopped in plenty of time but we were really scared.

Huntsman spider hanging from my rear vision mirror. I slammed on the brakes and have no idea how i did not have a car crash.

None

None. Guess I'm boring.

Not an accident but driving down the highway to Victoria and it was raining, night time and road works with huge trucks coming all round me with their lights and I was in a little Honda City. Finally got off the road and had to have a drink. Coffee of course.