Got into a bad car crash last night, picture on page 1

[Mr_RPM]

Last night I went to a friends house to hang out with a few friends. when i showed up they wanted to go for a quick car ride to the party store.
since it was a 5 min car ride i didn't mind.

there was 1 girl who i did not know but she said she was going to drive because my friend whos house it was drank a little and i couldn't drive because my jeep only seats 4 people and there was 5 of us.

me and 2 other guys got in the back seat of the chevy blazer while the 2 girls sit in front. Because the 3 of us were crammed in the back and it was a 5 min drive we did not buckle up.

well the driver did not know the road apparently and it was 10:30pm. blatantly oblivious on how to make a tyurn on an unknown road she went into a network of s turns too fast. on the sharpest turn she went off the road, when we hit loose gravel the car started to drift sideways as she tried to correct her direction. well because the car was soo sideways when we hit the asfault the car violently rolled 3-5 times. i was awake and alert the hole crash and it played in real time as i waited to feel extreme pain.
everything was quiet and dark, i luckily had my mini-maglite in my hand because i used it to walk to the car in the muddy driveway.
i turned on the light and told anyone who could to call 911.
we all then realized we were in pretty good shape and my friend kris helped us all crawl out of the back window as the blazer layed upside down in a ditch.

by then 2 ladies driving by had stopped and also called 911. at this point i felt5 pretty good and was in emergency mode. the driver was on the phone and crying. the front passenger was with the 2 ladies sitting in their car as she realized she was hurt. i was paranoid about cars hitting us so i stopped traffic with my maglight i was sooooo happy to have with me.

finally the police and ambulance showed up. we all got checked out by paramedics. me and the 2 other guys who were in the back seat unbuckled were amazingly fine other then some pretty bad cuts and scrapes.
the driver as far as i know is the same (remember i don't know her).
but unfortunately the front passenger has 3 broken vertebrae in her neck and a broken collar bone. she is at the hospital (UofM) right now and they were worried about spinal cord damage. from what i know now she is in stable condition and does not have spinal cord damage. hopefully it wont require surgery and she will just need a neck brace for 3 months to make a full recovery.

It is really a miracle the we got so lucky. im feeling VERY sore and really got my ass kicked. we tumbled in the car like bricks in a drying machine. The crash was soo bad and the car was in such bad shape. the rear axle came out from under the car and the drivers rear tire snapped off. the gas tank cracked and spilled a full tank of gas everywhere. and yet 4 out of 5 of us got out ok and dont need medical attention.

I will say that if my pain gets any worse tomorrow ill go to the hospital, but i think ill be fine. i have broken my back before and had my spine fused due to scoliosis so i know what it feels like to have spinal damage and so far it all feels very muscular. but because i do have metaln rods in my back i will go in of i start to feel any type of pain i that area.

the driver was 21 years old and completely sober, it was just a complete failure of judgement and lack of driving responsibility. im very upset about that and honestly would not mind seeing her never drive again. (bad woman driving jokes have been going on all day) but trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro happens and i can live with that i guess. im lucky to be ok and everyone is alive.



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[85twofiftyES]

Glad to hear no serious injuries. Good thinking with the maglite on traffic, that would never have come to my mind.

[DasUberKraut]

Glad you're still with us man.

[badass350x]

Glad everybody seems too be ok!! But what kind of party store were you going too???

[thestud25]

You and everyone involved are extremely lucky! My wife and I never used to buckle up and now we buckle up every time our butts hit the seats. I am glad to hear that you are ok.

[Mr_RPM]

i almost always buckle, i cant even tool around the yard with the jeep without buckling. it was just one of those moments where there was no room. blazers are horrible for room and one of the guys is pretty big.

they were going to the party store to buy some drinks i think. they are all over 21 (3 of them 23, driver 21, and me 19) and were just gonna hang out at the house.

i didn't know they were doing this till i showed up or i would have waited to show up. i dont drink because i have been in trouble before and no longer do that, i dont even like being in cars with alcohol so i would have not went till after i they got back.

but because it was such a short drive i went....

[atc007]

Glad you're ok man... SOB,,,Tomorrow is NOT guaranteed for ANY of us.. So glad you're ok ! Buckle up from now on please...

[dcreel]

Glad to hear you are okay..

[fabiodriven]

Coming from an avid motorcyclist and car driver of over 15 years, and a professional truck driver of over 10 years, I will tell you that young women are THE WORST drivers on the road. I have no quams with saying it, call me sexist or whatever you want. Women are bad drivers, but young women are the worst. It's actually a toss up in my book between young women drivers and the extremely elderly. I've seen more issues on the road caused by women and old people. I'm not sorry for this observance, and you can't argue with what you've experienced personally.

Young women think they have something to prove to guys when they're behind the wheel. They all think that they're "that one chick who can drive" and they're going to prove it to you. Then they pile the car into a pole and drive over-cautiously for the rest of their lives after that.

I was following a 20 year old girl who was dropping her car off in a blizzard a couple of years ago. I begged her to please drive slowly and be very cautious. She laughed at me and sped away with her tires spinning. On the VERY FIRST fricken turn we came to she slid across the road and just missed eating it by inches. Had there been traffic coming the other way it would have been a mess. The very first turn. She slowed down after that, but it was just pure luck she even had that option anymore.

Heed my words younger trike brethren. Observe and form your own opinion based on what you see.

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/3/Women-Drivers-Accidents-684955

I am Fabiodriven, and I approve this message.

[Jason125m]

I'm glad you and everyone involved and relatively okay, make sure you BUCKLE up!!

I cannot agree with you more Fabio, I haven't been in the car with a woman who can drive in my life.

Women drivers are by far the drivers who cause the most accidents in my area, ESPECIALLY in the winter...

Jason

[badass350x]

wild video but true,, "Women drivers no survivors" lol..

[sweetip2000]

All those SUV's are top heavy. I have seen some pretty bad male drivers too. Its normal to panic during failure. I have hit the rear brakes on the harley in 2 critical situations not using the front brake. Fishtailing the rear then applying the front brake. You never can tell what will happen when it happens. So I guess the old biker saying is true.
Expect the unexpected.

[tri again]

Cab drivers will make store runs, just for reference.


I'd also be happy to review the films for free if she's not getting good answers.

[daniel_250r]

glad to hear everyone is safe and alive. to add i went to a larger city with a girlfriend she was driving she apparently didn't see the stop lights she skidded to a stop at the first one it was red the next one went red she went right threw it cars came so close to hitting my side as we went through. i told her to pull over and i drove ahaha

[Dirtcrasher]

Fabio saw what I did and I damn well deserved it and paid for it later both mentally and financially. And I'm still paying........

Drive safe, sober, buckle up and I'm glad to hear the majority of you are AOK!

[Russell 350X]

Glad to hear your ok. That's why I never like riding with anyone, even if I'm just riding shotgun..not much of a fan of putting my life in someone else's hands. I usually always drive, whether they like it or not...

[Mr_RPM]

yeah, for now on im going to drive as much as possible.
and i will never drive with anyone i dont know.

[Mr_RPM]

I am soooo upset now.

I guess the driver and others are telling people the reason why we crashed was because the rear drivers side tire fell off. The tire did fall off but it came off during the crash.
The reason we crash was purely because she took the turn too fast. theres no way we crashed because of a tire falling off. either way if the tire came off or not the speed of the turn was so fast that keeping that blazer on the road would not have been possible.

now i know why shes doing this, her best friend in the hospital with a broken neck (who is going to be ok, thank god) and feels so horrible that when someone purposed that maybe the tire fell off and it wasn't her fault she probably agreed to make herself look better.

I was there and know what happened, we were all making comments on how fast she was going and as we approached the turn i said slow down this turn is sharper then the last. at that point she had little time to react.
I just dont like how this is being covered up, people tell me to keep my mouth shut and be happy (and i probably will) but it disgusts me. cover ups are horrible.

[atc007]

If anyone asks,,tell the truth. That's all you can do. And you owe it to doing the right thing,,and especially,,the injured victims family. Hope you're not TOO sore!! lol,,,you hurt places you didn't even know existed don't you!?

[Mr_RPM]

I am actually going to the doctors tomorrow for xrays, going to the orthopedic that fixed my back when i crashed by 400ex and who also fixed my back for the scoliosis.
Hopefully im fine and just sore as F$@&!!! but since i do have two 12 inch rods in there I should get it looked at.

and yes i plan on telling the truth to anyone who asks and anyone who matters. But ill keep quiet so i dont start a big thing.

[atc200xkid]

yea i use to drive like a bat outta hell, tearing up s curves and blowing stop signs and stuff. but after i joined the fire dept and went on my first car accident call with 3 DOA's and a kid who will never walk again, yea that trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro messes you up for a long time and you become way greatful, either way be safe and get better dude!

[WisconsinJohn]

I am one of those drivers that was responsible for another passenger's injury. In my case, it was 8:45am, sunny (2005) and I was driving responsible. I was in a work vehicle, going 55-60 on a 4 lane highway with a median and yeilding cross traffic. I was in the right lane and apparently a white extended ford van is not visible because the guy crossed the oncoming 2 lanes to get to the median, slowed down a little then kept coming. My immediate reaction was to swerve into him (suburban) to avoid a side t-bone into me. The front corner took the hit. The van flipped end over end and took out a telephone pole 8 feet in the air, rolled twice into a deep ditch. The passenger shattered his arm between the shoulder and elbow. We were on lying sideways so I told the passenger I was gonna jump out cause I was hanging from my seatbelt and he was below me. I crawled out and jumped out of the shattered window about 10 feet to find that my kneecap was broken in half... But the seatbelts saved us! The van was totaled, and the footwell/ leg area was crushed closed, I dont know how I got my legs out on time. I think I balled up? The passenger had a bunch of surgeries and was off for like a year. He quit shortly after that, but I know he was not doing great with that arm. I had 2 surgeries and was back working in 3 months. 3 years later in an insurance meeting my boss blamed me for high insurance rates in front of our whole company...Ungreatful S.o.B... So I quit 2 years ago. Long story short we are all still alive and so are you and your friends.

[tri again]

I just spent 4 hours in a deposition.
That's where lawyers ask questions and someone records it all.
3 and a half of those hours were about where I went to High School,
and everything except what I knew about an accident I witnessed.
Well, the last 12 minutes were about the case....2 freakin' years later.
It's all a witch hunt and the lawyers need the income so they'll twist and turn
any and everything...and tell you not to talk to ANYone about the case.

Everyone's trying to stay cool and grateful but when the aches and pains don't go away,
financial hardships appear, the lawyers grow fangs.

Support for PTSD is probably the closest / best info for everyone.
(post traumatic stress)

These are life altering events.
We can only hope to learn and grow and appreciate damnnear every minute of every day.

Hopefully the vehicle and parts are still intact for someone to check out.
I had a case where the junkyard guy took the steering wheel off and the
brake pedal rubber and lo and behold,
a year later, they were able to prove who was driving.

Do what you can to take care of your self and hopefully it will all fade into a distant memory.

Good luck with the imaging on the rods and screws.
Those things are bulletproof after a short healing time.

[WilliamJ]

Very glad to hear you are all basically okay (or will be soon).
It’s two and a half years since my son (Slothminx on here) and daughter were in a head-on which killed Will and broke Steph’s skull and spine.
They were not going fast - maybe 35 mph at the most and probably less. The car they hit was going faster maybe 60 - 70. No one knows exactly why or how it happened but there was truck involved and he drove off without stopping. Police couldn’t prove anything though.

Every day is bad now. Steph has some titanium in her head and has been going to one specialist after another as it has affected her memory span and cognitive ability and eyesight, amongst other things. But it’s the psychological damage that really screws us up.

Try to avoid blaming the driver. It’s not good for anyone, the anger is so destructive. Try to offer support instead - she didn’t intend to crash or hurt anyone and it will do you good to forgive her if you can. (Maybe you already have?)
Bill

[Mr_RPM]

turns out om fine, my rib cage at the bottom left corner is cracked but is fine i just need to take it easy. luckily my spine and all the hardware in their held up just fine.

[Chazz of Blades]

A couple months back I came about two inches from being a new radiator on a Ford Superduty wrecker pulling a car. I was in the back of a small truck with two friends, stopped in the left lane of a four lane highway(72 for any who know it) waiting on an incoming car to pass to turn off to the left. Visibility behind us was clear for atleat 600 feet, and I hear screaching tires to see a huge wrecker with his brakes locked trying to avoid rear ending us. He was probably doing 80+ when he passed us, missing small little Dakota I was in by about 2", and taking off the passenger mirror. If he had of hit us, I would have been first to take the impact, and would have taken a large metal safe that was in the bed to the back of the head. The driver of the wrecker obviously wasn't paying attention.


Sometimes, it's best to simply be glad everyone's alive, wounds heal, but a life can never be patched up.

Although, it's also bad to try and lie to everyone just to cover your own ass, and lying about it for that person is just as bad as if you yourself were the one deceiving everyone.

[aldochina]

not a funny thread, but man fabs, i was just rolling!! thanks for that link!

[The Goat]

About five years ago I was driving away from the house on the backroads to return a movie, I remember the first four miles or so, then blackness, then two headlights and swerving into a ditch/tree. Don't know who ran me off the road, or if im just remembering the flash of impact. Three miles between blank and wreck, so I didn't fall asleep.

Airbag deployed driving my arm into my chest and fist into my collarbone. Steering wheel pushed me through front seat, and broke seatbelt off at the hook. Climbed out without a scratch and was slipping in and out of consciousness/shock while standing waiting for my cousin. Never once stopped standing.

Don't advise it. Have I slowed down, yeah. But I was actually doing 20 below the speedlimit that night as I was trying to save gas.

No doctor, just bruises to skin muscle and bone. No one will EVER punch me as hard as I punched myself, and that's a fact. Being fat saved my life. Guaranteed. Best part is I'll still have moments where I have to look around to make sure I'm awake, just get a feeling like I might actually be dreaming. And while I used to be able to sleep through anything, now any movement at all in the room I'm in wakes me up. If my fiancée moves at all, I wake up, survey the room and go back to sleep. At least no one cane ever break in I guess....

[beets442]

Glad you and friends are OK. I get nervous as hell when someone else is driving, I've seen enough of my friends crash. I have gotten out of a couple cars and a boat cause the driver sucked.

[Mr_RPM]

picture of the car on page 1.

[HONDA_ATC_FREAK]

holy crap that's a pancake, good thing you were in the back.

[sp8twn]

Glad to hear you are okay..

[rdlsz24]

Glad you made it out ok. I have lost 2 friends in car accidents, and nearly lost another at the end of October. My friend was a passenger in a crash and got pretty banged up but the driver of the car (a friend of my friend, I didn't know him) didn't make it.

Rob

[fabiodriven]

http://www.break.com/index/woman-cant-parallel-park-smart-car-2287381

[brapp]

139939my g/f was flyign down a mountain and roled her blazer on passinger side and it somehow floped back on wheels and she was layign acrost the froot seat when she hit a tree about 50mph

[ATC-Eric]

Thats intense! Glad your okay man.

[Mr_RPM]

Fabio, thats hilarious. why didn't she just pull right into the spot, theres no need to parallel part that little thing. lol

brapp, is she ok? The reason me and my friends got out alive and ok was because we rolled, there was no sudden stops. like they say "its not the speed that kills, its the sudden stops". to hit a tree head on is probably one of the worst things you can hit, the momentum and energy has no where to spread out and all of that energy is forced into stopping all at once. i really hope shes ok. you said she rolled first too? damn blazers rolling and stuff lol they are the 3 wheelers of cars haha

[Xpress]

Damn man, glad you and your buddies came out alright... I feel lucky I've never been in something that serious... I agree with Fabio.. All of my female friends of or around the same age as me simply just cannot drive to save their lives. So if I'm going to be in a vehicle with females I sure as hell will be driving, otherwise i'm staying home.