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WELL I managed to get into my first car accident 1034 miles [6 months, 13 days] after getting my liscense. [I'm 1 month and 18 days from turning 17.] Backing out of a parking space to reposition it. In my damn school parking lot. I hit the driver's door of one of the PTA presidents. =/ Cop came out and did the report; apparently I'm not getting a ticket for it or whatever.

Some scratches on my [97 Sunfire] back bumper, but there's plenty of scratches on it already. Her car [Black Tahoe] had a pretty good sized dent in the door.

She took it really well; she was very nice...thank God.

So how old were you when you got in your first accident? How bad was it? Was it your car? Your fault?
 
I've not been in an accident ever. Then again, Ive only been driving for three years. I fancy myself a pretty alert driver, but man, I've heard of situations where people are scammed into rear-enders so they can be taken advantage of.

Shitty world this is.
 
18.

although i wasn't driving, it was my truck. let this pretty blonde drive home from school cuz i was looking to score, and she backed INTO a teacher's car shattering the tail light. we didn't know what to do, so we drove off hopign no one saw us.

three weeks later, we were busted with hit and run.

:(
 
It's funny this thread popped up. My sister just had her first car accident today. She's had her license for just over a month. My mom's car was crumpled in the front, but the other car only had a few scratches on it. Not too bad for a first accident.

I don't remember mine at all.
 
I've never been the driver in an accident, but once when my friend as driving me to school in stop and go traffic my friend accidently *nudged* this womans car from behind at fucking 5mph.

She was pissed

demanded insurance information and tried blaming all the scratches on her fucked up car on my friend.
 
I did a quick lane change in downpouring rain. I had been driving for 8 straight hours (no stops) and I entered a circle - I didnt notice that my exit was right there and so I quickly changed from the left lane to right without looking to see who was towards my right. Some guy rammed in to me and I tailspinned -- luckily my lane switch was at roughly 5 MPH and so there was no damage on my car and his save for a few minor bruises.

It was completely my fault, and i should have taken a break after 8 hours of driving and have been more careful in the pouring rain.
 
I'm not going to get into too much detail, but let's just say that to this day I still maintain that the minivan was speeding, and had it not been doing so I wouldn't have nearly pushed it into oncoming traffic.

Also, minivan drivers are the cockiest dipshits on the planet.
 
I had my first car accident earlier this year (I'm 19). It was only minor and it wasn't my fault.

It was raining heavily and it was already night. I was in the left lane at the four-way stop waiting to turn. A car then sped by my right side, grazing it, but scarring some of the paint.

Thankfully, I've never hit somone(nor has a car hit me since). However, I was ALMOST in pretty sizable accident: I was at a complete stop and the car coming from behind me was fucking FLYING! Just in time, they slammed on the breaks and as the car screeched toward me, swerving all over the road trying to maintain the car's control, I was bracing for impact (I was scared as shit). He may have stopped just in time because I thought I felt a light tap.
 
Well my first accident was basically a non accident, i was 16 I think. Was turning in a parking lot and caught the tire of another car. All that happened was a small scrape on the tire rim.

My first real accident was when I was 20. I had stayed up all night at a cabin in vermont. Went to drive home the next morning down a hilly dirt road. Hit the ditch, did 3 corrections before I regained traction and ran right up the hill on the side of the road and flipped my car. Had no seat belt on. Nothing like realizing you are fucked and feeling that impact as you flip over and see the windows shatter around you. I crawled out of my car. Dusted myself off and caught a ride from my friends who were coming up the road. Not a scratch on me. They took care of me until the police contacted me. Since I didn't damage anything other than my car it was not considered leaving the scene.
 
I was 17, and I was driving down the street in Busti, NY looking up my nostrils in the rear-view mirror when I rear-ended this chick at a stop sign. Luckily, there was no damage or injuries, so we exchanged information just in case something cropped up later and went our separate ways. Nothing happened.

That's my only accident. I've been in a lot of spectacular near-misses, however...
 
I've been driving for 7 years and no accidents yet, knock on wood. I drive like everyone's out to get me - and I don't mean slow, but just giving everyone lots of room and lots of advance warning whenever I'm about to do anything, and doing my best to figure out where I'm going well ahead of time. And it works.
 
I was delivering pizzas in my s10 when this guy two cars ahead of me decides he needs to go to subway at the last second and he turns sharp as hell. the car right in front of me slams on their brakes, so do i, but I slide and bam. The lady's truck was fine, my bumper fell off :lol she was such a bitch. she ended up filing a police report saying I didn't give her my insurance info, but yet she filed a claim with my insurance ????? dumb fucking cunt.
 
had a nasty accident in 2001... going down a hill quite fast and some fucknut pulled out from a stop sign without looking - we took out the front of his car then crashed into a wall, and the car (a big van) was wedged against a telephone pole so couldn't get out the sliding door .. had to jump out the broken window then threw up everywhere.. HIDEOUS

my friend in the front had a broken collarbone and was making the most FUCKED noise breathing, i thought she was gonna die.. my other friend (who has osteogenesis imperfecta - basically a disease giving you brittle bones and quite small stature) was slumped on the dashboard and i thought for sure she was dead. she came to, had a FIT from the bleeding in her brain, ended up in hospital for 3 months with nearly every major bone in her body broken, and more bleeding in her brain which almost killed her.

she claims since that she was seconds away from dying in the operating theatre but thought 'fuck you.. i have too much to live for' and came back. she's a fucking trooper!! crazy stuff. i get really angry now when people aren't careful when driving.. i was in a car last week getting a lift from this girl who was a friend-of-a -friend (18 and on P plates) and she was driving like a fucking maniac - i felt like reaching over the front seat and smacking her around a bit for being so irresponsible.
 
Not one yet, although my brother has racked up two in the past year (Backed into a car while waiting at a stop sign, since he went too far in, and the classic 'Pulling into a parkling spot there's absolutely no room for you in and crunching the front bumper of one of the cars') In both cases it was simply damage to the other car, but he got really broody and pissed off about it.

I really haven't driven enough to endanger lives, since I have no car at school and have been busy with work all summer. There have been a couple of times when I could have technically had an accident if I hadn't bothered to check my blind spot though...damn highway drivers.
 
sonarrat said:
I've been driving for 7 years and no accidents yet, knock on wood. I drive like everyone's out to get me - and I don't mean slow, but just giving everyone lots of room and lots of advance warning whenever I'm about to do anything, and doing my best to figure out where I'm going well ahead of time. And it works.
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That's exactly how I drive too, 11 years on no car accident except when I drove backward into a pilar in a parking lot.
 
37 years old.

Was my first ticket also.

Fucking old bitch decided to slam her brakes in front of a railroad crossing. No train from what I could see.

Hit her car in the back. My 2003 Mustang had some pretty decent left front damage. Her Chevy Trailblazer exhaust was pushed up against her rear right tire. She needed to be towed. Mine was actually driveable. Drove it straight to the Ford body shop.

500 dollar deductible. Its what pissed me off the most. It only dinged me about 15 bucks more a month on the insurance. I have a house and life insurance with the same company so I get a pretty good rate.

I wanted to stick that ticket up that Sheriffs ass. Harris County Sheriffs are some real dickheads IMO. I think worse than the Houston Police Department.
 
My first one was last year. Guy rear-ended me going 10 mph. Whiplash, nothing major. Just neck pain. Front part of his car gets totalled. No lawsuits or anything. Everyone involved is fine.

My first one I was responsible for was about a month ago. Coming home from Magic Mountain and in the carpool lane. Almost to my destination point when I lose control of the car, veering left- about 65-70 mph- into the center divider. I panic and put on the breaks. The car veers to the right, into traffic, and I pull the steering wheel left. The car is still skidding out of control and I smash head-on into the center divider going probably not going too fast.

Airbags deploy, but I don't remember hitting them. I remember seeing the wall for a second and then a feeling like being it in the face by something heavy (the steering wheel). Enough time had passed between then and the next moment that there were two people behind me, stopped and out of their car telling me to turn off the engine. I use my right arm and it's kinda sore. I look at my cousin who was my passenger, and ask if he's fine (he is, mostly, though he bruised his pinky).

So I got out of the car and numbly walk over to a car ahead of us that stopped. I asked if he was okay, if I hit him, and he's fine, and I didn't.

Luckily, no teeth were knocked loose or damaged (to my current knowledge, although I'm going to the dentist next week), but I was spitting blood a good half hour afterwards. The wound in my mouth required no stitches. However, when I turned the car left the final time, my arm broke in two places. One was right below the steel plates put in from 5 years ago, and one was a hairline fracture that healed rather quickly.

Aaaaand that was it. I was pretty chatty because I went into shock. Too bad, because I don't even remember the paramedic's name, and I forgot to thank the people who stopped to make sure we were okay.
 
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That's exactly how I drive too, 11 years on no car accident except when I drove backward into a pilar in a parking lot.
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:lol I did that too.. except it wasn't my car, it was one of the Civic coupes on my lot back when I was a car salesman. The key was checked out under my name, so they could've come and got me, but nobody ever did. I did it right in front of my customers, too.. they wound up buying a sedan instead.
 
my first car accident i got nailed right on the side of my car. Wasn't my fault though, and i got a nice $2500 for it, which was more than i paid for the car! a couple weeks ago i accidentally bumped a brand new BMW from behind at a red light, but the guy got out, looked at his car and said "No harm no foul" and drove off. Lucked out on that one.
 
17, no license, 1992. Some guy lost control of his car and swerved into me hitting my rear quarter. I spun around 180 degrees and hit his other side which slid me in the other direction and now backwards (though still in the same direction I was originally going) and slammed into a parked car and smashed my rear end into a fire hydrant.

17 and with no license I tried booking out of there but my rear wheel well was dug about an inch into my back passenger side tire (with the back caved in).

that was about 4 months after I first started driving (without a license)

I have pictures somewhere of the car if I can find them and remember to post them.
 
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