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[draven]

So, I've finished telling my loved ones and others, and now I tell GAF, since I'm apparently stuck at home tonight.

Just coming back from the gym, passing through the security gate, when I see a car hauling ass behind me trying to get in under the security bar before it lowers. Seeing it come pretty fast, I slam the accelerator down cause it's pretty apparent he's gonna hit me.

SLAM.

A few adrenaline-stacked moments later after impact, I get out of the car to confront the motherfucker just in time to see his car race past me, into the development.

Hah, never thought I would be involved in a hit and run...

After calling the police, my insurance, and everybody else, a security rover comes by and asks me what I remember of the license plate and the car. I tell him, and eventually he comes back and tells me he found the guy, with his car really messed up (airbags deployed, radiator in pieces, and a nice radiator-leak path leading to his house, which is now immobile). In addition, the security guard tells me they have the whole accident on tape, due to the recent security gate upgrade. Meanwhile, my car has a pretty messed up rear underbody spoiler, and my bumper cracked and painted green (my car is blue, his car was green). I'm now having a beer and trying to get some rest, per my brother's advice, and staying in for the night...

So GAFers, got any advice or anyone want to share their car accident stories?

 

[Incognito]

this time last year i was in a car accident, and inside my car was a $600 money order. guess what happened to it? yep, gone. since i'm stupid, i hadn't signed or authorized it yet. so it was free money...

 

[Eminem]

I got read ended pretty badly going to the White Sox/Cubs game this year. Guy was a total cock, even though it was his fault. Fucker tried to run too, but there was a cop right there directing traffic, and he made sure he stopped.

I ended up making it to the game with a gaping hole in the rear driver's side. Where the tail light used to be, it was no more. But the feeling sucked, going to a game you spent $200 on tickets for, knowing your car was out there smashed up. But the sox won 9-4, so it was all good.

 

[Dan]

Well, at least your hit-and-run story has about the happiest ending such a thing can have: the guy was found. It could have easily been worse.

 

[WasabiKing]

Contact your insurance agent as soon as you can. Make sure get the report number and business card of the officer, just in case. Other than that, relax until Monday.

I got sandwiched when I was a freshman in college. Going up to campus to meet with some folks to study for a midterm. A pickup in front of me, and a Chevy Nova that rammed me. Luckily, it was the shitty hatchback Novas, and not the 70s muscle car. I ended up having the least amount of damage. The Nova was totalled, the pickup's rear bumper fell off. Half my rear bumper came off its bearings, the front bumper was smashed downwards, but it really was no big deal. Good ol' American car, steel body...

 

[way more]

Oooooh. Sorry man. I totaled my car this summer, that tree came from nowhere! I was unable to move my left arm for like 3 days, it was weird. We were trying to get rid of the car anyway, but now my insurance will be up for a while.

 

[AntoneM]

Early that summer I was inline skating around town and I, for some reason, skated up a huge ass hill, not only that but the incline seemed like it was 70 degrees (it was definatly greater than 50 degrees) so I get to the top and I figure well, there's no where to go but down.

I start zooming down the hill, must have been going 100 mph, and all this time I'm fully aware of the fact that I don't have a stopper and I only got 3 wheels on each instead of 4. I zoom past house after house and then I see it... a stop sign! It's a fairly busy intersection and so I try to "T-stop" that doesn't slow me down at all so now I'm going 100 mhp right toward a stop sign. It's time to bail! I choose the next driveway (these were the kind that gently sloped down to the street, not the rounded curb kind) only I realise to late the the driveway has a dip where it meets the street, my skates go straight over the dip, slam into the driveway, and I'm left sliding face first down the sidewalk toward recently edged grass. I ended up with major road rash and a broken left ring finger that didin't heal right.

*deep breath*

a few weeks later I got my license...

a few weeks after that...

I was driving home from getting fireworks and I see a friend, not so much a good friend but a friend none the less. He hadn't seen me driving yet so I wave to him while controlling the car with my cast hand (see why I needed the back story). I'm waving and looking and waving and out of nowhere a parked car on the opposite side of the street hits me! Of course this was no ordinary car, it belonged to a cop, and he worked the night shift and was sleeping! Needless to say I got owned, but that has been my only accident ever.