The purpose of this thread is to describe auto accidents you have either personally been in, or have witnessed with your own eyes, then analyze them and see what we can learn from the experience. Let’s keep it to those accidents we’ve actually been in or seen, to keep things more accurate. Every time I get an accident described to me by someone that wasn’t there, the story usually doesn’t make sense, or has holes in it. Even from people who were there, they often leave out key parts, such as how the driver was changing radio stations just before the crash. Be honest and accurate, You can leave out the names if you want.
The long-term purpose of this thread is to save lives, and hopefully make you a safer, more aware driver.
I got the idea for this thread from the Critical Mass thread. It got me thinking how uneducated many drivers are. Every time somebody tells me about an accident they were in, aside from usually distorting the facts to minmize wrongdoing on the part of the driver (even if it wasn’t them), they also tell it as if they’d never heard of a similar accident situation.
Sadly, most auto accidents are of common types that happen thousands of times every day. I think if people knew more about the commonest types of accidents, and just how common they are, they would be less likely to participate in them. So who would like to go first?
