been hit? what went though your mind?

[jphanna]

i had an interesting experience tonight. on my way to meet some people for coffee, sitting behind about 10 cars at the lights waiting to move.....Thump from behind. no brake screeching, nothing! i knew something....something bad...had happened but i couldnt comprehend that it was to me. i refused to believe that i just got hit!

i sat there in disbelief. for a few seconds, i told myslef that 'nothing happened' and it was just my imagination. then i come to my senses, pulled over and did the swap numbers etc etc.

the only good thing out of it was the guy was insured and admitted 100% fault, which he told the cops in front of me.

if you been hit, what went through your mind in the first 30 seconds after.....

[jay_wr8]

what went though my mind was "let me get off the road you wankers" as people kept driving past as i was in the center lane

[acarmody]

When some girl hit me behind at a roundabout (I was first in line, she was second, left lane, she saw a gap and forgot about me), I immediately checked mirror to make sure she wasn't trying to take off, then put handbrake on, hazards on, turned car off. Got out while watching for traffic, and then got her to get out of her car and behind barricade (airbag went of in her face, and she was shocked, thats why she was still stitting in car with tears in her eyes), then handbraked her car, and turned her hazards on. All this in about 1 minute. I guess I'm pretty good with incidents.

[sleepa]

Had a head on when I was not moving and the other car was at about 50kmh. Seemed to happen in slow motion, but quick at the same time. First thing I thought as the bonnet bent upwards was "shit!", then " I need to get off this road, so chucked on my hazards and by then a few people were around to help push the cars of the road.

Another time I got T-boned, Luckily I positioned the car so the other one scraped down the drivers side. Still pushed the doors in about 8 inches, broke through the inner door trim and missed hitting my elbow by about an inch.
That time acted on instinct, I must have shut the car off, and put the handbrake and hazards on, (can't remember doing it, but they were like that when got back), opened the door and ran to the other car which was in much better condition then mine. Always seems the way that the person who gets hit is worse off.

[S.T.K.E]

When i got hit about 18 months ago in the alfa the first thing threw my head was "mother ****er". Car was a write of due to the location of spare parts.

[TVR-190]

when we got rear ended in my mates vx, i knew what had happened instantly. we both got out, he called police and i ran over to get the woman out of the other car, as she was sitting there freaking out.

[Astranomical]

As I've posted elsewhere, I got hit on Sunday. In less than a second the Hilux went from being behind me to being right beside me. My instant reaction was to yell at the top of my voice - "WHAT THE ****!" After that I was kinda in shock for a few minutes, exchanged details with the driver of the Hilux (who tried to blame it on me, despite him trying to overtake me when I was turning right), unfortunately I forgot to get the Hilux's rego number at the time, since I was in shock from having my car smashed up (only had it for a couple of months), rang him up the next day and got it.

[STEALTHY™]

This went through my mind 'why the **** do we keep giving licenses to people who cant drive'

[Adds_05]

had a girl come around a bend and lost it in the pooring down rain straight into the side of my mums brand new 2 week old vz company car,first thing that went through my mind was "what the **** you moron". she got out crying telling me it was her brothers car etc
smashed the car from the front guard all the way to the boot,the only good thing about it was the girl that hit me was about 17-18 in a short skirt and top, hot as and pushed her big tits into my chest as she gave me a nice big hug after it was all sorted out lol

[Decicrate]

this went through my mind 'why the **** do we keep giving licenses to people who cant drive'

gold!!!!!!!!!!

[TrikkBen]

Had a head on, limped the car off the road, thought "**** dad won't be happy" (dads ute). Lit a smoke and called the old man.

[Astranomical]

This went through my mind 'why the **** do we keep giving licenses to people who cant drive'

That was the next thing that went through my mind after the initial "WTF", along with, "old farts who can't drive should be forced to catch the bus."

[Demonica]

Had an accident in the Mazda 929 my parents bought me when I was 17. ****ing bloke was stopped on the side of the road and then decided to chuck a U without looking to see if any cars were coming. Pulled over, turned the hazards on, got out, slammed the door, yelled "****" at the top of my lungs and wondered how the hell did this moron pass his driving test in the first place. My front bumper was gone and he had a massive scrape down the side of his car. Went and had a chat to the bloke who turned out to be a young Swiss tourist who looked pretty shaken and was really apologetic. Anyway told him not to worry about it I'd pay for my own repairs. The bloke was so happy he gave me a big hug and a kiss and drove off.

[coolngroovy]

The mrs was liberachy'd in our 'recently' completed toy.

She was hit by a new Pulsar. No Brakes, no warning.
My mrs was stopped.. had been for over 1 minute, waiting for a break in traffic, [turning right]. My m8s mrs was in the car following the offender. There was no other traffic infront, & the road was dead straight!
Go figure!



My mrs said.. she heard the bang & thought, "Somebody is going to be pissed off!", then she realised it was her. She tapped her head on the padded roll cage, but not hard.
She pulled to the curb..... ferkin' definately not happy Jan!, went to snot the other driver... but the airbag had pushed her glasses into her face & gave her 2 black eyes, so my mrs took pity on her.

I was calm about it too.....right up until her boyfriend said, "It's only a car!". Then i saw red!

It took 3 1/2yrs to build, was registered for 50 days, & written off on April fools day.

[Maxxiz]

Yeah happened to me a few times, first thing I said once was "Oh get fu(ked" its always a shock but yeah.

[Darren_L]

I got tail ended in my previous VH
the a car suddenly changed lanes 2 cars in front of me, and then slammed the brakes on for red light ahead, giving the car in front of me nowhere to go. The car in front screeched and slammed into the car. I hit my brakes hard, did the human ABS thing to stop it locking and just managed to miss the car in front. Next reaction was to watch the rear vision mirror - all I could see is a car nose down/bum up and BANG - into the back of my car, and the car budged forward. Then 1 more bang and then an almighty CRASH before everyone came to a halt. I still managed somehow to miss the car in front of me, by inches....

first thing that crossed my mind is - oh shit..... how bad is the back of my car going to look....
I got out and headed straight for the back of the car. Fortunately not as bad as I expected, rear bar and a bit of a bend in the rear panel.

The Honda at the very back wasn't so lucky. It was a wreck, we had to push it off the road

[1SIKR8]

cruising down the main street in tamworth, pulled up at a pedestrain crossing in the old VT, then bang ... my mate pissed himself laughing thinking i managed to stall a auto .. then i look back and saw plasitc hiting the ground ... i didn't belive it happened ... then i snapped and cracked the shits ( worst thing to do ) jumped outta the car abusing the bloke and he was very apologetic saying he was watching a fight on the side walk and didn't realise i stopped ... i didn't care ... he paid for the damage =) i was a happy boy then lol

[coolngroovy]

Has anyone else noticed that the recent increase in 4wd pieces of junk, makes it harder to see forward, & therefore increases the likelyhood of these types of accident?

I hate being behind a 4wd, because i have no idea of the road ahead! Then the manufacturers put dummy lights in the bumbers/body, which make it even more difficult!! Like these boutique weekenders aren't bad enought blocking your forward vision, but you have to look skyward to see in they are braking!

Something funky going on there!

[supahot1!]

I got rear ended in my other calais and the first thing i did was get out. check the damage and the tel the driver he is f****** c*** and should like some D***s.

problem solved

[Grennan]

I was calm about it too.....right up until her boyfriend said, "It's only a car!". Then i saw red!

This is what ticked me off when I was in an accident. Old codger with his head barely over the steering wheel tried to beat traffic and hit my front bumper/quarter panel in my old VR. Had my girlfriend in the car and I got out and the bloke pretty much flat out denied he hit me, he wasnt going very fast but he still hit me and caused damage. It quickly turned into an argument and my girlfriend got out and said "who cares its only a car" and I almost went nuts.

Has anyone else noticed that the recent increase in 4wd pieces of junk, makes it harder to see forward, & therefore increases the likelyhood of these types of accident?

I hate being behind a 4wd, because i have no idea of the road ahead! Then the manufacturers put dummy lights in the bumbers/body, which make it even more difficult!! Like these boutique weekenders aren't bad enought blocking your forward vision, but you have to look skyward to see in they are braking!

Something funky going on there!

Yeah I find that quite annoying as well. I dont like not being able to see what the car in front of the car im following is doing. I just treat them like trucks and hang way back.

[Dragz]

cars Cruise control went bezerk, car was flooring it self, i lost control at a turn smashing into a tree but just before i crashed it my thoughts where" Oh fck(trying to control the car) Ohhh Sh*T (smashed the tree)..final thought" My brother going to kill me"

[Rusty]

cars Cruise control went bezerk, car was flooring it self, i lost control at a turn smashing into a tree but just before i crashed it my thoughts where" Oh fck(trying to control the car) Ohhh Sh*T (smashed the tree)..final thought" My brother going to kill me"

I had same problem but put the car into nuetral?

[Dragz]

didnt think of that at that time, when i smashed the car was still doing dohnuts on the grass as when i tryed to controll it i full locked it thank god for that or i would of gone wrong side of the road and smashed another car or a bridge that was there...i nearly shat my pants.

[STEALTHY™]

Haha, now i remember why i miss your posts. Always so full of fail.

[stockyvrcalais]

This went through my mind 'why the **** do we keep giving licenses to people who cant drive'

too true, friday while driving the work van, im in the left, and the old codger in his covertible saab in the right lane decides hes gonna get into the left lane, while im there, the fact there was a large toyota hiace van in his way didnt seem to deter him, gave him the horn and he didnt even budge! Then yesterday while driving my vx i had exactly the same thing happen with another moron, now my question is this: why is it that these idiots driving in the right lane who want to get into the left, do so only when theres a car beside them? You can drive behind them (in right lane) for ages but as soon as you go to the left and want to pass them (because they are driving so friggin slow) they wanna merge left, right when your beside them.