What is the worst accident you have witnessed?

Raven's Nest

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I was driving along one fine clear sunny afternoon, on my way to the lovely county of Cornwall in the United Kingdom. I had just visited Stonehenge on the way through so this was pretty cool and me and my friends were all happy as larry.

I'm following a car on a single laned road at about 60mph. All of a sudden a car travelling in the opposite direction crosses lanes and ploughs straight into the other car! My radio was on full blast but the crash sounded like a bomb had gone off!

I'm only about 20 feet behind the car in front, but fortunately by the time I had braked (which was before they hit) I had stopped without becoming a part of the crash. I'll tell you, it's absolutely horrible when you see something about to happen that you can do nothing to prevent.

Anyway, so after the combined 120mph crash, both cars, who only containing one lady each, were totalled. I used to be in the army so my first aid skills are very good but beyond checking for signs of life and trying to asses the critical condition of each woman, There wasn't much I could do. But the blood and pure mangled-ness of the scene was intense. I immediately called the emergency services and requested air ambulances. They sent two.

Crazy thing was, the car in front of me was a Peugeot 306, exactly the same as mine. And the car travelling the other way was a Renault Clio, exactly the same as my mate in the passsenger seats car... Dum dum dumm!

To my knowledge, both women survived. It is my suspicion that the Clio driver had lost conciousness at the wheel.

So tell me, Escapist's, What horrible horrors have you witnessed? And were you able to help?
 

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I watched some guy in my school land on his wrist, and it snapped into an "S" shape. Gruesome....

If you're on about car accidents, then I haven't seen any.
 

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i havent seen any car accidents but i have seen a lacrosse hit where my friend got flipped around and he was K.O
 

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My friend accidentally got shot in the kneecap. That's really it, though.
 

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Worst accident I saw was my friend getting hit and killed by a transport while he was on his bike. That was a really hard year.
 

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Well, I haven't really seen any. All of my friends could tell you about bad ones I've been in though. Two car crashes (both not my fault and within a year of each other, talk about shitty luck), and one or more head injuries. I was at school, playing touch football, and I smacked head with a kid on the other team. When I looked up, everyone freaked out and told me to lie down. I was like "wtf, we just hit heads" then I took my hand down and saw blood all over it. Massive gash, needed 17 stitches for it. Didn't hurt that bad though.
 

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WanderFreak said:
Car accident I was in (I love this story). Semi hit a minivan going through an intersection, ripped the fucker right open. Two kids splattered on the pavement in chunks, another one bounced off a cube van to the left of me, splattered my hood, and landed a few meters in front of me kinda snapped in half. She lived though, good for her. When all was said and done a semi, cube van, my car, the minivan, and a couple other cars were involved in varying degrees of "minor collateral damage" to "shit son did that just explode."

I can confirm first hand that when a semi hits a car and blows it up in movies, it is wrong.

Damn it.
Shit dude, that's pretty messed up.

tellmeimaninja said:
I saw someone who was running down the stairs, tried to jump down them, and hit their head on part of the wall hanging over the stairs. If it wasn't someone I liked, I probably would have laughed myself into a coma.
I'll admit, I lol'd a lot at that.

theSovietConnection said:
Worst accident I saw was my friend getting hit and killed by a transport while he was on his bike. That was a really hard year.
Damn, My friend had an uncle who went the same way. But the poor dude was thrown off his bike and went through the cargo part of a truck. He didn't come out the otherside.
 

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There was one down the road that my dad saw where a kid didn't slow down enough to make a turn his car went up a hill hit a few trees and immideiately caught on fire. my grandfather and dad tried getting over to save him a long with a nerby state trooper they couldn't get near the wreck because it was such a huge inferno.

The scariest was my own, idk if i would really say i was scared becasue through the whole thing i fealt in control. I was going to fast around a curve, in order to make it around that curve at 80 i needed to be in the middle of the road so i had plenty of room to "skid" on two wheels in my suv(I've done it several times before). Except this time there was a car coming in the other direction, this is the fml part of the story, i swerved into the ditch to miss the car was headed for the enbankment so i swearved back on the road(my mistake shold have hit the embackment with my right side would have fucked up the side and messed up the mirror). Instead i came back on the road i was slingshotting so i went back off the road and i fealt like i was gonna make it back on i was like yes i have this shit except i was still going about 60 coming back on the road and this time my axle bent out. From that point i was fucked my steering wheel started going back and forth out of my control completely, finaly the tire caught the road(yes this happened, its the only way i can figure out how i got the damage and flipped the way i did) because it was bent out and the car flipped end over end crushd part of my front end while flipping and the my back right end. The car then kinda spun like a top on the side that was crushed. In the end my car was facing the opposite direction i came on my side. i didn't have a scratch on me, when i relized that the wheel was going crazy i put one hand on my middle console and on hand on my top roof so i didn't jar too much, i was still getting glass out of my hair the next morning tho. Yeah it was my scariest accident because i got out the truck and was like my dad is going to fucking kill me, he just didn't talk to me for 4 days.

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dmase said:
There was one down the road that my dad saw where a kid didn't slow down enough to make a turn his car went up a hill hit a few trees and immideiately caught on fire. my grandfather and dad tried getting over to save him a long with a nerby state trooper they couldn't get near the wreck because it was such a huge inferno.

The scariest was my own, idk if i would really say i was scared becasue through the whole thing i fealt in control. I was going to fast around a curve, in order to make it around that curve at 80 i needed to be in the middle of the road so i had plenty of room to "skid" on two wheels in my suv(I've done it several times before). Except this time there was a car coming in the other direction, this is the fml part of the story, i swerved into the ditch to miss the car was headed for the enbankment so i swearved back on the road(my mistake shold have hit the embackment with my right side would have fucked up the side and messed up the mirror). Instead i came back on the road i was slingshotting so i went back off the road and i fealt like i was gonna make it back on i was like yes i have this shit except i was still going about 60 coming back on the road and this time my axle bent out. From that point i was fucked my steering wheel started going back and forth out of my control completely, finaly the tire caught the road(yes this happened, its the only way i can figure out how i got the damage and flipped the way i did) because it was bent out and the car flipped end over end crushd part of my front end while flipping and the my back right end. The car then kinda spun like a top on the side that was crushed. In the end my car was facing the opposite direction i came on my side. i didn't have a scratch on me, when i relized that the wheel was going crazy i put one hand on my middle console and on hand on my top roof so i didn't jar too much, i was still getting glass out of my hair the next morning tho. Yeah it was my scariest accident because i got out the truck and was like my dad is going to fucking kill me, he just didn't talk to me for 4 days.
Something like that happened to my uncle once. He was on the way to a job interview, and he flipped his car so that it landed back on it's wheels. He was super dazed, but he drove to the interview, GOT THE JOB, and then drove home and passed out on the front step. He looked at the car later and the only part that wasn't crushed was the driver seat and engine.
 
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I once saw the results.

No one was hurt, but it was comical, because they'd managed to tip the car on its side with only a low curb and a speed sign. I must've just missed it when it happened as it well.

I've never seen a truly terrible happen though, which is probably good.
 

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The 'worst accidents that I've seen' have actually happened to me. I was jumped on and nearly crushed by a horse at three years old. I had a kickstand break off and pierce my leg clean through both sides of my knee. And I fell off one of those giant luggage trolleys, only to have the thick metal siderail fall directly onto my nose, shattering it. I was also hit by a car when the brakes on my bike failed, but, luckily, the driver saw me and stopped hard, so I just rolled over the top of her car and came out alright.

As far as things I've actually seen, well...On the way to school, I saw a woman get hit by a car. She walked into the traffic outside of a train station. The car wasn't going too fast, but she broke her arm and went into shock and essentially lost consciousness. Fortunately, my mother is a doctor and was able to assess her condition and stabilise her, and we were literally next door to RNS - Royal North Shore Hospital, so they got the woman there in no time.

Oh, and I saw a guy get a glass bottle smashed over his skull in a fight, hit his head on the sidewalk and blackout. I don't know what happened - my friends and I had to clear out of the area, because the assailants took off and started to run in our direction. Yeah, a group of seventeen year old girls against four drunk guys twice our size? It wasn't going to end well if we hadn't legged it.
 

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bcponpcp27 said:
dmase said:
There was one down the road that my dad saw where a kid didn't slow down enough to make a turn his car went up a hill hit a few trees and immideiately caught on fire. my grandfather and dad tried getting over to save him a long with a nerby state trooper they couldn't get near the wreck because it was such a huge inferno.

The scariest was my own, idk if i would really say i was scared becasue through the whole thing i fealt in control. I was going to fast around a curve, in order to make it around that curve at 80 i needed to be in the middle of the road so i had plenty of room to "skid" on two wheels in my suv(I've done it several times before). Except this time there was a car coming in the other direction, this is the fml part of the story, i swerved into the ditch to miss the car was headed for the enbankment so i swearved back on the road(my mistake shold have hit the embackment with my right side would have fucked up the side and messed up the mirror). Instead i came back on the road i was slingshotting so i went back off the road and i fealt like i was gonna make it back on i was like yes i have this shit except i was still going about 60 coming back on the road and this time my axle bent out. From that point i was fucked my steering wheel started going back and forth out of my control completely, finaly the tire caught the road(yes this happened, its the only way i can figure out how i got the damage and flipped the way i did) because it was bent out and the car flipped end over end crushd part of my front end while flipping and the my back right end. The car then kinda spun like a top on the side that was crushed. In the end my car was facing the opposite direction i came on my side. i didn't have a scratch on me, when i relized that the wheel was going crazy i put one hand on my middle console and on hand on my top roof so i didn't jar too much, i was still getting glass out of my hair the next morning tho. Yeah it was my scariest accident because i got out the truck and was like my dad is going to fucking kill me, he just didn't talk to me for 4 days.
Something like that happened to my uncle once. He was on the way to a job interview, and he flipped his car so that it landed back on it's wheels. He was super dazed, but he drove to the interview, GOT THE JOB, and then drove home and passed out on the front step. He looked at the car later and the only part that wasn't crushed was the driver seat and engine.
I was praying that i would land on my wheels i was so close to home i would just have to drive a little ways even if i was all over the road because the truck still runs to this day. nope i tipped a little more and yeah thats my luck.
 

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ravens_nest said:
dmase said:
That'll teach you not to drive like a dick then won't it? Lol.
Its funny you should say that, the reason i was speeding... that fast, was because i was at the end of my driveway and saw a van that was my friends going down the road with this black car tailgating real damn close so i got in behind him my friend turned in his drive way and the guy sped up so did i. I was in a jimmy and i was speeding up a lot slower and he hit his breaks going around that turn and I was like what a pussy, i'm gonna catch up to you right here i don't need ot hit my breaks. I was trying ot get the guy back for... driving like a dick. turns out the guy was someone i knew from school and the first thing he said to me was oh shit did you do that because i was going fast? i said no.
 

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I haven't seen an accident happen but I did see the aftermath of somebody that got hit by a bus on my way to work. Windshield of the bus completely caved in and a huge amount of blood, more than its possible to survive losing I'm afraid. From what I heard, a university student tried to get across the road instead of using the crossing and the bus just slammed straight into him. Poor bugger.