Your worst incident on the road

benjus

While driving:

Rear tyre blowout while doing about 60mph on the A617. I managed to keep the car straight for a while but eventually went into a spin and ended up hitting the central reservation. Fortunately all other traffic was far enough away to take evasive action so no other vehicles were involved and no-one was injured. Police attended to move the car off the central reservation.

While cycling:

I was heading westbound on Commercial Road in London, in the bus lane, with stop/start traffic in the right lane. Someone travelling eastbound decided to turn right, and the car in the right westbound lane flashed him to turn. So he turned across both lanes of westbound traffic without checking the bus lane, and I slammed into the side of him and ended up the other side. Fortunately I got away with nothing more than bruises, and a wrecked front wheel. He gave me a lift home and some cash and we called it quits.

Clive_Woody

I was driving down the A30 with my wife on a long clear straight stretch of road doing about 50mph, I got over taken by some kid in his mum's Corsa and his mate who was racing behind him. They got quite a way ahead then turned into a petrol station. The guy in the Corsa did a u-turn in the petrol station entrance to turn back the way he had come from and pulled straight out in front of me. There was nothing I could do to avoid him as he was looking to see where his mate was and not looking at oncoming traffic. I hit him doing about 50 and spun off down the road ending up in a ditch.

My wife was 5 months pregnant at the time and we ended up at Frimley park hospital having a scan to check she and our baby were okay. Thankfully both were fine. I had some pretty nasty whiplash and twisted my knee as I tried to get out the car and fell into the ditch (don't laugh..I was in shock).

My car was 8 months old and not surprisingly was written-off. Very impressed with how well my little Ibiza protected us in a pretty big crash.

bod1467

August 2008, on my motorbike.

I was out with mates in the wilds between Cumbria and Durham, doing about 45-50 coming in to an S bend. I took the first bend (left) OK but had misjudged the severity of the second (right) bend so drifted wide. My front wheel caught the scrabbly stuff thrown to the side of the road and started to slide.

I caught the slide and headed off-road and up a grass bank. In front of me was a dry stone wall but I managed to haul the bike round (wall of death stylee) and back down to the flat. Immediately after this was a grass mound so I ended up doing an Evel Knievel style mini jump, but still managed to hold things together.

I thought I was then sorted and could stop ... oh no. I hit a mound of road resurfacing cast off; the front wheel went up it, the back wheel hit it and I got catapulted off the bike, flew through the air (very stylish) and hit the ground (not so stylish). Fortunately I landed in a muddy puddle ... 2 feet left or right and I would have hit concrete.

People stopped to help me, realised I was seriously injured so called for an ambulance. They had to actually ride away to get a mobile signal! Road ambulance and air ambulance arrived at the same time - I ended up getting flown to hospital.

My injuries were actually two fractured hands, a broken arm and some internal trauma. All in all a fairly minor outcome given the circumstances.

marlot

For me, my worst incident was the pickup full of people and a machine gun, who tried to hijack me late one night. Not in the UK.

I'd realised what was happening, and was getting out of there whilst they were jumping back into their pickup. Fortunately, another car came along at that moment, and my would-be hijackers drove off to find another victim.

Muscle750

I was driving down the dual carriage way at about (pm one summer evening and some clown come up the slip road on the wrong side of the road heading straight for me i served how we missed each other i dont know , they just carried on as if nothing was wrong
another close one was while on holiday in Scotland came down to a dual carriage way up there for some unknown reason they dont have slip roads you get a T junction and have to turn left point press and hope, anyway it was very foggy as i eased out a 40 ton artic came out the fog with smoke coming out under the tyres and a merc behind him swerved and went down the crash barrier they were travelling far to fast for the condtions . the lorry went across the front of our by inches the merc was redesigning itself on the crash barrier . We stopped and the merc pulled over onto the side , he was going off his tree saying id pulled out which i hadnt but he was just going far to fast to avoid the lorry trailer starting to come round on itself.
One memory from along time ago is one night my GF now wife 33 years later was driving we came to a hair pin bend and she said soon be home , next thing we were going backwards throu the hedge star gazing.

bod1467

marlot wrote: »

For me, my worst incident was the pickup full of people and a machine gun, who tried to hijack me late one night. Not in the UK.

I'd realised what was happening, and was getting out of there whilst they were jumping back into their pickup. Fortunately, another car came along at that moment, and my would-be hijackers drove off to find another victim.

South Africa?

forgotmyname

Pouring down with rain a car overtook me and he hit a deep puddle and lost control spun to the left and then the right through the central tree lined verge and hit a car going the other way head on.

3 lads in the car 2 died and one was on crutches a year after the incident at the inquest. The guy going the other way was in a Ford escort and the bonnet was about 20" long. The passenger in that vehicle was on their way home after having dialysis treatment at the hospital. They were taken back with various injuries.

Ive seen lots of incidents over the years, 1000+ miles a week in the lorry and then my own travels, but that one really sticks in my mind. Standing water is a real danger so i always keep my speed in check when its raining and an accident is just as likely to come from the opposite carriageway and you wont know until its too late.

GwylimT

Crabman wrote: »

Sorry to hear this did the other driver have any action taken against him?

The number of drivers who appear to be looking at their crotch while driving along is shocking.

I genuinely don't believe they care about anyone except themselves and any remorse shown in a court is simply an act.

He got points for using his mobile and a £200 fine.

DKLS

Rural Romania near the border with Hungary, I saw Vauxhall Vectra vs horse. I was about 5 cars back from the crash at the time it happened. Driver, passenger and horse were all killed.

JP08

No real shockers for me, unlike some of the above threads.

But one that could have been nasty - and turned out to be rather amusing.

Back in my student days I was travelling back on the Night Bus to Southhall (living there was quite an eye opener for a 19yo lad from deepest Norfolk). A Ford Capri came down a left hand side streets at speed, just managing to stop before hitting the bus.

A few seconds later, there's a bump from the back of the bus then a hefty thump to the side - pushing the bus on to the pavement. Looking down from my seat, the bonnet of the Capri is now rammed into the drivers side of the bus just below me (on the bottom deck), having clipped the back in passing.

It then reverses a tad, and takes off at speed up the road - only to come to a sudden stop with no brakelights after 50 yards or so. This is because the passenger side of the Capri is now under the load bed of a parked Transit based truck.

Then out of the original side street the police car appears at speed. As it passes the Capri it screeches to a halt. The Capri driver, who appears to be unharmed and not had his wits shaken out of him, then legs it at full sprint past the bus and back up the side street. Promptly followed by four coppers on foot.

Bus was too badly damaged to continue, we walked the rest of the way.