Car in a tree. I was working on an ambulance in the deep county, and the best we could make out, they left the road, hit a fence post that ramped them up, and landed on a solid branch 3 feet in the air. The car would bounce up and down as the firefighters forgot everything they knew about blocking and support and tried to get them out. The only thing missing was a hound dog barking at the base of the tree. It was delightful.
Couple of drunk kids managed to ramp off a curb and get their car stuck like 6 feet up in an oak tree. Right side up. Front and back of the car were both smashed in right at the middle points so they must have got more air. Not sure how they got the car out without cutting at least one major tree limb but they did. Tree was still alive and fine as of 2023.
I was coming around a bend on a really wide, “gentle“ road behind a business park. It had no cars parked on the street and was wide open with little traffic.
Come around the corner and see, right in the middle of the road, a driving school car flipped on its roof. No other cars around, no hazards. Just a perfectly placed car on its head, even pointed down the road as though some movie prop guys had installed it.
Standing beside it was a very bored and sad looking cop directing traffic. I think he was tired of every passing car taking a picture as they drove by.
A Toyota embedded, like a javelin, 6 feet off the ground in the side of an abandoned building.
They made the first 90° turn of a dog-leg, but missed the second and, with the help of a ditch, launched into the air at the building.
On a city crossroad, with warning signs, lights, pylons and tape not to drive over it, was a car in the center. Sunken to its axels in freshly poured concrete. The idiot driver had just ignored everything and could now pay to have the concrete fixed.
Oh, damn. And by the time they got pulled out, enough concrete had cured on the car to need:
Rims
Rotors/drums
Pads/shoes
Perhaps ball joints/suspension components.
Expensive lesson.
Some guy who got a load of wire wrapped around his rear wheels and the car just sat up on its rear end like it was standing to attention.
Not entirely a ‘car accident’ but I was driving down the interstate and narrowly dodged a shovel head (the handle had broken off) sitting in the far left passing lane in a construction zone. The car behind me hit it and I watched in my rear view mirror as it flew up in the air and traveled all the way over to the right side travel lane and fucking demolished the windshield of a car. I was expecting the car to jerk and swerve from the driver freaking out from this object falling out of the sky right into their windshield, but they just very calmly merged to the shoulder and stopped.
The other one was me barely missing an empty pallet sitting in the middle of my lane when it was dark out and seeing the headlights of the car tailgating behind me do a complete 360 as they tried to dodge it. If they’d left a little more room between us they probably could have followed my lead and drove around in, but their short following distance left no time for them to react.
Watched a hummer slowly spin through an intersection due to ice once, it was hilarious. Took like 10 seconds, end over end full 360 straight through on a standard 35mph road
I’ve also seen a food truck accident where the ENTIRE back end dumped out onto the interstate, I think I ran over a skillet
Back when I had my 04 GTO, I was driving down a 2 way, 4 lane road and randomly spun out on slush, ended up spinning 3 times through an intersection I meant to turn right at, wound up in the left lane, on the other side of the road… So I just took a left instead.
I pulled up to a crossroad, stopped at the stop sign, and waited for the 2 vehicles on the main road to pass. Another car pulled up across from me and came to a complete stop at their stop sign, they waited for a moment, then started to go. They looked again, saw the other vehicles coming, stopped (not yet in the main road), then started to proceed again. They stopped again (this time in the main road). They started to go again and got hit by the first vehicle on the main road. The next vehicle on the main road was an ambulance who saw the whole thing and stopped.
Honestly not sure why you would stop at a sign, see traffic coming then go and stop multiple times if you weren’t on something or trying for some fraud.
I ran over a Rottweiler, who later got his revenge by destroying my alternator.
I was throwing newspapers at 6AM, going 20mph, if that, and dodged a 2x4 in the road. Felt a thump, thought, “Crap! Was there another one?”
Got out and didn’t see anything in the road, looked under the car and there’s the dog. Oh shit. Jacked my car up to get him out, expected blood and biting. No blood and he was completely chill.
Got him in my backseat and palpitated him all over. Looked like a broken or cracked rib or 2 and a mangled pinkie. Hauled him home and called around. Some hippies in a rescue van pulled up and took him for treatment.
Went back to the hood and knocked doors until I found the owners. Went back and saw him again!
The wreck continues… Month later my alternator dies. Mechanic replaced it and showed me the air intake. Jammed with a fine layer of fur.
This happens in balkans/croatia.
A golf 2 was driving in front of me downhill around 70-80km/h before a curve. Enden up going off road and doing 4 rolls until back on tires. The driver just went out and check if the car was drivable. The next moment I see him just driving off like nothing ever happened.
While all thay was happenning I pulled over meaning to check whether the driver was fine, but seeing him coming out checking the car and just driving off the very next moment left me thinking “Eh, just another day in the balkans”.
It’s more a near-miss than an accident, but here we go:
We were coming back from holidays with my dad, he was driving and I was riding shotgun. We were on the highway (middle lane to be exact) when the car in front of us suddenly lost speed, brake lights still off. My dad was able to narrowly avoid the car, it’s frightening to think that we probably owe our life to his reaction time. To this day we have no idea what happened.
Could be that both taillights / brake lights were out. Seems super unlikely, but I have seen someone driving on the highway with both taillights burnt out, headlights on.
Probably hard to realize they’re out until someone lets you know / pulls you over.
Hum, I never considered this option, though a bug in the CAN bus is more likely than brake lights being out. Some Renault cars were notorious for this, but in this instance I believe it was a Volkswagen Touran.
Kind of a car accident:
I was on a smoke break on my job as a chef at an imitation Waffle House one day and I saw a police officer take his cruiser into one of those automatic drive-through car washes.
The spinny brush thing ripped the antennas off the top of the car and turned them into a flail rotating at 40 RPM.
His car looked like it had been attacked by an angry jackhammer by the time he jumped the curb and drove it out of the car wash.
It smashed out the back windshield completely, left dents all the way across the hood and trunk, and had sprayed soapy water into the cab of the car.
I heard not too much later that that police officer no longer worked for the city.
He was supposed to take it to that car wash but he was also supposed to use the little jet-powered sprayer to hand wash the car and him choosing to be lazy destroyed a police car with less than 10,000 miles on the odometer.
I would have loved to see this, sounds like it looked cool
Imitation waffle house…?
Yeah there’s a bunch of companies that duplicate The Waffle House model like huddle House and Waffle King and places like that. I’ve worked at a bunch of them but this one was a Waffle King.
I’ve seen a huddle house before but never been in one… never seen a waffle king though :D
It’s been a long time since I lived in that area and I don’t even know if the franchise still exist but they tend to be typically in the very Southeast, like Georgia and parts of Alabama stuff like that.
For being a place that calls itself the waffle king, their waffle mix was watery and pretty shitty and I do not recommend it’s not worth the effort.
I was driving North on a long mostly straight road with nearly no other cars on the road. Up ahead around a bend, another car comes in the other lane driving South, way too fast no less.
When the other car was probably like 50 feet in front of me, their hood flew open and immediately broke the hinges and went flying in the air. It probably flew like 50 feet high, peaking out right over my car and landing like 50 feet behind me.
I was kinda scared, but there was an extra wide shallow ditch off to the right, I would have ended up driving off the road into the ditch if I thought it was gonna hit me, but luckily I drove right under the flying hood at it’s peak in the air.
I bet it scared the other driver shitless LOL! Glad nobody was hurt, hopefully in the future they make damn sure their hood is properly latched, and they really should chill out on the speeding.
Very recently I was driving on the Autobahn. It was a relatively crowded Sunday. Then cars in front of me slowed down a little, I saw two cars on the side of the road, then a lonely car wheel rolled right in front of me, nearly missed my bumper, I only had to break slightly. I was startled but fine. Saw one or two more cars on the side, they all seemed fine. I wondered where the, now three-wheeled, car was. About a kilometer further there it was on the side, already sitting on a car jack, so some time must have passed already and no one seemed injured. This wheel must have rolled around on the road for a while, hitting a few cars on it’s way. I was reminded of the movie “Rubber”.
