blackjacki2 United States. Nov 25 2009 23:00. Posts 2581
Posted this at tl.net might as well post it here too
That was kind of dramatic for my first car accident. Was riding home with my brother and his girlfriend for Thanksgiving on Tuesday. Along the way we hear this rattling and stop at a rest stop to see what it is. The best I could tell it looked like some paneling between the bumper and tire came lose and it was vibrating against the bumper. About an hour later we are on the turnpike in the left lane (2 lane road) and the car starts making this extremely loud noise like a jackhammer but more metalic (turns out a tire blew out). Kind of like if you put a piece of sheet metal in between gears that start grinding on it (saw this in some movie). Two seconds later we are veering off the road sideways at full speed knowing that we're not going to stop until we hit something. Fortunately there was very nice brush instead of trees or guardrail to stop us. We hit it and rolled a couple times and landed upside down.
After stopping I immediately unbuckle my seatbelt, completely forgetting about gravity and land on my head. I crawl to the backseat to help my brother's girlfriend, who is freaking out, get out of her seatbelt. I try to open the door but the brush is wrapped around the car keeping the door pinned in. My brother calls 911 and we chill for a couple minutes until a passerby who stopped opens the driver's door and we all crawl out. None of us had a scratch on us.
The first guy that stopped was actually in front of us and saw it through his rearview mirror and said everyone behind us just kept on driving. wtf is wrong with people.. He also took some pictures that he emailed me
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patmcgroin Afghanistan. Nov 25 2009 23:02. Posts 830
wow u were lucky there was so much room and soft landing place
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terrybunny19240 United States. Nov 26 2009 01:07. Posts 13829
THAT IS AWESOME LOOKING
sorry to hear it happened to you though, hope no one got any whiplash or w/e
my 1st accident was crazy too as we slid and rolled over once and then back upside down iirc
yeah lol the car isnt probably totalled, super lucky place to roll over.
btw u would be surprised how many people do the same thing about opening the seatbelt and slamming their heads on the roof, even professional drivers who have rolled atleast 20 times.
