@Ninjastar You’re lucky your friend had a pocket knife. You definitely had a brush with death. How did you managed to break the glass? Shatterproof glass is quite tough.
By kicking very hard. Maybe it was all the adrenaline, but it broke pretty easily.
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I totaled my 9700 dollar blue '05 Chevy Silverado slamming into a side rail in pouring rain at night on the highway during a psychotic episode. My only injury was rugburn on my chin from the airbag.
It’s still great to be safe and in one piece after a car wreck. I try to put that beyond losing the vehicle. It was a nice vehicle though, with only about 60 thousand miles on it.
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I flipped the yellow mustang when I totaled it. I broke my jaw. Had it wired shut for six weeks and had a concussion. I moved the steering wheel with my face so hard the door wouldn’t close. It was bent to the left.
This was in 1986. It was my first date with my now wife. I was 16. She bruised her hip.
I didn’t even have seat belts in the car. I have them now but they are just waist belts. There is no shoulder strap. At the time seatbelts weren’t required in a 1970 or older vehicle.
But yes I was more concerned about the car than my jaw and the concussion. I am glad I didn’t hurt my wife seriously though. I would have never lived that down. It was raining that night so we had the top up thank the lord.
It took me a year to rebuild It.
Your first date with her ! That’s called making a lasting impression. She is a forgiving soul or were you not at fault?
I never feel worse for the vehicle. I’ve wrecked every car I’ve owned but two. Two were serious. I ruined my brother’s brown 1970 Mustang by hitting the rear end with an ATV. I did feel sorry for my brother for that one, though. Maybe I shouldn’t drive.
I don’t even remember the drive home. The concussion wiped my memory.
There was a doctor behind me and he said I hydroplaned and I hit a culvert.
The cop working the scene was trying to pull me out of the ambulance and give me a sobriety test but the paramedics wouldn’t let him.
They tested my blood at the hospital and I was sober. I had one half a glass of champagne. My now wife was drunk though and she was 17. They wanted to give her a ticket for contributing to the delinquency of a minor so I was told.
I don’t remember anything from that night. Our parents were called and on the scene before we got in the ambulances.
I can vaguely remember my dad giving me a shower to get all the blood off at the hospital but that’s about it.
I didn’t have an emotional reaction right when I was hit. I just felt the hit and thought “I’ve been hit. It is what it is.”
I’ve only been in one car wreck, and the car wasn’t mine, so I can only guess how I would feel if I totaled my own car. I don’t think I’d get too upset.
I don’t talk about potential crashes because violet is listening. She is truly finicky. And I don’t want her to do something spiteful like not starting the other day.
Is Violet your car?
My mom is a bit super religious, and when our car was dying, it wouldn’t start sometimes. So she would get out her emergency holy water and bless the steering wheel. We all made fun of her for it, but she swore it worked. I think it had more to do with waiting a full thirty seconds than getting the steering wheel wet.
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Violet is my car. She’s a very good car for the family and I didn’t pay much. Maybe I’ll post my poem about her later
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Good guess about violet being @FatMama’s car., @Ninjastar. That went right over my head.
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I don’t know what I’d do without a cell phone. I’m on it for most of my waking hours.
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I never crashed my car, but had some bumps and scratchs. I feel really bad about them, but I don’t get too much histerical.
When i was a senior in high school in 1993-94 my mom got a brand new Chevy Lumina. It was one of the first nice cars my parents ever had. One day she let me drive it to the church i was attending with my then-girlfriend. After church i took the girlfriend home and started driving to my house. On the way i was driving too fast and i came over a hill, went a little off the road and flipped the car over, totalling it. I was hanging in the seatbelt upside down and had to crawl out through the broken glass from the windshield. I wasn’t hurt though and worried about what my parents would do to me for wrecking the car. They were just happy i was alive.
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