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I was t-boned (car hit my passenger side) going about 25mph (so a little slower than you were thinking, OP) and it was enough to give me a hospital trip and destroy my car. No broken bones or serious...
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[quote=Zombolly] If I hadn't been wearing a seat belt, those accidents would have been very different. :) [/quote] Yeah, you probably wouldn't have had so many of them! :)
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> Enough to go to hospital, more or less for observation though a few minor injuries (broken arm or something) would be fine. I'll give you one that happened to me. Didn't result in a hospital...
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Hm, interesting idea of what would stop and what would keep going. As long as there's power, radio and any non-moving device should continue. I remember the B-52s still going strong on cassette when my...
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I am a paramedic. I've seen a lot of weird stuff. I've been on crash sites where a construction crane tipped over onto a car, crushed it flat, and it took us over an hour to get the driver out. She had...
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Dunno, I hit a half-brick on the road once and my CD player just shut off. Are you using MP3s?
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A follow-up to the accident to get on that last frayed nerve - usually your music keeps playing with no problem, no matter what happened to the car.
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newer cars have something called crumple zone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone) which makes them break easier, it softens the blow when you crash into something and is one of the reasons...
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I saw the aftermath of an accident where the car was parked nose first in a tree on the central divider. The engine compartment was a quarter shorter. The driver was standing by his car with the...
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I have been in several accidents the past six years, so it's all pretty fresh in my memory. I was in a slow rollover accident and came out with just a tiny bruise on my hip, sitting in the backseat. My...
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Anything that's enough to set off the airbags could cause minor injuries that would warrant observation. Airbags can break your nose, bruise your face or chest, or break your fingers if you're holding...
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What if she went a bit slower b/c it was raining or icy? Or what if she swerved an animal and ended up in a small ditch?
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Depends on the sort of impact. Getting rear-ended at 43 mph is apt to be pretty severe. Even if she's wearing a seat belt, and doesn't hit anything else, there are going to be concerns about back &...
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I'm looking for a way for my MC to get in a car accident with minimal damage. Enough to go to hospital, more or less for observation though a few minor injuries (broken arm or something) would be fine....
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I was in a wreck once, and something about it started the horn honking (like we'd hit the panic button on the key fob, but that didn't make it stop). It went on for awhile, but eventually a guy, poor...
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i was a passenger in a car that got totalled - we were moving pretty slow, turning down a side street from a road that had a service lane. the driver didn't check the service lane and we got hit just...
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I've been in two serious (or potentially serious) accidents and walked away uninjured (or with just major aches and pains) In one accident I was going about 35 miles an hour (in a 55 mile zone) during...
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We completely totaled our car in an accident once, and while the entire front end was just *gone* we walked away with minor injuries, because of the crumple zone. The driver had no injuries at all, and...
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Thanks so much for your help, everyone! The responses have been brilliant and very helpful, though I'm sorry to hear so many of you have been in accidents!
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I've been in two car accidents. One as a driver, one as a passenger. The one where I was a driver was a 60mph crash where both my front tires blew out (a truck ahead of me had shed a bit of its load of...
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