• CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    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".

  • juliebean@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    one time, i saw somebody try to sneak by a big truck making a necessarily wide right turn, and get the whole left side of the car sheered off like a pad of butter.

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Was it a Lambo, was it in Vancouver, where you driving the truck I was riding in delivering appliances? If so, that was absolutely hilarious, and I hope you're doing good 👍

  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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    2 months ago

    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.