Worst/best non-fatal accident you have seen

[sprintman1]

Nothing I've seen as bad as the infamous Nicole 'Nikki' Catsouras crash. Not sure if the link allowed so I haven't included it but easy to find. Strong stomach mandatory

[lra]

Originally Posted by lra

Morbid subject.
1967, I had been in the RAAF less than 3 months, and watched as a Vampire jet failed a take off. Fire, smoke, and 2 pilots dead. Parts of crash helmet and skull in a bucket not pretty.

Apart from reading the thread title wrong, I should not have made this comment. Too late to delete it. Sorry.

[b0son]

Driving through Bendigo/Ballarat/cant remember where, we were passed on our way out of town by a marked cop car at a significant speed (150kph+). Didn't think much of it at the time, but a couple of minutes later we noticed it was getting smoky. Then we came across tyre marks criss-crossing - a car had clearly lost it in a big way and it soon became obvious why. Police car was on the road, totalled. Couldn't tell the front from the back, it was that mangled. The car he hit? Engine/gearbox/everything from the A-pillar forward, on the left side of the road, on fire. Everything from the B-pillar back , and almost intact and surprisingly lacking damage, was tail up on an embankment on the right side of the road. Cop managed to extricate himself from his wreck, and we waited with the people in the other car until the ambulance arrived.

The reason for the crash? The people the cop hit decided to do a U-turn to rescue a sick bird in the middle of the road, and the cop cleaned them up mid-turn. The road it happened on had some pretty major undulations, and they obviously picked a trough rather than the crest, so the cop wouldn't have seen them until too late. Ironically, the cop was on his way to attend another crash further up the road.

[malazn mafia]

The Old Man moving his camry to mow the grass and the car demolishing the gates in front of it, taking out the windows along the side of the house, and nearly going through the garden shed and back fence. Swore black and blue that the car accelerated on its own and he was on the brakes the entire time before finally turning the ignition off inches from careering through the garden shed.

[rjk74]

My dad was mowing his nature strip, his neighbor was across the road on his ride on mower doing the same when he ran over a golf ball. The mower flung the ball across the road and hit the old man in the head nocking him out cold.

[malazn mafia]

Originally Posted by rjk74

My dad was mowing his nature strip, his neighbor was across the road on his ride on mower doing the same when he ran over a golf ball. The mower flung the ball across the road and hit the old man in the head nocking him out cold.

I have a horrible sense of paranoia and doom whenever there is a lawnmower operating nearby, for fear of it sending some projectile bolt, nut or golf ball flying my way. Never had this happen but I swear I must have been hurt this way in a previous life.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by malazn mafia

I have a horrible sense of paranoia and doom whenever there is a lawnmower operating nearby, for fear of it sending some projectile bolt, nut or golf ball flying my way. Never had this happen but I swear I must have been hurt this way in a previous life.

When I was growing up once or twice when people were feuding one person would orginise a tonne of blue metal to be dumped on the others lawn. That's savage, you can't clean that up 100% ever. Anyhow back on track. 3 years ago I got called in to review the security footage. A man in a rav 4 swiped his access pass and drove through an open boom gate. He then for whatever reason got out of the car that I'm assuming he thought it was in park. It was in reverse. He scrambled to try pull the hand brake but with the door wide open rolling backwards he got nailed between a bollard and pushed under the car going under the front wheel. The door got bent backwards and the car snapped the boom gate arm, rolled down the driveway and into a wall. Then the passenger got out. The passenger owned the car. The guy was fine but it was hilarious. At about 10 am he fronted the building manager with some pre rehearsed excuse. Turns out his boss asked him why there was a tyre track on his back. His excuse didn't float as it was all on camera. It cost 2500 for the boom gate, who knows what the car cost to fix.

[sprintman1]

Originally Posted by lra

Apart from reading the thread title wrong, I should not have made this comment. Too late to delete it. Sorry.

I arrived at Will'town not long after a Mirage banged in near the main gate whilst practising for an air show. I believe his missus and kids were watching

[Trevor 57]

I spent a number of years in the VicSES responding to road accidents, using 'jaws of life' etc - seen lots, but here is not the place to go into detail