<p>damn, yea, i was saying to myself, at least it wasn't the morning before. but apparently it was for someone...</p>
<p>Never hit another car but have gone into the ditch twice. Alaska is crazy driving in the winter and I am lucky i havent died yet. First time i was driving down the road going about 50 and a car pulls out right in front of me, I slam on my brakes and literally get about 6 inches away from this car. My car didnt have ABS or studs and I started to slide since the roads are always icy. My car then starts to lose control and flies into the other lane. I then panic and stupidly turn against the slide and completly go out of control and fly into the ditch on the other side of the road. Luckly I did not got hurt and my car was perfectly fine and I was able to drive right out of the ditch. Only thing after that i was scared to death of driving.</p>
<p>Last time I went in the ditch was when I was heading to school. Going about 35 down the road. It had just snowed and me being stupid decided to slam on my brakes and "test" the slickness of the road. Again my car does not have ABS or studs and i lost control and flew into the ditch on the other side of the road. I again was lucky enough to do no damage to my car and was able to drive out. Wasent even late to school.</p>
<p>Driving in the Alaskan winters is very scary. Everyone drives huge trucks because they dont want to die when they get in a wreck. Mooses run out of the roads, people are horrible drivers, and the roads always suck. I finally got rid of that car without ABS and got another car with ABS. Wow what a difference it makes. Trust me if you ever go to a region with icy roads ABS is a must it will save your life. Oh and you want to get studded tires... but i am to poor for them heh.</p>
<p>I once backed into a stone mailbox while leaving a friends house. $3000 for a new rear end to my car. The more recently I dented the rear side of my car again on our minivan.</p>
<p>No, not yet....</p>
<p>I did wreck my car on an extremely slick road, in a school zone none the less. I didn't hit anyone else and my car never left the road property, but the worst part was the entire county sheriff department was in a meeting 35 miles away, so I had to wait for the rookie cop to come up, and he didn't say, "Just get the car out of the ditch and home," he slammed me with a careless driving ticket. Luckily though I was able to cut the fine to the minimum in court with some photos i took of the scene. </p>
<p>I was also lucky to be able to find a new front axle and was able to put it on and do the body work myself, so my car looked like new in a couple of months and was back on the road.</p>
<p>I believe the plural form of moose is meese, not mooses.</p>
<p>jk</p>
<p>No, everyone knows it's meeses.</p>
<p>I hit a wall (yes, haha, a wall) while turning right about three weeks after I got my liscense...below my line of site, above the bottom of my doors. Entire right side dented. No major mechanical issues but the sealing was broken so I had to get it fixed to prevent inner rusting. Otherwise I would have just left it. It was like six AM during stress-week and I kept on going because no one really saw, so I was going to head to the Starbucks down the street to check it out and while I'm heading there a cop pulled up right next to me, which was generally nerve-wrecking, but I figured that since he didn't stop me it couldn't ahve been that bad, haha. Still in the shop.</p>
<p>Oh and once I almost hit a sign because there was a goat on the side of the road. It was a ***-moment, what can I say.</p>
<p>Yeah, so for those of you without cars, crunching metal is, in fact, the scariest sound in the world.</p>
<p>Quite interesting stories! I'm just glad that the car suffered the damage and not us human beings . .</p>
<p>I think my car has been vandalized...how appropriate considering the thread...</p>
<p>It's not wrecked, but I am upset...and wondering which mofo did it.</p>
<p>I've got a couple stories for you all to laugh at me for:</p>
<p>The most recent was back in March or April. I was going out to dinner with my prom date so we and another couple could talk about prom. So I'm driving and go to park and it's one of those parking lots with the straight lines and everything. I'm trying to park and I was in crooked so I back up a bit to try again. I pull in again and get it good enough. Turn off the engine and the car rolls forward just a little bit. It bumped the car in front of me so I turn it back on and back up a little bit. She sat there and laughed at me. That night just went downhill from there.</p>
<p>Our football team had a team dinner every Thursday night before our Friday night game. Well, the dinner was held at a teammate's family hunting club or whatever out in the middle of nowhere. We all drive out there mainly on our own. So I'm in this 1989 Pontiac Bonneville. This car (being 16 years old) is a piece of crap. When we got done, we got onto the roads and just took off. Not really racing, but going pretty fast. This is a rock road, mind you, and I'm in this old "tank" doing 90. I didn't know that car could go 90. And it couldn't for very long. I'm freaking out because the car is shaking so bad so I finally had to slow down. That same night another kid decided he was going to pass a teammate and then play "Chicken" with a car coming in the other direction. Just so happens that other car's driver was a deputy sheriff offduty. We didn't fly out of there anymore because we were all afraid the cops were gonna be hanging out there waiting.</p>
<p>We have since gotten rid of that car. Even though it was "my" car and now I don't have a car to drive on a normal basis, I'm glad we got rid of it. The most valuable thing in the car was its CD player which we took out. Still got 1500 for it!</p>
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<p>I am! I love driving at least 10 miles above the speed limit. I'm really a speed devil because no matter what happens--my parents taking my car away b/c I sped twice, getting into a car accident (wasn't fatal but PARTIALLY my fault because I sped), and the facts I heard about speeding and car accidents, I still speed.</p>
<p>fast in the area I live in is not 10-20 miles above the speed limit. your more likely to get a ticket going the speed limit. On the beltway your going slow if your going 80.....needless to say Ive hit that 100+ a couple of times, in an SUV too, haha</p>
<p>I drive fast too because I take a long, straight road to school and it takes 25 minutes going fast and more like 35 going the speed limit. One time I backed into a stump but I was going super slow so it only scratched the car and one time I tapped our fence while parallel parking, again, only a scratch, and that is the extent of my accidents. My brother's hit two deer. One time he just tapped it, basically, and it was totally fine, and the other time he REALLY hit one. I was on vacation and the car was fixed before I got back, but it was like $3,000 in damage. My friend rear-ended someone the other day and ended up hurting only her car.......and my brother also has two speeding tickets, only driving for a year and a half....I love how I drive just as fast and I haven't been caught! (knock on wood).</p>
<p>My car got keyed. Was I angry? Yes, I was.</p>
<p>And, its a Grand Prix--someone took the word "Prix" off of the back. Bastards.</p>
<p>well about 2 months ago some old lady pulled out in front of my car when I was going through an intersection...so I hit her brand new PT Cruiser but it was her fault (she got the ticket and her insurance paid for my repairs)...can you believe the old wench had the nerve to blame it on me because I was "speeding"...if I was speeding, she would've gotten severely injured or killed because I hit her on the driver's side so that was a load of BS...</p>
<p>but I did get to drive a brand new Chevy Cobalt rental for 3 weeks while my car got repaired... :)...I miss that car</p>
<p>I hit into one of those yellow poles beside a gas pump.</p>
<p>And, I LOVE driving fast. I go about 60 on surface streets, 90-100 on the freeway. Not because of actually feeling a "rush" but because urban sprawl has cause me to drive further, thus faster to get to my Point B on time.</p>
<p>No, thank god. Someone rear-ended me last week, though. No fun, and the girl was an idiot, but there were only a couple of scratches. Surprisingly, my father didn't murder me.</p>
<p>not yet. I have this thing for "almost-bumping" the car in front of me. the other day i was on a 25 mph road and there was a red light in front so i slowed way down and i was spacing out and all of a sudden i looked ahead and i had almost bumped the bumper of the car infront of me. that always happens to me, at least three times a week.</p>
<p>woot for almost rear-enders at 3 miles per hour....</p>
<p>Yes, I wrecked the car. But it wasn't much of a car to wreck. It was a 1998 Plymouth Neon with no power locks or windows and no air-conditioning and with about 96,000 miles. </p>
<p>I was driving in my glasses (I had an eye doctor appointment the next day), and I was doing the simple left turn out of my development that I do almost every day. I looked over my shoulder too long and ran into the curb. Fine, whatever. I turned around and went home to change the tire.</p>
<p>The next day I went to the tire place to get it fixed, but since I had actually messed up the wheel, they told me they would order it and I would have to come back the next day.</p>
<p>As I'm driving home from the tire place, I glance at the temperature gauge. It's about three-quarters of the way up. I keep driving, keeping an eye on it the whole time. Right before I'm about to pull over in a side street, the gauge goes all the way to H and my car lets out a DING DING DING DING. I shut the car off faster than anything, then call my mom.</p>
<p>After someone with coolant showed up, the car wouldn't start, so we got it towed. It cost something like $800 to fix (which was more than the car was worth), so we just got rid of it. </p>
<p>I hated that car.</p>