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Are you willing to admit to your mistakes (see details)

Asked by Psychedelic_Zebra (5090points) November 19th, 2009

I was recently here discussing the driving habits of the young and old. So here’s my premise. Are you willing to be honest and to list your auto accidents, and list as well whether you received a ticket, and whether you were at fault or not? I’ll start, going back to my first one, at age 19.

1.) Age 19, driving a 1976 Chevy ¾ ton pickup, ran into a sailboat on a trailer, no ticket, no cops, but the four guys in the car pulling the trailer looked big enough to eat me for lunch. My fault, I wasn’t paying atttention to the road.

2.) age 25, my car was forced off the road by an out-of-town driver. My car flew through the air and landed in the ditch. My then g/f, now my wife was banged around pretty good. Guy threatened me when I asked him where he got his license. Cops arrived, he was ticketed for failure to yield to avoid an accident, I received no ticket, was not at fault.

3.) age 3, driving a station wagon at 4 am, was hit head on by a drunk woman. My car totalled, hers luckily bounced off of mine, and she left the scene. No ticket, my wife went to the hospital, 24 hours later, drunk lady turned herself in, cops did not ticket her for hit-and-run or any of the many other tickets she should have received.

4.) age 35, was driving an 8 ton truck on a snow covered road. Going too fast, lost control, flipped it in the median. No injuries, no ticket, because cop nearly crashed himself driving to the accident scene. Company truck totalled. My fault, but I didn’t lose my job.

5.) age 45, was sitting at a red light, old man turned left in front of another guy in a Jeep, and as it has just started to rain, road was slippery. Guy in jeep T-boned old man, both their vehicles slid into mine. I couldn’t get out of the way because someone in an SUV was behind me. Not my fault, old man got ticket, went to hospital with cut on wrist, and cop yelled at me for swearing about my new truck being crunched through no fault of my own.

Those are mine, what are yours?

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