Car Accidents

[Stephen]

I found myself driving home on really icy roads tonight. And it hit me. A slight tense feeling in my gut as I drove. As some of you know, last year I decided my car should kiss a few trees right at the end of winter. My question is, those of you who have had accidents...do you feel weird when your in a simular situation to that of what you wrecked in? IE Driving near the spot where it happend? Just wondering if I am weird.

[starfire]

My dad was in really bad accident a few years back. He always felt weird driving by that same spot, really cautious. So, I don't think you're the only one. btw I'm sorry about your accident.

[CephasWhite]

Geez, I'm sorry about your accident last year, Shatterheart. That must have been terrible Glad you're still here!

That's never really happened to me, but I've come to close calls. I've never seen or been in a car accident. They always miss me...but I have to thank Yahoshua for that though...

There have been other times actually that I've really injured myself and when I past those certain spots, my stomach cringes too. I believe it's a reminder to make sure we don't make the same mistakes again that could actually kill us the second time.

[~Natsumi Lam~]

i do, i try to pray whenever i pass my accident cite....


~NL~

[Slater]

yeah, like tonight I hit a wall in the parking garage. I can tell that I'm gonna have to take those 90 degree turns slower (and watch for those pesky pedestrians who like running into the street)

[desperado]

There is a really bad light here that I have had a accident at. I felt nervous and jittery at that spot for almost a year, then it passed and i realized I had become a much much better driver then I was then.

[Yumie]

I think it only seems natural that our body would trigger adrenalin and all that other good stuff as we begin feeling nervous around a place where we had a bad experience. So, nah, I don't think you're weird. At least, not in that sense

[Scribs]

wow, the roads are already icy back in Maine? I wouldnt have thought that it would be cold enough yet.

I havnt been in a crash, so I do not know. I just was struck by the ice bit.

[mechana2015]

I'm a little twitchy in parking lots since I hit a car parking once.

[Ashley]

Yeah, I do. I was in a pretty bad near-accident last year coming back from Oni-Con (I spun out across 4 lanes of traffic, down past the median and guardrail and halfway into the feeder road and wasn't hit by the grace of God), and ever since I get very tense driving in the rain. In some parts of the downtown, I get so tense I imagine I can feel my car swaying...it's pretty intense. So yeah...I do, at least.

[Shinja]

yes and no it bothered me for a while, and left me tense to make left hand turns, but since its somthing you littly have to do everyday i got over it, i dont make that particular turn as often though

[Arnobius]

Semi related, my place was badly damaged by a fire caused by a neighbor and I was out of the place for 9 months. Even though it will be a year I've been back next week (11/1) I tend to tense up when I see fire trucks or hear fire alarms and for a few days afterwards feel like there is no security anywhere.

[ashfire]

Most of my accidents I have had were under 10 MPH. I hit a guard rail in a alley way trying to pass a pile of gravel blocking most of it. Punched a corner of my front end in on a old car I had.
Rearranged the right side of a fire dept forestry unit trying to get between two trees to a fire back in the woods.
Backed into the corner of a wall at the fire station with an ambulance messing up the step bumper.
I have had close calls on two head ons. A car crossed a medium and hit a car in front of me. I was able to stop or evaded the cars then stop and start treating the people involve in the accident. In one accident parts of a car flew over my pickup truck.
I pass one spot on the weekends and I always go on the alert looking for any possiblity of another car coming across that spot, acourse I pass a spot before that where 4 people died in a fiery accident involving a dump truck, catering truck and 3 cars.
I also remember places where I ran calls for accidents either on the ambulance, fire engine or the heavy rescue truck. Some of them were deadly.

[shadowblade]

Yeah, I always feel weird going back to those spots. I remember last year the front bumper of my car got ripped off when I was still in my grandma's driveway. I refused to go back to her house for a few weeks and even now I still refuse to park in the driveway; I park across the street.

[Shinja]

i can still vividly remmember being hit in my mustang and how violent it was, but the worst part was seeing the car coming and nowing there was nothing i could do but just take it, in my mind all i could think of was Oh crap...

i was also listening to the wizzard need food and was hit right at the lyric of i think a motorcycle....... and when i started up the car after the accident it kept playing.....'s a good way to die,

that kinda freaked me out to^^

[Kiba-kun]

i've never been in a car accident (three wheeler accident only) but everscence i got my lisence and my near-death experiance in the rain with the three wheeler it seems that all my sense of driving is gone when it rains and i've almost caused a wreck more than once but thankfully no accidents have happened to me or others around me

[Doubleshadow]

I have never felt funny about the places where I have had accidents, but except for flat tires I was never driving. I have been in the car when we or the people we have been travelling with hit deer and I have had to dodge deer, but I never worry about it when a pass a particualr spot. I'm more watchful for deer at night, but that's just common sense. I don't worry when I pass the spot where Mom and I went into the ditch, or anything like that. Maybe if I was in an actual wreck I'd feel different.
While I'm thinking about it, Mom was T-boned by the grocery store last Thursday (she's fine), and there was a major accident this weekend where someone my friends know from church was in a wreck with her family and her father and brother died. I don't know if she is out of the hospital yet. She is in my Cell Biology class. Our ministry group here has been praying for a guy who was runover by a semi. Last time I heard anything they said he seems to still have all neuorological function. I can't imagine what it would be like to recover and have memories of that.

[TurkishMonky]

i once had an acident while turning out of this little ceasars in a horrible location, with two stoplights within 200 yards around it...(but the accident wasn't my fault) i hated picking up pizza from there for a year before i finally got over it, and now i'm just extra cautious in that location, but without the fear. I think it helps if it's somewhere where you drive past every day (like the location of my accident.)

As for rain/snow, i've never really been afraid of them (living in michigan for most of my life) and have never had an accident because of them. (but have had some crazy driving conditions - like just behind a (unknown at the time) tornado in a wave of rain, or through iced-over country roads after i'd been up for 30 hours) I think God had to have been protecting me through hundreds of possible wrecks.