i saw a car run over two people this morning

or green to red. i didn't really see. but i know the "parked" car definitely ran the red.

i was in shock. still am. i've seen car accidents before but this one was pure carelessness and could have easily been avoided.

Turns out the kid was basically pushed under the pay phone and escaped serious injury. The mother of the kid was messed up pretty bad, though. I heard she was paralyzed from her waist down. The driver of the truck was a drunk woman. One of the most intense and fucked up things I've ever seen in my life by a long shot.

An ex of mine once saw a blind woman get a glancing blow to the face by a passing bus she didnt hear coming. It luckily didnt run her over totally but apparently it did smack her full in the face and send her flying. I dont ever know if she was ok either :/

divider?

haha parking is pretty limited around here.

where did the car end up?

One time I was exiting an airport and this guy was lying in the taxi lane after having just been hit by a taxi. It had just happened, as the police cruiser parked 50 yards away came over as I stood there watching. The guy was clearly in pain, but he looked alright. No blood. He was holding his knees and kind of rolling around a little, like someone would after getting the wind knocked out of them.

I read in the newspaper a couple of days later that he had died from his injuries. That was a bit shocking.

Over a decade ago, when my brother was 15 he had to go to work one day straight from school, but my mom was working and the bus would've taken too long, so he called a taxi (this was a fairly urban school, so taxis weren't that weird or anything.) So the taxi comes right after school when everyone's milling around, hanging out about to go home, and my brother gets in and before he even puts his seatbelt on or tells the guy where to go, the guy slams on the gas and the cab goes flying into a cement wall near a side entrance to the school. My brother's head goes through the windshield and, horribly worse, as bad as that is, three girls are pinned against the wall. And a huge number of kids is witness to it all. And the cab is still going - some guy manages to shut off the engine before the ambulance arrives. Totally. Awful.

Everyone, including the three girls who all had to have varying levels of major pelvic, leg and foot surgery not to mention physio and therapy, had to deal with the court case for a few years too. The cab driver pleaded that he'd had some kind of attack or fit and appeared less than repentant about what had happened (but who knows what goes on in people's heads). The cab company was ordered to pay damages, but nothing near what could have compensated, and the guy continued to drive cab.

Not just because it's awful what happened to everyone, but because it actually sounds like the dude had some kind of attack and was still allowed to drive.

I got hit by a car once.

I witnessed an accident where a car crashed into a parked lorry at high speed. I was the 1st person there as it happened right next to me. Anyway, both occupants were found to have been drinking, the passenger died a day later and the driver is on bail. I had to give a statement before I could leave the scene, I also spent a good few hours at the police station yesterday going through and adding to my statement. I wrote some notes down when I got in after the crash, and showed them to the police officer yesterday. He said these would be “exhibit a”. this made me think that it may go to court and seeing as I was the 1st person there and saw the actual crash, they’ll be asking me to do the witness thing.

Am a little worried, do I have to do it, if so, how bad can it be?

Horrible as it is – and everyone knows someone who's been injured badly or killed in a crash, I guess – it's surprising how physically resilient people often are.

The cab company was ordered to pay damages, but nothing near what could have compensated, and the guy continued to drive cab.

WTF. A neighbour of my parents in law was killed by a trucker who had recently lost his license. :-(((

don't blame us, all those drivers are suburbanite commuters who are too uppity to take public transport!

When I was a kid, a driver hit my parents' car; he was zooming along at about 20mph over the speed limit, and my dad was turning across his path. The first thing he said to anyone - whilst I was being hauled out of the wreckage, covered in blood - was "where's the nearest phonebox? I'm going to be late for a party"

Have seen a similar thing, not nice.

When I was at university I was cycling across town (not London, somewhere up north) one evening to my girlfriend's house. I had lights on my bike, but due to student poverty the batteries were almost gone. As I went along the main road a car pulled out of a side road right in front of me. I hit the side of the car and somersaulted over the bonnet with the bike still attached to me (I was wearing toe clips) before landing on my head (I wasn't wearing a helmet) in the middle of the road. A car coming the other way just managed to break in time. Some passers-by stopped and helped get me and the bike out of the way, but instead of thanking them I was just rolling around going 'fuck! fuck! fuck!'. But, and this is true, the woman who had driven into me came over to help me. The side road was the exit to the accident and emergency department of the hospital, and the woman had just finished her shift working there as a nurse, so she took me straight back in there. So that was about the best way to have that accident. A stranger offered to look after my mangled bike while I went to hospital, and it took me quite a lot of time and effort to get it back again, but that's another story.
-- Teh HoBB (j__...), September 9th, 2005 9:00 AM. (the pirate king)

If it happens again I will be slightly less disappointed this time. Probably just bewildered and bitter.