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That was kind of dramatic for my first car accident. Was riding home with my brother and his girlfriend for Thanksgiving on Tuesday. Along the way we hear this rattling and stop at a rest stop to see what it is. The best I could tell it looked like some paneling between the bumper and tire came lose and it was vibrating against the bumper. About an hour later we are on the turnpike in the left lane (2 lane road) and the car starts making this extremely loud noise like a jackhammer but more metalic (turns out a tire blew out). Kind of like if you put a piece of sheet metal in between gears that start grinding on it (saw this in some movie). Two seconds later we are veering off the road sideways at full speed knowing that we're not going to stop until we hit something. Fortunately there was very nice brush instead of trees or guardrail to stop us. We hit it and rolled a couple times and landed upside down.
After stopping I immediately unbuckle my seatbelt, completely forgetting about gravity and land on my head. I crawl to the backseat to help my brother's girlfriend, who is freaking out, get out of her seatbelt. I try to open the door but the brush is wrapped around the car keeping the door pinned in. My brother calls 911 and we chill for a couple minutes until a passerby who stopped opens the driver's door and we all crawl out. None of us had a scratch on us.
The first guy that stopped was actually in front of us and saw it through his rearview mirror and said everyone behind us just kept on driving. wtf is wrong with people.. He also took some pictures that he emailed me
 
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It's good to know that you guys are all safe and there are people in this world that are nice enough to help you guys out!  Have a safe Thanksgiving man
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Austin10833 Posts
Wow, that looks so crazy from the pictures, great that you're all fine though.
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wow, quite a story to tell
glad you and everyone else is fine
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Daang lucky nobody got hurt.
I guess this is why everyone should be forced to take some kind of auto class in highschool, might've been able to notice the impending problem when you first checked it out.
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Dude, those pictures are crazy. You're so lucky right now, your car flipped over and there's not a scratch on you. Thank god you guys are ok.
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So does insurance pay out in this case? Will you be getting a new car? What kind?
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Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
If I had driven past afterwords and seen that, I would've expected worse.
Something to be thankful for, no?
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Wow... I tip my car to you sir!
+ Show Spoiler +
Welcome to the club of people who got to unbuckle their seatbelt upside down :D
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good thing you wore your seatbelt dude
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Good thing you're safe. That is so scary, to think how quickly life could end doing a mundane everyday activity :o
Always buckle up!
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Wow, crazy! Lucky for being safe.
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On November 26 2009 12:59 Sadistx wrote:
So does insurance pay out in this case? Will you be getting a new car? What kind?
Car is totaled so they will probably pay the value of the car. Probably going to take my mom's new car for now.
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On November 26 2009 13:09 tree.hugger wrote:
If I had driven past afterwords and seen that, I would've expected worse.
Something to be thankful for, no?
The really fortunate part is that 500 ft further down the road and we would have smacked into guard rail and probably bounced back into traffic instead of landing in brush.
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and not a scratch? that's pretty sick
glad nobody got hurt.. the pictures really contradict that
LOOKs pretty serious
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Holy crap, amazing, after seeing the pictures, that nobody was hurt.
Guess you definitely have something to be thankful for.
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Everybody else kept driving? Are you fucking kidddinngg meeeeeeeee. Jesus humanity scares me sometimes. Glad to hear you are safe.
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Glad to hear you and the other 2 people are safe and sound. It's a good thing you didn't hit anyone else as well or things could have been more worse. But seriously, people that drove by and didn't bother to stop to help you guys are just bunch of asshole with no shred of humanity in them. Those pictures are some high quality ones, lol the guy who took those picture must be carrying a camera or something; never seen a mobile phone camera shoot that well....
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