are you paralyzed?

when i was driving back from sydney with my dad we saw a little corolla and a brand new hsv r8 driving side by side the bloke in the corolla stuck his finger up at the bloke in the r8 and he was paying more attention to the bloke in the corolla so then his car was leaning off the road abit and next thing his left front tire blewout and he rolled 3 times he was lucky because it only crushed every part on the car but the area were he was sitting they were doing about 110 when it happened

my first crash was when i was 14. me and 2 mates were driving one of our friends toyota 4runner. he was 18 and was in the passanger side. my friend was in the back(no seatbelts). i was driving around our town then we went out and i was doing some 4wheel driving when i came down a hill abit fast and it started fishtailing. the owner of the car (in the passanger seat) grabbed the wheel and turned it cause he thought we were gonna crash (worst mistake ever) we hit a metre high embankment at about 60 or 70klph. unsure. we ended up rolling about 3 or 4 times. the car ended up on my side, i can still remember my friend stuck in the seatbelt above me. we were all ok. my mate in the back was extreamly lucky that we had just put a roll bar in the back (as most people know the 4runner just has a fibre glass cannopy over the backseats) . saved his life. the car was a rightoff. we just been to supercheap and picked up some things for it that day aswel lol. well thats my story i just turned 18 not long ago so it was a fair while ago now

Where to begin?
I hit a pole in my old AP5 valiant, When I was 16. Snaped the front bumper in two. (It had been replated, and was brittle anyway)
I rolled my mums car. Landing on it's roof in a river. It had been snowing, and the front screen broke when we rolled. The weight of the car meant the doors wouldn't open, and we had to swim out through the windscreen hole.
I was driving down a gravel road in my V8 valiant hardtop. I was driving with one hand on the wheel, and my arm out the window with my hand resting on the roof. Got tail happy, went up a bank and onto the roof. Best bit was I looked Up (down) at the road, and saw the my hand between the roof and the road. I still have a scar.
In my mates 1200 coupe, He locked it up at 80mph. slid into a large rock (Placed there to help wayward vehicles peel off speed) moved it a few metres, (Pushed the wheel hard into the passengers footwell, where I was sitting) Head butted the screen, and the car tipped onto it's side and the windscreen shattered.
The police measured the skid marks at 28metres.
In my first 1200 coupe, a so called mate was driving who couldn't drive for sh1t. He lost it into a tree. F#cked the car. And I broke the windscreen with my head. Nothing that six hours of surgery, three blood transfusions, 250 stiches, and a week in hospital couldn't fix.. Yeah, I totally wear my seatbelt now!
A mate of mine had to be cut out of a 1200 coupe. He had a busted femur. (At least it wasn't his pelvis!)
Now that I'm pushing 30, I often wonder exactly how we survived our youth. More by good luck than good management i guess.

Unbelieveable! [shaking head]
I have had my licence since before I turned 17 & have over 1 million miles under my belt. [1.6 million K] I have never been involved in a MVA ever while driving a car or truck. 14 of those years were spent in the NSW snowfields during the winter months & I survived that without incident too.
I have had some 'moments', a few heart stoppers & one or two minor 'off's' on back country dirt roads, but I always prided myself in knowing when to back off. I swear it's been the secret to my survival.

I fell off my motorcycles twice. First time on a Bridgestone 50, chasing Billy Sanders around the site that Rooty Hill RSL is built on. He went on to become an International speedway motorcycle champion, so I don't feel too bad about not keeping up with him. The second time was on my Yamaha DT1-f trail bike going to work when a car slid in the wet under brakes & touched my back tyre, sending me into a slow slide, then down. Both times I picked the bike up & rode on. [cursing a lot]

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^^^ excatly how i describe myself. Ok so i was abit tired when i had my accident but i took breaks every 1/2 hr on a 2hr trip. I belive their are 4 groups of people
1.mad idiots that some how never have an accident
2. mad idiots that are always having accidents
3. Average "no the limits an dont push 'em" people an dont have accidents
4. Average "no the limits an dont push 'em" people an have accidents



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Yup c5-c6 bout middle of your brest bone down but i am lucky an have had a fair bit of improvment. Yay

i just had my first crash experence my mates sister was driving me home after a staff meeting at work and we went down the dirt road near my house. she started fishtailing on a granite road and called it drifting then she lost control and put me herself and my mate into a freshly grated water run off section around 1 metre high sideways and then into a fence at about 80kph. my seatbelt didnt tension till i was in the air and i hit my head on the roof and my arm on the door but no injurys to anybody so that was good. we ripped the rear bumper off of the commodore and stuffed it into the cabin and assesed the dint in the rear quarter panel
the best part about it was that it wasnt her car it was her mates and also she just got her licence back not even a week before it happened for driving a v8 on her p's and she now has to pay for the repairs

ill bet that she wont "drift" lol again to soon

I think most of us who race probably drove like idiots before we hit the track;

My street bike exploits were numerous between 1978-1985 before taking to the track. Flung my 79 DT100 down the road while dragging the foot pegs........ok don't lean that far on trials tires...........flung my brothers KZ400 down the road....charged up to a stop sign on grabbed a handful of front brake........oops can't see that oil at night , the bike went sliding through the intersection with cars dodging it like mad. I came to an instant stop and had the wind knocked out of me. Showing off on my 12 second RD350 lost the front end at 50 MPH storming into a corner.........major road rash. I used to love to slide bikes into corners , on dry pavement , and while riding my lovely restored BSA 650 ran out of traction and low sided it........the gas cap poped open as it sparked down the road (never caught fire) SRX600 huge tank slapper over the bars at 80-85 MPH (screamed and no sound came out) thankfully I had leathers on for this one. Shortly after this I started racing.
I did lots of stupid stuff in cars before 1985 as well but got away with it..............after 20 years of racing I seldom drive over 75 mph....maybe 80 on lonely highways. Being a young male with a car is often deadly. I always respected guys who drove normally , as I myself didn't understand how lucky I was at the time to survive my antics.

Tom

i've never had any crashes over 5mph, always people running in to the back of me.

THANK GOD!!

it's very scary and people don't think enough about the energy in a moving vehicle.

it was wet one night me and a few mates just cruisng and we stopped at a maccas nearby when we came out i said to my mate who was with me ill give this a crack(not very fast which was a good thing) took off in first spinnin both wheels and trying to drift or just get a tiny bit sideways when i hit 2nd gear the car hooked to the left straight away and went straight toward the roundabout.lucky thing was the roundabout had a very small lip on it and i went up the roundabout about halfway had abit of a laugh and kept driving. assessd the damage the next day and to my amazemnt nothing was bent or broken. very lucky and never trying that again scared the crap out of me