Reply to: Have you witnessed any accidents?

[Qdos Contractor]

There's a zebra crossing right outside the Qdos offices and the number of accidents we've seen in 2 years is frightening. Just yesterday a white van inexplicably mounted the pavement and ran over the flashing beacon pole. He got out (wearing slippers), wandered around a bit and then drove off. Thankfully nobody was waiting to cross.

Worryingly, one of my first childhood memories is being in the back of a black cab when it ran a bloke over. I think he was alright, but I know my parents had to go to court as witnesses.

[Moscow Mule]

I used to work in Moscoow.

On my first journey into the city from the airport, there was a dead body lying in the road after an accident. Sharpens the mind about crossing the road.

Saw quite a few fender benders after that, just kept walking. Foreigners don't make good witnesses.

[Goatfell]

tulip myself for weeks after seeing a F3 off only for it never to come back! I’d signed it off as serviceable!

Similar, except it was a J31. Did the turn-round, watched it taking off then flip into the tarmac from 50 ft.
Not nice.

[Gruffalo]

I got knocked down when I was 19, stepped out in front of a car, went through the windscreen and catapulted 20 yards over the back. Was lucky I was only laid up for two weeks. Still have the scars 30 years later.

Snap. I smashed the windscreen, car moving around 40mph. I was aged around 11. Thrown into the pavement. Around 10 stitched to back of head and shoulder, released home though the same day.

A very close call.

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

Have a look on youtube 'car crashes', some pretty horrific car crashes on there caught on car cams mostly Russian or Japan. I don't know how youtube gets away with it, some of the accidents on there you can be sure / see people have been killed.

[AnnaO]

I was walking up to the corner shop which was on a T Junction and this huge lorry went hurtling past me on the pavement of the main road, it had already taken the wooden fencing down. The Lorry hurtles past and hits the chap coming out of the launderette who was just about to get on his Honda 50 The lorry then jack knifed across the road and the poor chap got his head squashed under the wheels (helmet and all)

Later on the fire engine washed his blood and guts down the drain. I’ll never forget that.

[MarillionFan]

No this is an accident.

Horror car smash: Black 4x4 flies into oncoming motor | The Sun |News

[formant]

Last year in Berlin, yes. BMW speeds through red light and drives right into the side of some silver car at the crossroads. BMW doesn't stop however and speeds away. BMW was obviously stolen and subsequently dumped about 300 metres down the road, driver and passengers fleeing on foot.
Driver of silver car bleeding from arm and head. Police came and took all our details (we later had to submit written statements).

Three days later the driver of the silver car phones my mother, as he still had her pen (pricy-ish Mont Blanc pen) and returns it same day - got her details from the police. Sweet, I thought.

[norrahe]

Crossing the road, this cyclist shoots past me through a red light (of course) and then proceeds to go on the inside of a lorry on a corner where the truck is going to have to turn in sharply leaving the cyclist with no room.

The cyclist was on the blind side of the lorry so she ended up getting knocked off her bike, and the lorry then proceeds to run over the back wheel of her bike, she's still caught under the bike and she starts screaming, only for the fact she did that and the lorry driver happened to have his window open he would have run over her legs.

I stayed around to help her off the road and rang the police and ambulance.

[vetran]

Only one serious incident was a guy in a bi-plane (Tiger-Moth IIRC) crashing in to a field straight after take off. He went straight up and then straight down again. He got away with a broken neck.


Apparently my memory isn't so good.

ASN Aircraft accident 20-AUG-1997 de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth G-AOBJ

A little puerile but this made me laugh from the accident description:

The ATC controller saw 'BJ' start to turn crosswind but his attention was momentarily drawn to an aircraft on final approach. When he looked back, 'BJ' was descending in a nose down attitude, banked to the right.

[Gibbon]

Saw a Tornado F3 land with its undercarriage up! Had to guard a chunk of another in a miserably wet Lincolnshire field after a mid air collision.

Ran like feck when a Phantom F4 clipped a missile trolley when scrambling.

tulip myself for weeks after seeing a F3 off only for it never to come back! I’d signed it off as serviceable! Turns out the crew got disorientated in a dogfight in cloud and ‘climbed ‘ into the sea!

[Mich the Tester]

The funniest I've seen was a motorbike hit by a milkfloat by the campsite I was staying at, it was like watching Father Ted

A moving campsite!

[amcdonald]

The funniest I've seen was a motorbike hit by a milkfloat by the campsite I was staying at, it was like watching Father Ted

[Pondlife]

Used to work as airport security during hols when at Uni.

Plenty of full emergencies but nothing too major, usually caused by a light not coming on for landing gear or a loss of cabin pressure.

Only one serious incident was a guy in a bi-plane (Tiger-Moth IIRC) crashing in to a field straight after take off. He went straight up and then straight down again. He got away with a broken neck.


Apparently my memory isn't so good.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=22640

[MarillionFan]

Accident waiting to happen.