The most horrific accident/wreck you'd ever witnessed or encountered?

[Panther88]

On March 30, 1996 @ ~2am or thereabouts, I was trailing a friend & another guy on IH35 north near Gainesville, Tx where I witnessed an "explosion" of sorts about half a mile ahead. They were racing their motorcycles and when I looked @ my own odometer, I was clicking @ 160+ mph where they'd pulled way ahead of me. My boy hit the concrete pillar of an overpass. His head (helmet) was severed from his body. I encountered the carnage, politely went through the median, and proceeded scarily home where I couldn't sleep for the remainder of the night. I still have a part of his motorcycle on one of my last bikes I kept. There are 3 other parts on the other bikes from 3 other former buds who bit the skids on those 2 wheelers.

March 30th 1996 was a Saturday and I'll never ever forget that night/next day or the day after that Sunday (facing his wife ).

 

[Warndalyn]

Wow, sad story...motorcycles can be very dangerous and deadly.

 

[Lady Rebel]

I have not witnessed a wreck but while in teh car with Dahill twice, I've predicted two and he no longer likes riding with me because of it. :whine:The first one, we were sitting on Peachtree in traffic going to some club, when all of a sudden I say, 'There going to crash at the light." Two minutes later, whoever they is DID. We were no where near the light. The second time, I was pumping gas at a Shell gas station on 17th street, and I said, "Somethings on fire." Ten minutes later two cars collided on teh highway causing this huge fire, all while we were buying stuff at the gas station. I have those little moments far and few in between but never witness the said accidents.

 

[Panther88]

Wow, sad story...motorcycles can be very dangerous and deadly.

They really are. I'm still trying to figure me out. Since that young 22 yr old kid died @ my work location's parking lot 3+ yrs ago trying to do what he saw me do a day prior (ride a wheelie in the parking lot), I swore off motorcycles... I thought I was going to have a serious nervous breakdown speaking w/ his mom and dad @ the funeral as he'd mentioned me to them. :smh: well.. :smh:

3 w/es ago, as I was on my way back to NTx early Sun afternoon, I saw some guys drop their knees and do a really, really bad curve in the hometown @ what looked like 80-100+mph. My mouth started watering (like it is now lol). I politely turned my stupid silly ass right around and drove BACK ~ 17 miles to the home range and crunk one of those bad boys up and drove some 17+ miles BACK to where I'd seen those guys scrape their knee on the ground and proceeded to do that same silly shit @ 80+ (I stopped looking @ the odometer lol). :|

I swore to myself I'd never EVER do that stupid silly shit and I've started it yet again. Even tried to see where the wheelie skillz were on the way back to parking it, if I'd lost any sense of non-fear. :shame: Just stupid. :slap: Just plain dumb. Ignorant for no apparent reason whatsoever. :slap: I thought I was maturing lately but apparently not.

 

[97JSULEGEND]

Man when I was in highschool had to be about 1991. We was leaving band practice on our way home. We got to my turn off Hwy 49 and it was backed all the way up. It is and was two lane so we were stuck. We walked up to the accident scene and dude was under his jeep crushed with his leg turned backwards. His dog jumped out the jeep and ran home. Man I was shook behind that. I wouldn't ride in a jeep or Tracker for long time after that..

 

[Warndalyn]

They really are. I'm still trying to figure me out. Since that young 22 yr old kid died @ my work location's parking lot 3+ yrs ago trying to do what he saw me do a day prior (ride a wheelie in the parking lot), I swore off motorcycles... I thought I was going to have a serious nervous breakdown speaking w/ his mom and dad @ the funeral as he'd mentioned me to them. :smh: well.. :smh:

3 w/es ago, as I was on my way back to NTx early Sun afternoon, I saw some guys drop their knees and do a really, really bad curve in the hometown @ what looked like 80-100+mph. My mouth started watering (like it is now lol). I politely turned my stupid silly ass right around and drove BACK ~ 17 miles to the home range and crunk one of those bad boys up and drove some 17+ miles BACK to where I'd seen those guys scrape their knee on the ground and proceeded to do that same silly shit @ 80+ (I stopped looking @ the odometer lol). :|

I swore to myself I'd never EVER do that stupid silly shit and I've started it yet again. Even tried to see where the wheelie skillz were on the way back to parking it, if I'd lost any sense of non-fear. :shame: Just stupid. :slap: Just plain dumb. Ignorant for no apparent reason whatsoever. :slap: I thought I was maturing lately but apparently not.

Most folks I see riding them, are NOT riding them carefully. They are ducking in and out of cars, riding on one wheel (I guess that's what y'all call a wheelie...don't really know) :noidea: , driving very fast and wreckless, etc.

 

[Panther88]

Most folks I see riding them, are NOT riding them carefully. They are ducking in and out of cars, riding on one wheel (I guess that's what y'all call a wheelie...don't really know) :noidea: , driving very fast and wreckless, etc.

It's pretty stupid isn't it? :smh: Yes, that's what riding a wheelie is: riding on the rear wheel only. A "stoppie" lol is riding on the front wheel only. :read: A one leg "knack-knack" is standing up riding a wheelie on one leg w/ the other leg off the other peg... :smh: I'm my worst critic ever. I know better. :shame:

 

[Warndalyn]

yeah, I see that all the time...stupid as hell. :smh: I better not hear of your overgrown ass doing anything of the sort.

 

[DR. GSUAKA93]

I was behind a guy on a motorcycle and we were at a red light. We the light turned green he sped off burning rubber, tried to pop a wheelie and that bike flew straight up in the air, did something like a triple salchow in mid air and slung that po' man all across the highway. When that bike landed it was in pieces..... Luckily, the driver was in ONE piece. He was mad as hell and prolly felt stupid cuz that bike looked new.

But the worst accident I witnessed was about three years ago in Chicago. I was site seeing and taking pics down Michigan Ave. It was around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, freezing cold and traffic was bumper to bumper. This car comes speeding down the street ran into a police car, a taxi, jumped the median and was eventually stopped by a bus. It was so bad, I thought, "This can't be real. They must be filming a movie or something". Sadly, it was real. Pics below.... The first pic was pre-accident. In one of the pics you can see that big concrete median that the car jumped. There is a SUV that is sitting almost in the trunk of the police car. I saved the pictures to show my kids the dangers of speeding.

 

[Tony]

 

[Panther88]

120 mph outside of OKC rear-ending an 18 wheeler. *sucking air through teeth*

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[dacontinent]

About 12 years ago after working about 13 hours, I stopped at a convenience store to get a large drink to help keep me awake while I drove home. While standing in 3rd in line, a car comes careening across the lot and slams into a gas pump. The three fellas who were in this stolen vehicle get out and scatter like cockroaches. On the other side of the pump was another car with a 3-month old strapped in his car seat. His dad had been standing outside the car while his mother was the person at the counter paying for the gas at the time of the crash. The impact of the crash knocked the father over the back of the car and unconscious on the cement. The gas pump was not equipped with the automatic shutoff valve required by law so the gas started a free-flowing torch. The mother was screaming as the entire gas island was immediately engulfed in flames. The mother was frantic. The dad recovered on the concrete as the mother raced toward the burning auto. The dad tackled her to the ground because the baby was already dead. The emergency shutoffs did not work either. We scattered like gnats. I thought the entire corner was going to go explode. It didn't. The HAZMAT team arrived and eventually shut off the gas and put out the fire.

The thought of that baby, mother, and dad still sticks in my mind today every time I enter a convenience store.

 

[delock]

2004

45 southbound exit 57b

Coming home from a car show outside of Conroe. I saw a Tahoe speed past me right before the exit. They were in the far left lane and swerve all the way over to exit. They took the exit to hard and lost control. The Tahoe flipped what seem to be about 7 times. Seem like ever flipped someone was thrown out of the Tahoe. 7 Mexican teenagers was in the vehicle. %girls and 2 boys. 6 were thrown out. 5 had white sheets by the time I left. The whole freeway was shutdown for hours. The vehicle was stolen (one of the kids parents). About 5 other cars and myself pulled over to help but to no avil. Lucky there were two Harris County Sheriffs at the light and saw the accident.

During the time I stayed out there I didnt see one damn TV station. Nor were there any mention on the news or in the Chronicle.

 

[Braveman12]

About 12 years ago after working about 13 hours, I stopped at a convenience store to get a large drink to help keep me awake while I drove home. While standing in 3rd in line, a car comes careening across the lot and slams into a gas pump. The three fellas who were in this stolen vehicle get out and scatter like cockroaches. On the other side of the pump was another car with a 3-month old strapped in his car seat. His dad had been standing outside the car while his mother was the person at the counter paying for the gas at the time of the crash. The impact of the crash knocked the father over the back of the car and unconscious on the cement. The gas pump was not equipped with the automatic shutoff valve required by law so the gas started a free-flowing torch. The mother was screaming as the entire gas island was immediately engulfed in flames. The mother was frantic. The dad recovered on the concrete as the mother raced toward the burning auto. The dad tackled her to the ground because the baby was already dead. The emergency shutoffs did not work either. We scattered like gnats. I thought the entire corner was going to go explode. It didn't. The HAZMAT team arrived and eventually shut off the gas and put out the fire.

The thought of that baby, mother, and dad still sticks in my mind today every time I enter a convenience store.

Oh Goodness... that had to be a tough situation to witness..... That has me messed up just thinking about it.

I have not witnessed any horrible accidents 1st hand, but the weirdest happened back in 2006 while driving South on I-55 from Memphis between Southaven and Batesville, MS. Since it was still early in the morning, I decided to stop at a Waffle House and eat a good breakfast. As I was sitting by the window waiting for my food, the sky turned dark, but it was REAL dark across the sky to the South. I also saw some bright lightning and heard some loud thunder.

After it passed and started lighting up again, I finished my food and got back on the road. By the time I got to Hernando, MS, it got really crazy. Trees were blown down and cars were either stuck in the median of the interstate or on the ditch on the other side. There had to be over 20 cars that had been blown off the road. The worst accident was a Chevy or GMY regular cab truck that had been blown off the highway. The truck was blown off the highway and into the median of I-55, but crashed into a concrete wall of a ravine/ditch. The impact crushed the engine into the cab of the truck.... I knew that whoever was in the truck couldn't have made it... When I got home, I learned that a Super Cell thunderstorm with straight-line winds came through and blew those cars all over the place.

I just thank God that I stopped in Waffle House, because if I had kept going, I could have been in the middle of all that chaos.

 

[Panther88]

Wow. Cannot imagine seeing that daconti. I know all felt helpless.

The series of events that changed my life occurred as I was talking w/ the 22 yr old male, who'd just had a wreck in our parking lot attempting to pop a wheelie that he'd seen me do a day prior , was almost eerie when I think back on it. He wrecked @ ~3:15pmish where his gas tank ruptured and caused 1 truck to catch fire as it's gas tank exploded from the motorcycle underneath. Soon, there were 2 trucks on fire immediately bordering a new vehicle I'd just purchased so I was building anxiety watching 2 trucks explode next to my newest one and the police not allowing me to walk down the north end lot and move the new toy. As I was talking to the kid, he turned eerily white... I'm talking almost new snow-white. He passed out and I couldn't move or say anything as he had my mobile and was actually talking to his father @ that time telling him what had occurred and that he was okay. Corp security and police immediately rushed over and the walkie-talkie thing was ensuing like crazy as I just stood there motionless, etc. They started performing CPR and after a while, I saw the med txport (helicopter) as it approached and landed in an adjoining corp's parking lot. They air lifted him and I thought everything would be okay. Before I could return to the desk and hold my face decently well to shake off everything I'd just witnessed... I recv'd a phone call from "Kat" (Katrina, Deontay's sister). She was yelling and screaming "he dead" in the phone very wildly. I asked her to calm down afterwhich she told me D had just had a wreck on his motorcycle and bumped his head on his concrete driveway. It was my understanding that D had just did some maintenance on his gixxer 1000 and was testing it out w/out a helmet on and upon entering his driveway, the front tire hit a slick spot and fell causing him to fall and hit his head on the concrete. @ ~ 5:50pm CST, I recv'd a call from the 22 yr old's dad informing me his son had just passed @ Harris Methodist (I think) near downtown Ft Worth. All of that was on a Wednesday. On the subsequent Saturday a.m., I learned my 1st cousin Peter, who could ride MUCH-MUCH-MUCH better than I could pretend to ride, died earlier Saturday morning (2am/3am thereabouts) street racing in Houston on the <b>exact</b> same motorcycle I'd just purchased and I'd rode wheelies on etc (limited edition R1). I ceased riding motorcycles that w/e. I paid ~9K$ cash for the R1. I sold it 3 yrs later for 3K$ w/ all of 753 miles on it.

Sorry for the rant but daconti's deal w/ the vehicle fire caused me to recall those truck fires and those events. (mid-May) I still walk to that exact same spot on that particular parking lot and search my soul... The concrete was replaced but there are other areas where it wasn't and you can still see the scorch marks from the fires.

 

[buckwheat]

On March 30, 1996 @ ~2am or thereabouts, I was trailing a friend & another guy on IH35 north near Gainesville, Tx where I witnessed an "explosion" of sorts about half a mile ahead. They were racing their motorcycles and when I looked @ my own odometer, I was clicking @ 160+ mph where they'd pulled way ahead of me. My boy hit the concrete pillar of an overpass. His head (helmet) was severed from his body. I encountered the carnage, politely went through the median, and proceeded scarily home where I couldn't sleep for the remainder of the night. I still have a part of his motorcycle on one of my last bikes I kept. There are 3 other parts on the other bikes from 3 other former buds who bit the skids on those 2 wheelers.

March 30th 1996 was a Saturday and I'll never ever forget that night/next day or the day after that Sunday (facing his wife ).

P, that's why I don't have a motorcycle. They are too dangerous. A guy that I know was killed some years ago in Houston, TX while racing his bike. He ran into a wall and he died on impact. His brother said he was body was totally disfigured when they had to identify his body.

 

[Panther88]

P, that's why I don't have a motorcycle. They are too dangerous. A guy that I know was killed some years ago in Houston, TX while racing his bike. He ran into a wall and he died on impact. His brother said he was body was totally disfigured when they had to identify his body.

Yes buck... I think they're dangerous if we make them dangerous but you always have to have your guard up 101% of the time. 3 in one week and I knew all of them overly well. The following week, a bike club prezy in NTx died on Camp Wisdom by rear ending a vehicle. I'd JUST picked him up 2-3 weekends prior after he'd wrecked. He was scared crazy and I told him to STOP doing that stupid stuff as he had a wife and 3 kids. He promised me he wouldn't and 2-3 weeks later... rear-ended a parked car @ 100+. That was a horrific year for accidents I'd encountered. Later that same summer, my cousin Q (Quincy) died on 45 just south of Huntsville. We were riding side-by-side (huge no-no) and he rear-ended a red mini-van as I couldn't see the stop-lights due to the color of the vehicle and the position of the sun that afternoon. It was an almost instant stop and he went head first into the rear hatch of the thing. We weren't doing any more than 25-30mph in the heat and decided to take our helmets off while being stuck in traffic. He didn't die instantly but rather some 2 weeks later @ home from internal bleeding. All my folx were looking @ me crazily as I was the last cousin to still ride those things.

When I took one of those things out a few weekends ago, I could visibly see folx stop and stare as I sped towards that one big curve so I could see where my nerves were. Just stupid. :tdown:

 

[BachMegatone]

Worst I saw was also a Motorcycle accident but wasn't his fault (Well, not entirely).

It was on my way to work. Near where the highway ends and turns into single lane. I was about 1 or 2 cars back from where the motorcycle was and there was a van in front of him. Next thing I know, the van bumps the side of the motorcycle (must not have seen him while merging) and I see the bike go down and the guy go up in the air. After he hit the ground he rolled head over heels a few times and onto the side of the road out of traffic. I pulled over to the other side and called 911 but I guess some other people were phoning it in at the same time and they said that they were on the way. Luckily the flow of traffic wasn't toooo fast (maybe like 45-55mph) but still, it was scary seeing him fly through the air like that....