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By ucblockhead (Wed May 16, 2012 at 01:10:39 PM EST) (all tags)

This morning I watched the beginning of Super 8, which opens with a "days since last accident" being reset.

I've long been proud of my driving record. In thirty years, I've had no real accidents. As a teenager, I had a couple scrapes pulling out of parking spots and at twenty, someone took out my taillight when I was motionless. In the 26 years since then, I've had no accidents at all.

That record died this morning. As I was taking my son to school, I rear-ended a girl¹ driving in front of me stopped suddenly when a schoolbus popped up its stop sign. She braked suddenly, and I was looking a bit to the side and didn't catch it in time. I was only about to brake to 5-10 mph.

Minimal damage to her car. Major dent in my bumper, but no drivability damage.

Oh well.

¹ i.e. under 25.

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No accidents that were my fault by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed May 16, 2012 at 01:46:18 PM EST

Since, ummm, 1986? I sideswiped a mountain while driving an Army pickup.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

Clearly the mountain's fault! (nt) by ucblockhead

(2.00 / 0) #2 Wed May 16, 2012 at 01:57:37 PM EST

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: someone by aphrael (4.00 / 2) #3 Wed May 16, 2012 at 02:48:53 PM EST

was interrupted while bringing the mountain to mohammad.
If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
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doesn't make that great an epitaph by wumpus (4.00 / 1) #9 Thu May 17, 2012 at 04:43:42 PM EST

if you fail to take sufficient evasive action on the beltway.

Wumpus

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0 accidents here by MillMan

(2.00 / 0) #4 Wed May 16, 2012 at 03:15:36 PM EST

until I drove on the wrong side of the road in NZ...

"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman

: I've done stupid things, no doubt by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed May 16, 2012 at 03:38:30 PM EST

But I've also done well at avoiding accidents that would not have been my fault through good reactions. I'm depressed as this one was just me being an idiot and not paying attention sufficiently.
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I totaled a 300ZX Turbo by Phil the Canuck (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed May 16, 2012 at 04:49:52 PM EST

That was in 1993. It was nobody's fault but my own, although I maintain that culvert pipe had it coming. I have not had an accident since.

: I totalled a Buick LeSabre by webwench (2.00 / 0) #11 Sun May 27, 2012 at 03:23:47 AM EST

in 1995. That's about it.
^{Getting more attention than you since 1998 .}
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awww by yankeehack (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu May 17, 2012 at 02:38:30 PM EST

Well, like you I hadn't had any stupid accidents since I was a teen.

That was until 11 days after I got my car last year...and rear ended a car at a stoplight because I took my foot off of the brake and I didn't anticipate how fast the car would lurch forward. My insurance covered the $500 new bumper for the 2003 Ford Taurus I rearended. So yeah.

Also, thing to know, as long as you don't surpass something like $1200 in at fault damages in two years after the accident, your rates won't go up.
"...she dares to indulge in the secret sport. You can't be a MILF with the F, at least in part because the M is predicated upon it."-CBB

: I'm not too worried by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu May 17, 2012 at 03:02:25 PM EST

The damage seems fairly light and my record is very good. My wife has had two accidents on the same insurance. In one, the other driver was at-fault. The other was a $500 fender bender over five years go.
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: That is a good reason by barooo (2.00 / 0) #10 Fri May 18, 2012 at 01:32:50 PM EST

to drive stick. :)
man, i need a beefy taco now.
-gzt
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