Story archives - tag: "accident"

Eric

It's difficult to explain to my 10 year-old sister that I had really no idea the cat was sleeping under the car when I left for school.

tags: accident cat [add]

2008-07-15 10:21:01 / Rating: 55.5 /

deaconb

To my ten year old brain, wearing a homemade, dangling fork necklace was a great idea, until I knelt down and jabbed myself in the leg.

tags: childhood accident [add]

2008-07-10 15:33:52 / Rating: 112.5 /

I'm Sorry

He was looking right, but I was on the left.

tags: death accident guilt [add]

2008-06-23 13:59:34 / Rating: 108.75 /

Chstr

Up until I saw the man's legs sticking out from under the truck's trailer I had thought the woman's shrieking had been unmerited.

tags: death accident trauma screaming [add]

2008-05-27 10:08:34 / Rating: 88.25 /

Elizabeth The Great

When I was four, I ran my dads car into a brick wall in a supermarket parking lot.

tags: oops car accident childhood [add]

2008-05-20 10:25:10 / Rating: 89.5 /

Crash

I had no time to stop when the oncoming truck made a left turn.

tags: accident survival [add]

2008-03-07 16:51:11 / Rating: 100.75 /

Kate

I've chopped off two fingertips in the last 3 months, and never once regretted my career choice.

tags: cooking clumsy accident inspired [add]

2008-01-11 14:00:45 / Rating: 237.5 /

M.M.

Grandma hasn't been the same since she flipped her SUV into that ravine.

tags: grandma accident depression [add]

2007-12-27 12:23:20 / Rating: 116.5 /

Hurt

Every time I spend a dollar of the 15 grand indemnification I got after the accident, my knee actually hurts.

tags: accident indemnification hurt money [add]

2007-11-26 12:38:46 / Rating: 120.75 /

Hurt

I knew my accident had been serious business when I saw the newspaper headlines a couple of weeks later, stating, "Boy (19) Tricked Death."

tags: accident serious [add]

2007-11-05 13:22:57 / Rating: 127.75 /

ivana

I turned the stove on to boil some water and four hours later I found the teapot melted to the burner.

tags: humor tea forgetting accident oops [add]

2007-09-19 15:03:35 / Rating: 159.25 /

boredasmustard

My face looks exactly like my mother's did, before a head-on collision with a drunk driver led to her complete facial reconstructive surgery.

tags: drunk driving accident sad strange [add]

2007-08-28 23:09:46 / Rating: 142 /

Oh no!

I hit a deer with my car the day before yesterday.

tags: accident wreck deer [add]

2007-07-17 13:11:13 / Rating: 104.25 /

Superhero Wannabe

Despite the after-effects of a broken arm and hand, going over my handlebars made me feel as if I was flying like Superman.

tags: accident fly superhero broken bicycle feeling [add]

2007-07-06 11:21:04 / Rating: 179 /

Tori

One of the worst feelings comes along with seeing your dog dying in the middle of the road after you accidently ran over her.

tags: grief accident dog terrible hurt death [add]

2007-06-26 16:55:05 / Rating: 210.75 /

XT_Momma

After that horrible accident, my mom was on a ventilator and I was the only one who could understand that she was asking to die.

tags: trauma sadness accident hospital [add]

2007-05-29 15:58:45 / Rating: 184 /

Mimz

One week after her accident, I saw her again; she didn't recognize me, but I knew she remembered what I'd done for her.

tags: accident recognition help stranger memory crash aid [add]

2006-12-21 14:44:37 / Rating: 159.25 /

Adam

The pedestrian looked concerned, as he bounced off the bonnet of my car.

tags: car accident [add]

2006-09-14 08:55:29 / Rating: 638.5 /

geckotales

When I went to my father's crippled car, a few hours after the wreck, I found both of his shoes on the floorboard surrounded by blood and covered in glass.

tags: brain injury car wreck accident father [add]

2006-09-11 10:25:35 / Rating: 184.75 /