Have you ever seen a freak accident?

What was it?

I've seen a kid crossing get hit by a car :'(

 

I think a freak accident would be more along the lines of watching your friend jump off a bridge, where everyone was jumping from and swimming, and land directly onto a nest of water moccasins and screaming as you could do nothing to save his life.

 

^ Damn , that's , Something I wouldn't want to see.

 

Yep. I actually have quite a few of them. But, I'll let others post and then share between posts.

 

I was at my friends house when I was like 12 and my friend was brushing his teeth and the head of the tooth brush fell off and he swallowed it.. I believe they had to do surgery to get it out.

 

I too have seen a child get run over. Ditzy little girl who used to go the YMCA that I worked at for years. Not even seeing her get hit was as bad as me having to be the one to tell the mother. Seeing the raw fear in her face was 10x worse

 

Damn man .. Thats brutal

 

Yeah, that raw fear on the person's face stays with you for a while.


My next one (in no particular order), one of my best friends was riding in the middle of the back seat of a car with 4 other friends that I didn't know too well. They were traveling down this dark road that if you turned off your headlights it would be pitch black. (Sort of like a game of chicken on the road to see how far you could drive down it without turning your headlights back on. I know, it's a stupid yet scary ass fuck game.) Well, when he turned his headlights back on, there was a deer on the road and he ended up losing control of the car. The car flipped several times. All but my best friend were ejected from the car and he was the sole survivor. Granted he lived, but he was in a coma for several months due to the swelling of the brain from being tossed about inside the vehicle.

 

@Roary tell me moar.

 

I haven't seen much.

Closest was when I was at the post office a few years ago and one of those automatic doors closed on someone and trapped him there.

He didn't get seriously injured , just some bruises... Was actaully kinda've funny.

 

I've never really seen a freak accident but my brother has. He watched a man get hit by a car and the car drove off. Police wittiness reports galore... :/

 

My former sister-in-law was crushed by a dump truck. She was on her was home driving back from the library about to go on a cruise trip the next day for a week. The driver of the dump truck drove slightly off the road and over corrected causing him to drive right over the entire driver side of her Tahoe that she was driving, killing her instantly. This happened on a Friday.

That Sunday night, while at the church to pay our respects before the funeral, her older daughter collapsed and died at the church. We had to postpone the funeral to incorporate the daughter's burial too.

 

I was walking down the side walk in a residential area of a small city I lived in for a while. Not even 30 seconds after crossing the street at a stop sign I hear a tremendous CRASH. I think "What on Earth was that?", turn around, and see an upside-down vehicle sliding down the road in my general direction. Apparently the driver was a kid who blew a stop sign. Great timing, because 30 seconds before there were no cars travelling down the road.

Bystanders opened the door of the upside down vehicle and pulled out a child in a car seat who was crying and didn't appear injured. I don't know the status on the driver but they weren't moving. I didn't stick around because people had already dialled 911 and I don't have any medical training. The driver who caused the accident was understandably pretty worked up.

 

I was at a club called 1201 one night with a few buddies when we were dancing and having a good time when a fight broke out. I was about 4 feet from the guy and he opened fire into the crowd. He shot 2 people. The guy he shot was about 6 feet from me. The bullet hit him in the chest and he took off running out the back door and they said he ran to the hospital (1 mile away) Guess his adrenaline carried him i don't know how.

 

I was in one when i was 15, me and a friend went to a concert on our way back he tried switching lanes and got hit by a semi and we fishtailed and bounced off both of the guard rails on the sides of the road, after we stopped my door was facing oncoming traffic and i thought i was going to die from multiple cars driving into me however ever car got to swerve before i got killed.. it was pretty intense, i told my friend "If we didn't almost die, i would say lets do this again!" and he just started laughing haha

 

Kind of coming from a different perspective I've responded to several strange accidents or brutal ones. I've seen some dead kids, and parents which are typically the most difficult to deal with. I try not to think about it honestly and just live call-to-call.

That said though, as a civilian I've really never seen an accident happen in front of me or anything.