Riding my motorbike to work on a cold morning, I came up behind a car driving very very slowly through my residential area. I watched them slowly follow the road as it curved to the left, slowly keep turning left as the road straightened out, slowly drive up the curb and slowly hit a street light.
I pulled over to check on the driver as I was worried about it being a medical issue, but noticed they were already reversing. This made me think they might be drunk, so I moved a bit further away to put my bike behind a parked car, then went to check - by this time the driver was out of the car, not drunk or having any medical issues, just checking the car and then cleaning the windscreen. They had been too lazy to wait for the windscreen to de-mist a bit and had been trying to drive almost completely blind while wiping it with their hand…
Was getting a lube, oil, filter at a shop that had a big window so you can look out at the service bays.
One of the cars lurched forward, pinned the mechanic against the wall and broke both his legs. It was a whole deal.
I was walking on the sidewalk at a traffic-lighted intersection when I heard a loud bang.
I turn around to see a Honda had rear-ended a Volvo 240 that had stopped at a red light. The front of the Honda looked like a piece of crumpled up paper wrapped up nicely on the 240’s tow bar. The 240 was unscathed.
Stopped at a light at a freeway junction. Guy in front of me stops but gets impatient and goes just before it turns green.
We get stopped by the next light at the same junction. I am now next to the guy, both of us waiting to turn left to then merge onto the freeway across a fairly large intersection that accommodates all N-S normal traffic, traffic entering the E-W freeway from the N-S traffic, and traffic exiting the E-W freeway to join the N-S traffic.
He stops for only a few moments before deciding to go anyways (I think another direction had come to a stop and he assumed we’d be next), and as he goes through the intersection, the traffic exiting the freeway to go south gets the green light, and in slow motion with plenty of time to stop (cause they were just getting moving) the two front-runners both t-bone (f-bone?) the guy.
It was bizarre and completely avoidable on all fronts. Like a slow motion train wreck. Benefit of the doubt though, the exiting traffic probably just didn’t see him coming until he was right in front of them. I’m just glad that, whatever accident that guy was gonna get into that night, it happened before we got onto the freeway together.
Was waiting outside a government building in Peru, and noticed while a small car was driving by and hit a pothole causing the whole front passenger tire assembly (tire, brake, suspension, and control arms) break off and roll away while the rest of the car slid to the other side. The tire and the assembly kept rolling and hit two other cars before rolling into a store through the window, it reminded me of the old tire rack commercial.
