Re: It's been a year since the accident but...

Well, I had just turned 18 and I was driving home from my girlfriends, she went to edu, so I was driving a rather open freeway.... which seems to be made for speed... I was going a little too fast [you'd probably want to hurt me if i told you] and I lost control when I overcorrected and flipped several times into a tree a pretty far way off the road... :)

Truthfully, I don't know how I survived. No airbags went out and the impact from the tree was on the driver's side door, so I ended up breaking all my ribs, spraining my leg and making my clavicle stick out on that side.. I got life flighted and taken out with the cars of life but I was only in the hospital for 2 and a half days... It happened on a Wednesday and I was back in school by Monday... Though, I'm a little bit older now and no longer in high school... I learned my lesson :)

accident

So I guess that the car was a write off?

lol

If I didn't read the thread first I would almost think you were trolling with someone elses totaled VW that didn't survive. You can't get much closer to death and survive from the looks of that.

BTW, I also own a 1994 YJ Sahara. CJs, YJs, and TJs are very simple and modular to work on just like the old VW bugs. Jeeps are a great second vehicle to own. So are VWs IMO. :-) You can't going wrong with having a Jeep and a VW to compliment each other.

:-)

Hmmm. Why's that? I wonder if VW knows about this... possible defect?

It makes me want to hurt you for telling us you were going fast enough to cause the damage you did. I HOPE you learned your lesson. I also hope that after you healed, your parents gave you a good ass kicking. I also hope that you drive the SPEED LIMIT now becuase it's there to PREVENT inexperienced drivers like YOU from causing accidents like that one. Yes, beleive it or not, there is a REASON roads have speed limits.

Glad you survived. BTW, breaking ALL your ribs is not a "minor" injury. Had one of those ribs moved wrong, you'd be dead right now becuase it would have punctured a lung or your heart.

~Anthony

somebody's lying because if you look at the pics the side airbags did deploy. can't really tell if the fronts did because I can't find the steering column.

I'll bet your glad you had already dropped your girl off!

Oop. Wasn't an intention lie... I don't remember it happening at the scene... :)

I don't believe the sides did... or I even had side airbags... It was a '99 Passat. The front airbag didn't go off because it was a side impact crash.

Well, yeah, I did learn my lesson.. and I do drive the speed limit. That's why I posted this msg kind of as a warning if others are dumb enough to do what I did... Luckily though, it was on a road with little traffic and nothing around so the damage to anything else, besides a tree, was nada...

Yeah, I did puncture one of my lungs; but it's healed.

girlfriends,

probably

overcorrected

No kidding. As I was reading the post I thought to myself "I'll post a pic of the truck I rolled, that'll show 'em some real damage..." Then I looked as his picture. He wins. ;-)

Craig

A local kid (age 16) stuffed his '82 Bunny under a cement truck this week (head-on). The pic made the front page of the paper. I'll try to locate a copy of it and post it here.

Uh, he didn't make it.

Wohlford, '89 Golf

looking at the pics it does look like you had side airbags and they went off. look at the driver's seat outboard side...looks like a split seam (where the airbag would deploy from) and what looks like a giant deflated pillowcase hanging from it.

..............Side impacts & rollovers will trigger the sensor for frontal impact. I've seen it happen.

Poor kid. Does anyone really need to see the picture?

--Chamberlin

Did the cement truck hit him? Or was he driving in the wrong lane or what?

From the sounds of it, he was enjoying the driving experience a bit too much, crossed the center lane and hit the truck head-on.

Wohlford, '89 Golf