It's been three years since the accident. I still hate approaching cars and I can almost see a cars wheel geometry from the distance. In this accident the driver of the hippie van was a French tourist, he came off a single lane bridge on to the right hand side as we came around the corner.......
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au...-crash/929001/
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Nasty how did everyone pull up after the crash? Did you sustain injuries? Did you ever hear from the frenchy driver again?
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We pulled up ok eventually....it still spooks us driving on single lane roads even after three years. Frenchy was not an authorised driver so the insurance dramas looked like being a big problem. We went to visit him in hospital to check on him and spoke through an interpreter. His wife thought they killed me because I was laying flat out on the road.... We just wanted to let them know we held no malice against them....... It's not like he went out of his way to try and kill us. He offered to pay for our damages and promised when he returned to France he would pay. He was old school and we shook hands on it. He paid via international money transfer two weeks later.
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Still playing on your mind mate?
Time is never wasted when your wasted all the time
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Yeah mate, just gun shy of any on coming traffic.Originally Posted by NissanGQ4.2
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I had a motorbike accident in 2001 me vs a tree. The tree won I scored a paralysed left arm it was a hard impact. To this day I still don't like watching hard impacts/collision even if its in a movie. It sounds stupid and it never occurred to me that something like that would happen after an accident.
I hope it doesn't play on your mind too much and that you can still enjoy driving.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
NP99 (6th September 2014)
Thanks mate, no matter what gets thrown at us in life, someone else has it worse off, you and I are here to write about it....
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Thanks for sharing your story guys. I guess you consider yourselves lucky, as you could. As you say there are others worse off.
edit, corrected auto spelling from my phone app, sorry that sounded less than compassionate before.
Last edited by macca; 7th September 2014 at 08:20 AM.
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Macca
Just don't let it screw with ur head 2 much mate
My uncle was involved in a fatality 4 years ago, the car was allegedly drag racing before it collided into his rigid truck. Driver died on impact, passenger died a short time after. Although my uncle only had minor injuries at the time, he has been mentally head farked since. Gave up his business driving a truck and hasn't driven a car since
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I was the same for a little while mate. I had a vehicle cross onto my side of the road while turning right around a harpin bend.
For a while later, I was spooked by tight right hand bends. Always expecting another car to come flying around the corner into us.
All good now and dont really think about it much. Though the accident was about 14 years ago.
Hopefully in time you will be the same.
I have had other less serious accidents since, but they never affected my like the head on.
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