Closest to home you have had a accident

[ShawnP]

75 feet from and on my second to last turn. Went to turn left and apparently that confused the person behind me and they went to pass on the left. Car is totaled and yes the back hurts like heck. I was inches from a true T-Bone as the damage starts at the drivers side door exactly even with the seat (inches from me) and the front end is torn to shreds. I'm hotter than heck someone would try to kill me. I would estimate they were doing 55mph as they went airborne for 45 feet and then into the local bank. I am getting the bank camera video. So no car, no work and college plans have to be put off.

[golden eagle]

In front of my former apartment complex in suburban Atlanta. It was my fault.

[agentsteel53]

the nearest major intersection to my house, about 1/2 mile away.  it's a meeting of two six-lane arterials.  everyone but one dumb yutz knew to stop on red.  I had started on my green and got t-boned on the right.

it was an '89 Escort, so assclown's insurance company paid me a whopping $269.  I sure hope he did a lot worse to his $60K Audi, and maybe even a little to his ten cent head.

[texaskdog]

My last one wasn't that close at about 2 miles but it was the 3rd day in our new apartment.  Better neighborhood=hit by someone with good insurance.

[J N Winkler]

Closest is about 140 miles--it was a property-damage-only event but had the potential to be quite serious.  I lost control on a curve on a paved county road about a week after a snowstorm (sand had been laid down but advisory speed signing was absent; my speed going into the curve was 55 MPH and it later received a 30 MPH advisory speed sign).  My car understeered until the rear started to slide out; then the right rear tire blew out and the wheel rim got caught on the pavement (digging some of it out), at which point the car oversteered instead and shot forward into the inside of the curve, leaped across the ditch, tore through a barbed-wire fence (narrowly missing a pine tree), and finally came to rest in the middle of a pasture where a confused cow stared at me.  I was uninjured, but all of this had happened so suddenly that I couldn't track any of it with my eyes while it was in progress.

[NE2]

Fell off a bike about a mile away.

[empirestate]

At the curb in front of the house. Neighbor backed into my car two weeks after I bought it brand new. 

[Takumi]

Shortly after I got my license, I bumped my truck into my uncle's truck while still in my driveway.

[triplemultiplex]

Backed into another vehicle in my own building's parking lot.
Derp!

[Alps]

Unreported: About 3 feet away. My fault, other person drove away, I stayed to look at damage. Not gonna press it if they don't want to stick around.

[blawp]

Never had an accident in 11 years of driving.

[The High Plains Traveler]

At the curb in front of the house. Neighbor backed into my car two weeks after I bought it brand new. 

Was that me? I backed into the neighbor's new car parked across the street from my driveway.

[Brandon]

The one I mentioned in the other thread on Weber between Division and Caton Farm in Crest Hill:

2. Dec 8, 2009.  Driving south on Weber Road, between Division Street and Caton Farm Road (Crest Hill, IL) on a snowy, icy evening.  Now, I know this section can be icy due to the open fields on both sides.  Thus, I'm traveling with traffic at 25 mph, about 20 or more car lengths behind the next vehicle.  An asshole in a pickup truck speeds by, spinning out just in front of the vehicles in front of me.  He gets away cleanly, but causes both the cars near him to spin out.  I release the gas and apply the brake.  No ABS, and it wouldn't work on this ice anyway.  My only chance is to steer between oncoming traffic and the car spinning in my lane.Thus, I steer in that direction.  I get my vehicle slowed to under 5 mph and aimed where I want it.  However, by back end slides out just before reaching the still-spinning vehicle.  My right rear tire makes contact with his right headlight.  I have a bit of suspension damage; he has a broken headlight.  Crest Hill cop responds and has a hard time stopping himself.  He nearly spins out doing so and spooks a lady next to him when he turns on his lights.  The lady went over the curb into the ditch.  My car was towed to a body shop nearby (one I trust).  No one got a ticket due to the weather, but the road was closed until the county got its salt trucks out there (county yard is about a mile away on Caton Farm Road).  As it was, the insurance company even cut my deductible in half due to the weather.  The cop was amazed that I got my car to such a stop and nearly avoided the accident.

[kphoger]

This topic belongs in 'Bladder Control', not 'Traffic Control'. 

[kphoger]

Related to the topic at hand.....

My parents once bought a car (an Opel station wagon, if that helps date it for you) and had it delivered by truck.  The truck driver crashed the car while backing it off the trailer.

My dad rear-ended our minivan....in their own driveway....while we were living at their house.  The really crappy thing is that, since we were living there, the insurance company considered us as one household and therefore wouldn't chip in on the repair.  He had us start parking on the street.....

[brownpelican]

About two hours away; Elysian Fields Avenue at Saint Claude Avenue. I was turning right onto Saint Claude when some guy was able to squeeze his car to the right of my lady's SUV and do the same thing I was doing...and my right side and his left side scraped together. The cop and the judge said it was my fault because I wasn't over far enough to make the right turn...even thought I got to the light first (a bus stop was there).

[Alps]

This topic belongs in 'Bladder Control', not 'Traffic Control'. 

Whoops, you just gave me another entry in that category

[NE2]

Speaking of bladder control, do any signs exist for Ohio's Pee Pee Township?

[Jordanah1]

my friends car was hit while parked on the street at his dads house.

[ftballfan]

From home: Roughly five miles, car-deer, Maple Rd just north of County Line Rd in Filer Township, Manistee County. I managed to see the deer coming, so I slammed on the brakes and the deer just clipped my left front headlight. Both of my parents had been in car-deer crashes before and they had told me not to swerve when a deer dashes out in front of you. And this happened just this past Sunday morning.

From college: Right in my parking lot. I was ready to turn out to go to a party when a car came around the corner. I didn't see the car until it was right in front of me. However, both cars only received minimal damage as it happened at slow speeds.

[Eth]

If I can count a college dorm as "home", then it's about a mile and a half or so, back in 2006.  West Peachtree northbound approaching 10th Street.  There was construction in the far left lane (where I was, as I was about to make a left on 10th to head back to campus) that started with no advance signage that I can recall.  Needed to quickly merge over a lane just as the light was turning red, and I ended up just barely tapping the left rear corner of a Lexus.  Couple streaks of paint on my car bumper, no visible markings on his.  So naturally, he (some big self-important businessman) and his insurance company successfully manage to blame some faulty sensors on me and also get a new (completely unnecessary) paint job out of it.  Whatever makes it easier for him to go home and disappoint his wife, I guess.

[vtk]

Speaking of bladder control, do any signs exist for Ohio's Pee Pee Township?

Is that near Waverly?  I know there are signs on US 23 for the bridges over Pee Pee Creek.  Less sure, but I think there are signs on US 23 upon entering Pee Pee Township in at least one direction.

[PurdueBill]

Not myself, but a relative once backed their van out of their own driveway and hit the mail truck which was stopped to put mail in the mailbox at the street!  Guess the mail truck was in the blind spot or something. 

(Honest to God, that wasn't me.  My closest-to-home accident was about 1/2 mile away, similar to Steve's above--my fault probably, although the one in front of me started to pull out from a commercial driveway into a large break and then decided to slam on the brakes for no apparent reason, resulting in me tapping them, but they looked and no damage and they left.  I got the feeling that the other driver, a teenager, was possibly not supposed to be out in daddy's car or something and realized that reporting it would cause him more trouble than it would me!)

[kphoger]

I was rear-ended in driver's ed (don't remember if I was the driver); we stopped at a STOP sign, and the car behind us didn't.  No damage done, no report filed.

[vtk]

I almost got in an accident half a block from home today. Realized I wanted to grab something else from home, so I turned around in a driveway. In haste, I forgot to check for traffic before backing out into the street again. (I wanted to get downtown to take photos while there was still daylight...)