Kicked in the pants

[xh98lover]

Ok so he i am, today is the start of my 2 week holiday, been busting meh back all week for the man, and now its time to let my beautifull body to recover. So i organise me and the squeeze to head up to the goldy for the day, a little bit or shopping for the woman, and a little bit of public perving for me (hey..........its the gold coast) So i call up my mate to head down with me, cuase the missus already has invited two of her friends. So we pack the trusty ol' 98 falcon station wagon and hit the Pacific Motorway. So were cruising down, doing a steady 110km, me in the right lane just near the on ramp to sea wild. (yeah, thats right...............the only lane to be in) when i spot a yellow H2 Hummer cruising about 6 cars in front. Now i never really like Hummers, but everyman for himself.

Now im stuck behind some guy wanting to do 20 under the speed limit, so i indicate and pull out in the middle lane, just as i get in front of him, i notice the hummer pull into the middle left lane (this is were there are 4 lanes, constant) when all of a sudden another driver (commodor lady) in the middle lane decides to go into his lane. She nudges the drivers side back of his car and he loses control. He veers right, left, power slides acroos two lanes, into the right land, back in the middle and then flips, ends up on the drivers side. And all this happens about 50m infront of me.
So i drop the car straight into 2nd gear and hit the picks. Now usually i just reli on the old disk brackes, but here i am with an extra 200gks of passengers. But the old girl does what she is told and stops true (thank you tickford engineers)

First thing i do is make sure everybody is ok, i hope out of the car, tell the girls to stay in the car, and for my mate to call the ambo and stay with the girls. I notice to my right that the commodor lady is now half way into a shrub on the shoulder. But beeing a liitle more concerned with the 4wd on its side, i bolt for the one the needs more help. First thing i notice is the blood, everywere, front wind screen, road, over the bonnet.

Me and another guy both arrive at the car same time. I straigt away wipe my shirt off, and shove it through a hole in the front windscreen, hoping that whoever is in the car will grab it and staunch whatever is bleeding. I think wat is the best way to get em out, so i climb on top of the hummer (would of been ahell of a pic, a hummer on its side, blood all over the place, and a shady looking "black guy" standing on top of it without my shirt on, i later found out that my gf was gonna take a pic of me doing as i descrebed, but her friend told her not to, not the the right place/time) I notice that there is too guys in the front of the car, so i try opeing the door, but its was locked, so i jump down, and by then, about 6 other people had turned up, and a guy with a first aid kit,

I notice that the driver is kinda collapsed down the side, and the passenger is supporting himself in his chair. I realised that there was a moon roof, so i kinda maybe put my elbow through it to get them out, so after damaging the window (it felt good, all manly like) i noticed how big these blokes were, built like a brick shit house. Both massive fellows, so there there no way they were gonna fit through, so i lean and and yell at the passenger to unlock his door and climb out, i quickly found my shirt lying on the ground and find out mate who is bleeding, (he had split his arm clean in hlf, i was looking at meat and bones, blood pumping everywere, so i grabbed the 2 parts of his arm, squish em back togehter and tigh it up with me shirt, noticed the engine was still running so i turn of the ignition,

By this stage, the passenger was ontop of the car screaming "fucking mark, get out, your bleeding, get him fucking out" over and over again. Another blokes yells out "kick the screen in and pull him out" But some one else said no, you kick that in, and youll cut him up even more. So me and another bloke jump on top and talk about pulling him out. But the once agian we nticed that he would at least be 120 kgs easily, and he had a useless arm. So we jump off, and i run around the back to open up the back of the car and notice that with the hummers, that back well is jammed on a brace, and the brace covers the back door, toke me and the other bloke about 30 secs the figure out how to take if off, and as we open the back door, the brace and wheel are jamming the door open. So right there and then i lose it, just the grabbed the door and started smashing it into the tire, about 15 secs later the door is bent in half, and me and the guy and trying to piss the seats of out of the way.

Now trust any car company, i have just torn a door almost of its hinges and the bloody head rests of the seat dont even have any visible buttons to get them. So im swinging of the head rests to pull em out the way so we can drag the injured fellow out. Wasnt getting any were so i just lean over and grab the guys shirt pull him back as far as i can, and the guys out side sense watshappening and kick the screen in

So they pull him out and sit him on the tyre, now all this has happened in a bout 3 mins, and luckily A of duty nurse rocks up, So she is chciking out ol mate while his mate and yelling 'mark fucking stay with me, you owe me 5 grand, do you dare fucking die and still owe me money" (im laughing on the inside, only in australia, when crazy shit happens, are we able to put some comedic spin on the whole nightmare and create some kind of refuge in humour) the nurse is feeding him water and a guy with the first aid kit is partching him up, he is having trouble putting on the bandages and keeping the guys arm together with my shirt, so i throw on a pair of gloves and start helping to strap him up.

So all is done and done, still strapping him up, waiting for the ambos so i just head back to car. Non evenfull head back onto the road and hit the coast. HAd a good time shopping and swimming..........................................................

But on the way home, then traffic is backing up, i notice that at the set of lights is oil and broken glass, so anther accident happened.
I was feeling quite peachy until i see this. Then i start feeling sick, depressed and crying. If i had left 5 secs earlier at home, that would ofbeen me swipped or smashed into by the hummer. Just before it happened i thought about getting in front of the hummer, cause its was ahead of the traffic. That would of been me, my gf, her frined and my mate cleaned up on the road.. I was thinking this as i was driving. We get the to fuelo and i stumble out, crying and shaking - so my girlfriend hopes out of the car pulls me in and just holds me untill all the sadness and rage flows though my lubbed up tearducts. So i had my little princess fit and jumped back in the car and head home.

So the moral is that tragedy can strike anytime, and thing can happen. You need to be thankful for wat you have. I dont know if Mark survivied, he lost a lot of blood, i dont know what happened to female, when i left, some people where near her car ( i tried searching on the net for any info, but as of now nothing has come up)
So i hope that no ones has to have the same self realisation, that you have to be ready for anything, be thankfull for wat you have. Dont ever stop been observant when you drving.
You grab your own meaning from this story, but in the end, i pray that he pulls through, and that it wasnt me.......................................

[t1MMy]

I know the feeling mate. 2 years ago I was coming back home from a mates place and was heading down Frankston/Cranbourne rd (for those who know it) and witnessed a guy on a motorcycle die right in front of me.

Guy on the bike was pulling out of Beach Street on a 250cc Aprillia and came out WAY too fast and failed to negotiate a left hand turn, and due to his speed the front tyre popped up and when it came back down he got tank slap bad, lost all controll of the bike and ended up going head 1st into a amco barrier and losing his head.....and brain.

Pretty ferral thing to see a human brain on the road and all the blood that goes with it. At the time it all happened so fast I didn't even have time to think about what had happened and before I knew it I was standing next to the deceased dialling 000 and asked the question "who do you need?"

My response was....."just send the police, the ambulance is no good for this one". After telling the D24 operator what had just happened there were more police on the scene than you see in the movies, it was crazy and they all got there soo fast.
A lot of the police were using the "black humor" when they got there and I suppose it's their way of dealing with something so horrific, but at the time I couldn't believe what I was hearing come from their mouths.

Few days later I return to where this happened to show a friend where it was and to my suprise there was about 20 people standing on the side of the road with flowers and pictures of the man who died. It was all of his family and some friends also. They spotted me and I instantly shat, I knew what was coming and I didn't want a bar of it. They asked who I was and I explained, and then came the 1000 questions.

With this still being very fresh in my memory and watching this mans friend, son, brother die in front of me, they asked if anybody caused it or was it his fault, they asked what the marks on the road were...(because he was decapitated there were about 4 pools of blood on the road from the head, brain, torso and other limbs) and I struggled to tell them. At 1st I said it's better if they didn't know because police didn't let them see the body for obvious reasons.

I asked 1 question, and that was "how old was he?"...don't know why I asked it, but I did. They told me he was only 23 years old. That really hit me like a tonne of bricks. I sold my motorbike after that, and have no intrest in riding anymore what so ever.

I know some people here ride bikes, and not everyone that rides crashes, but I saw how easy it can happen and thought F*** that!!!.

[vegabass]

Black humor is definitely a tool used by all emergency services. I for one find it helps not to ask specifics and not to work out what happened. My job is to rescue trapped persons or remove deceased from wreckages. As bad as things may sound it gets harder the younger the age, and its worse if a drunk driver has caused a fatality.

Just a note to any one who arrives at a scene of an accident.
Assess the scene - make sure the vehicle isn’t resting on unstable ground or live power boxes or lines.
Assess the injuries - a bit of blood isn’t life threatening, the human body will compensate for bleeding by keeping the flow about the vital organs e.g. brain. If they don’t "need" to be removed leave them where they lay until help arrive.
KEEP CALM and keep some attention onto the others involved, some times the "walking wounded" can be in a worse condition.

I could keep going on but I hope it helps.

You blokes did the best you could and that is all that’s needed. I have spent hours debriefing after jobs with my team mates and not afraid to talk about inner feelings that come up in regards to what I have seen/done/couldn’t do on a scene.

Congratulations you now have more "life experience".

[Tiga_EL]

Sounds nasty, pretty brave of yourself to do all that you did though. Well done.

[huggiebear]

bloody hell.. that sounds traumatic, i thought about becoming an ambo officer but i know these things can **** you up for life, i have alot of respect for you all helping out like that, its bad enough driving past accidents with white sheets over cars etc. anyone in QLD that knows D'Aguilar highway knows its a common scene almost weekly, my mates a volunteer with the local fire brigade and he said he sees alot of dead bodies on that highway, 2 lanes 1 either way, thin white line dividing and 100kph speed limit

[bushman]

Back when i was sixteen it was either the 5th of march or the 26th of february(11pmish) not sure which, i was with a friend of mine in his ef fairmont, and the rest of my mates where in a vp commo, only two of us had licences back then and they were the ones driving. we were coming up stock leigh road towards the mnt lindsay highway, we were doing around 130 from memory and the vp pulled on us big time they were probly doing 170, all i remember seeing is dust tailights headlights, then darkness. when we realised what happened we pulled up so quick it wasn't funny i was falling over running out the car door while it was still doing maybe 20k, he went off a drop off that was approximatly 4-5m down, everyone lived, not a scratch on em, whel they hit the brakes a wheel touched the dirtan is what caused them to spin i think, over the 100m were they were spinning out they washed off enough speed, not to kill them, was one of the scariest days of my life, not knowing if 3 of my mates and 1 girl is dead or not. definatly not something i recommend seeing... also got to an accident where the kids mum rocked up to find him dead that was nerve wracking, all we could do was bow our head in respect.

[huggiebear]

did anyone hear about the girl who broke down on the M! a few months back? she called her parents (her dad was a minister for a church) and they pulled up on the side of the highway (she broke down in the middle) as they got out of the car hand in hand they stood behind the car ready to cross and someone lost control and wiped them out killing them both.

[eb-baby]

Never personally had to deal with any situations quite like those mentioned above and hope i never have to. But my ex is a firefighter down in Beaudesert, he didnt really bring it home with him much, but one time he did and its stuck with me for a long time. Middle of the night the beeper went off n he was out the door. Gets back hours later said it was an mva and it was obvious he was pretty messed up. Was late last year sometime and a car full of local boys were headin out from a party out the back of cedar vale, headin towards beauy on millstream rd (single lane shitty arse road with a fair amount of twisties, blind corners and crests) fresh onto their p's they were going way way way too fast down a massive hill, then up heading towards a crest with a bend, didnt see the bend, hit some gravel and the driver lost it, fishtailed, the car flipped and slid down the road a good 50m. Four boys were in the car, 2 were unconscious when they arrived n one was already out of the car and unfortunately the other had died. The one that died hadnt been wearing a seatbelt and it was pretty horrific, he had gone through the back windscreen of the car after it had flipped and his head had been caught between the bootlid and the road as the car was sliding. My ex said to me that this kid was so messed up that he couldnt even tell if it was a male or female. It was a pretty messed up situation, cos your not exactly allowed to tell people who are involved in the situation bout that kinda stuff...n it turned out the boy who died was one of my brothers friends little brothers. That was pretty hard. For anyone who knows the area Millstream rd is pretty bad though, i can't talk cos i know i dont drive as responsibly as i should, but its probably one of the worst roads that i know of. I have been in an accident on that road myself (not me driving) sucked a fair bit, ended up me trapped in the car, broken wrist, concussion and a written of eb v8 fairmont ghia. Also a fella got t-boned by a truck headin to one of the dairy farms, truck failed to obey a stop sign, the guy had no chance. Young fella died in a head on crash juz off millstream rd, on a lil single lane bridge, truck comin the other way didnt obey a give way sign. Also one of my brothers friends hit a cow......but yer

[bushman]

Yeah thats A dodgy road that one.

[Sunboost]

Dan showed me a video of a dude on a scooter going under the wheels of a b-double once. That was shit.

Also saw a video of a viet traffic cop who'd come off a motorbike and gotten sliced in 2 by truck wheels. Blood and guts everywhere and the dude was talking to onlookers while he lay there bleeding to death all chopped up :S

There was also a vid floating around a short while ago of a kid who jumped off a pier and landed face first on concrete below before his limp body fell in to the sea. The video ends with a scene of the boy in a surgical theatre with his face badly mangled.

I wouldn't watch any again.

Saw a dude who'd been dragged on to tracks at Mitcham Station by his dog while waiting for a train at a level crossing. There were 2 white sheets, for the separate pieces of his body.. unfortunately Gill and I copped a look at one part of it when the sheet was lifted for a photo sesh by the coppers :S

[Malakai]

His arm was in two pieces? WOW!

[braad]

shit, thats a pretty tough thing to have to deal with. I hope your holidays can carry on with somewhat some sort of normality and relaxation. Massive respect for ambo's, cops and accident response teams that have to deal with these types of things every day

Im lucky i've never witnessed a horrible accident or fatality, but i've been told from a young age that its horrible, no matter if someone was in the right or wrong. Dad had a biker die when he(the biker) went through an intersection illegally and hammered into my dads car. Even though dad was legally "in the right" he still felt guilty and today its still a touchy/emotional subject some 20 years later.

Unfortunately, like most people here i have had the pain of knowing a mate die on the roads. He died a month and a half ago. Whilst overtaking a semi, the overtaking lane ran out, semi ran out of room and merged back to the right where my mate was and he had to swerve into the path of an oncoming semi. At 100km+ you dont survive, just glad he wouldnt have felt any pain. Unfortuately it was all over the news here in sydney, i remember thinking how sad it was that another young guy was lost, and half an hour later a mate told me ti was actually our friend. Everything to do with accidents suck, nothing nice about them at all

I hate telling people dont act like a fucktard, because accidents happen. Driving like a cock will only make it even more likely and as xh98lover enjoy what you have and realise life's precious

[BROCKYB8]

Unfortunatly this happens all to many times on our roads.
I think that was very brave of you to jump in like that . In many cases stuff like that saves peoples life .
Ive unfortunatly been witness to a few situations where something could have gone really wrong . One on water and one on road

I was working at a summer camp in Maine . I was part of the lifeguard staff and also taught kids how to water ski . We were setting all the area ready for the kids when we heard a massive bang and then followd by a massive scream.
One of the guys had realised what happened and quickly collect 3 of us and flew out n the boat to where this had happened.

By the time we got there we noticed that there was two jet skis and a lady screaming.
What had happened was that the lady and her husband been racing around on there jetskis and she had hit him by accident
He had been knocked out and obviously gone under.
We jumped out of boat and started to dive to try find the guy,
Luckily not being deep he was picked up quite quickly and the guys were able to look after him on the boat,
I sort of sat in the water stunned for few minutes .

The other was seeing a guy on a motor bike go under a 4wd while going around a round about .
In this situation the 4wd guy had seen the guy drop the bike and had stopped as bke went under .
He stopped on the guys head on which he was wearing helmet( which to our suprised held up to a car sitting on it . My father and myself jumped out as well as about 3 other guys from a commodore that was sitting at a servo right near where it happened. . about a minute or so later a off duty mica paramedic had turned up . With the guy still talking we realised that we had to get car off the poor guy . So about 8 of us ended up lifting the 4wd up so the mica guy could pull biker out .
He was lucky to survive but after that i couldnt ride a moto bike.

[Rollin]

xh98lover - man that sounds pretty crap A lot of the time there is quite a lag time between dealing with a situation and having an emotional response to it, it's quite normal. Don't feel bad about having a cry hey - it's not cause you're a skirt, in times of great stress your brain is absolutely pouring chemicals into your blood to make your muscles work better, your heart pump faster and your brain more alert, once you are through that situation there is still a lot going on inside!

I used to get into fights at school pretty often, dunno why, I never started them and I'm not a big guy by any means, but once the fight was over (when I'd near killed the kunt with a Rollin Motorsport Special Headlock Of Death (tm) or a teacher had busted us) I'd quite often feel like I wanted to cry, even though there was no logical reason to - I wasn't in pain, and most times I'd sorted the prick haha.

It's a strange reaction but one you can't help - I suppose it's the same kind of thing that makes women cry when they are really happy :/

It might be a bit morbid but I often think about how big a part chance plays in our lives every single day - you can take all the precautions in the world and out of nowhere someone will f*ck up your day in a big way. If that guy in front of you hadn't been travelling at 20 under the limit, you wouldn't have changed lanes and you would have been much further from the acco. If you got up 1 minute earlier that morning you would have been 500m in front of all that crap and never even known about it. If the bitch in the commo had have used her brains at all the accident wouldn't have even happened! Maybe if the guy in the Hummer had done a couple of defensive driving courses he might have been able to bring the tank slapper back under control....so many different possible outcomes for a single situation!

[t1MMy]

xh98lover - man that sounds pretty crap A lot of the time there is quite a lag time between dealing with a situation and having an emotional response to it, it's quite normal. Don't feel bad about having a cry hey - it's not cause you're a skirt, in times of great stress your brain is absolutely pouring chemicals into your blood to make your muscles work better, your heart pump faster and your brain more alert, once you are through that situation there is still a lot going on inside!

Spot on!

[BROCKYB8]

MAte to be honest that is one brave thing you did .
im sure any one would have the same reaction as you did .
Just thank god you were there to do what u could .

[ELXR_96]

Dan showed me a video of a dude on a scooter going under the wheels of a b-double once. That was shit.

Also saw a video of a viet traffic cop who'd come off a motorbike and gotten sliced in 2 by truck wheels. Blood and guts everywhere and the dude was talking to onlookers while he lay there bleeding to death all chopped up :S

There was also a vid floating around a short while ago of a kid who jumped off a pier and landed face first on concrete below before his limp body fell in to the sea. The video ends with a scene of the boy in a surgical theatre with his face badly mangled.

I wouldn't watch any again.

Saw a dude who'd been dragged on to tracks at Mitcham Station by his dog while waiting for a train at a level crossing. There were 2 white sheets, for the separate pieces of his body.. unfortunately Gill and I copped a look at one part of it when the sheet was lifted for a photo sesh by the coppers :S

I got no stories like that and don't want any and as for the pier video it's utterly disturbing

[get_an_ea_today]

did anyone hear about the girl who broke down on the M! a few months back? she called her parents (her dad was a minister for a church) and they pulled up on the side of the highway (she broke down in the middle) as they got out of the car hand in hand they stood behind the car ready to cross and someone lost control and wiped them out killing them both.

Yeah i heard about that... he was a religion teacher at a couple of primary schools near me, a few of my mates knew him aswell. Tis pretty brutal aye.

[huggiebear]

yeah, the actual story that she told to thats life magazine was different to the hear say that was going around, i was going through a few minutes after it happened as i did a u-turn a few hundred meters from where it happened and went home another way, ambos etc went past me as we were sitting and waiting

[vegabass]

Rollin chance/luck is everything.

I attended a head on accident rated at approx 240kmph.

1 walked away but taken to hospital for obs..he walked out 1.2 hrs after
1 deseaced (instantly) ill spare the story
^^^ these guys were in the same car

The guy in the other car had small/medium trauma to his knee but I could not identify his car. He was airlifted to hospital mainly because the hickytocker was near by. He was fine. THAT IS LUCK/CHANCE

[xh98lover]

Thanks everybody, aye, its nice to know that we all have some things to share, may not be good stories, but at least we know that were not alone, and pray that no one else will ever have an accident

[xh98lover]

Cheers man

Thanks for thinking about a /b/rother, kind regards, im still kinda shaken, but in a good way, im realise that most accidents are voidable, all one has to do is not drive like a dick machine. So i have taken a big look at myself and realise that my driven aint the most legal, so no more speeding, circle work or yelling at fat people

HOpe that after reading the other members stories every one can take thre own little point and just learn to be a better/safe driver.

[Kyle the ED4LTR]

Shit like this happens all the time unfortunately, you did a good job doing what you did, takes a lot of courage.

My dad had an incident like this happen before I was born but I wont go into details. Although 2 good mates of mine were close to being in a fatal crash a couple of months back, was actually that one that happened on the Eastern Fwy with the SS and camry. We were all calling it a night and decided to go home, The mate that I was in the car with decided he wanted to do a Chap Lap before heading home so my other 2 mates decided they would follow us before calling it a night. We took the long way back but the others took the Eastern, as they were on the Eastern all the traffic slowed down and they saw nothing but flashing cop lights everywhere, they slowly drove past and saw the 2 mangled cars, unfortunately the driver saw the deceased person in the Camry as he drove past.

Later on we got told, he was saying all the time, "What if I didn't follow you guys, it could have easily been me", happened roughly around when they were about 10 minutes out of Chapel St.

[bigdell]

the first time i was in a situation like that was about 2 years ago and my dad and myself were coming home from family get together and we where about 250m's behind this old bloke who was driving along having a smoke and had his arm half out the window and an over size moved over and cut his arm off. we were first on the scene and the main thing i noticed was you don't think you just act.(the same as when you are in a fight). and it was the strangest thing ever to see an arm sitting there with no body.
the next time was 11 months ago. myself and mates went out over a weekend to a mates farm and where just running a muck and my mate had just got a crf450 and he isnt a big kid but can ride and we where racing across a paddock to see how fast his bike would go as he just got higher gearing in it. we were doing 145km/h and there was a dam coming up and there is a small spillway off the leading edge and he didnt see it till it was far to late. he hit the breaks and went over the hangers and got rag dolled we got on the brake and spunn around and when we got there he was sitting on what was left of his bike. he came out of it with a fractured nose and dislocated shoulder. as you could guest he hasn't ridden since.

[bushman]

**** that^^^^^^^ thats dome real crusty demon style shit there.

[Bazza J]

on fathers day this year i witnessed a fatal accident, a 18 year old p plater was drifting down a sleep winding road, he was going about 160-170 according to the police, but to me it looked alot faster, myself, my girlfriend (16) and her father were sitting out the front of her house and we heard these tyre screech noises and i thought just some wanker doing a burnout, but next thing we see is a car sideways in front of the neighbors house and than we saw it hit the telegraph pole right across the road and crushed over on itself,
we were all panicking, but we managed to get the police and ambulance on the phone, but they took around half hour to get there, we had got the passenger conscious and talking, but the driver was pretty bad, he couldn't talk and we could hear him choking on his own blood, my girlfriends father and i saw the driver die, the next day i found out that i knew the guy that died, he was driving a lent car instead of his hilux and thought he would make the most of it.
I will never forget that huge bang sound and seeing him in that car half crushed, the cars front and back wheels were Literally touching, its an experience that will never leave me or my girlfriend or her father, the police also lied in the report that made the papers saying that they were there within minutes after the crash, an that it happened at 1.45am and they had him out by 2.40am but actual fact was they had him out at around 3.55am, they also said he was hospitalised and died in hospital, but we all knew that he had died in that car. moments before he had hit that pole my girlfriend and i turned into the driveway returning home, after we saw the accident i kept thinking, if we were a couple of minutes later it could of been us killed.
the worst part of it is that everyone keeps treating it like the driver was a hero, having stickers all over their cars with his name, and yet those people who have the stickers continue to speed, do burnouts and drift up the same stretch of road that killed their mate, i will forever feel sory for his parents who still go to his grave every day, as they will never see their son make the most of his life