the driver's side window was closed before I got hit, and then when I regained consciousness I realized that a policeman was talking to me through an open space where the window should be.

My sister and her GF got into an accident - my sister was driving and lost control on a patch of ice. Her car (a Tempo) rolled over a few times. Sis's GF was knocked unconscious - when she came to, she saw her dog was outside the car. At first she was confused as to how the dog got out, but then she noticed her window had shattered.

Relatedly, try not to be treated for an accident at the New London, WI hospital. What a bunch of fuckups.

I almost drowned when I was five. I've never been a fan of swimming since.

I've haven't been in any car accidents that were really bad. There was only one where the car couldn't be driven afterwords, but even then there weren't any injuries all the way around.

I realized that the impact had shoved the driver's side bucket seat over into the passenger side hard enough that the passenger seat was pressed into the door.

Yep, same thing with mine. The passenger side door was still "latched" but was pushed out at the bottom from the car frame by the passenger seat which was sticking out about 3 inches. SO NOT RIGHT. Also? I drove the crinkled up car (it was sort of in a U shape) away from that accident to get to my mom's office.

I've been lurking along as usual, thinking I was lucky to have nothing to add to this conversation, but Gudanov reminded me, I almost drown when I was 5 as well!

It was at a neighbours pool, but then my parents built a pool that year (?) and I was a water baby ever since. So no lasting changes to my outlook on the water, anyway.

My dad was in the freakiest car accident ever when he was a teen - car was going too fast to make a curve, flew into a bean field and rolled six times, coming apart like a snap-together model and flinging all its occupants out in the process. Dad got thrown out on the fifth roll and landed in the field with an unbroken side window in his hands and no injuries.

Scrappy, that line would be funny if House said it. But so would my grocery list. Near death, besides birth, I was almost hit by a very slow-moving car in college(she saw me at the very last second) My life flashed before my eyes and shit...it was very tiny, like looking in the wrong end of a telescope.

Well, as Freakonomics taught me, it is far more dangerous to your kids to have a pool in your yard than a gun in your house. Not that I have a pool. Or a gun. or kids.

But think how safe they'd be if you did have kids.

When I was hit by a car while crossing a street, I didn't have my life flash before my eyes or anything. My initial, split-second reaction was that I could run out of the way in time. Next thing I knew, I was sitting on my ass, as the bumper of the SUV nailed my left leg. I just sat there, because I knew that my leg was probably broken so I didn't see the point in even trying to get up.

more financial fail I just discovered: My monthly auto-billed charges to one credit card was $135.12 more each month than my auto-pay amount. no wonder that balance has creeped up. now fixed.

add to my weekend plans: cooking for the next week so I have lunches to bring to work.