When
police ask people involved in auto collisions to describe the events in
their own words, the descriptions often make it clear the accidents were
at least mysteriously unavoidable and at most acts of God. Some actual
examples from police files: "Coming home, I drove into the wrong house
and collided with a tree I didn't have." "The other car collided with mine without
giving warning of it's intentions." "I thought my window was down but found
it was up when I put my hand throught it." "I collided with a stationary truck coming
the other way." "A truck backed through my windshield into
my wife's face." "A pedestrian hit me and went under my
car." "The guy was all over the road. I
had to swerve a number of times before I hit him." "I pulled away from the side fo the road,
glanced at my mother-in-law and headed over the embankment." "The gentleman behind me struck me on the
backside. He then went to rest in the bush with just his rear end showing." "In my attempt to kill a fly I drove into
a telephone pole." "I thought I could squeeze between two
trucks when my car became squashed." "I had been shopping for plants all day
and was on ny way home. As I reached an intersection a hedge sprang up obscuring my vision.
I did not see the other car." "I had been driving my car for 40 years
when I fell asleep at the wheel and had the accident." "The accident occurred when I was attempting
to bring ny car out of a skid by steering it into another vehicle." "The other car attempted to cut in front
of me so I, with my right front bumper, removed his left rear tail light." "I had been learning to drive with power
steering. I turned the wheel to what I thought was enough and found myself in a different direction
going the opposite way." "I was backing my car out of the driveway
in the usual manner when it was struck by the other car in the same place it had been struck several times before." "I was taking my canary to the hospital.
It got loose in the car and flew out the window. The next thing I saw was his rear end
and there was a crash." "I was on my way to the doctor with rear
end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have and accident." "As I approached the intersection, a stop
sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before. I was unable
to stop in time to avoid the accident." "To avoid hitting the bumper of the car
in front I struck the pedestrian." "My car was legally parked as it backed
into the other vehicle." "An invisible car came out of nowhere,
struck my vehicle and vanished." "I told the police that I was not injured
but on removing my hat I found that I had fractured my skull." "I was sure that old fellow would never
make it to the other side of the roadway when I struck him." "When I saw I could not avoid a collision
I stepped on the gas and crashed into the other car." "The pedestrian had no idea which direction
to go so I ran over him."
