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Disaster Of The Month Car Crash Photo Page

Here you'll find spectacular car crash photos. Hopefully these photos will motivate people to drive carefully, and think about what they are doing on the road, remembering that other people's lives are at stake. We have completed our site LoserCars.com which features pictures of the worst, faded, rusted, trashiest, nastiest, poorly kept pig pen losermobiles. Everyone knows someone who has one.

Folks, you're going to see a word mentioned here a lot on this page: EJECTED. As in ejected from the car. I noticed an outcome common among all the "ejected" cases. For those morons, drunks, and other Darwin Award contestants out there, this should tell you something! For those of you who are already dead, sorry I can't help you, there's no undo button. But for all others, here's the best advise you'll get in your lifetime:

Here's another of my famous CarBuyingTips.com formulas:

EJECTED = DEATH!
and the corollary equation:

SEATBELTS = NOT EJECTED = LIFE

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Our Favorite Car Crash Photos:

See below for details of these two car crashes.

Funniest Car Crash (Unless you own the Ferrari):

I love the story behind this one: To my darling husband, before you return from your business trip I really just want to let you know about the small accident I had with the pick up truck as I turned into our driveway today. Fortunately not too bad and I didn't get hurt, so please don't worry too much about me...


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Deposit Tips At Car Dealers
Never pay cash for a deposit on a car. If the deal goes south, you'll never get your cash back, but you can always dispute a credit transaction. You may need a new, clean credit card to handle deposits, and purchases, don't pay cash. If your credit is ok try Discover Card. What if you can't get credit at all and keep getting rejected? Then try this Credit Card Finder For People With Bad Credit. Don't keep applying to credit cards, get rejected, and your credit history ruined further, find out who will approve you before you apply. They find at least 2 credit cards guaranteed to issue an unsecured credit card to you. If your credit is so bad and If you're in too deep, maybe now is not the time to buy a car.

Your Crash Photo Here! Send Us Car Your Car Crash Photos


Sent in by an officer in Virginia

November 2004, Nice BMW fire there. I guess BMW stands for Burnt Money Waster!

Sent in by someone in Kuwait City:

This car accident occurred on a Kuwaiti highway near Kuwait City in Feb 2007


Sent in by visitor

Halloween Sunday, 2004, a lady in a minivan pulled out in front of this car, sending it into a parked Chevy Blazer.

Toppled Crane

From the Sun-Sentinel, 3/13/98 in Sunrise, FL. A crane was moving a 90' tall light pole when it fell over. The crane operator wasn't using his cranial.


Darwin Award Sent in by a visitor:

This car was loaded at Home Depot, and parked at an IHOP. Te photographer ran into a store to buy a camera to shoot it. What you can't see is the back seat, which holds 10 bags of concrete @ 80 lbs. each, estimated load weight 3000 lbs. The rear shocks broke and burst through the floor boards. I'm laughing so hard, I can't even type this in!


Sent in by a police officer:

Fall 2000 - Jeep Wrangler involved in wreck near Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee - one passenger was ejected and killed. Notice the trend yet? Look at the outcome associated with the word "Ejected".


Sent in by a visitor from France:

This parked car got slammed hard by this other car. What a pain in the butt.


Sent in by a visitor:
Someone failed their high school physics, loading the cart so much that it tipped backwards. Poor Donkey!

Sent in by fire fighter from MD
Porsche 911 ran off the road past a bridge ending up in a stream bed. The driver was unharmed!
Send in by a visitor
This demonstrates the interaction of heavy and light vehicles don't mix. There were two guys in the back seat who saw that truck coming and bailed out. The driver was unable to get out in time. The truck pushed the truck 7 meters before the two escapees managed to get the drivers attention and get him to stop. The driver of the light vehicle was still inside. The front of the side wheel of the truck was about to climb over the car when the truck stopped. This was in Collie coal fields. No serious injury.

Sent in by a cop in Central Florida:
The driver of the car was seriously injured but survived.

Sent in by a visitor:
In this unbelievable crash in 1994, the driver was in line at the toll booth on I-294 in Chicago when he was rear ended by a truck. Amazingly, the driver of the pickup truck suffered only a broken nose and some bruises! Very Surreal!


Sent in by a visitor

1997 in Miami. Truck side swiped the Contour, tires ran up the rear, across the roof down the passenger side before it pushed the Contour through a guard rail. Contour dropped over forty ft landing roof to roof on Nissan, bounced off and landed on the drivers side.


Sent in by a policeman:
Elderly man ran stop sign, side swiped cop car, sending it over an embankment and onto it's roof. No injuries.

Sent in by a visitor:
2001 Saturn hit by a dump truck all four survived 7/18/01. Amazing when you see the scope of all the damage done to this car.

Sent by a policeman in Israel:
Not a terrorist bombing, but sure looks like one. Just bad driving.


Sent in by a visitor:

New 2001 Beetle sandwiched between two trailers carrying half a modular home, on 9/17/01. The front truck stopped for a road block, but the rear one couldn't stop (didn't have his "Jake brake" set properly for the load he was carrying.


Sent in by a visitor:

This car BMW drove straight up to the top of the tunnels in Stavanger, Norway. The guy did not believe it until he took this photos of the crash.

 


Sent in by a MD fire fighter

In Germantown, MD this Mazda was broad sided by a Dodge Durango. Everyone in the Mazda had to be transported by helicopter to the hospital.


Sent in by a visitor:

A 17 year old kid flipped a 1988 Ford T-Bird going over 100 mph jumping a local bridge called "Thrill Hill" on a dare. His two cousins and two friends sustained only minor injuries! 17 year olds think they are invincible. The newspaper said he flew 68 feet over the ground before landing.


Sent in by a visitor:
The car was only three weeks old when it hit the guard rail on the upper section of the Wellington Motorway, New Zealand. As you can see, the rail came through the front of the car, through the fire wall, through the front passenger seat, through the left hand rear passenger seat and stopped short of coming out the back. The guy driving walked away totally unharmed! It's so amazing the guy driving walked away totally unharmed! The guard rail missed him by inches. Gives a whole new meaning to "drive through".

Sent in by a police officer:
White Mitsubishi was street racing, lost it, spun sideways 500 feet, struck another car. The driver suffered serious injuries.

Sent in by a police officer:
2000 Ford Ranger pickup slid off the road and struck a utility pole. The driver was unhurt but very impaired on alcohol and Xanax.

Sent in by a visitor:
Injury accident in Nashville TN on April 17, 2001. This one is crumpled up real bad!


Sent in by a police officer:

6/01: The Pathfinder was hit on I-65 South below Woodmont over-pass in Nashville, TN. The Pathfinder rolled - one passenger was ejected, died at the scene.

Sent in by a police officer:
Honda Accord was driven by a man who was taking ecstasy and drinking. He was unhurt by the crash and the guard rail missed his head by less than 6 inches.

Sent in by a police officer:
Near J. Percy Preist Dam in Nashville, Tennessee in 2/2001. Nissan Sentra Vs. full-size Chevy 4x4 pickup truck.


Sent in by a Paramedic in Australia:

The car spun out on a wet road into the path of a 4WD vehicle.

Ouch!:  18 wheeler torn open in the fall of 2000 on I-440 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Say Cheese: Summer 2000 on Murfreesboro Road near I-24 in Nashville, Tennessee.


Sent in by a visitor
There were three passengers in this truck, all three thrown from the vehicle about 300 to 400 feet before it finally came to rest. Of course, none were wearing seatbelts, and all were so drunk the two males could not remember who was driving.
Wreck in front of Plantation Post Office, 5th StreetWreck in front of Plantation Post Office, 5th Street
I Shot this wreck myself
A nasty head on crash in front of the post office in Plantation, FL in 8/98. The guy lived, but had to be peeled out and air lifted! The right picture shows the other car. It was doing 60 MPH in a 35 MPH zone!

Sent in by a police officer:

7/1/2001: Chevy truck driven by a drunk driver went completely through a utility pole and then crashed into a shed on the side of Old Hickory Blvd. in Lakewood (Nashville), TN. The driver was killed.

Sent in by a police officer:
Chevy Spectrum hit by a car, pushed in front of a tandem trailer truck. The truck hit the Chevy and both struck the wall pinning the Chevy between the wall and the truck. Driver survived, passenger died.


Sent in by a visitor:

He was rear ended by person doing 70+. Note the car came right off the frame.


Sent in by a police officer:
The driver of a Mazda MX-6 passed-out at the wheel due to a diabetic condition, ran off Nolensville Rd in Nashville into ditch. It took out trees and rolled back in the road.


Sent in by a visitor:

This is what happens when you cross a $750,000 liquid nitrogen truck with black ice. The driver walked away!


Sent in by an ex coworker:

Driver crossed median, lost control. When we got her out, she grabbed a beer, makeup case, cell phone and walked down the street. The police caught her in a parking lot trying to run from them. DUI.


Sent in by a visitor

A shot of his car that was in an accident back in Aug. of 1996.

Sent in by a police officer:
November 2000 Battery Lane in Nashville, TN. Do not adjust your set, it's the truck that's upside down!

Sent in by a police officer:
7/15/2001: Wreck in Nashville, DUI.

Wreck In Front of the Galleria Mall
Sent in by a visitor:

Don't know where this happened.

Wreck In Front of the Galleria Mall

In front of the Galleria Ft. Lauderdale, 1995.


Sent in by a visitor
A totaled Mercedes E Class.

Sent in by a visitor
12/18/2001, white truck hit the blue truck.& Now you know which truck to buy.

Sent in by a visitor
Kid snuck his parents' car out, got in a minor wreck, fled the scene, lost control, crossed oncoming lanes, hit a curb/gutter and then hit a tree and spun back into the road. He suffered only leg injuries.


Sent in by a cop in Central Florida:

This was the end result of a street race on a major highway.


Sent in by a visitor:

This happened to his dad June, 2001.

Sent in by a visitor:

Chrysler Spirit.  Half a double-wide home being towed ran over it while it was parked on the side of the road on I-69 near Ft. Wayne, Indiana. On the bright side, they don't have to worry about waxing it anymore!


Sent in by a police officer:

From an officer in Israel, a drunk slammed into his squad car.


Sent in by a visitor:

A military Hummer vehicle drove right over this Honda! Unfortunately, the Hummer missed Osama, who was following in the Yugo behind the Honda and got away.


Sent in by a visitor:

An 18 year old girl was driving drunk when she hit a car, went airborne 45 feet before hitting a van knocking the front end up on a 2 foot high brick retaining wall. Both cars totaled.


Sent in by a visitor:
No explanation necessary. Alright, women drivers! A guy was teaching his daughter how to drive. 'Nuff said.

Sent in by a visitor:
He got this picture via email. If you look close you can still see people in the truck.

Sent in by a visitor:

Photo taken summer 2001, in Toronto,
Canada.  Two cars making love to each other.


Ouch!  Sent in by a visitor:
This is a school bus used to take workers into the strip pit. It got backed over by a Titan dump truck, luckily no one was in it.


Sent in by a visitor:

Ouch! A wrecked '77 Corvette.  Moron in a pickup truck turned without looking.

Sent in by a visitor:

05/04/02, Florida State Trooper was going home and hit a cow at 65MPH in the fog. He suffered only minor cuts from the glass. The 2001 Ford is not repairable.  I know what he had for dinner that night!

Sent in by a visitor:

05/25/02 This happened across the street from their apartment, a Geo Tracker and a Volvo convertible.

 
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