Sentences Taken from Accident Report
Forms
Many have experienced the confusion of
traffic accidents and had to summarize correctly what happened in
a few words or less on insurance or accident forms. The following
quotes were taken from those forms and eventually published in the
Toronto Sun.
- Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided
with a tree I don't have.
- The other car collided with mine without giving warning
of its intentions.
- I thought my window was down, but I found out it
was up when I put my hand through it.
- I collided with a stationary truck coming the other
way.
- A truck backed through my windsheild 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 of the road, glanced
at my mother-in-law and headed over the embankment.
- In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone
pole.
- I had been driving my car for 40 years when I fell
asleep at the wheel and had an accident.
- I was on my way to the doctors with rear end trouble,
when my universal joint gave way, causing me to have an 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 care 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 a skull fracture.
- I was sure the old fellow would never make it to
the other side of the street when I struck him.
- I saw the slow-moving, sad-faced gentleman as he
bounced off the hood of my car.
- The indirect cause of this accident was a little
guy in a small car with a big mouth.
- The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go
so I ran over him.
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