What’s Your Best Car Injury Story?

riderofthestorm
Sep 4, 2010 at 3:16 pm

my buddies neon was runnin rough so i told him id take a look at it. i had the hood open parked in my lot and i told him to start it. unfortunatly he had it in first and when he let the clutch out it jumped up ontop of me. my legs were pinched between the car and the concrete parking stop and by back hit the retaining wall behind me. i shifted the brick and gravel back about 3 inches with my spine. not fun at all

albania_fier
Sep 3, 2010 at 7:44 am

ok well, we was high as fuck im sitting in the trunk with it open in the back of my S500 my little cousin was in the driver seat we were all listening to music swapping stories and passin the blunt with 2 next buddies!! anyways it was the middle of january and a blizzard was apparently on the way so we all thought we get the hell outta there before the roads got too fucked up, so my little cousin decides to reverse outta the alleyway we were in(tight one) as hes doing so he gets too close too close to the wall on the passanger side as hes doing so me still sitting in the trunk i yell out to him he dosent hear me(pothead) so like an even bigger pothead i put my hand right where the bumper was about to scrape the wall, but instead my hand got recklessly scraped and my index finger crushed and in turn broken…ended up going to the hospital patshing my hand up and putting a cast arround it and still getting caught in the blizzard!

MalibuBoy07
Sep 2, 2010 at 8:11 pm

Ripped a chunk of skin and flesh off my thumb simply changing a stereo

mulder182
Sep 2, 2010 at 8:48 am

so i swapped intakes on my monte and just needed the air cleaner put on so i did it while it was running. usually not a big deal except for some reason i tried it from the front and supported myself with my left hand on the fan shroud where four of my fingers bent over the edge and went into the fan. oh and adeftfan reminded me of one. my brothers friends really extremely nice christian mom was about to hear a song swear from the speakers in the trunk of the celebrity so my brother slammed the lid. good thing too cause four of my fingers were in there and she probably couldnt hear the song swearing over me. ironically they were the same four fingers that went into the fan. they’re all still fine tho

adeftfan
Sep 2, 2010 at 5:34 am

When I was but a wee tyke, my parents had a mid 90′s Buick Roadmaster with an LT-1 which was awesome. The car had lots of luxuries, one of which was an electronic assist trunk closing mechanism so you didn’t have to slam it….I got a finger snagged in there and got to enjoy as the trunk slowly winched down on a knuckle of mine. Then I had to wait until my father came around with the keyless entry to pop the trunk. No lasting damage but enough pyschological that I make sure to keep everyone’s fingers out of a trunk when it’s closing.

Exodus_10
Sep 2, 2010 at 1:34 am

Okay still fell dumb about this one because it was not my car and it was an admittedly dumbshit move that got me hurt. About 11 years ago my sister bought a 67 Camaro with a very good body but pretty much everything else was a basket case. So we have it on jackstands in the garage and I go under to see about changing the starter solenoid but instead of completing removing the starter, I instead left it wired up and started doing something else underneath the car and propped the starter on the frame. Right about this time my sister comes outside and gets into the car and starts to do something the car wiggles just a tiny bit and the starter drops on my head. I let lose a profanity and go in the house to rub my hurting head. About this time my mother, a nurse comes home, checks the spot, no blood just a red mark, and asks me enough questions to access whether I have a concussion, which I did not, and then starts laughing at me. Later I discovered I had a dent in my skull where the starter hit me, and still do to this day. Again dumb move, take the loose part away do not prop it on faith.

Mustangman_007
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:30 pm

In 2005 my father bought me a 1968 Mustang Coupe as a Father-Son project. At that time, I had zero experience performing much else than changing my oil, but I quickly learned some skills, including becoming an amateur welder. It was cold outside and I was wearing a sweather and a flanel work shirt, lying on the floor, re-welding the front frame rails to the floor pans. I noticed I was getting pretty warm on my arm very quickly but assumed it was from the spot-lights I had positioned in the floor, but in about 30 seconds, when my entire upper body got hot, I figured out really quick that I was actually on fire from the weld sparks. I actually got minor burns on my chest and stomach because I was unable to strip down quick enough. (Stop, drop and roll didn’t work when I tried to roll out from under the car). That experience has definitely made me more cautious when I work on cars.

devildog66
Sep 1, 2010 at 7:38 pm

I had a couple near misses. If they were serious Then I would not be posting here.
One was a near amputation of my fingers on my hand. I was working on my 71 Lemans while it ran. I was tightening down the altenator bolts on top. Thw wrench slipped and my hand went into the fan blade of the running motor. ( this is a non clutch fan blade) Well my hand wemt flying out of the engine compartment and I promptly put it behind my back. I stood there for a minute with my hand in pain behind my back. I eventually brought it front and saw no damage. I was darn lucky. It hit the flat of the fan blade, not an edge. But sure numbed my hand for the next while.
The other was young stupidity. I was changing the shocks on my 69 XL car (rear) I was under the car and it was blocked at the frame. I unbolted the last shock and OMPH! I had the whole diffy drop on my chest. Good thing I was strong. I lifted that thing up and magae to slip out from under it and the car. Learned to block diffy’s after that.
A 3rd one was when I was pulling a engine from my 74 Hornet. I was lowering the negine from a block and tackle hand winding crank style from the 1920′s. It had no safety on it. My kids came runing into the garage screaming, which distracted me long enough for the handle to slip. It spun around as the engine fell. Whacking my hand and busting my thumb. The engine survived.

Had a co-worker at a job have a 71 Nova fall on him. Just finished the body work. He jacked it up with a floor jack and crawled undr to adjust the tranny linkage. He asked me to jack it up a bit higher. One pump and the jack slipped off the frame, crushing him. He survived and was off work for 6 months and still could do only light things.
I learned from that even for small jobs under a car to properly block the vehicle.
Those have all been life lessons.

drum_tice
Sep 1, 2010 at 7:17 pm

Back a few years ago, during my “wild” stage of life, i had my nipples pierced. when sliding out from under my 66 t-bird, they snagged on the bottom of the car, nearly pulling me back under. needless to say, it hurt like SH@#….. and sorry guys, i am a man.

GTwildfire
Aug 31, 2010 at 4:22 pm

Aside from smashing my knuckles and such while working on cars, I got nothing… But…
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I bought a mild basket case SECA 750 with shaft drive oh so many years ago. The forks had a little twist to them and a friend worked at a specialized industrial machine shop. He said he could straighten them in a roller press. In the basement garage of a house I was renting, we pulled the forks. He brought them back a few days later, and I got a case of beer to celebrate because the forks were the last thing to be fixed.
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We slide the first fork into place, and it stayed while I was getting the right TORX or hex head (forget) to tighten them. I walk over ready to clamp it down and it slipped out and landed on my big toe.
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I screamed/shouted the most primal and loudest my physiology could produce, spittle leaving in droves. I was an injured wolf, I was barefoot. It was night time and so loud my sound bounced off the row of homes across the field and made it back several seconds later. My friend was on the rolling on the floor laughing his ass off long before it became an acronym.
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I didn’t lose the nail, and after a few minutes of sensation other than pain returning… and a couple prompt beers I was laughing about it as well.

Jen Dunnaway
Aug 31, 2010 at 10:42 am

I almost rolled my diesel Escort over my foot while I was trying to maneuver it in the driveway without firing up the engine the other day. I think even that might weigh a little more than your friend’s buggy

Bergy350
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:30 am

When I was 15, I had two little injuries caused by cars. First, my moms 1990 Grand Prix had a broken off antena, I closed the trunk from the side and cut my arm. No stiches, but a good scar. Second, I was in the front passenger seat of a Dodge Caravan, I put my arms over my head to strech and my sister closed the rear sliding door on my pinky finger. That one hurt like a mother. It didnt break, but it was swollen and bruised for weeks.

DaveyBoyo
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:23 am

Climbing into my ’89 Camaro, I bashed my leg off the aftermarket Water Temp. gauge mounted on the side of the dash. I now have an inch long scar.

Cyberdyne2500
Aug 31, 2010 at 7:16 am

A young kid playing “Fast and Furious” lost control, spun and t-boned my car, chronic nerve pain ever since…But on a funny note, I was working in the engine bay of my truck, was exhausted, and climbed over the radiator, where I lost balance, fell onto the hood latch, where it grabbed my jeans, and as I fell over the radiator, it about tore off my pants! So glad no one saw that!

locomah
Aug 31, 2010 at 3:44 am

Some old man tried making a u-turn, went way too wide and hit me in 2nd grade. Broke two legs, but im fine now