Celica Forums General Discussion General So we got in an accident last night...

My buddy and i were in his 1990 civic hatch si, moving pretty good on a twisty road trying to get to fedex before they closed to ship a turbo manifold and downpipe out. well, on the last corner, the back end of the car swung around and we drove about 50yds down hit the corner of one of those things that lets water go under the roads, its like 10 ft in diameter, and flip the car upside down laying in the creek, that is like 2ft of water.

so then we are sitting upside down in his car, and we ask if each other is ok, and our seat belts are just hanging us in the car upside down, so we try to figure out how to get out (we were all disoranted, since the car was upside down) and we tried to figure out how to get out of the car, his window was 1/2 way down so we crawled out of it. Then he looked at my head, and a peice of coloctor piping he had in the back it my head we think and it was bleeding kind all over the side of my face.

so then he pulls the lever to open the hatch, i'm pulling my hardest on the hatch to get the package out. I finally got the hatch open and pull the turbo manifold package out and i looked at my watch. 8 minutes till fedex closes. him and i start sprinting to fedex, my head is bleeded, and is his fine. we get there and realize the box had mud and water and a gash in the side, so we got the tape gun and more packageing and fixed the all up and made some calls and got his dad and a tow truck out.

the tow truck guy got there, smoking a cigarette, and as soon as he saw the car about 50ft off the road down into a creek his eyes got huge. he said this was the worsted car he as ever seen, that he has had to pull out. so he called his sup and he came out about 30 minutes later. it took them about 2 hours to get the car out, and we towed it back to his out.

quite an evening i must say, but we DID get the package shipped before they closed!

here are 6 pics of the car. we were upside down in a ditch when it had happened.

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damn at least you guys were hurt that badly

dang glad you guys are okay

damn.. glad ur ok.. that looks pretty bad

at least it wasnt a celi

holy shit...good to hear that your ok

yeah, my car is at toyota getting the lift bolts fixed


i told him i think my car could of made the corner.


hes got tien coilovers and the whole nine yards. we fished is intercooler out of the creek, it had like a 90 degree bend in it.

dammm. that suck.. glad your okay

damn

shiut that blow donkey balls



maybe next time if fed-ex is about to close, drink a beer, relax, don't rush and send the package the next day when you have time

yah seriously... sending out a package on time isnt worth risking your life like that... im glad you guys made it out alrite. that civic got owned by the twisties

Now that is cool.

Glad everyone's OK...I must say - this would have made a great FedEx commercial!!

At least you are ok !

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DAMN!!! How much did you sell the turbo for? Cause I hope it was worth it. I hope the person that is getting the turbo really gives you guys an AWESOME feedback for still rushing to FedEx after you flipped your car and not to mention bleeding from your head. What did the FedEx people say/act when they saw you all bloody?

Wow, sorry to hear you got in an accident! I'm glad you're ok though and not hurt too badly

atleast ur ok

yes, what did the fedex people say when they saw you all bloody?

wow, that civic is fugged up. at least you are safe.

Hmmmm... You guys are lucky, Why is the car sitting on a stump? just curious

dude that was an awesome story, through the firey pits of hell you still made it to fedex. i'm glad you are ok and my gf beside me said..."holy crap".

yea, what did fed ex say. glad ur ok tho, musta been pretty scary lol. hmm, i also crashed my civic on a turn. they suck testies at turning, thats why i got a celi. woot. woot.

he made me stay outside, because i had blood all over me.

he shipped a package yesterday and told the fedex people the whole story and they said it made an awesome smoke break for them.


heh, after we walked up the hill with the package, we looked down at the car, looked at each other and said "wow, that was awesome!"


hes got it on logs because the front just like lays on the ground. he is going to take his coilovers off, and try to get the motor out then take it to a junk yard.



we thought the same thing about the fedex commercial, we wished we had a camera inside the car. it litteraly felt like a roller coaster.

this one guy stopped after the tow trucks got there, and couldnt stop saying ooh shit, oohh shit, ooh god, oooh damn, wow...oh man. i cant beleive you guys are alive.


remember, friends dont let friends drive civic's!

you guys could have been killed. you're lucky that you're alive

yeah what they said [/color]

holy monkey's ass, ur super lucky, glad everyone is still alive

that EF got fucked up!

Glad you are alright.
I would suggest to your friend to take a driving school class where they teach car control. Worth more than any similar price mod for both safety and speed. Plus for him to loose the back end of a Civic is mad, he clearly has no car skills. I have owned one and the only way it would do anything other than understeer was if I braked too late in to a corner which happens with all cars.

Important thing is at the end of the day is that you walked away.

glad everyone is alright.

i wish all fed-ex people were like you im sure you could qualify somewhat to be a fed-ex ceo

Jeezus...I'm glad your still on your feet.

good thing you 2 are still breathing..coulda been worse..atleast you can still laught about it..hell if that happen to me i'll be in shock for weeks..especially if it were my car that got jacked like that..man that gotta hurt...

OH YEA, one last thing..u guy WERE wearing SEATBELT..did you all got that?? WEAR SEATBELT..if you guy didnt, something MUCH MUCH worse coulda happen...

wear your seatbelt people..i used not to do it, but after sometime of wearing it u'll get used to it...now i wear it ALL the time, and it feel weird if i didn't..so just wear 'em..u'll get used to them sooner or later..it's not a matter of being cool, it's a matter of life or death at ANYTIME..

good thing you 2 are still breathing..coulda been worse..atleast you can still laught about it..hell if that happen to me i'll be in shock for weeks..especially if it were my car that got jacked like that..man that gotta hurt...

OH YEA, one last thing..u guy WERE wearing SEATBELT..did you all got that?? WEAR SEATBELT..if you guy didnt, something MUCH MUCH worse coulda happen...

wear your seatbelt people..i used not to do it, but after sometime of wearing it u'll get used to it...now i wear it ALL the time, and it feel weird if i didn't..so just wear 'em..u'll get used to them sooner or later..it's not a matter of being cool, it's a matter of life or death at ANYTIME..

glad your ok man...

celicafourotwo your signature is funny

you know, you really should get a medal for your efforts in getting the package sent out despite the circumstances you were in..im glad you r ok too..

it had just got done raining a little bit, so all the oils and such were on top of the cement.


he is a really good drive BTW.

Wow. Just, wow. Crazy shit. Whoever you were shipping the stuff to better be really happy.

glad you're okay.

ever consider working for the united states postal service.

your friend doesnt deliver pizzas in under 30 minutes for a living by chance does he?

Whoa! Lucky it wasn't worse! That's some real dedication, getting to the FedEx place after all that. I hope you're OK.

if you only you followed speed limit and driver carefully you would have drop the package and STILL HAVE THAT CAR RUNNING.

that suxs... glad you two are ok