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I have had a few some my fault, some others, some a combination.
1. Driving back to my parents house after working on the house I had just bought about 9pm so its dark. On a 2 lane road a car going the other way had no lights on the left hand side of their car, it wasn't until we got real close that I saw they were in the middle of the road. I swerved to avoid them onto the soft shoulder, then over-corrected to get back onto the road, hit the brakes expecting to just slide sideways but it was my first experience with ABS brakes and not much happened so I froze and drove right into a fence.
2. It snowed 6" in southern New Mexico, I went to "play" on a back road in an old car I had at the time. Spun 450degrees hitting both ends of the car on a dirt embankment. I expected hard to find broken lights, but all that happened was I bent the license plate. I went home and called it a day.
3. Same car, I backed into a steel light pole which put a small crease in the bumper.
4. Shortly after a stoplight the car in front of the car in front of me stopped hard to make a left, the car in front of me had to stop hard, I was a little slow on the uptake and had to stop harder. The person behind me was even slower, and barely hit the brakes before hitting me, which pushed me into the car in front of me.
5. Going through a construction zone, a car in the left lane stops to make an illegal left turn, I'm in the right lane behind a full sized van, a lady in a full sized truck waits for the van to pass then changes lanes to get around the stopped car and clips the front of my truck crumpling the fender and breaking my turn signal off. She fought the ticket and insurance claim saying she never left her lane, to which the construction workers who were listed as witnesses had very construction workery words to say about her driving.
In the past 15 years no "accidents", though were not going to get into how many trees and rocks I have bent or scratched the Jeep on since I have owned it.
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