Riding my motorbike to work on a cold morning, I came up behind a car driving very very slowly through my residential area. I watched them slowly follow the road as it curved to the left, slowly keep turning left as the road straightened out, slowly drive up the curb and slowly hit a street light.

I pulled over to check on the driver as I was worried about it being a medical issue, but noticed they were already reversing. This made me think they might be drunk, so I moved a bit further away to put my bike behind a parked car, then went to check - by this time the driver was out of the car, not drunk or having any medical issues, just checking the car and then cleaning the windscreen. They had been too lazy to wait for the windscreen to de-mist a bit and had been trying to drive almost completely blind while wiping it with their hand…

Stopped at a light at a freeway junction. Guy in front of me stops but gets impatient and goes just before it turns green.

We get stopped by the next light at the same junction. I am now next to the guy, both of us waiting to turn left to then merge onto the freeway across a fairly large intersection that accommodates all N-S normal traffic, traffic entering the E-W freeway from the N-S traffic, and traffic exiting the E-W freeway to join the N-S traffic.

He stops for only a few moments before deciding to go anyways (I think another direction had come to a stop and he assumed we’d be next), and as he goes through the intersection, the traffic exiting the freeway to go south gets the green light, and in slow motion with plenty of time to stop (cause they were just getting moving) the two front-runners both t-bone (f-bone?) the guy.

It was bizarre and completely avoidable on all fronts. Like a slow motion train wreck. Benefit of the doubt though, the exiting traffic probably just didn’t see him coming until he was right in front of them. I’m just glad that, whatever accident that guy was gonna get into that night, it happened before we got onto the freeway together.

I once saw a car parked on top of a fire hydrant. The hyrant was lodged in the car’s front wheel well. No water gushing but we have dry hydrants so they don’t burst in the cold.

Just seen, not been in?

I watched a dude go like full highway speed into a tree out in the country where I used to live. Coming down from where I live now, you’d have to take a sharp left at the end of the main road and there are no signs or street lamps, so it’s pretty common for people unfamiliar with the area (or just driving stupid; I’ve had to help friends who went off the road there a few times) to run off the road.

But this guy didn’t even try to turn and slammed into a big ass tree that’s right there and his car fucking exploded into a fireball. I didn’t see much, being behind him a ways I just remember seeing the fire all of sudden and speeding up to check it out. I stopped to help when I saw it was a crashed truck, but the dude was already dead and the whole cabin was engulfed in fire. All I could really do was call 911 and then tell the cops what happened when they came.

Once drove past a crash where the driver somehow missed the fact that the road split in two and managed to drive head on in to the end of the guard rail. The guard rail went over the bonnet and through the windscreen on the passenger side all the way in to the cabin. I’m pretty sure he had no passengers.

Tossup between:

• Seeing a sporty little car neatly stacked on top of a full-size sedan at the local shopping mall. Owner had floored it, jumped the curb, and somehow managed to climb atop the sedan. It was remarkable just how little damage there was on the Sedan, relatively speaking.
• Seeing a truck on the highway shoulder, which had somehow managed to roll itself on its side facing the wrong direction. Like, 180 degrees around into traffic and on its side. Somehow it didn’t look like other vehicles had been involved.