I Had to Swerve Several Times Before I Hit Him

It is often difficult to explain oneself, especially in a written form. And that's on a good day. Sometimes emotions and stress can compound an already difficult situation, muddling the thinking and writing ability. Such is evident from the statements below.

To set the scene, the person filing the claim was asked to summarize the details of an accident in as few words as possible. All of the explanations make sense...in a weird sort of way.

• I thought my window was down, but found it was up when I put my head through it.


• A truck backed through my windshield into my wife's face.


• 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.


• Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I didn't have.


• The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.


• I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way.


• A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.


• In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.


• I had been shopping for plants all day and was on my way home. As I reached an intersection, a hedge sprang up, obscuring my vision and I did not see the other car.


• I had been driving for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.


• I was on my way to the doctor with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident.


• As I approached the intersection a sign suddenly appeared where no 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 car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished.


• I told the police that I was not injured but on removing my hat, found that I had a fractured skull.


• I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him.


• The pedestrian had no idea which direction to run, so I ran over him.


• I saw a slow moving, sad faced old gentleman as he bounded off the roof of my car.


• The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth.


• I was thrown from the car as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows.


• The telephone pole was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of its way when it struck the front end.