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Accident reports

- The following are said to be from actual insurance claims:

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

› The accident was caused by me waving to the man I hit last week.

› I knocked over a man. He admitted it was his fault as he’d been knocked over before.

› Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.

› The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intent.

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

› In my 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 40 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.

› My car was legally parked as it backed into the other vehicle.

› As I approached the intersecti­on, a sign suddenly appeared in a place where no sign had ever appeared before, making me unable to avoid the accident.

› I told the police I was not injured, but upon removing my hair, I 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. › I saw a slow-moving, sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood of my car.

› The indirect cause of Lisa Denton

the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth.

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

A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.

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

To avoid hitting the bumper of the car in front, I struck the pedestrian.

› The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.

› The pedestrian had no idea which way to run, so I ran over him.

› An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished.

› A truck backed through my windshield into my wife’s face.

› I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-inlaw, and headed over the embankment.

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