Real
Insurance Claims
The following are actual statements found on
insurance forms where car
drivers attempted to summarize the details of an
accident in the fewest
words. These instances of faulty writing serve to
confirm that even
incompetent writing may be highly entertaining.
- 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 intentions.
- I thought my windows was done but I found out
it was up when I put my head through it.
- I collided with a stationary truck coming the
other way.
- A truck backed through my windshield into my
wife's face.
- A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.
- 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.
- 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 sprange up, obscuring
my vision and I did not see the other car.
- I had been driving for 40 years when I feel
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 in a place where no stop
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, 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.
- The pedestrian had no idea which direction to
run so I ran over him.
- I saw a slow moving, sad faced old gentlemen
as he bounced off the hood 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 my 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 my front end.
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