As a matter of fact, I NEARLY saw this same "classic" accident the other day, with the oncomming car stopping probably a foot from the other car. Car making left hand turn not watching out for speeders looking to beat the damn light. I was behind the car making the left hand turn and I was in the intersection myself when the near accident happened. All I could think to myself was wow that almost ruined somebody's day!

i was on the other side of the freeway when i see a car suddenly drive up the 3 feet wall and sliding down the wall sideways. whoa. im assumign someone cut him off and rammed him into the wall

quite a few. in my days working as a bouncer, i was always driving home when the only other folks on the road shouldn't have been there. see quite a few messy DD accidents.

I Saw one on Good Friday myself - a lady pulls out in front of the red explor that was in frount of me.

Luckly that no one was hurt - I called 911 and kept the lady relaxed and calm to the emt and police got there.  I gave the account of the deal, and left.

Poor gal was on her way to noon mass.

Later,

Badredfish

Saw a station wagon get T-boned at about 50mph one night, but never got close enough to see the result.

Happened to be the first on the scene of a DUI rollover involving an S-10 pickup on the Cowhouse Creek bridge at Ft Hood. That one I did see the result, really close up.

Quoted: Seen 6 car wrecks, one was a bone crushing T-bone.  Also have seen 4 aircraft accidents (as opposed to incidents for you propeller-head types).

I watched a Belanca Cruiseair sp? land gear up once. Saw a Turbo 206 take out the powerlines at the end of the runway at night. Aircraft ended up hanging from the wires. Once saw a car in a chase end up in a tree trunk. Saw a bad T-bone during another chase. Countless rear-enders on the freeway. Trucks with locked brakes and smoking tires are the best IMHO.

Quoted: The Mr. and I were stopped at a stop light.  The light turned green, we go, and we see a little Ford Escort clip the front end of a Blazer at the next light.  That Blazer flipped over and landed on the passenger side.  The Mr., along with several other people, run over to the Blazer to see if the person inside was alright.  He said it was a girl, and she was sitting crosslegged on the broken passenger side window on the ground.  Still on her cell phone, and screaming to the person on the phone 'Girl, I dun wrecked my car! I DUN WRECKED MY CAR!'  After they pulled her out of the vehicle and walked her to the other side of the street, she was still on the phone.  The whole time.

I was helping to direct traffic one winter during rush hour. We had closed a portion of a busy two lane highway due to glazed ice combined with a banked turn where slow traffic was literally sliding into the inside of the curve and opposing traffic. Our detour was at an intersection just before the curve. A man in a VW Rabbit on a cell phone approached the Stop sign travelling maybe 30MPH which was way too fast for those conditions. My partner and I stood in amazement as this dweeb on the phone proceeds to lock the wheels and coast right through the intersection. As he slid past me he just shrugged and continued to hold the phone to his ear. I hate laws that tell people how to live but this cell phone while driving thing has me torn.

A few years ago my wife and I were going to the Eastern Shore for a Anniversary get-away.  We weren't 90 minutes into our trip when we witnessed a fatal car accident right in front of us (woman lost control of her car and it slammed into a tree).  I can still see the Jag convertible folding up as it hit the tree then bouncing back.

Then after the cops & EMTs finally get there we are talking to one of the cops some idiot in a GEO Tracker was rubber-necking and ended up slamming into the back of the person in front of them (no real injuries).  The cop and I watched it happen - he just looks at me shakes his head in annoyance and goes over to 'talk' with the offending driver.  

Talk about a ruined weekend.

BTW the cops & Fire/Rescue people were great, they even sent over their chaplain to talk with us.

Luckily haven't witnessed any real bad ones, but have been at a few where I helped direct traffic until duty units arrived, etc.  Once up in the mountains, light rain, we had been going up to go shooting and since the weather tanked we were still going just to have a day in the mountains.  For those familiar with the area, the intersection where AngelesForest Highway turns off from Angeles Crest Highway.  Some guy went right through the stop and got rear t-boned by a Forest Service Attack Pumper. It spun off and hung up over the side against a tree with the rear wheels in the air.  It ain't gonna go anywhere for a while.  And the guy spun into one of the sign posts in the intersection, with the rear quarter destroyed along with the wheel, tire and axle knocked off.  He aint going anywhere either.  Thanks to seat belts and reasonable speeds, nobody hurt too bad.  We helped lay flares and a few bandages.  And stuck around for CHP to get there for statements.  Got a half box of flares from the CHP to replace the half dozen we put out.

Was on the 91 in rush hour once when either a tow truck or flatbed of some kind lost about a half dozen 8 ft long 4x4s and they started bouncing around like toothpicks on uppers, bouncing all over and off of things, few fender benders and rear enders, then as one is coming at me, I ducked and it hit across my windshield long way on and cracked it good, then I sat back up still slowing and the idiot in front of me had stopped and the 18 wheeler is frantically blowing his horn.  Luckily the guy in front floored it and I just missed being the meat in the sandwich.  Seemed like half the drivers reacted by paing attention and the other half just panicked and drove any which way.

On the 210 in moderate heavy traffic, we saw a car spin out for no apparent reason and slam into the center divider and then accelerate back all the away across to the right side and hit that barrier.  Nobody hit him, but there were a lot of artful dodgers on that one.