20 Responses to “Welcome to Austin…Car Crash”

• Katie
  September 7th, 2008
  2:56 pm
  
  

  Glad that you aren’t as beat-up as your car looks. Sounds scary.

  What a great way to come into a city…

  In answer to your question…

  I was lucky/unlucky the last time my car was in a crash. Lucky because I wasn’t hurt at all… unlucky because my car was totaled while legally parked on the side of the road (by a 16 year old who freaked out because he saw a spider). I found out about the accident when the police called me.

  My first accident, I very lucky. I hit a patch of black ice, slid off the road, almost overturned, ran directly over a “no parking” sign, spun back onto the road and slid across 3 lanes of traffic (backwards) to end up in the far lane facing the other direction.

  Then I called my parents and told them I had an accident…when they saw the car, they laughed at me and told me not to joke like that again. I actually had to show them the destroyed road sign before they believed me - because the only damage to my car was a crack in the $3 plastic license plate cover that had hit the sign.

  Knock on wood, my accidents have been more ridiculous than painful.

• Ben Bleikamp
  September 7th, 2008
  3:12 pm
  
  

  feel better noah

  WebMD says chest pain = “Call 911 immediately.”

• Noah Kagan
  September 7th, 2008
  3:26 pm
  
  

  ben, i know you are right that i should go to the hospital. giving it a few days to have the internal bruise calm down and then i will handle it.

  katie,

  you = luck. i need to be driving with you.

• Katie
  September 7th, 2008
  3:34 pm
  
  

  Driving with me is fine. Sitting in a car I’ve parked… on the other hand… that’s dangerous.

  As for the chest thing, I’d go sooner than later. Better to be safe than sorry.

• kadavy
  September 7th, 2008
  4:48 pm
  
  

  Sorry to hear that - and it looks like you had gotten a new car since I last saw yours! Yeah, you should get that chest checked out. “Internal bruising” could be “internal bleeding.” Hopefully that driver had insurance to pay your bills.

• Noah Kagan
  September 7th, 2008
  5:22 pm
  
  

  this was andrew’s car. my del sol would be disintegrated from something like this.

• kareem
  September 7th, 2008
  5:39 pm
  
  

  damn homie you’re a lucky mofo… glad you are mostly ok (get that chest pain checked out dude)…

• Rachel
  September 7th, 2008
  7:31 pm
  
  

  I was in a car crash once. After winning a high stakes poker game, I had a celebratory dinner with my business associate with whom I shared a fair amount of sexual tension. But directly following the dinner, she was abducted by Le Chiffre and I was lured into a car chase. I ultimately ended up rolling my Aston Martin and was captured and tortured. Really, it was quite the ordeal.

  And take care of that chest pain - don’t want to create a pre-existing condition for the insurance companies.

• Noah Kagan
  September 7th, 2008
  7:46 pm
  
  

  rachel,

  how did you become so awesome? seriously…

• Ben
  September 7th, 2008
  9:19 pm
  
  

  Glad you’re doing alright and I wish you full recovery.

  I was in a bad car crash 10 days after I got my license when I was 16 when a car rammed into the side of my car making a right turn on red flinging me off the road. If you’re feeling any lingering pain, get it checked out. I still have occasional shoulder pain my accident and regret not having it getting it looked at then.

• annie
  September 8th, 2008
  7:38 am
  
  

  my friend and i were driving home after a show in LA and it was raining and she ran a red light. we were hit by a rock band in a van and the passenger side of the car was pretty crushed. the right side of my rib cage was slightly realigned in the process and my bones are now crooked. my friend was fine.

• Andrew Warner
  September 8th, 2008
  9:51 am
  
  

  You gonna sue?

• Sean Tierney
  September 8th, 2008
  3:37 pm
  
  

  glad to hear you’re okay Noah. i was in a bad one way back in ‘93. not fun at all. get well.

  sean

• noah
  September 8th, 2008
  5:24 pm
  
  

  andrew,

  i thought about that but i dont want to mess with karma. plus he is underage so that + dui means he will have a tarred record forever.

  annie,

  that sucks. which band was it?

• Paul Stamatiou
  September 8th, 2008
  8:48 pm
  
  

  Yes. The weekend before this post.. http://flickr.com/photos/pauls/2815415208/in/set-72157607041041376/

• Noah Kagan
  September 8th, 2008
  8:58 pm
  
  

  paul,

  they are out to get the “bloggers”

  =)

• Paul Stamatiou
  September 8th, 2008
  9:00 pm
  
  

  Yeah and i had just gotten my “Stammy” license plate the month before. :-/ Car is in some tow lot in downtown, waiting for insurance to get off their ass and get it fixed.

• Jason
  October 3rd, 2008
  11:14 am
  
  

  Hey Noah! I know this is late, but I just moved to Austin a month ago so things have been crazy. Anyways, I am glad you are okay. I would throw the book at this kid. Drinking and driving is no joke and he could have easily killed someone.

  Hope the rest of the trip was okay and let me know next time you are in town.

• Natalie Cole
  October 13th, 2008
  2:25 am
  
  

  No, I have never been at a car crash and hope will not be for the whole life. Nobody wants to get into such a horrible accident.

• Sarah
  October 16th, 2008
  1:33 am
  
  

  I was in a bad accident. Lost control on a fuel spillage. Car overturned. It was very frightening. Lucky to be ok. I dont drive anymore now. It frightened me too much. Worst thing that can happen to anyone bein in an accident.

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