Following are quotes taken from insurance or accident forms and published in
the "Toronto Sun" newspaper (note the insurance form read "summarize correctly
what happened in a few words or less").
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 though my window was down, 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 attempts 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 my car for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel
and had an accident.
I was on the way to the doctors with rear end trouble when my universal
joint gave way causing me to have an accident.
As I approached the intersection, a stop sign suddenly appeared in a place
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 vehicle and vanished.
I told the police that I was not injured, but on removing my hat, I had a
skull fracture.
I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the
street when I struck him.
The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran him over.
I saw the slow moving, sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood
of my car.
An 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 the
ditch by some stray cows.
The telephone pole was approaching fast. I attempted to swerve out of its
way when it struck the front of my car.