The following are actual sentences taken from insurance claims files where the
driver tries to summarize the accident in the fewest words possible.
1) Coming home I drove into the wrong house causing me to collide with a
tree I don’t have.
2) The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its
intentions.
3) I thought my window was down, but I found out it was up when I put my
head through it.
4) I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way.
5) A truck backed through my windshield into my wife’s face.
6) The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times
before I hit him.
7) I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law,
and headed over the embankment.
8) 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
didn’t see the other car.
9) I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and
had an accident.
10) I was on my way to the doctor with rear end trouble when my universal
joint gave way causing me to have an accident.
11) 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.
12) To avoid hitting the bumper of the car in front I struck the
pedestrian.
13) My car was legally parked as it backed into the other vehicle.
14) An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished.
15) I told the police I was not injured, but on removing my hat, found
that I had a skull fracture.
16) I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of
the road when I struck him.
17) The pedestrian had no idea which direction to run, so I ran over him.
18) The telephone pole was approaching, I was attempting to swerve out of
its way, when it struck the front end of my car.
19) I saw a slow moving, sad faced old man as he bounced off the hood of
my car.
20) The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car
with a big mouth.
21) I was thrown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in a
ditch by some cows.