What is the worst accident you’ve had?

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Thought this would be interesting to read peoples stories.

All mine have generally involved sharp objects. Knives, graters, rocks!

I think the worst was walking in Spain across a very sharp and rocky rocks when I tripped (wasn’t clever enough to be wearing shoes, I was on the beach before I decided to walk), I proceeded to slice the top of my big toe off on the rock. With toe flapping and blood dripping I somehow had to hop to get back and have top of my toe reattached. That wasn’t much fun.

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Now wondering from the poster above with dyspraxia if I should be considering it too?!

Chipped the front off my pelvis falling on top of my son's ice skate and then drove 15 miles home.

Broke all 3 bones in my arm in a failed vault at gymnastics.

Fractured my knee cap playing kiss chase.

Broke my toe playing football last year. Broke the same one 20 years earlier when someone jumped across a dance floor onto it.

Torn the tendon in my big toe by slipping on a wet wooden fall and ending with big toe under my foot. It has never bent since.

Sprained my ankle sliding down a pole of an old high slide.

Broke my finger trapping it between two plastic swing ball racquets.

Broke my finger trapping it between a door handle and the crutch I was using for my fractured knee cap.

Two black eyes from falling forwards on to the table edge on a swinging chair.

Fell full length down a spiral wooden staircase at school an hour after they said I couldn't have any more xrays for two years.

Tore my quad muscle kicking a rugby ball on a school trip (I was a teacher and the Head was neither impressed, nor sympathetic!)

Tore an abdo muscle spontaneously at 8 months pregnant.

Fell off a desk at school and landed on my knee cap. Fell over in the sea on a school trip and landed my knee cap on a rock.

Fell over an infant chair whilst carrying three plastic fish tanks and landed on my knee cap on a concrete floor at work (school).

Tore my bicep when a canoeist came sideways into me on a wave whilst I was bodyboarding.

More painful than all of these was self-catheterising after the birth of my eldest when everything was too swollen. Or being stitched without anaesthetic after the birth.

Age 5 I was attacked by a German shepherd (dog, not an angry farmer) which ripped my scalp off. Age 7 fell out of a top bunk while asleep and bit my entire bottom lip off. Age 10 fell off a climbing frame and broke my nose.

I went over the handlebars of an e-bike going about 20 mph in east london as another cyclist hit me from behind. No helmet. Lesson learned. Blood gushing out of my temple. 5 stitches. Paramedics were the nicest people I’ve ever met

When I was 8 I had an inflatable chair that i used to balance on the bed and pretend I was chartering a cruise ship. One day the ship ‘sank’ hahaha in other words i fell off, and ‘bent’ my elbow. Didn’t break the bone but as I was young with pliable bones it literally bent. Had to have it bent back under GA and lots of physio, nd had a bruise from wrist to shoulder for 3 weeks.

Some lunatic once hit my horse with a whip whilst I was riding, he bolted, I came off but got my foot caught in the stirrup (pre-safety stirrup!) was dragged and trampled on, finally came lose and landed on the ground, breaking my back.

Was cutting a loaf with a bread knife and took the top of my finger off.

the worst though - someone threw a basketball to me and I misjudged it and heard a crack. My thumb nail has completely bent back wards and came off. Horrendous

@LaughingCat no but maybe I should consider it. For the sake of my classmates at kickboxing if nothing else...

Forgot the time I stepped on a piece of hessian sack barefoot and the rusty nail underneath it went straight into the sole of my foot - tetanus shot. And the time I stood on a wasp which stung me (not unreasonably) right between the toes. Oh, and a couple of weeks ago when I slipped on the kitchen floor full slapstick pratfall style, pulled a quad and bruised my coccyx so badly I could hardly stand wearing jeans 🙄

I was preparing dinner, got distracted by my 2yo (who was in the middle of a tantrum) and somehow poured boiling water all down my leg and foot instead of pouring it into a jug. The skin started peeling off straight away. It was one of the most painful accidents I've ever had. Probably the most uncomfortable too - the itching was horrendous when the burn was healing! Luckily there are no scars on my leg but I still have problems with my foot more than two years later!

Tripped backwards over a chair landing on concrete floor ended up with a lump the size of a tennis ball and a crack in my skull 6 months later its still not right unfortunately and the headaches are something else

Tripped up some steps and smashed my front teeth.

Mine was a very fortunate accident. I was getting my horse out of a field full of other horses, when the environment agency, who were testing water in the river next to the field turned on their loud pump. The horses all panicked and surged forward pressing me against the metal 5 bar gate. The gate then gave way and I fell flat onto it and one of the horses trampled me, stepping on my legs. By absolute luck there happened to be a gate bar beneath my leg where the horse stepped, otherwise it would have snapped my leg bones. Thankfully no horse stepped on my torso or head. They did however, spill out onto the road. I was left with a huge hematoma on one calf muscle and was unable to ride or do sports for a few weeks but was really lucky.

Some of these are really awful.
I'm sorry for all your injuries.

I have had three very nasty car accidents in my life where I thought I was going to die. Two I walked away without a scratch and the third was just nasty bruising. One my fault from driving tired and drifting into clipping the kerb but others from other drivers basically driving into me with zero warning.

Actually nasty injuries have all been kitchen or DIY related with sharp objects. Lots of bleeding from knives and lost parts of fingers to Mandolins several times. I often get burns as well from any DIY that requires heat eg glue guns.

I'd guess it's pretty rare! Although there's 2 of us on this thread so maybe more common than I thought.

A baby? It's certainly impacting my life long term 😂

I've been in a car crash in which nobody was hurt thank goodness, but the accident that sticks with me was tripping while crossing a road. I was a student and carrying loads of bags as I was heading home. My knee was scraped and bleeding but the real pain was that I ripped the knee in my C17 pale wash jeans, those jeans were like a child to me. Mourned forever.

Thought I would be clever and leap a wall like Lindford Christie doing the hurdles rather than walk the long way around. This was at work. Hadn't accounted for the unequal drop the other side of the wall.
It wasn't a very clever idea. Permanent spinal damage, having to relearn how to walk, lifelong mobility difficulties and after a few years of using crutches ballsing up my shoulders/elbows/wrists in the process I now use a wheelchair for mobility.

Mandolin users- chainmail gloves are A Thing. Amazon/Ebay sell them. It cost me a tenner and my fingertips have never been happier.

@Gliblet Can we be friends, please? Last time I twatted a friend at Krav by mistake (misjudged the strength of a blow), she automatically punched me in response and gave me a bloody nose. And I’ve stood on a nail too!

I feel we actually would probably die though, through our sheer combined clumsiness. Hope your butt has healed now!

That's awful- did the person with the whip face any consequences?

Riding horses!

The final accident (Showjumping) broke my pelvis, shoulder, ribs and I never quite managed to get back into riding again after that.

Kitchen injuries- I put an oyster shucker through my palm. 3 stitches and a loss of sensation but basically fine.

I'm fortunate not to have had any major accidents
The silliest accident i had however was when i was going to cook a frozen pizza for the kids tea ,whilst taking the plastic wrapper off somehow a frozen bit of cheese bounced off the wrapper straight into my eye ,ouch!😂

As a child I fell on a sharp stick that went straight through my hand, don't remember it as that bad but if it happened as an adult I'd be fucked.
Honestly as an adult I can't think of anything thankfully, other than falling down the stairs and badly bruising my tailbone, I couldn't bend or stand for weeks without being in agony.

Fast-peddling my bike along the pavement one summer evening as a 7 year old. The chain slipped, somehow jammed the back wheel and the momentum threw me across the busy road running through our village. The driver of a cement mixer managed to swerve enough to miss me. Even today I still recall the tyre brushing past my head. (Later that summer a school friend was killed in similar circumstances about 2 miles away.)

A rearing horse when I was about 12 toppled over backwards and part fell on me fracturing my ribs and crushing my right knee. Now, if I get flu or any other material illness it is always that knee that becomes inflamed.

A negligent discharge from a gun tore up the ground beneath, went through my boot but just missed my skin. It felt like my foot had been hit with a hammer, but 10 minutes later it was all fine.

Diving off a friend's boat in the Caribbean we went to look at turtles, rays and sharks. Then, having swam out to a wreck I managed to gash my thigh on a metal flange with blood pouring everywhere. It took about 10 minutes to swim back to the boat all the while fretting that the sharks would come. Fortunately they never pursued us.

I take less risks now.

Gliblet

Oh, and a couple of weeks ago when I slipped on the kitchen floor full slapstick pratfall style, pulled a quad and bruised my coccyx so badly I could hardly stand wearing jeans

Aaah! I broke mine at 14. Some knob head kicked a stool away, just as I went to sit down in science. I was distinctly unimpressed.

1979, aged 9, I rode my cousin's Raleigh 14 (a forerunner of those folding commuter bikes with dinky wheels, where the saddle and handlebars are very long) down a steep, unsurfaced road.

I must have hit a pothole and flew over the handlebars, landing flat on my face, knocking myself unconscious for about 45 minutes. It was outside a doctor's house and he saw it, said I went about 30 feet and for a few minutes, he thought I was dead.

Split lips, two cuts on my forehead and the right side of my nose was split. From my little finger, along my arm and down my side to my waist were skinned. My aunt said I never made a sound when they took Dettol and a scrubbing brush to it, to get the grit out.

I had ten stitches in my nose, with no anaesthetic. Sent home after being patched up, no HIA in those days!

I lost my sense of smell and struggled with maths afterwards.

I had a similar silly one. I sprayed some perfume on, then flipped my head upside down to blow dry my hair. My necklace swung into my eye covered in perfume. It was flipping agony!

My sympathy for your eye. It's horrible getting batted in the eyeball!