ACCIDENTS DO HAPPEN .... Many have experienced the confusion of traffic
accidents and have had to summarize exactly what happened in a few words on
insurance or accident forms.  The following quotes were taken from these
forms and were eventually published in the TORONTO SUN on July 26, 1977.

Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree
	I didn't have.

I thought my window was down, but found out it was up when I put my
	hand through it.

The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.

I collided with a stationary truck coming my 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 attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.

I had been driving my car for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel
	and had an accident.

I was on my way to the doctor's office with rear end trouble when my
	universal joint gave out, causing me to have an accident.

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.

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 and struck my vehicle and vanished.

I told the police that I was not injured, but upon removing my hat, I
	found that I had a skull fracture.

I was sure that the old fellow would not make it to the other side of the
	road 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 man as he bounced off the hood of my car.

The indirect cause of this 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 a
	ditch by some stray cows.

The telephone pole was approaching fast.  I was attempting to swerve out
	of its path when it struck my front end.

I was unable to stop in time and my car crashed into the vehicle.  The driver
	and passenger then left immediately for a vacation with injuries.