The following are actual statements found on insurance forms where car drivers attempted to summarize the details of an accident in the fewest possible words.

•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 intention.

• I thought my window was down, but I found it was up when I put my head through it.

• I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way.

• 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 an attempt to kill a fly I drove into a telephone pole.

• As I reached an intersection a hedge sprang up, obscuring my vision and I did not see the other car.

• I had been driving for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.

• As I approached an intersection a sign suddenly appeared 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 a pedestrian.
• My car was legally parked as it backed into another vehicle.

• An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished.

• I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him.

• The pedestrian had no idea which way to run as I ran over him.

• The 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 a ditch by some stray cows.

• The telephone pole was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of the way when I struck the front end.

• I was on the way to the doctor with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way
causing me to have an accident.

* Asian drivers excluded