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hmm, there's a few. I'll give one.
TLDR version - almost got ejected from my car and thrown over a cliff to my death.
Full version
It was a car accident when I was about a week out of basic/AIT. Got home and was driving from Beach, ND to Medora, small town in the Badlands. If you know the badlands, it's basically just buttes, ravines, etc. for miles and miles. I was on Old Highway 10(yep, that's the name) because I had picked up my buddy who lives on that road. I hadn't been on that road for a good year at least. I knew a turn was coming up so I was keeping my eyes open for the sign showing a bend in the road. It essentially is a 90 degree turn, should really have one of those 35 mph signs or something. It was a rainy morning. Just as I came over a hill, there was the turn, the sign showing a bend in the road was actually halfway through the bend rather than beforehand. I tried to slow down for the turn but hydro-planed and went right over the edge into the wet grass. There was about 50 feet between me and a ravine and there were 2 trees. I hit one tree with the side of the car and ricocheted off it to hit the other tree dead in the center of my grill, right at the edge of the cliff.
My brother was in the front seat with me, my buddy in the back. He had reached forward to try and grab my brother since none of us were wearing seatbelts. When it was all said and done, there were 2 big bulges in the windshield where my brother and my heads hit it, thankfully we didn't get ejected. My brother had a concussion and a bunch of cuts. I had bent the steering wheel forward with my chest and had broken my arm in multiple spots. I also had a bad concussion. My buddy told me I had gotten out of the car and was holding my wrist saying I thought I broke my ankle. My buddy had fractured a vertebrae in his back. A truck driver picked us up and dropped us off at the Medora exit(don't think he wanted to get involved in the crap of dealing with an accident). My buddy's dad was actually going to work and saw us walking towards Medora and picked us up. I don't remember any of it except once we got to town and were waiting on the ambulance. My brother was going into shock and I calmed him down and told him he was ok and only had a couple cuts and we were all going to be fine. I then walked around the corner so he couldn't see me collapse and pass out. We all lived, car was totaled.
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