The following was published by an insurance company for internal distribution. These are summaries submitted when policy holders were asked for a brief statement describing their particular accident.
- "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 hand through it."
- "A pedestrian hit my car and went under it."
- "The guy was all over the place. 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."
- "The accident occurred when I was attempting to bring my car out of a skid by steering it into the other vehicle."
- "I was driving my car out of the driveway in the usual manner, when it was struck by the other car where it had been struck several times before."
- "I was on my way to the doctor's with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave away, causing me to have an accident."
- "As I approached the intersection, a stop 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."
- "The telephone pole was approaching fast. I was attempting to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end."
- "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, struck my vehicle and vanished."
- "When I saw I could not avoid a collision, I stepped on the gas and crashed into the other car."
- "The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him."
- "I saw the slow-moving, sad-faced old gentlemen as he bounced off the hood of my car."
- "Coming home, I drove in to the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have."
- "The indirect cause of this accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth."
