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Girl its just probably bad luck. I just got into that same type of accident yesterday. Someone rear ended me when I parked perfectly normal in a parking lot and went to go get some food from a restaurant. At least you are older and don't have to explain the situation to you parents. They don't care that it is the other person's fault even though we had a police come and explain it wasn't my fault and inspect the scene. And I had the same type of accident in June except a girl rear ended me again when trying to cut someone else of. She slid underneath my car and they had pull them apart. I think we both just have terrible luck. Wrong place at the wrong time and i really wish there was a way to fix that. And this is my 3rd accident that it hasn't been my fault in the year after I got my license so it makes me look like a terrible driver but we can't control the situation when another car hits us unless we are a contributing factor to that happening. i really don't want to drive either. Having to feel guilty everytime this happens and my parents making me feel like it was my fault, I wished I lived in Asia or New York where everything is train based. If you live in a city that provides transportation, then go for it. Its a really efficient way of traveling and preventing accidents possibly but living in the United States, you need a car in most places to go around or at least where I live. I don't know what to do either at this point. My parents are really mad at me and there is nothing I can do to change the situation. I wasn't a contributing factor to the accident but my dad feels like just giving me a car made the accident his fault in the first place. 6 more months to college and I will not be taking a car thank god.

While you were not "at fault" I suspect your driving habits contributed to all of them. Unless you are not mentioning literally dozens of close calls you have had from odd drivers doing odd things, you are not avoiding avoidable collisions. The common factor in those types of collisions you list is that something happened you were not prepared for. The truck didn't rear end you while you were slowing for a light that had been red for a while, right? The car that t-boned you came through an intersection? Lots of us have had cars pull out in front of us and not hit them, although some of them were close and a few were collisions.

I feel like the Wizard of Oz here, saying "what you need is defensive driving skills." I don't have a big sack of goodies, though, just some general advice. We all have intuition to help us, a little voice in our heads to tell us to watch out for what is going on over there. You have to give that voice a chance. The most common reason people can't hear that voice is inattention. If you are not watching the road ahead and around you, and watching what is going on several seconds ahead of you, your intuition can't see it either. In particular, those side impacts you have had suggest you are not watching out for side traffic at intersections.

Remember that driving is a numbers game. Out of every 100 cars you interact with, 2 are brand new drivers in their first year, 5 are alcoholics, 4 have "anger dysregulation" (clinical rage problems), one is schizophrenic, 4 are clinically bipolar (3 are classified as "severe"), several have lost a loved one in the last year, more are going through a divorce... and no matter how you slice it one of them is statistically the worst driver in a hundred. You have to watch out for all of them.

I am willing to bet that you could have avoided the hitting cars that pulled in front of you by paying more attention farther up the road than you do.

If you look around an farther forward than right in front of your car you will see their wheels turning even just a little and be alot more careful about those cars. I always look at side streets and look if people are actually stopped. Helped me just the other day, some guy almost mowed me down turning onto the road. Fortunately i noticed before he was right in front of me so i got extra time to brake and honk the horn at his dumb a**

The other instances were just bad luck

Dont worry, look farther ahead, and you will be fine

The rear-ender, if you were stopped in traffic with no place to go and the guy behind just didn't stop -- that one is unavoidable. If you had a hole, and you had not been watching behind you, it could be avoidable. Your other accidents were avoidable. You are not watching further enough ahead. You are not watching traffic from the side. You don't care that you are not watching -- obviously if you keep getting into collisions. Probably because you know you will not get great injury/death. Get yourself a motorcycle or a scooter -- you will learn how to avoid collsions or you will die.

Don't feel like th eLone Ranger, girlie. I bought a Mustang convertible 10 months ago, and had been hit three times (and the back glass fell out a week after I bought it, and the thermostat housing blew last month). I got rid of it yesterday. It was jinxed.

Its a wolfs and sheep thing, blindly following the tail in front of you naturally leaves you much less aware of whats going on around or about to happen to you.

maybe just wrong place at the wrong time, but that sucks! Be glad you can drive, my drive skills are currently nonexistent

Its probably just coincidental bad luck. if it keeps happening, maybe go to like a future predictor or something?

You ought to move out of the way when a car has to do its business.

I bet you smell.

Maby its cuz you dont pay enough atention when your driving. Try paying atention more.

Hope this helped.