# Ohio Car Crash **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [May 17, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320 "2025-05-17T14:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/1 "2025-05-17T14:06:01Z")
![Ohio Crash](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/b/6/b6840bda2019623dcff4d94f14895f9e1aae81aa.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/2 "2025-05-17T14:21:07Z")
My sister in law could have been part of that accident. She and her daughter were driving different cars and mom was following. She actually managed to rear end her daughter. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/3 "2025-05-17T14:33:39Z")
This is what cars looked like in 1895: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/a/6/a6ae9254ee3d6968dfdc0e149d9efe7f584185c1.png) The pic that accompanies that post is probably from the late '20s-early '30s. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/4 "2025-05-17T14:37:37Z")
Those cars look a LOT newer than cars available in 1895, imo ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/5 "2025-05-17T15:56:40Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > This is what cars looked like in 1895: > [@db4690](#): > > Those cars look a LOT newer than cars available in 1895, imo That is what I was thinking… ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/6 "2025-05-17T16:17:31Z")
Don’t ask me who or when but maybe 40 years ago an old timer was telling about a neighbor who had switched from horses to a car. He put in a second door on his barn so he could drive right through if he couldn’t get the car stopped the first time. Kept yelling whoa but the car wouldn’t stop. Change is hard. ---
**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/7 "2025-05-17T16:24:47Z")
Almost as bad as backing into kids car in driveway. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/8 "2025-05-17T20:30:55Z")
Poetic license. The pic and caption are still funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/9 "2025-05-17T21:23:41Z")
The first auto insurance policy was purchased in Dayton Ohio in 1897 by Gilbert Loomis. He bought the policy from Travellers ---
**Author:** ![Clueless33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Clueless33](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Clueless33)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/10 "2025-05-17T22:15:32Z")
Then the name **Clueless** was introduced to the Oxford dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/11 "2025-05-17T22:37:14Z")
Indeed. You can often find “stories” where the pics were pulled from elsewhere. Let’s grant the “story” that Ohio had all of two cars in 1895 that had an accident (even though maybe not), it’s doubtful that anyone was around with a camera to take a picture. If the story is true (well, and even it wasn’t), it is a funny pic. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/12 "2025-05-18T00:18:57Z")
I think it was a joke. Not meant to be taken seriously. Obviously the cars are not 1895 models. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/13 "2025-05-18T13:26:53Z")
It was meant as a joke. Didn’t really care if it was real or not. Just thought it was funny AND car related. But it would be hilarious if it were true. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/14 "2025-05-18T13:57:06Z")
> [@MikeInNH](#): > > it would be hilarious if it were true. According to Snopes, they have been unable to find any documentation of such an event. Cars were new and unusual in 1895, so one would think that Ohio newspapers would have reported on that event, but none of them did. > **[Does Photo Show an 1895 Car Crash Involving the Only 2 Cars in Ohio?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/only-two-cars-ohio-crashed-1895/)** > > Photographs certainly don't show this alleged automobile accident (which most likely never happened). ---
**Author:** ![Clueless33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Clueless33](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Clueless33)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/15 "2025-05-18T21:17:37Z")
> [@MikeInNH](#): > > It was meant as a joke. Didn’t really care if it was real or not. Just thought it was funny AND car related. But it would be hilarious if it were true. Fooled me. I thought it was true, so I forwarded it to my brother in law. Now I feel dumb. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/16 "2025-05-18T22:51:14Z")
Oh, hi, oh no! It’s a fairly big state though if you ever tried to drive across it. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/17 "2025-05-19T12:09:57Z")
> [@bing](#): > > Oh, hi, oh no! It’s a fairly big state though if you ever tried to drive across it. I’ve driven it many times north to south and back after Nam and was stationed in Ft Campbell KY. It’s an extremely boring ride form the NY boarder to KY. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/18 "2025-05-19T14:16:57Z")
> [@bing](#): > > Oh, hi, oh no! It’s a fairly big state though if you ever tried to drive across it. It seems even bigger when you’re crossing it during a heavy snow storm. In–I think–1982, I had to drive across Ohio in order to visit friends in St. Clair Shores, MI. The weather forecast called for just flurries, but it turned-out to be a heavy snow storm. During my extremely long drive across the state on the Ohio Turnpike, I encountered no snow plows whatsoever, and traffic was reduced to one lane that had been forged by the 18-wheelers. The median was littered with Jeeps whose drivers thought that they were invincible. I never got out of 2nd gear the entire time, but my stick shift Citation–with snow tires–performed like a champ. When I finally got to my destination in MI, the front of the Citation was encased in a coating of ice almost 2 inches thick. I wonder if the state of Ohio ever got around to purchasing snow plows, because they certainly didn’t have any (or they didn’t have the sense to deploy any of them) in the winter of 1982. ---
**Author:** ![Old-Days-Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7feea3/32.png) [@Old-Days-Rick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Old-Days-Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/19 "2025-05-19T14:36:06Z")
And now we have vehicles that go 0-60 instantly amd its still not enough for many people. Always In A hurry as I am sure the were back then. The autombile has done nothing bit caused us to speed around and rush everywhere. Granted back in horse and buggy days people would “rough ride” the horses which was hard on the horse and the buggy, frequently resulting in a broken axle on the buggy or a broken leg on the horse. But people persist in their ways. Speedy speedy. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ohio-car-crash/200320/20 "2025-05-19T15:27:24Z")
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