Further on from Family Fortunes, heres some excuses people gave when involved with traffic accidents:

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

"Windscreen broken. Cause unknown. Probably Voodoo."

"The car in front hit the pedestrian but he got up so I hit him again"

Q: Could either driver have done anything to avoid the accident? A: Travelled by bus?

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

"I saw a slow moving, sad faced old gentleman as he bounced off the roof of my car."

"The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth."

"The pedestrian ran for the pavement, but I got him."

"My car got hit by a submarine." (The Navy informed the wife of a submariner that the craft was due in port. She drove to the base to meet her husband and parked at the end of the slip where the sub was to berth. An inexperienced ensign was conning the sub and it rammed the end of the slip, breaking a section away, causing her car to fall into the water. The Navy paid the compensation claim.