And if so, why?
It varies by individual and circumstance.
Maybe you should do an anonymous poll asking if members that have been in a car wreck soiled themselves.
You’ve heard the expression “It Scared the shit out of someone”? It really does happen after a bad scare.
Like bungee jumping. NSFW-link broken.
@ runner pat. I wonder if they tossed that harness after his jump?
“That’s OK, sir. You can keep it.” 
My SO, a retired paramedic with 30 years, says, “Occasionally”. Women are more susceptible to it than men, in his experience, cars which are hit or hit something with greater force are more likely to induce it, and wearing a seatbelt incorrectly (that is, high, across the bladder) is more likely to do it. He adds that “most” drivers have no idea how to correctly place a seat belt.
And of course, if the crash victims die, one of the things that happens in death is that all the muscles relax. Including the various sphincters.
Not to mention that some people may be in the state of “have to go” when they were hit. Many times I have to go about the time I start to head home from work. I just hold it until I can get home and have some nice privacy.
If I were hit during that time, I am probably much more likely to, er, have issues than I would normally.
Well, I once made a passenger wet her pants (she claimed) when I ran a yellow light . . .
You’re also much more likely to rupture your bladder if it’s full and you get into an accident. Trust me, you don’t want the surgery and recovery from a ruptured bladder. Pee before you leave!
LOL I rarely had a job closer than 50 miles away for most of the time between 1995 and when I got laid off a year and a half ago … if I didn’t go before I left work I would have never been able to make it home!
I can not understand not being able to use a bathroom away from home, although I can understand reluctance at a rest area when they are thoroughly disgusting thanks to some dumb fucking cunt who hovers or craps all over and doesn’t clean up after themselves. [being female myself, the ones in the bathroom facilities i would use are cunts. if they cleaned up after themselves and acted civilized they would be cunts.]
How is this GQ? People shit themselves all the time doing anything and everything.
What?! Thirteen posts, and nobody’s brought up:
Bill Cosby’s Mom: Did he have clean underwear?
EMT: Yes. We found them in the glove compartment.
We didn’t. In 1978 my entire immediate family of five was in a head-on collision at considerable speed. I described the accident in detail here.
None of the five of us had any bathroom accidents, but we did start to go into shock and shivered violently after the accident.
I read somewhere that 20% of US combat troops have shit themselves at sometime during their deployment. From fear, that is. Anecdotally, I have no problem believing that number, as I know more than one soldier that has (or claim to have).
Why? Some say it’s the body’s way of preparing for injury. Those that have it run down their legs don’t have it running around a wounded body cavity, causing sepsis and death. I don’t really like to buy into evolutionary just-so stories, but this one makes sense to me.
Hit broadside so hard the vehicle spun around several times and came to rest on the curb.
Was sure I was going to die.
Nope, didn’t lose it.
Second time hit from behind while stopped, by someone going 50mph and not paying attention. Cement truck coming the other direction, fortunately it swerved out of the way.
Didn’t lose it.
That is a still from this, a scripted comedy.
Oh, and anecdotally I skid off the road, through a 20’+ lamp post that clipped off and crushed half the car, then into a tree and did not.