Just about everyone on this show has a car accident--Roger, thanks to his missing bleeder valve; Vicki, avoiding hitting Peter, who WAS on the side of the road, so why the swerve; Barnabas deliberately running into a certain someone in the Leviathan storyline; Carolyn, DUI during the early eps. The insurance rates in Collinsport must have skyrocketed thanks to the Collinwooders!
As for Vicki and Barn's crash, well, I, too, was agog the first time I saw it, wondering how a car accident could harm a man already dead, but check Barn's luck--he happens to end up in the car of a mad doctor with a cure for what ails him--and who has ulterior motives up the wazoo!
Makes for great melodrama!
Love, Robin
