Post about a crash you've been involved in

[erdnase]

Sorry if this topic has been covered before - I had a quick browse and couldn't see a similar one.

So - post about a crash, incident, near-miss or just unexpected happening on the road. It happens to us all, and we can all learn from each others mistakes (if there were any).

I'll start, although it's nothing too exciting. I'd only had my Z4 for a few weeks, and managed to spin it whilst going through a roundabout in the wet. I wasn't travelling too fast, and by some combination of traction control and luck, just ended up facing the wrong way in the road. Fortunately there were no other vehicles on or near the roundabout, and just had to turn the car round and carry on my journey. Not easy when your whole body is shaking

It sounds like a cop-out, but I'm maintaining there must have been diesel on the road there... lol. I was ultra cautious when I first got the car, and having had it for the last 18 months, realise that I was nowhere near the speed or loss of grip for that to happen - even in the wet. This was at 20mph or so, on a 2 lane roundabout in a 50 (or maybe NSL) zone. Perhaps I was just inexperienced with the car, but the incident really frightened the sh*t out of me. Any other cars on the roundabout and I'd have hit them, been to blame, etc. Made me decide to do my IAM, but I still don't know what I'd do if it happened again being honest. Last I heard was to just keep steering the same way, lift slightly off the accelerator and let the DSC do its stuff. That's one of the reasons I want a shot on a skidpan. It'd be great to be able to take your own car on there and just chuck it about and get a feel for it.

Erd