How many accidents have you had?
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Kindda leading on from the indicator thread I posted but not connected:-
How many accidents have you had?
How many were judged to be your fault and out of these how many of these do you think were judged incorrectly?
How many years driving and how many miles do you do?
Me
1 accident in 15 years, skidded on black ice (in 1995), I was probably going a bit too quick for the conditions so accept that it was my partially my fault, somebody did knock the lamppost down (next to where I skidded) 2 days later. Approx 20k miles a year.
How many accidents have you had?
How many were judged to be your fault and out of these how many of these do you think were judged incorrectly?
How many years driving and how many miles do you do?
Me
1 accident in 15 years, skidded on black ice (in 1995), I was probably going a bit too quick for the conditions so accept that it was my partially my fault, somebody did knock the lamppost down (next to where I skidded) 2 days later. Approx 20k miles a year.
11.
1 my fault (bumped into rear end at 17)
3 not my fault (over a 13 year period)
7 rally driving in woods (not my fault, its was the trees!)
I used to drive heaps but in the past year have only covered 11,000 miles due to career change.
>> Edited by DustyC on Thursday 23 October 11:06
1 my fault (bumped into rear end at 17)
3 not my fault (over a 13 year period)
7 rally driving in woods (not my fault, its was the trees!)
I used to drive heaps but in the past year have only covered 11,000 miles due to career change.
>> Edited by DustyC on Thursday 23 October 11:06
Tapped the rear end of a metro when I was 20. It was all my fault. I apologised and stated to the insurance company that it was and they paid up to the metro owner immediately. I even recieved a letter of thanks from the owner for having been so honest.
18 years accident free motoring since.
18 years accident free motoring since.
Been driving 16 years, 3 accidents.
Two within 1 year of passing my test. First one pulled out in front of a motorbike who was whizzing around a roundabout. Strictly my fault but I didn't/couldn't see him. I stopped, he stopped and fell over scratching his fairing. Second went into the back of someone at a roundabout, doh!
Third not my fault, skidded on oil coming off a roundabout, tore off front spoiler on a high kerb.
Ian.
Two within 1 year of passing my test. First one pulled out in front of a motorbike who was whizzing around a roundabout. Strictly my fault but I didn't/couldn't see him. I stopped, he stopped and fell over scratching his fairing. Second went into the back of someone at a roundabout, doh!
Third not my fault, skidded on oil coming off a roundabout, tore off front spoiler on a high kerb.
Ian.
4. (Two my fault)
Shunted in the rear twice in quick succession in 1997 (brand new car!)
Clipped the back end of a Volvo last year when I failed to stop in time (Why they did an e-stop halfway round as island is still a mystery to me though!)
And my first (and by far the worst) was many years ago when I rolled an escort estate down Ashbourne Hill (the old A52 into Ashbourne) going too fast down the hill (I was 19 at the time!) in January, swerved to avoid a young child who appeared from nowhere, hit a patch of black ice, then rolled..... and rolled..... and rolled.....
Made rather a mess!
I sprained by wrist, and hurt my head on the car roof as it collapsed during the roll. Apart from that I walked away.
Yep, I was bl00dy lucky that day.....
edited to add mileage etc
Been driving for 16 years now, and over last five years average 35k per year
>> Edited by meeja on Thursday 23 October 11:13
Shunted in the rear twice in quick succession in 1997 (brand new car!)
Clipped the back end of a Volvo last year when I failed to stop in time (Why they did an e-stop halfway round as island is still a mystery to me though!)
And my first (and by far the worst) was many years ago when I rolled an escort estate down Ashbourne Hill (the old A52 into Ashbourne) going too fast down the hill (I was 19 at the time!) in January, swerved to avoid a young child who appeared from nowhere, hit a patch of black ice, then rolled..... and rolled..... and rolled.....
Made rather a mess!
I sprained by wrist, and hurt my head on the car roof as it collapsed during the roll. Apart from that I walked away.
Yep, I was bl00dy lucky that day.....
edited to add mileage etc
Been driving for 16 years now, and over last five years average 35k per year
>> Edited by meeja on Thursday 23 October 11:13
Four bike accidents - one serious. All caused by cars pulling in front of me at T Junctions.
Two car accidents - both due to youthful exuberance and entirely my own fault. One (at the age of 18) finished up with me writing off a girlfriend's brand new Golf convertible by crashing it through a garage and into a swimming pool!
Two car accidents - both due to youthful exuberance and entirely my own fault. One (at the age of 18) finished up with me writing off a girlfriend's brand new Golf convertible by crashing it through a garage and into a swimming pool!
Two in eight or nine years of driving.
First was my fault: Three in the back of my old cav, so I was reversing using the wing mirrors. Bang! Sounded like I'd reversed into a rubbish bin. Got out to discover I'd hit a Fiat chinquechento thingy (first guess was right on the money!!). Lady driver, her first question was "Didn't you see me?"
Well, let me think for a bit! She agreed that the only damage was a cracked number plate, I gave her a tenner and buggered off quickly.
Second was a four car crash caused by a drunk driver ramming a stationary queue of cars. I was second from the back in a company car.
Sheepy
First was my fault: Three in the back of my old cav, so I was reversing using the wing mirrors. Bang! Sounded like I'd reversed into a rubbish bin. Got out to discover I'd hit a Fiat chinquechento thingy (first guess was right on the money!!). Lady driver, her first question was "Didn't you see me?"
Well, let me think for a bit! She agreed that the only damage was a cracked number plate, I gave her a tenner and buggered off quickly. Second was a four car crash caused by a drunk driver ramming a stationary queue of cars. I was second from the back in a company car.
Sheepy
This is a subject where i shine.
1. Crashed into my driving instructor 2 days after passing my test. 1989
2. Overtook a bus and crashed into a datsun at the other end, folded my XR2. 1992
3. Crashed a MK1 cortina into a British Gas van and the step on the rear of the van pierced the front valance and rad!! 1993
4. Crashed into a double glazing van and broke every bit of glass on it (took the rack orff) 1994
5. In the wife's beemer and a nice gentelman who couldnt quite speak english (clapped out nissan) drove into the back of it.....then tried to claim off me for whiplash. 2000
6. Santa Pod car park someone reversed into the front of my Mustang. WORDS OF WISDOM: never have an accident in a motor racing venue car park coz when the insurance company find out its a nitemare.2001
>> Edited by nobbybombshell on Thursday 23 October 11:16
1. Crashed into my driving instructor 2 days after passing my test. 1989
2. Overtook a bus and crashed into a datsun at the other end, folded my XR2. 1992
3. Crashed a MK1 cortina into a British Gas van and the step on the rear of the van pierced the front valance and rad!! 1993
4. Crashed into a double glazing van and broke every bit of glass on it (took the rack orff) 1994
5. In the wife's beemer and a nice gentelman who couldnt quite speak english (clapped out nissan) drove into the back of it.....then tried to claim off me for whiplash. 2000
6. Santa Pod car park someone reversed into the front of my Mustang. WORDS OF WISDOM: never have an accident in a motor racing venue car park coz when the insurance company find out its a nitemare.2001
>> Edited by nobbybombshell on Thursday 23 October 11:16
1 accident. 3 and a half years ago - id been driving 2 days short of a year. I overtook a car and tractor, but when i got level with the car, a speeding Audi 80 (old G plate thing) came out of a 'hidden dip' and we collided, i then ricocheted off and hit the tractor.
Unfortunately my insurace, being a bunch of bastards, voided on a technicality - that accident is still costing me;
£4500 for my car (write off)
£4000 for her car (NO WAY worth that!)
£2500 her 'whiplash' claim, despite her only going to the doctor once, 6 months after the crash and then going back a year after that and saying 'my neck hurts again because ive been lifting heavy furniture - must be because of the crash'
I finally finished paying for my car 2 months ago - hoorah!
Unfortunately my insurace, being a bunch of bastards, voided on a technicality - that accident is still costing me;
£4500 for my car (write off)
£4000 for her car (NO WAY worth that!)
£2500 her 'whiplash' claim, despite her only going to the doctor once, 6 months after the crash and then going back a year after that and saying 'my neck hurts again because ive been lifting heavy furniture - must be because of the crash'
I finally finished paying for my car 2 months ago - hoorah!
Loads
1 My fault into back of someone on a roundabout
2 My fault racing a Morris Minor (stupid, wish I hadn't it repaired from 1)
3 My fault just crashed
4 My fault girlfriends car, I thought minis were meant to handle (ended up doing a 90 hour week to fix the bloody thing)
5 Not my fault (hooray) stoped at a zebra crossing, bloke behind me didn't
6 50/50 bloke undertaking me as I tried to filter
7 My fault 8 hours on a bike in the rain does funny thing s to your concentration
8 Not my fault, Trafic slows, apart from the car behind me
Does spinnig count ? I had a capri for a bit
until 9 (or 25 if we're counting spins) Mrs Inc wrote that off though, happily driving down the road when some stupid bint in hubbys BMW drives into the side of us and claims it's our fault, didn't even ask if we were OK
10 Not my fault, hit and run driver on my bike (long story, funny ending though)
11 My fault reversed over a park bench in a range rover
Sounds bad I know, the worse thing is I think I might have missed some
1 My fault into back of someone on a roundabout
2 My fault racing a Morris Minor (stupid, wish I hadn't it repaired from 1)
3 My fault just crashed
4 My fault girlfriends car, I thought minis were meant to handle (ended up doing a 90 hour week to fix the bloody thing)
5 Not my fault (hooray) stoped at a zebra crossing, bloke behind me didn't
6 50/50 bloke undertaking me as I tried to filter
7 My fault 8 hours on a bike in the rain does funny thing s to your concentration
8 Not my fault, Trafic slows, apart from the car behind me
Does spinnig count ? I had a capri for a bit
until 9 (or 25 if we're counting spins) Mrs Inc wrote that off though, happily driving down the road when some stupid bint in hubbys BMW drives into the side of us and claims it's our fault, didn't even ask if we were OK
10 Not my fault, hit and run driver on my bike (long story, funny ending though)
11 My fault reversed over a park bench in a range rover
Sounds bad I know, the worse thing is I think I might have missed some
God I'm going to sound like a crash test dummie against all you lot 
1st Accident - Group of women in a hire car nudge me in the rear at a set of traffic lights, minimal damage to my car sorted out in cash at the scene and they claimed that the hire car had been hit in a car park as it was a mess
2nd Accident - I was overtaking a car turning left as you do, nothing coming down the road, except the car turning right out of the road the other guys turning left into
Try sorting out blame when the damage is 2 front ends 
3rd Accident - Family in a Micra turn right across my path at a junction I T-Bone them and spin them round, kid in back refuses to get back in car to continue the journey home
4th Accident - Brain not yet working on way to work I drive into the back of a car sat minding his own business at a set of traffic lights
All that was in my 1st car in my 1st 2 years of driving, I then had a dry spell until,
5th Accident - Lost it in the wet on a trackday and managed to nurf the Amco with everycorner
6th Accident - Got nurfed in the nearside rear by a serial crasher trying to block me from overtaking on a 2 lane through a junction type bit of road
1st Accident - Group of women in a hire car nudge me in the rear at a set of traffic lights, minimal damage to my car sorted out in cash at the scene and they claimed that the hire car had been hit in a car park as it was a mess
2nd Accident - I was overtaking a car turning left as you do, nothing coming down the road, except the car turning right out of the road the other guys turning left into
Try sorting out blame when the damage is 2 front ends 3rd Accident - Family in a Micra turn right across my path at a junction I T-Bone them and spin them round, kid in back refuses to get back in car to continue the journey home
4th Accident - Brain not yet working on way to work I drive into the back of a car sat minding his own business at a set of traffic lights
All that was in my 1st car in my 1st 2 years of driving, I then had a dry spell until,
5th Accident - Lost it in the wet on a trackday and managed to nurf the Amco with everycorner
6th Accident - Got nurfed in the nearside rear by a serial crasher trying to block me from overtaking on a 2 lane through a junction type bit of road
14 years on the road (bwahahaha) and one accident to spoil it all.
Was laving Peterboghorror on the back roads in the streaming rain in my very powerful 1.8 Mundaneo, entered a corner a little quickly having plain musjudged the sharpness of the corner. Very swiftly got that oh-my-god-I'm-on-the-edge feeling, followed, somewhat unexpectedly, by oversteer. Did I lift off as I realised the corner was sharper than I thought? Can't remember? Did I have much throttle on in the first place? Nope.
Anyway, caught the initial slide (phew, not going over the edge into the field) but got bitten when it snapped back the other way, and exited the road onto the verge on the inside of the corner, ending up perched on a concrete drain cover. Bent wheel, biffed sill. Arse.
No-one else involved, thank god. Some people coming the other way a bit later helped push me off the drain cover, all the while lecturing me about being young (26) and driving too fast. I wouldn't have minded, but they didn't see what happened, and I had been driving very sedately (due to aforementioned rain), this musjudgement aside. Sanctimonious gits.
As it turns out, there's a haulage yard on that corner, and they fill their trucks with diesel there. A few friends (of the older and wiser variety) also had front wheel drive & oversteer moments on that corner, leading to suspicion that diesel probably got slopped all over that corner on a regular basis.
Hey ho.
Was laving Peterboghorror on the back roads in the streaming rain in my very powerful 1.8 Mundaneo, entered a corner a little quickly having plain musjudged the sharpness of the corner. Very swiftly got that oh-my-god-I'm-on-the-edge feeling, followed, somewhat unexpectedly, by oversteer. Did I lift off as I realised the corner was sharper than I thought? Can't remember? Did I have much throttle on in the first place? Nope.
Anyway, caught the initial slide (phew, not going over the edge into the field) but got bitten when it snapped back the other way, and exited the road onto the verge on the inside of the corner, ending up perched on a concrete drain cover. Bent wheel, biffed sill. Arse.
No-one else involved, thank god. Some people coming the other way a bit later helped push me off the drain cover, all the while lecturing me about being young (26) and driving too fast. I wouldn't have minded, but they didn't see what happened, and I had been driving very sedately (due to aforementioned rain), this musjudgement aside. Sanctimonious gits.
As it turns out, there's a haulage yard on that corner, and they fill their trucks with diesel there. A few friends (of the older and wiser variety) also had front wheel drive & oversteer moments on that corner, leading to suspicion that diesel probably got slopped all over that corner on a regular basis.
Hey ho.
nobbybombshell said:
1. Crashed into my driving instructor 2 days after passing my test. 1989
Heard a story of someone who hit a car the same day as they passed their test, followed the ambo to hospital as they were worried about the person they'd hit and drove into the back of the ambo.
On the road, only a few minors where the Saabs fell off the tarmac into hedges, ditches etc. No other traffice involved.
On the track, quite a few, mostly just wings, wheels and suspension although a I did smack a 355 cleanly in the hind quarters when he lost it in front of me on entry to Mallory Esses. Most trackdays see me needing at least one wheel, wing, and partial re-spray (kitty litter chips your paint)
On the track, quite a few, mostly just wings, wheels and suspension although a I did smack a 355 cleanly in the hind quarters when he lost it in front of me on entry to Mallory Esses. Most trackdays see me needing at least one wheel, wing, and partial re-spray (kitty litter chips your paint
)Been driving for 12 years and had two accidents, one of which was very much my fault, and, it has to be said, very dramatic.
The first one was a nightmare and don't really want to discuss it, but the second was quite something.
Driving from London to Edinburgh and TWENTY MILES from my destination I went to overtake a Mercedes at the start of a long straight. I knew the road really well and thought I knew the car well. Road was a bit greasy and as I applied power the tail kicked out. Now at this point I mentioned to catch it, and held it, but then it snapped back the other way.
Left the road at about 70, hit a tree and the car flipped on to its roof 15 feet down an embankment.
Destroyed the car, but walked away unscathed (bar a cronic back!!). I am a very lucky man. Really wakes you up when you have an off like that
The first one was a nightmare and don't really want to discuss it, but the second was quite something.
Driving from London to Edinburgh and TWENTY MILES from my destination I went to overtake a Mercedes at the start of a long straight. I knew the road really well and thought I knew the car well. Road was a bit greasy and as I applied power the tail kicked out. Now at this point I mentioned to catch it, and held it, but then it snapped back the other way.
Left the road at about 70, hit a tree and the car flipped on to its roof 15 feet down an embankment.
Destroyed the car, but walked away unscathed (bar a cronic back!!). I am a very lucky man. Really wakes you up when you have an off like that
nobbybombshell said:
1. Crashed into my driving instructor 2 days after passing my test. 1989
Racemum managed to crash on the way to the test centre
wasn't actually her fault but when the examiner sees you swapping insurance details at the road side on his way to work it's not the best start to a test and surprise surprise she failed that one Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff