My first crash...
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Age 7 - "driving" the Explorer... 
- a six wheeled, four wheel steering thing, with a squeeky horn.. powered by me!
Minor incident in a "race" around the pavement with my best mate Tom... when he got it wrong in front of me and I stacked it into him!
Cuts, bruises and tears... and a nasty scrape down the front wing!
- a six wheeled, four wheel steering thing, with a squeeky horn.. powered by me! Minor incident in a "race" around the pavement with my best mate Tom... when he got it wrong in front of me and I stacked it into him!
Cuts, bruises and tears... and a nasty scrape down the front wing!
Audi 100CD; racing an R5 Turbo from da lights (years ago[!], innit?), screamed to 'about 50, officer,' following a light shower, the bugger span on a bend, did a couple of 360s, bounced over a central reservation and I balletically eased across the wrong carriageway backwards and banana'd the car round a lamp post.
Thank Gawd nobody else was involved and the incident officer couldn't have been a bigger star (they really are consumate professionals in moments of such deep, personal self-questionning and stress), empathising with tales of a recent roll he performed in his own car and reassuring me that the best thing I could do was get straight back out there that afternoon.
So began a serial relationship betwixt yours truly and a number of local amenities of a luminary utility.
Thank Gawd nobody else was involved and the incident officer couldn't have been a bigger star (they really are consumate professionals in moments of such deep, personal self-questionning and stress), empathising with tales of a recent roll he performed in his own car and reassuring me that the best thing I could do was get straight back out there that afternoon.
So began a serial relationship betwixt yours truly and a number of local amenities of a luminary utility.
Age 17, first car - a Nissan Bluebird 180B SSS 1800 twin carb with......wiat for it....an 8" steering wheel.
On my 3rd trip out ever (with my mates) I clipped a pavement and, due to the tiny steering wheel, couldn't hold on, mounted pavement and demolished a set of railings, causing £400 worth of damage to a car that cost £300 to buy.
Best of all, there was a copper parked opposite chatting to his mate. Fortunately he was so engrossed in his conversation he didn't notice. Phew !!!
On my 3rd trip out ever (with my mates) I clipped a pavement and, due to the tiny steering wheel, couldn't hold on, mounted pavement and demolished a set of railings, causing £400 worth of damage to a car that cost £300 to buy.
Best of all, there was a copper parked opposite chatting to his mate. Fortunately he was so engrossed in his conversation he didn't notice. Phew !!!
A rep in an Audi ran into the back of my beloved metallic green Cavalier while I was stationary in a queue of traffic and tore off the bumper/bent the back end. The day before my insurance was due for renewal too - doubled my premium until the insurance company agreed the accident wasn't my fault. 
The Vauxhall main dealer that "repaired" the car made a right pig's ear of it, too...
Edited to add: Crikey! I've never rolled a car. I must be really boring...
>> Edited by SGirl on Tuesday 8th April 11:46
The Vauxhall main dealer that "repaired" the car made a right pig's ear of it, too...
Edited to add: Crikey! I've never rolled a car. I must be really boring...
>> Edited by SGirl on Tuesday 8th April 11:46
someone near where i lived had a sinclair C5 which he had taken all the electrics out (don't ask why, cos i don't know, but they sort of lost their appeal with no powered bits!). Anyway we realised it was much faster than our go-karts in comparison when pushed down the street (superior construction over box carts i suppose).
So we strapped some annoying younger brother of one of the lads we were with into this thing and the remaining 5 lads pushed it down the hill on our street, got to terminal velocity and brat boy was heading straight for a parked car and house, he brakes, slides, skids and broadsides the C5 until momentum takes over and he barrel rolls 12 times before striking a kerb and landing belly up in a cloud of dust.
He was ok but everytime he went over, his head hit the floor as it just came out from the rollbar. Took us ages for him to stop crying, or so i'm told, most of us had legged it by then, fearing the worst..!
edited to add "eh? accidents whilst driving a proper car oh right...." That would be my head on with a bright metallic pink hyaundai accent about 400 metres from my house and two weeks before my 18th birthday. Was in my mums street bruiser of a MK2 cavalier... He pulled away from teh side of teh road as i turned into my road, he didnt signal and was defintely stopped when i started to turn, obviously cos i was young it was my fault but i was doing less than 20mph at the time.
His car had knackered radiator, broken front end, hedlights etc. My car had cracked headlight (not smashed) and a chipped number plate - never understood teh point of crumple zones after that... a ploy by the insurance companies to make a small knock (impact was less than 30mph) into a massive insurance claim..!
I used to get mad about it, but now i reckon the less bright pink cars on the road (with exception of the rat mobile) the better, so i was doing you all a favour!!
>> Edited by Buffalo on Tuesday 8th April 11:54
So we strapped some annoying younger brother of one of the lads we were with into this thing and the remaining 5 lads pushed it down the hill on our street, got to terminal velocity and brat boy was heading straight for a parked car and house, he brakes, slides, skids and broadsides the C5 until momentum takes over and he barrel rolls 12 times before striking a kerb and landing belly up in a cloud of dust.
He was ok but everytime he went over, his head hit the floor as it just came out from the rollbar. Took us ages for him to stop crying, or so i'm told, most of us had legged it by then, fearing the worst..!
edited to add "eh? accidents whilst driving a proper car oh right...." That would be my head on with a bright metallic pink hyaundai accent about 400 metres from my house and two weeks before my 18th birthday. Was in my mums street bruiser of a MK2 cavalier... He pulled away from teh side of teh road as i turned into my road, he didnt signal and was defintely stopped when i started to turn, obviously cos i was young it was my fault but i was doing less than 20mph at the time.
His car had knackered radiator, broken front end, hedlights etc. My car had cracked headlight (not smashed) and a chipped number plate - never understood teh point of crumple zones after that... a ploy by the insurance companies to make a small knock (impact was less than 30mph) into a massive insurance claim..!
I used to get mad about it, but now i reckon the less bright pink cars on the road (with exception of the rat mobile) the better, so i was doing you all a favour!!
>> Edited by Buffalo on Tuesday 8th April 11:54
OK, first "proper" incident... age 18... passenger is a Morris Minor.
Mate took a corner a bit too fast... bounced... hopped... then S L O W L Y rolled onto a lamppost!
Got the car off the post (no damage to the car!) on to find that the lamp was illuminating a grave (light was a foot over the stone!)..!
Was in the local rag the following week... apparently some "vandals" did it..!
Mate took a corner a bit too fast... bounced... hopped... then S L O W L Y rolled onto a lamppost!
Got the car off the post (no damage to the car!) on to find that the lamp was illuminating a grave (light was a foot over the stone!)..!
Was in the local rag the following week... apparently some "vandals" did it..!
Pushing my Austin Healey sprite too hard on a bend front left wheel caught in a recently dug drainage ditch barrel-rolled (about 4 times according to surprised oncoming driver) into a ditch. Fortunately I had a roll hoop and full harness on. Small scrape to the scalp from the road but no serious injury - the tetanus jab had me limping for days though.
Rebuilt the car and sold it on for what I paid for it. Where are you now 929 PVW?
Rebuilt the car and sold it on for what I paid for it. Where are you now 929 PVW?
First 'proper' crash (discounting bent wheels from, er, practising in empty car parks..) was in my first car, an orange and primer shovitt (nice). Exiting a roundabout on the A5 at about 20mph in the wet forgetting that I swapped my crappy tyres from rear to front - result = terminal understeer ending with me driving straight into the side of a stationary lorry.. No damage to me except my pride - had to go and inform the lorry driver as he hadn't noticed...
got 10 squiddly-did from the scrapman for the car and that was the end of my first motor
got 10 squiddly-did from the scrapman for the car and that was the end of my first motor
But if we are talking being in an accident, I was a passenger in a friends Renault 5 whilst at college. (age 18) On the way home over Cannock Chase we pulled out to overtake a numpty doing 25 on a 60, just as we were about to overtake (now doing about 45) the old git and his missus decided they wanted to turn right, right in front of us We swerved and missed them totally but ended up rolling the car 3 times and ending up on its roof, a foot away from a large tree stump. I actually managed to walk away from that one with no injuries whatsoever
The doddering old fool then proceeded to blame us, saying we were irresponsible youngsters. Unfortunately there were no witnesses.
We swerved and missed them totally but ended up rolling the car 3 times and ending up on its roof, a foot away from a large tree stump. I actually managed to walk away from that one with no injuries whatsoever The doddering old fool then proceeded to blame us, saying we were irresponsible youngsters. Unfortunately there were no witnesses.
250 cc Villiers Zip kart when I was about 14; span off and hit a boat..
Ok, it was my parent's back garden and the boat was on a trailer at the end of 100 yards worth of short wet grass, (great fun with an overpowered kart and racing slicks..)
Edited to add - Only accident on the road caused the demise of my 2nd car, a mkV Cortina, (can't remember if it was a 2.3 or 2.8 but V6 anyway).. Slightly too fast along a country lane, (blaming Blondie for 'Atomic') and large truck appears out of nowhere. I got to a slightly less than graceful halt, but in the same space the truck didn't, tore the right wing, both doors and rear wing off before it stopped. Think I made a profit out of the car as I paid £60 for it but the book value was about £600..
>> Edited by Psychobert on Tuesday 8th April 12:03
Ok, it was my parent's back garden and the boat was on a trailer at the end of 100 yards worth of short wet grass, (great fun with an overpowered kart and racing slicks..)
Edited to add - Only accident on the road caused the demise of my 2nd car, a mkV Cortina, (can't remember if it was a 2.3 or 2.8 but V6 anyway).. Slightly too fast along a country lane, (blaming Blondie for 'Atomic') and large truck appears out of nowhere. I got to a slightly less than graceful halt, but in the same space the truck didn't, tore the right wing, both doors and rear wing off before it stopped. Think I made a profit out of the car as I paid £60 for it but the book value was about £600..
>> Edited by Psychobert on Tuesday 8th April 12:03
Aged 19, took then girlfriend on a recce for a job interview she had the day after. Darkest Surrey, can't remember where. Me piloting my old mans ex police SD1 Rover (in white, surprisingly). On the way it started snowing, so I drive like a nun and got pretty much back to her place to drop her off. Drove arounf roundabout halfway up her road and skidded on black ice or something - put the car into a kerb at about 20mph. No obvious damage except the steering wheel was 90 degrees out.
Got home, told my old fella I'd pranged the car. Before he could pull out the birch stick he saw the car and said "Oh, that's not too bad son, you've done a track rod, that won't cost much..."
Famous last words. I'd not only done the track rod, I'd buckled the front NS alloy and bent the front sub frame by 3/4". Cost about £1800 to put right and car off road for nigh on two weeks. I was NOT popular.
Got home, told my old fella I'd pranged the car. Before he could pull out the birch stick he saw the car and said "Oh, that's not too bad son, you've done a track rod, that won't cost much..."
Famous last words. I'd not only done the track rod, I'd buckled the front NS alloy and bent the front sub frame by 3/4". Cost about £1800 to put right and car off road for nigh on two weeks. I was NOT popular.
First crash or first write off
First crash, reversing my mums mini clubman (thinking I could drive with mirrors) hit a dwarf wall, no real damage
First write off, much better story Racing a Morris minor in my Beetle, tried to take a short cut, missed the turning (road about a foot narrower than the car was long) spun, rolled a few times, blocked the road totally
I HAVE LEARNED MY LESSON (honest)
First crash, reversing my mums mini clubman (thinking I could drive with mirrors) hit a dwarf wall, no real damage
First write off, much better story
Racing a Morris minor in my Beetle, tried to take a short cut, missed the turning (road about a foot narrower than the car was long) spun, rolled a few times, blocked the road totally I HAVE LEARNED MY LESSON (honest
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plipton said:
mungo said:
mrs fish said:
plipton said:
mrs fish said: NOT CRASHED YET
:touchwoodnothinghappensonmywayhometonightnow:
Liar, liar your pants are on fire
I haven'thonest
Rollocks!
The "brail" parking method doesn't count of course!
Do you two know something I don't???
I haven't had a crash whilst I have been driving... yet
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