So when did you first come unstuck?
Discussion
Just wondering how long had PHer's been driving/riding before they came unstuck and how bad was it?
was it something simple like someone not looking before pulling out and hitting you?
or was it something spectacular like spinning the car at high speed and taking out 3 cars, a lamp post and then a mail box?
so far, for me, the only thing I have done to my bike is the first day I got it, and got my leg caught up on the peg and it fell over when I came to a stop. So I've never crashed, but I've fallen over.
was it something simple like someone not looking before pulling out and hitting you?
or was it something spectacular like spinning the car at high speed and taking out 3 cars, a lamp post and then a mail box?
so far, for me, the only thing I have done to my bike is the first day I got it, and got my leg caught up on the peg and it fell over when I came to a stop. So I've never crashed, but I've fallen over.
Edited by Urban_Ninja on Wednesday 18th March 02:16
About 6 months after I passed my test I was overtaking a queue of traffic (on the wrong side of the road (I Know!)) to pull into a garage, someone pulled out of the garage to turn left and didn't see me approaching at a fast rate!
I smashed in the front of my A40, bent the wing and broke the suspension of his Moggie 1000. I learned a lot from that little encounter!
I smashed in the front of my A40, bent the wing and broke the suspension of his Moggie 1000. I learned a lot from that little encounter!
The first, (and hopefully the last) time I crashed my car.
First time driving in snow. Attempted D1 style handbrake turn/drift in narrow housing estate. Totally underestimated the grip level of snowy tarmac and cheap Chinese tyres. Went far, far too fast into the estate and ended up destroying some unlucky dudes brand new garden wall. Car needed a new bumper.
I remember driving past the same spot months afterwards to find the guy still rebuiling his second new wall.
I find it hilarious looking back years after, but i s
t myself at the time!
Still feel bad for that guy rebuilding his wall at the expense of my stupidity
First time driving in snow. Attempted D1 style handbrake turn/drift in narrow housing estate. Totally underestimated the grip level of snowy tarmac and cheap Chinese tyres. Went far, far too fast into the estate and ended up destroying some unlucky dudes brand new garden wall. Car needed a new bumper.
I remember driving past the same spot months afterwards to find the guy still rebuiling his second new wall.
I find it hilarious looking back years after, but i s
t myself at the time! Still feel bad for that guy rebuilding his wall at the expense of my stupidity
Took nearly two years for me.
My starion was off the road for some work so I was borrowing a really knackered Land Rover Discovery.
Needless to say the stopping distance in the wet with 2 tons on crap tyre was a lot longer than the Starion.
Piled into the back of a car in a motorway que, my fault no debate, luckily not too serious and nobody hurt.
Discovery was fine, Focus was written off.
Valuble lesson about compensating for conditions learnt.
My starion was off the road for some work so I was borrowing a really knackered Land Rover Discovery.
Needless to say the stopping distance in the wet with 2 tons on crap tyre was a lot longer than the Starion.
Piled into the back of a car in a motorway que, my fault no debate, luckily not too serious and nobody hurt.
Discovery was fine, Focus was written off.
Valuble lesson about compensating for conditions learnt.
6 Months after passing i Smashed a Jaguar into the back of a Corsa.
A year later a Warburtons lorry pushed my car through a round about like this
through a wooden fence (where the lorry stopped luckily), down and embankment and into a Tesco car park before coming to rest perfectly in a space.
My drunk friend in the back thought we had run over a coca cola can.
A year later a Warburtons lorry pushed my car through a round about like this
through a wooden fence (where the lorry stopped luckily), down and embankment and into a Tesco car park before coming to rest perfectly in a space.
My drunk friend in the back thought we had run over a coca cola can.
(17) 1st prang, hitting a rover 200 coming the other way down a tight street, came around the corner at about 30-35 in my mini, saw him too late...only tapped him, after some emergency, braking(hanking the handbrake on as well because the bugger wouldnt slow down!) no damage to his car, but my little mini had the grill and headlight pushed waay in!
(17) 1st propper "moment" travelling down a NSL road at 60, I arrived at a corner which could of been easily negotiated at if they'd just gritted it! (oh no)...ended up swapping ends, spinning onto a piece of common land and narrowly missing a tree...resulted in a destroyed alloy from the kerb and a bent steering arm. Im proud I did the right thing and kept my foot in it though instead of hitting the brakes but all was already lost!
(24) 1st "decent" crash, some bh turned through a red light straight into my path...them airbags dont half make your ears ring for a few days!
(17) 1st propper "moment" travelling down a NSL road at 60, I arrived at a corner which could of been easily negotiated at if they'd just gritted it! (oh no)...ended up swapping ends, spinning onto a piece of common land and narrowly missing a tree...resulted in a destroyed alloy from the kerb and a bent steering arm. Im proud I did the right thing and kept my foot in it though instead of hitting the brakes but all was already lost!
(24) 1st "decent" crash, some b
h turned through a red light straight into my path...them airbags dont half make your ears ring for a few days! I didn't come unstuck last night on the way home, but I did begin to wonder if my large black German saloon was coated in magic invisibility paint, because three times I had people just chuck their vehicles in front of mine, with a cursory post-manoeuvre blink of the indicator by way of apology.
First one was a weird Japanese people-carrier thing in the style of a Toyota Previa. I was in L3 at about 75MPH, wagon indicated to pull into L2, driver of WJPCT (no doubt thinking they were being "polite") pulled into L3 at approximately 45MPH. Just as well I was paying attention, eh? Could have been messy!
Second one was on a DC. I'm in L2 going with the 80MPH-ish flow of traffic, and there's an off-slip that bends quite sharply, so drivers familiar with it do some of their braking on the main carriageway. Driver indicates and then brakes to turn off, and the Corsa following them just pops out in front of me in L2, at the regulation feckwit 45MPH. This one was genuinely dangerous and received a flash and a beep, because I honestly don't think she knew I was there. She'd have known if she'd looked in her mirrors, of course.
And then stone me if another small hatchback didn't pull the exact same stunt at the next off-slip!
I don't like having to do other peoples' thinking for them whilst driving, but doing so in these three cases meant that the dozy arseheads didn't receive a tonne and a half of Munich's finest up their rear end.
ETA: I have come unstuck, once. Diesel on a roundabout meant that I, as a driver who'd been behind the wheel all of six months, got the most humungous tank-slapper on as the car (Nissan Bluebird) regained grip. It was only because I was a little bit of a nervous nellie at the time that meant I was doing all of 20MPH, but I was still cacking myself...
First one was a weird Japanese people-carrier thing in the style of a Toyota Previa. I was in L3 at about 75MPH, wagon indicated to pull into L2, driver of WJPCT (no doubt thinking they were being "polite") pulled into L3 at approximately 45MPH. Just as well I was paying attention, eh? Could have been messy!
Second one was on a DC. I'm in L2 going with the 80MPH-ish flow of traffic, and there's an off-slip that bends quite sharply, so drivers familiar with it do some of their braking on the main carriageway. Driver indicates and then brakes to turn off, and the Corsa following them just pops out in front of me in L2, at the regulation feckwit 45MPH. This one was genuinely dangerous and received a flash and a beep, because I honestly don't think she knew I was there. She'd have known if she'd looked in her mirrors, of course.
And then stone me if another small hatchback didn't pull the exact same stunt at the next off-slip!
I don't like having to do other peoples' thinking for them whilst driving, but doing so in these three cases meant that the dozy arseheads didn't receive a tonne and a half of Munich's finest up their rear end.
ETA: I have come unstuck, once. Diesel on a roundabout meant that I, as a driver who'd been behind the wheel all of six months, got the most humungous tank-slapper on as the car (Nissan Bluebird) regained grip. It was only because I was a little bit of a nervous nellie at the time that meant I was doing all of 20MPH, but I was still cacking myself...
Edited by CommanderJameson on Wednesday 18th March 06:24
First "unstuck" in a car was probably 7 years after i had passed, and some daft bint went head to head with me at an intersection where i was waiting to turn ....
However there were loads of near misses that certainly "relaxed" the old sphincter, ibut somehow always got away with it!
On a bike, they all sort of drift into one big haze ......
However there were loads of near misses that certainly "relaxed" the old sphincter, ibut somehow always got away with it!
On a bike, they all sort of drift into one big haze ......
10 days after my test (passed first time). In my mum's Astra Belmont 1.3, took a corner too fast, tail went out, I knew nothing about controlling a skid and so ended up going sideways down the (thankfully empty) road, before finding a grass verge - the greater resistance of which on the wheels caused the subsequent roll.
Car ended up on it's left hand side, with me still in the driver's seat strapped in. Thinking only of escape, I released the seatbelt and promptly fell to the bottom of the car... ouch! So I then stood up inside the car, and opened the driver's door (which was at the top!), it stayed open just long enough for me to stick my head up before closing heavily on my noggin! So, apart from some very minor seatbelt bruising, all the injuries I sustained were from being a wally trying to get out.
Anyway, to cut it short - police car, three fire engines (the engine caught fire), a royal bking from plod, ringing my folks to tell them what I'd done to their mint and fairly new Vauxhall etc etc. My parents had planned to take me out for dinner that night to celebrate passing my driving test, and they still did!!!! Was a nice meal as I remember, bless my fantastic folks!
I also got the prize for 'best crash' for my sixth form year!
Car ended up on it's left hand side, with me still in the driver's seat strapped in. Thinking only of escape, I released the seatbelt and promptly fell to the bottom of the car... ouch! So I then stood up inside the car, and opened the driver's door (which was at the top!), it stayed open just long enough for me to stick my head up before closing heavily on my noggin! So, apart from some very minor seatbelt bruising, all the injuries I sustained were from being a wally trying to get out.
Anyway, to cut it short - police car, three fire engines (the engine caught fire), a royal b
king from plod, ringing my folks to tell them what I'd done to their mint and fairly new Vauxhall etc etc. My parents had planned to take me out for dinner that night to celebrate passing my driving test, and they still did!!!! Was a nice meal as I remember, bless my fantastic folks!I also got the prize for 'best crash' for my sixth form year!
andy400 said:
10 days after my test (passed first time).
yep .. on my way to see Clockwork Orange the day in came out in Oxford. I didn't appreciate that 'Give Way' really meant 'Give Way' .. all I could think as I slid accross the road into a ditch was that I'd have to see it next week.Mini Clubman.
andy400 said:
10 days after my test (passed first time). In my mum's Astra Belmont 1.3, took a corner too fast, tail went out, I knew nothing about controlling a skid and so ended up going sideways down the (thankfully empty) road, before finding a grass verge - the greater resistance of which on the wheels caused the subsequent roll.
Car ended up on it's left hand side, with me still in the driver's seat strapped in. Thinking only of escape, I released the seatbelt and promptly fell to the bottom of the car... ouch! So I then stood up inside the car, and opened the driver's door (which was at the top!), it stayed open just long enough for me to stick my head up before closing heavily on my noggin! So, apart from some very minor seatbelt bruising, all the injuries I sustained were from being a wally trying to get out.
Anyway, to cut it short - police car, three fire engines (the engine caught fire), a royal bking from plod, ringing my folks to tell them what I'd done to their mint and fairly new Vauxhall etc etc. My parents had planned to take me out for dinner that night to celebrate passing my driving test, and they still did!!!! Was a nice meal as I remember, bless my fantastic folks!
I also got the prize for 'best crash' for my sixth form year!
Andy, your post just made me spill my coffee!!Car ended up on it's left hand side, with me still in the driver's seat strapped in. Thinking only of escape, I released the seatbelt and promptly fell to the bottom of the car... ouch! So I then stood up inside the car, and opened the driver's door (which was at the top!), it stayed open just long enough for me to stick my head up before closing heavily on my noggin! So, apart from some very minor seatbelt bruising, all the injuries I sustained were from being a wally trying to get out.
Anyway, to cut it short - police car, three fire engines (the engine caught fire), a royal b
king from plod, ringing my folks to tell them what I'd done to their mint and fairly new Vauxhall etc etc. My parents had planned to take me out for dinner that night to celebrate passing my driving test, and they still did!!!! Was a nice meal as I remember, bless my fantastic folks!I also got the prize for 'best crash' for my sixth form year!
Should not laugh at other peoples misfortune, but the bit about getting out of the car was hilarious!
No proper bangs as yet and i passed in 1999.
First Car - 1984 Volvo 340 (thanks dad)
Within a few weeks of passing first scrape was adjusting the Bedford road car park in Guildford pillar with the wing of my Volvo while reversing out of a space. I still blame mates for messing about so i misjudged the size of my tank. Dented Volvo wing right on the repeater, but as it was a Volvo the repeater didnt break and a small bit of concrete fell off the pillar. Volvo 1, Car park 0
Same car a few weeks later i managed to push a sapling and the support around it over in the new Waitrose car park in Godalming as the Volvo's rear window didnt demist.
Fast-forward a few years and i was coming back from Manchester airport toward Preston and probably doing about 90ish in my 1,9 Gti. It was pissing down as the road started to climb and turn, then turn tighter and descend. I notice the sign saying 50 Max on the left as i breeze pass a lot of cars on the inside trying not to brake and unsettle the car as the back was already twitching. Nothing happened but i really and truly bit chunks out of the seats with my Sphincter that night.
I have probably told this before but at Lemans last year i was at the back of our convoy of cars heading back to Le Havre. On a small French road approaching roundabout i watched a S3 go sideways and then a 350z do the same. All that occurred to me was that they were dicking about. I get onto the roundabout and the next thing the back of my Tiger is coming round. Queue me applying opposite lock and stamping on the brake like the novice i am. I had slid past my exit, so i went around 3 more times just to prove to myself that it had to be diesel and not me being a pleb.
First Car - 1984 Volvo 340 (thanks dad)
Within a few weeks of passing first scrape was adjusting the Bedford road car park in Guildford pillar with the wing of my Volvo while reversing out of a space. I still blame mates for messing about so i misjudged the size of my tank. Dented Volvo wing right on the repeater, but as it was a Volvo the repeater didnt break and a small bit of concrete fell off the pillar. Volvo 1, Car park 0
Same car a few weeks later i managed to push a sapling and the support around it over in the new Waitrose car park in Godalming as the Volvo's rear window didnt demist.
Fast-forward a few years and i was coming back from Manchester airport toward Preston and probably doing about 90ish in my 1,9 Gti. It was pissing down as the road started to climb and turn, then turn tighter and descend. I notice the sign saying 50 Max on the left as i breeze pass a lot of cars on the inside trying not to brake and unsettle the car as the back was already twitching. Nothing happened but i really and truly bit chunks out of the seats with my Sphincter that night.
I have probably told this before but at Lemans last year i was at the back of our convoy of cars heading back to Le Havre. On a small French road approaching roundabout i watched a S3 go sideways and then a 350z do the same. All that occurred to me was that they were dicking about. I get onto the roundabout and the next thing the back of my Tiger is coming round. Queue me applying opposite lock and stamping on the brake like the novice i am. I had slid past my exit, so i went around 3 more times just to prove to myself that it had to be diesel and not me being a pleb.
Geoffers said:
andy400 said:
10 days after my test (passed first time). In my mum's Astra Belmont 1.3, took a corner too fast, tail went out, I knew nothing about controlling a skid and so ended up going sideways down the (thankfully empty) road, before finding a grass verge - the greater resistance of which on the wheels caused the subsequent roll.
Car ended up on it's left hand side, with me still in the driver's seat strapped in. Thinking only of escape, I released the seatbelt and promptly fell to the bottom of the car... ouch! So I then stood up inside the car, and opened the driver's door (which was at the top!), it stayed open just long enough for me to stick my head up before closing heavily on my noggin! So, apart from some very minor seatbelt bruising, all the injuries I sustained were from being a wally trying to get out.
Anyway, to cut it short - police car, three fire engines (the engine caught fire), a royal bking from plod, ringing my folks to tell them what I'd done to their mint and fairly new Vauxhall etc etc. My parents had planned to take me out for dinner that night to celebrate passing my driving test, and they still did!!!! Was a nice meal as I remember, bless my fantastic folks!
I also got the prize for 'best crash' for my sixth form year!
Andy, your post just made me spill my coffee!!Car ended up on it's left hand side, with me still in the driver's seat strapped in. Thinking only of escape, I released the seatbelt and promptly fell to the bottom of the car... ouch! So I then stood up inside the car, and opened the driver's door (which was at the top!), it stayed open just long enough for me to stick my head up before closing heavily on my noggin! So, apart from some very minor seatbelt bruising, all the injuries I sustained were from being a wally trying to get out.
Anyway, to cut it short - police car, three fire engines (the engine caught fire), a royal b
king from plod, ringing my folks to tell them what I'd done to their mint and fairly new Vauxhall etc etc. My parents had planned to take me out for dinner that night to celebrate passing my driving test, and they still did!!!! Was a nice meal as I remember, bless my fantastic folks!I also got the prize for 'best crash' for my sixth form year!
Should not laugh at other peoples misfortune, but the bit about getting out of the car was hilarious!
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