RE: 20% of Newbies Crash
Tuesday 24th September 2002
20% of Newbies Crash
It's a dangerous world out there
Discussion
No it doesn't. It just proves that you were part of the 80%. 
My first crash was being struck up the rear by a guy in an Alfa. Don't think he was insured and was ever so keen to give me money. I couldn't have given a stuff as my car was a wreck anyway.
Was collecting off him in installments. Then I went round in my school uniform to collect the last one and he didn't pay up. Doh!
My first crash was being struck up the rear by a guy in an Alfa. Don't think he was insured and was ever so keen to give me money. I couldn't have given a stuff as my car was a wreck anyway.
Was collecting off him in installments. Then I went round in my school uniform to collect the last one and he didn't pay up. Doh!
I've just had a worrying thought. [rant mode] In light of the current result fixing climate (exams getting easier etc.), what proposterous scheme will HM Govt. dream up to reduce the pass mark (read standard) for new drivers? No doubt there's some whinging disadvantaged minority who feels that they are being discriminated against on the basis of some other factor than their driving ability .... [/rant mode]
Steve.
>> Edited by Steve _T on Tuesday 24th September 15:49
Steve.
>> Edited by Steve _T on Tuesday 24th September 15:49
I was one of the 20%. By the time I was 20 I has stuck a metro into a counrty wall, removed a sump from another and blown up a 2cv.
First crash was on dark country roads racing home before metro turned into a pumpkin. Unfortunately at that age I didnt have a clue (yea, ok,... very funny) and thought I would live forever.
Now I am older and wiser. Alright,... just older!
First crash was on dark country roads racing home before metro turned into a pumpkin. Unfortunately at that age I didnt have a clue (yea, ok,... very funny) and thought I would live forever.
Now I am older and wiser. Alright,... just older!
Almost made it into the statistics tonight when an aged pillock pulled out of a petrol station in front of me on an NSL road.
Made it on to the verge rather than the back of his car (would have stopped 3 foot in to his people carrier otherwise!) with the only repairs required being 4 new tyres. Oh and a packet of aspirin to get rid of the headache from bursting a blood vessle by shouting at him like a maniac for 5 minutes.
Made it on to the verge rather than the back of his car (would have stopped 3 foot in to his people carrier otherwise!) with the only repairs required being 4 new tyres. Oh and a packet of aspirin to get rid of the headache from bursting a blood vessle by shouting at him like a maniac for 5 minutes.
Auckland City, New Zealand, age 19. Raining after a week or so of sun. Heading down a hill and some tubby wench pulled out in front of me and stopped...right in front of me. Seeing as I hit the back of her it was 'technically' my fault, though the police sympathised and didn't fine me for failure to stop.
NZ$135 damage to my car (a Toyota - new headlight), NZ$4000 to her car (a Sierra) - the last accident she had hadn't been repaired properly and her chassis folded like a wedge of fifties in a gangster's pocket. I only had to pay $1200 of the damage to her car.
NZ$135 damage to my car (a Toyota - new headlight), NZ$4000 to her car (a Sierra) - the last accident she had hadn't been repaired properly and her chassis folded like a wedge of fifties in a gangster's pocket. I only had to pay $1200 of the damage to her car.
I was driving down the A24 in my dad's car (a MK5 Escort). As I approached a large junction there was a Lexus waiting to turn right, just as I got there he drove straight into me destroying the front right hand corner of the car (if you can imagine the front, there was no longer anywhere for the headlamp to go!) He was charged for driving without due care and attention and repairs to my dad's car were in excess of £5000 (officially a write-off but the initial quote was a little more optimistic).
Country road in a Metro turned into a corner a bit sharpish and piled on a load of oversteer, managed to recover it with a full half turn of the wheel but was still pointing at a hedge when it straightened up albeit really near to impact now. I lobbed on a quick half turn of lock to try and provoke more oversteer (no way it'd have got round otherwise). This broke the back away again as required but went really quick and I didn't catch it that time and went backwards into a hedge duffing the NS against a telegraph pole. DOH. £1200 of damage, despite it being my car, dad went apeshit as car was only about 6 months old.
Not 2 weeks after this, dad put his Chimaera backwards through a hedge at the top side of 70 mph after a twat paked his car in the middle of the road (stalled turning into a drive and just let it roll instead of putting h'brake on and covered both lanes). Cost for fixing the Chimaera was about £2500. LOL. He never lived it down. I might add this was the same year he won the Tuscan Championship
Not 2 weeks after this, dad put his Chimaera backwards through a hedge at the top side of 70 mph after a twat paked his car in the middle of the road (stalled turning into a drive and just let it roll instead of putting h'brake on and covered both lanes). Cost for fixing the Chimaera was about £2500. LOL. He never lived it down. I might add this was the same year he won the Tuscan Championship
I passed my test a couple of months after my 17th birthday... and crashed 3 weeks later. 
Out cruising the streets of Epsom during a college lunch break with a mate in a turd-brown V-plate (78?) 1.0 VW Polo. Mate spies some girlies walking down the high-street. Naturally I turn to check them out, and look back to see a shiny new Micra stopped in front of me. Doh.
One nice new bumper on Micra, one bright-red wing (on afformentioned turd-brown coloured car) from the nearest scrappy for the Polo.
-andy-
Out cruising the streets of Epsom during a college lunch break with a mate in a turd-brown V-plate (78?) 1.0 VW Polo. Mate spies some girlies walking down the high-street. Naturally I turn to check them out, and look back to see a shiny new Micra stopped in front of me. Doh.
One nice new bumper on Micra, one bright-red wing (on afformentioned turd-brown coloured car) from the nearest scrappy for the Polo.
-andy-
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