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I turned left into a 4 lane one way street (may have been Mabledon Place off Euston Road, looking at the map) in an attempt to do a u-turn. Was only doing this because immediately before I'd been told off by the police for trying to do said u-turn the conventional way, right next to about 4 no u-turn signs.
Got a lot of horns for that.
Got a lot of horns for that.
Understeered into a kerb breaking a wheel earlier in the year in the snow (It was proper snow though!)
Went into a 90 left on a country lane too fast late one night hit gravel got into a four wheel drift almost got it back together before hitting the low hedge and almost rolling it, amazingly no damage at all to the car!
Similar to above but gathered it back together (mainly by booting it and hoping) and just brushed the hedge with the wing mirror.
I'm sure there are some others i'll have a think...
Luckily all the above were in the past, i've calmed down now having realised if I bend it I can't afford to fix it!
Edit just remembered another one, hadn't passed my driving test long and was in a convoy of cars going to a mates farm shooting, big wide t-junction with gravel, decided it would be clever to pull the handbrake and slide around the corner, lost control put it one way, full opposite lock went the other way and climed the hedge only scraped the bumper luckily!
Went into a 90 left on a country lane too fast late one night hit gravel got into a four wheel drift almost got it back together before hitting the low hedge and almost rolling it, amazingly no damage at all to the car!
Similar to above but gathered it back together (mainly by booting it and hoping) and just brushed the hedge with the wing mirror.
I'm sure there are some others i'll have a think...
Luckily all the above were in the past, i've calmed down now having realised if I bend it I can't afford to fix it!
Edit just remembered another one, hadn't passed my driving test long and was in a convoy of cars going to a mates farm shooting, big wide t-junction with gravel, decided it would be clever to pull the handbrake and slide around the corner, lost control put it one way, full opposite lock went the other way and climed the hedge
only scraped the bumper luckily!Edited by Nic Jones on Friday 25th May 13:06
Aged 12 on the farm. I got out of the 4WD to open a gate and left the hand brake off. 4WD goes off down the hill and I manage to pull the steering wheel enough through the open door so that it goes through a temporary fence rather than into trees at the bottom of the hill.
The fence broke and the cows got out (but not too far). I left the scene of the accident and the cows got the blame.
I reckon a second slower on noticing it rolling backwards down the hill and I would have had my first write-off aged 12!
The fence broke and the cows got out (but not too far). I left the scene of the accident and the cows got the blame.
I reckon a second slower on noticing it rolling backwards down the hill and I would have had my first write-off aged 12!
Edited by VRB03KT CAVOK on Friday 25th May 13:08
driving with 4 mates in the mini 17/18ish at the time.... overtook a stationary truck without looking properly, bus coming the other way.... everyone in the care swearing and screaming, droppped a couple of cogs and booted it, god knows how I made it... If I had had slammed on the brakes the bus would have hit us... 
Learned very fast not to do that again
Learned very fast not to do that again
I think I may have performed something of a 'Big Dub' the other week at a motorway junction where I thought there was ample room to overtake two lines of lumbering LGVs driving next to each other before taking the same exit. (2 lane motorway and tow lane exit) According to the fellow motoring journalist travelling with me, my move may have been just a touch ambitious.
To which I, of course, answered that I rather had one LGV up my *rse and nothing in front of me, than being sandwiched between two of them.
Coincidentally, we were driving a VW
edited because my typing is just as shocking as my driving at times
To which I, of course, answered that I rather had one LGV up my *rse and nothing in front of me, than being sandwiched between two of them.
Coincidentally, we were driving a VW
edited because my typing is just as shocking as my driving at times
Edited by 900T-R on Friday 25th May 13:58
My boss had given me a lift to a car dealers, we were picking up a Co.car that had been crashed and repaired - it was to be my co. runabout for a while. Anyway (she) drops me off, we collect the car, and I'm going to follow her back to the office since we're in a part of town I've never been before. Waiting to pull out into a busy dual carriageway, her in front of me (you can probably guess what's about to happen !?) - yes, she sets off, I look right, car coming but plenty far off for me to pull out too, only she thinks not and stops - BANG ! Straight back to the body shop with this one then ? 
ProPlus said:
driving with 4 mates in the mini 17/18ish at the time.... overtook a stationary truck without looking properly, bus coming the other way.... everyone in the care swearing and screaming, droppped a couple of cogs and booted it, god knows how I made it... If I had had slammed on the brakes the bus would have hit us...
Learned very fast not to do that again
4 of my school year died in one metro doing something similar to that pulled out into a 38ton truck coming the other way.... driver survived for a few years before topping himself.Learned very fast not to do that again
I've had a few silly moments:
1)Dragged the works pickup down a gate post. I swear it'd moved from when I parked.
2)Span the MX5 chasing a porshe and vanished backwards into scrub/bushes. Had to be towed out was wheels had no traction due to being held in the air by the bushes.
3)17 pulled into a gravel carpark. Failed to notice it was two levels and "flew" 6ft into the lower level (about a foot drop). You could see the gap in the skid marks...
frst time driving abroad when 18, car full of school kids and descending the swiss side of the super st bernard pass. I forget which side of the road i'm driving on and write off both my car and the other persons civic
driving back from the pub one night quite pissed up, going far too fast in the wet, braking very hard to avoid a well signposted ditch dug for roadworks, before remembering that snow tyres really don't grip very well in wet conditions. Slid into the ditch, got everyone out of the car and pushed the car back out again. Drove off "much" slower- dent in bumper attributed to drunken people!
Both above were in switzerland- can't remember doing anything embarassing in the UK!
driving back from the pub one night quite pissed up, going far too fast in the wet, braking very hard to avoid a well signposted ditch dug for roadworks, before remembering that snow tyres really don't grip very well in wet conditions. Slid into the ditch, got everyone out of the car and pushed the car back out again. Drove off "much" slower- dent in bumper attributed to drunken people!
Both above were in switzerland- can't remember doing anything embarassing in the UK!
I'd been karting and was on my way back to the office. Still had some red mist, which is lethal when the roads are drenched from the biblical storm overhead. Tailgated a Mini that was in the outside lane of a dc as I *needed* to get past. The driver eventually moved over when he could, but I could see he wasn't happy. I did this a couple of times, bullying drivers out of the way.
Approaching a roundabout at a speed that can only be termed excessive, I stamped on the brakes which led to my Corrado doing a slow-motion 360 (or was it 720?), narrowly avoiding all the cars around me. Came to a stop with the engine stalled and two wheels up on the grass verge, whilst the occupants of the Mini did the coffee shakes, quite accurately I'd say.
Amazing stuff that red mist; it lends a cloak of invincibility over you and then instantly evaporates to expose your shortcomings... valuable lesson learned, which was never to be repeated.
Approaching a roundabout at a speed that can only be termed excessive, I stamped on the brakes which led to my Corrado doing a slow-motion 360 (or was it 720?), narrowly avoiding all the cars around me. Came to a stop with the engine stalled and two wheels up on the grass verge, whilst the occupants of the Mini did the coffee shakes, quite accurately I'd say.
Amazing stuff that red mist; it lends a cloak of invincibility over you and then instantly evaporates to expose your shortcomings... valuable lesson learned, which was never to be repeated.
80mph. Hump back bridge. Montego. Long line of cars waiting to turn right just over the bridge. 
Say no more. 
Long section of the N7 used to be signed no overtaking for 5 miles, double white lines etc. I was following a transit at 40mph for all of this and at the end there was a long straight with a big hidden dip, I decide to overtake and as I get alongside a small lorry emerges from the dip, cue foot to the floor and heart racing I just get in, I can still remember the look on the drivers face. Worse was there was a garda car in convoy behind the lorry but they were boxed in by following traffic, phew I thought, but a few miles up the road 3 garda patrol cars drove past, the last one pulled into a side road turned around and started following me, when they finally pulled me over they told me the garda car was escorting the lorry on bank cash deliveries, so maybe the driver thought I was part of some ambush 
edit - this was many years ago
edit - this was many years ago
Edited by Strawman on Friday 25th May 14:36
Very ashamed of myself but i brake tested some chap who was on his mobile phone. I was intending to give him a short, sharp shock but he over reacted and swerved left. He ended up at the top of a six foot embankment and rolled down the embankment onto the car infront of me, writing both of them off. 
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