Bad driving - confessions here!

[Riknos]

eltax91 said:

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.

Rofl! Well done that man!
Bugger shouldn't of been on his phone...
..Although, I've never understanded why someone would want to try and cause the person behind them to write off into the back of your P&J?

[Munter]

eltax91 said:

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.

I'm hopeing all innocent parties were ok. It's the kind of thing I've done to tailgaters in the past. (My bumper is a but scrubbed and laquer is peeling so a replacement would be nice). I've never expected something like that to happen though!

[plasticpig]

silversun said:

I managed to get my first car wedged against a concrete pillar in a car park because I was shit at parking.

I am glad someone else has had that experience. Two weeks after passing my test I did exactly the same thing.

[eltax91]

Riknos said:

eltax91 said:

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.

Rofl! Well done that man!
Bugger shouldn't of been on his phone...
..Although, I've never understanded why someone would want to try and cause the person behind them to write off into the back of your P&J?

Not really my P&J, more of an horrible old snotter. When i buy the MX-5 that i'm hankering after then i won't be even thinking of it!

[bus_ter]

eltax91 said:

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.

Good job.

I hope you stayed afterwards as an eye witness to describe how he was busy talking on his phone at the time and paying no attention to the road as he swerved past you causing an accident...

Edited by bus_ter on Friday 25th May 15:10

[eltax91]

Munter said:

eltax91 said:

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.

I'm hopeing all innocent parties were ok. It's the kind of thing I've done to tailgaters in the past. (My bumper is a but scrubbed and laquer is peeling so a replacement would be nice). I've never expected something like that to happen though!

All parties were fine, the guy rolled once and landed on the loading area of a hilux! It was funny cos the guy complained after that his mobile got thrown from the car and broken! I was ashamed of myself as i normally just leave them to it, but the red mist decended and i brake tested him!

[eltax91]

bus_ter said:

eltax91 said:

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.

Good job.

I hope stayed afterwards as an eye witness to describe how he was busy talking on his phone at the time and paying no attention to the road as he swerved past you causing an accident...

As luck would have it there was an fire station commander in the vehicle behind him, travelling to some meeting or other. He checked everything was ok from a fir point of view and called the police and explained the guy was on the phone.

[cerbagriff]

Pulled up to a set of traffic lights behind a Capri - he just managed to get across before they changed, which left me looking at one of the prettiest girls I had seen for a long time crossing the road in front on me. In fact I kept watching her as I drove off when the lights changed. In fact I was still watching her as I drove straight into the back of the Capri (which had stopped in some traffic) not even touching the brakes! Got out of the car and expressed my apologies, to which the Capri driver shrugged his shoulders looking at the damage (extensive) - mumbled something about no insurance and drove off. Pretty girl walked passed my knackered car, fan through rad etc. still couldn't take my eyes off her. Sad git or what!!

Edited by cerbagriff on Friday 25th May 15:24

[Killer2005]

Accidentally turned down a one way street in leeds city centre, and pulled out on someone that I didnt see at a t-junction

[Heebeegeetee]

Munter said:

It's the kind of thing I've done to tailgaters in the past.

He didn't say he was a tailgater.

[D_T_W]

Done quite a few daft things in the past, none i'm proud of, but they seemed a good idea at the time. All done in my Legacy Turbo

Pissing with rain, standing water everywhere, slightly baldy Eagle F1 front tyres, 140mph. At night.
Chasing a group of bikers in the middle of a sunny Sunday afternoon, some very silly overtaking on my part to try and keep them in sight. Eventually caught up with them again to see a few disapproving looks from the bikers.
Spun it coming off a roundabout in the wet, by the time i'd figured out what direction i was facing in, the guy i had passed 30 seconds previously at about 130 is stopped about 5 feet from my front bumper.
Raced a guy in shitheap escort, kept passing him and slowing down, then speeding up again. All this done on a busy dual carrigeway in the middle of the day.
Raced anything that moved on the road, and treated every car in the distance as a target to be passed, no matter how far in front they were or how dangerous the road was.

If i'm honest, i've only calmed down as i don't really have a fast car anymore. Thats my biggest fear of buying something quick, i'll just go back to my old ways and drive like a total knob. I'm not proud of it, but at least i'm willing to admit it

[shino]

I had once had a sylva striker kit car, gear knob & hand brake were right next to each other, i stopped at traffic lights & put it into 1st gear & put my hand on what i thought was the gear knob (derrrrr). When lights changed to green i thought, 'i know, i'll burn everyone off here'. Only to pull on the hand brake, release the clutch, foot down hard & the perfect 360 in the middle of a busy junction in rush hour!! knob!!

[Munter]

Heebeegeetee said:

Munter said:

It's the kind of thing I've done to tailgaters in the past.

He didn't say he was a tailgater.

No he didn't. But it is still the kind of thing i've done to tailgaters in the past....

[604]

I have 4 tickets and a warning for speeding in the 18 months I've had the MX-5
...and I've spun out a couple times - once trying to beat out a yellow signal on a hard turn when I was running late for class... ended up cutting a red and spinning out immidiately after that

[Cat7SuperLight]

I was 17 and in my 1.0 Corsa, me and a mate went out throwing water ballons at people we knew not strangers and I was behind my mates car spotted a mate and went to throw the ballon when bang my mate had stopped and I had hit him at about 20 mph and the ballon fell on my lap and burst cost me £50 to sort my mates old Nova and a new wing for my Corsa.

[robwales]

Over-estimated the accelerative capability and length of empty German HGVs and under-estimated the power of my car when overtaking. Just about made it back to my side in the face of an oncoming lorry. Was 17 at the time.

Pulled a handbrake turn on a tarmac forest farm road. The previous night's frost had not thawed under the trees so it went right around, didn't hit anything luckily.

Edited by robwales on Wednesday 6th June 17:25

[dave10111]

I was 18, had only been driving for about two months, and i had about six passengers sqeezed into the back. it was dark and rainy and i failed to see a wall that was actually right in front of me. If anybody had seen it form the outside it would have been quite amusing, watching a car plough straight into a wall for absolutely no good reason. That was expensive to fix..

[Stuart]

Borrowed Noble M12 GTO3R from Autocar's then editor, Steve Sutcliffe. Ran out of talent at 35mph (tells you how much I have) on Streatham high road. Span and crashed Noble M12 GTO3R. The following morning began the ridicule which would follow me until the end of my time on the magazine. I was the publisher, and therefore the person responsible for b**locking silly road testers for exactly this sort of behaviour....

[Baldylocks]

shino said:

I had once had a sylva striker kit car, gear knob & hand brake were right next to each other, i stopped at traffic lights & put it into 1st gear & put my hand on what i thought was the gear knob (derrrrr). When lights changed to green i thought, 'i know, i'll burn everyone off here'. Only to pull on the hand brake, release the clutch, foot down hard & the perfect 360 in the middle of a busy junction in rush hour!! knob!!

[900T-R]

Stuart_Forrest said:

I was the publisher, and therefore the person responsible for b**locking silly road testers for exactly this sort of behaviour....

Sorry, but I can't help myself: