Did you crash in your 1st year of driving?

[Codswallop]

According to a quick internet search, one in five new drivers is involved in a crash in their first year of driving (DSA, Learning to Drive: a consultation paper 2008).

This being PH, I was curious to know how much lower our crash statistics were on account of our godly driving abilities

For the record, I got away without any crashes in my first year (more luck than skill on occasion...).

Over to you

[31mph]

Nope.

Although many of my friends did, I went skidding right down a steep bank and into a bush in the back of my mates polo

[Jimmy No Hands]

Nope. Not in four years either!


There's time..

[555 Paul]

I crashed my first car twice within the first 2 months of passing my test, it taught me a lot though and I've been driving over 20 years now and I've only had 1 other accident and that was over ten years ago.

[mnkiboy]

Haven't crashed in 16 years of driving. 1st year was more luck than judgement. Remember understeering around a wet bend in to the path of a truck and just managing to get back on to my side of the road, and thinking if either of us had set off 2 seconds earlier I would be dead!

[Munter]

No. More luck than judgement though. On several occasions the car I was about to hit moved.

[poing]

Slightly crashed, while parking a multi story car park, didn't spot the massive concrete pillar holding the building up when I was reversing.

The following year I parked it in the scenery on it's roof it to make up for the previous pathetic effort and gain back some man points

[martin mrt]

Oh yes indeedy, more than once.

I ran up the arse of a mk3 Cavalier 2.0i L in my Mk5 1.3 Escort so hard you could see the fuel tank and 3 of the Cavaliers doors would not close once they had been opened.

I then reversed the very same Escort into a container in a car park trying to show off, not a proud moment

I despised that Escort, i HATED that car, yet it survived both incidents, i genuinely thought i had written it off the first time, sadly not

[Benrad]

I walloped a high kerb at about 20mph trying to avoid an oncoming coach down a narrow high street. Lost my mum her brand new wheel trim scared the st out of my little sister too!

Since then I haven't hit anything, even if I've pointed the wrong way down a road unintentionally

[FreeLitres]

Decent drivers do not crash.

(Track sessions excluded)

[s p a c e m a n]

In my first year I slightly crashed a few times in different cars being a fool, but never made a claim/wrote anything off and always paid cash for any damage that I did.

• Drifted a 740 Volvo into a bus
• Knocked over a lampost over with a Frontera
• Drove an Astra into the back of a mates mum Saab whilst oogling his sister walking up the road
• Rolled a Croma into a parked car because I didn't apply the handbrake properly
• Drove a Metro gta over some pedestrian bollards in the middle of the road, looking at girls again

(I have slightly improved in the past 18 years)

Edited by s p a c e m a n on Thursday 24th January 20:52

[real4star]

NO... I did not crash in my 1st year, in fact I have never had an accident (driving for 4&1/2 years)
However, I know I am NOT a driving god!... I have been very lucky.

[Eighteeteewhy]

Yep, rolled and wrote off my first two cars that were bought for me by my folks.
I had to save up and buy my own after that. Haven't had a (serious) crash since.

[digger the goat]

Moggy...1st car...1st day of ownership..
Rolled.... Have slowed down in the last 23 years !!

[markcoopers]

Stoved the drivers door in on a low wall at the grandparents house on my first ever solo trip out......25 years ago now.

[Jayfish]

I managed two days accident free, on the third I pulled out of a T junction in the rain and wheel spun into a parked car, after bouncing into the oncoming lane I managed to swerve and avoid one accident only to hit two more parked cars. I've got a little better at it since...

[lightthefuse]

Yep - after 3 months and a trip up and down the autobahns of Germany, I thought I was a driving god.

Luckily, it was a 'oh st' brake too late moment and ended up rear-ending an Audi at about 3mph. Still ended up going on the insurance due to trading paint...

Had a 50/50 with an idiot in the parking space next to me who reversed their Lupo out at the same time I'm trying to swing 5 metres' worth of 607 into an extremely tight space. Punched a hole in their rear bumper whilst not a scratch on mine. Upshot of it, my insurers were done and dusted with it within a week whilst they had to wait months for their claim. Should have taken my cash offer to take the Lupo and fix it then!

The first (and last hopefully) write-off only came last summer after over 4 years of driving.

[ultraheed]

Took me 4 years but first accident happened in some 'style' unfortunately!

[krissharm]

Rather irritatingly I managed to get stressed out and via poor judgment got my car stuck in a multistory, it was tight but thats no excuse. I did manage to scrape my passenger door and front wing along a post and rip off my mirror, it was a horrible mess. Car in question was a pug 106, so no excuse to to get stuck in a multistory.... bit better now tho!

[krunchkin]

Too excited fiddling with knobs on the new stereo I'd stuck in my fiat uno. Rear ended up some uptight tt who wasn't happy. I was driving to school at the time