Your first car crash?

[Bellend]

Mmate crashed his van swerving to avoid a car on a bend he was going round doing under the limit but going too fast really.

2K worth of damage.   40mph.

Was at a party and I wasn't drinking so I went to get it in my Golf and just see 3ft of van and a massive bush.

Wouldn't reverse so I towed it out with my Golf which was an absolute b!tch to do, had to kinda rock it forwards. Then see the damage. Wishbone is quite remarkable.

I haven't had a proper accident yet other then hitting derv at 8mph and twitting my fresh bumper and wing.

What bout you lot?

[patc]

My first & only was about 13 years ago.  Rear ended  a young lady at a roundabout when she pulled onto it, and then decided to slam on her brakes and change her mind!  The fog lights on my XR2i took the damage 

I hope I have not jinxed my record talking about this!

[mellow yellow]

when i was younger i was in my mums mk3 fiesta and was messing about with lift off oversteer on a roundabout, showing off to friends in the car behind.....

managed to get the arse out and looked pretty impressive until it snapped back and i tried to correct it and ended up with opposite lock hitting the outside kerb smashing 2 wheels up, then snapping back the other way and getting a little air and landing on a bollard centemetres away from a lampost!!! not clever to mess with lift off when you dont know what your doing!!!!



another time also a lot of years ago.. i was passenger in my friends car and we had been out for a game of golf. on the way home we tried to take a short cut down a country lane but it turned out to be a dead end.... anyway we got turned around my mate booted it back down this narrow lane, we turned a blind corner too fast and about 15 metres away was the junction to the main road (bank holiday, busy road leading to bridlington!) .... anyway we locked up, clipped a verge, went up on two wheels, the two wheels in the air hit a lamp post, we then skidded right across the main road and through to the other side of the t junction and missed every single car on their way to the beach!! very bloody lucky! what made it worse for my mate was that it was his sisters 21st party back at his house and his dad had to come and collect us..  he was in a spot of bother for a very long time!!!

[LowlifeDubber]

There have been a few but my 1st was seeing how fast my bosses pride and joy(Rover 220 Tomcat Turbo) would go round a twisty b road.
Turns out,pretty fast but not with a 17 year old behind the wheel.
He only lent me it to get home as i was just in the process of putting a redtop in my Mk1 Astra.
Needless to say he wasn't chuffed

[The Mighty Elvi]

I was at a roundabout. Crosshands east bound for those who know. I was on the clutch bight point waiting to pull out when I got smashed from behind and launched into the roundabout. Luckily there was nothing coming around the roundabout. The car that hit me was full of oap's. Hit me at about 30 mph. I overtook them approaching the roundabout and they looked like they were all deep in conversation. Their vauxall front end was a right mess. I was in a Toyota Corolla. And no, I didn't call claims direct. This was in 2004.

[salsheikh]

i crashed my old mans car 4 days after paasing my driving test and bumper the neighbours pug (only his rear light broke which he replaced himself for £20) and luckily for me my dads car stalled otherwise i would have drove into his garage and created another entrance to it 

[Jay]

I was at a roundabout. Crosshands east bound for those who know. I was on the clutch bight point waiting to pull out when I got smashed from behind and launched into the roundabout. Luckily there was nothing coming around the roundabout. The car that hit me was full of oap's. Hit me at about 30 mph. I overtook them approaching the roundabout and they looked like they were all deep in conversation. Their vauxall front end was a right mess. I was in a Toyota Corolla. And no, I didn't call claims direct. This was in 2004.

Similar what happened to me, except I stalled the Golf and the Merc behind me just slammed straight into me pushing me into one of the busiest roundabouts in Oxford - luckily there were no cars coming around. They're now turning it into a 'hamburger' roundabout due to the traffic congestion around that area.

Touch wood I've never been the cause of an accident or crashed a car.

[SoundillusioN]

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[apie2004]

I had a fairly big accident in a rover 220sdi a few years ago, I was going a bit too quick for the road and heard a screech from the tyres and thought that was it. I broke my heel and nose and had to be cut out! Needless to say my driving has calmed down a bit since.

[Jack3559]

A week after I passed my test, a stupid old woman crashed her Mondeo into my Cinquecento along a country lane.

Was fuming.  

Didn't really know what to do either.

I've not had any other crashes... But when I was 11, on the morning of my maths Kent test I had a head on crash in the taxi driver's vauxhall corsa into an escort van, and when I was about 6, I was in the back of my Mum's mini cooper when it was rear ended in Minehead. No seat belts either.