jeff oakley Posted January 10, 2004 Share Posted January 10, 2004 Having just looked at the thread on speeding it took me back to my younger days, and made me think of all the accidents I had. I was a mechanic and When I started Tech the tutor told us that at least one of us would be dead by the end of the term, the body count was three! All road accidents. However undetered I passed my test and was promoted at work to go to the Chip shop each day. Day one, as taught. Day two I was experianced now so limits were to be broken. Day three, I am a driving god, the laws of physics do not now apply to our works van, until the pram shoots out of a joining road(I kid you not) which has three effets, one I hit the brakes two I swerve to avoid the pram, three I hit the truck writing off the van. This was all outside Dalton Police Station in Rotherham, the police were not surprised by the pram (rough area) but were at my claims to have been doing just thirty as the skid marks were Andrex, very very long and very very strong. No action by the police but six months ban from driving at work and as this was a long time before Pc and counselling a severe beating from the lads who had no lunch due to me. I am sure someone can beat this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cast iron Posted January 10, 2004 Share Posted January 10, 2004 I was driving a police friends modified Nova Sport, he was following in an Astra GTE - I commented on the handling being ****e and put it through a fence, of which one of the posts came through the windscreen between me and the passenger, at the first 90 right!! The really spooky thing was that him and his brother had built identical cars, his brother wrote his off a year earlier, a fence post came through the windscreen took his ear off and severly crippled him for life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scruffythefirst Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 I managed to put the loverly dent in the back of my second (and present) car by being very silly in an unfotunately not empty car park, right outside my mums flat. Had the odd near miss but nothing that should have killed me! honest Scruffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick.Petty Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Rolled a mate's mkII Escort (that he had just spent months stripping back and respraying) twice and once end over end up a dirt track at the age of 16 on a private estate of a local wealthy landowner, and rolled an MG Maestro (! at the age of 19 on the way back from a sneaky evening out with my then girlfriend's best mate. As I clipped the kerb I was saying "don't worry, I know what I am doing...." after she had expressed some concern a few seconds earlier about the speed we were doing. Had to stay at her parent's house that night once the car had been recovered to a local garage, and they do say every cloud has a silver lining .... ended up throwing one up there on the quiet so as not to wake the parents ... Was so chuffed in the morning I hardly gave a stuff about the loss of me only wheels that I still had a massive loan out for. Lucy her name was .... ah.... memories .... Nick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlewis Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 When I was 17 I managed to hit the accelerator rather than the brake in my Talbot Sunbeam.... I was in a little chef car park when it happened. Went through a fence, down a 6 foot drop and landed on the backend of a Cortina. Of course for years I said it was brake failure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilwillis Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 2 events spring to mind.... The first, was when I was with a peace keeping force in Egypt. I was driving a 4 wheel drive truck across the sinai desert, on a what I suppose you could by a long stretch of the imagination, a road. Parked along the edge of this strip of wet tar was a convoy of the "civillian" contingent of Yank CIA agents. Half way along the convoy, one of them decided to pull out into my path, and clipped the wing mirror. Cuz I was doing slightly over 35 mph, I was of course held responsible for the ensuing car-nage - one slightly grazed truck! Result - a ban from driving MFO trucks. Jeez was I p******** off with the spineless runt who held the enquiry! This was just a few weeks before we had an expedition planned to drive cross country all the way round the Sinai peninsula. I sat the whole trip in the passenger seat! The second one, I hold my hands up to. Road rage with a twist! I was driving on the ringroad in Wolverhampton, when the B@@@@@@ in the inside lane cut across in front of me, missing me by millimetres - the W@@@@@ hadn't seen me. I moved out into the third lane, and along side him, raising digits etc - as you do. What I hadn't considered was the queue of traffic fifty yards ahead, about to turn right. Ooops, At about 45 mph, I sort of met a Volvo estate, which sustained a broken fog light. The Maestro I was driving - a company car I hasten to add - was totalled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFFYY Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Hi Lads dont want to spoil the party I work for insurance company,s acc and claims and I have made a note of all of the above and no doubt your insurance will now go up Cheers for the info:blues: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Jr Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Accidents, I've had a few, but then again to few to mention.... However, My younger days were peppered with accidents, stuffed mums escort on a golf course, dads volvo on a motorway slip road, played croquet with an escort and datsun Cherry. But my favourite is:- Had a volvo V40 2.0T, was racing along a country road late at night, know the road well. Come up to a roadworks sign, but could see the trafic lights and they were green, foot down, touching 90 in to the cones. Now at this point I should mention that there was also a sign saying ramp, but guessing it would be a 1" change in tarmac height I figured I could handle it. What I didnt realise was that the roadworks were about some sort of waterpipe which ran under the road. They had bypassed it ober the road and built a mini humpback bridge over it. I hit it at about 90, still to this day dont remember seeing it, my head hit the roof, I hit the traffic lights (for the other direction) in mid aid, came down and the front suspension collapsed, sump bust and I went skating along the road until I came to a bend, for which I had no steering, and went through the hedge. When the police got there, after a blow test, one of them took me to a gouge in the tarmac. This is where you landed he said, can you see the ramp from here? eeerm no I said. Your not the first one to do this he said, but by f*ck you've made the best distance... Now how fast were you going, maybe 35 I said with a whimper. b*****k he said. Anyway to cut a long story short no further action was taken, but Its a great story fir the rocking chair. Company was less impressed as it was a co car and never drove right again True story, I promise you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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