GavinJ
Club Retro Rides Member
MGB 3.9 v8 Sebring
Posts: 927 
Club RR Member Number: 209
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I've been driving 2 1/2 years and i've only ever had one incident which involved me losing the back end of my e30 on an island and ending up facing the wrong way on the pavement  Resulting in one bent rim, knackered wheel bearing and two flat tyres  Luckily i didn't hit anyone though ;D so i'm yet to have any contact with other cars.... |
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RetroMat
Posted a lot
Column Shifting!
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i've been driving for 1 1/2 year and had 1 incident, where i lost the back end of a fwd micra  spun and hit the curb bending the rear axle ;D |
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GavinJ
Club Retro Rides Member
MGB 3.9 v8 Sebring
Posts: 927
Club RR Member Number: 209
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so you ended up with a rim looking like this aswell then,  How did you manage it? |
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RetroMat
Posted a lot
Column Shifting!
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yep:  not sure how i manged it, lift off oversteer in a micra?who knows  |
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GavinJ
Club Retro Rides Member
MGB 3.9 v8 Sebring
Posts: 927
Club RR Member Number: 209
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You did a good job of it! looks rather bent  , luckily i didn't bend anything and just buggered the wheel bearing! |
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Proper prangs? One, in 9 years of driving. That was 2 months after I passed my test. Imagine a glorious spring day, the sun is shining and the girls are looking fine. So I was checking them out, thinking I looked pretty boss with the tunes kicking out. Until the person in front of me brakes on an amber light (rather than "proceeding with caution" or "being prepared to stop"). As a result I turned his Nova saloon into a Nova hatch. Ouch. £2k of damage apparently! Cost me £12 for a front panel, £8 for a headlamp unit, £7 for a number plate plus several hours whacking with a big hammer and Super Skud was "good as new"! ;D I've had a few "offs" into the scenery, but they don't really count as there's never been any contact with anything solid. Just to clarify this, alot of the roads around here aren't really wide enough for two cars, so if you meet someone halfway round a bend, you're doing 40, their doing 40, sometimes evasive action has to be taken!!! |
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Last Edit: Feb 6, 2005 8:47:06 GMT by nickb
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I ditched my 305GT on an icey morning. A Nova ran into the back of my Sierra. The Sierra had a towbar which made a mess of the Nova. A 205 ran into the back of my Golf GTI. The Golf had a towbar aswell. And a my fault accident. I was driving my Scirocco to work one morning and a modified Scirocco was going in the opposite direction. I was so busy looking at it i drove into the back of a 306  |
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BS Nymph
Singer Chamois Coupe
Series 3 Landy
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my talbot horizon into a golf gti (i was 18)
bone head in xr2 pulls out of car park into my escort (south african tw*t - paid 30 for the car took him for 400 lol)
bus into back of 40 quid fiesta - 600 quid to me this time
car pulls out on my motorbike - 5 grand for me
not bad 1 fault accident in 15 years
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Been driving 18 years.... The first car I had on the road was a MK1 Escort, gave it some on a left hand bend and hit the opposite kerb..... lucky no one was comming the other way.... Result was bent rim, track control arm and anti roll bar....  Couple of years later I ran into the back of a MK3 Escort in my Lada 1200 estate.... About ten years ago I did the same thing to Fiat Uno with a MK5 cortina.... Had a couple of people 'bump' me at traffic lights.... no damage done.... |
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault. |
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Absolutely none in a car, a minor on my motorbike and a major on the same bike. The minor, my brother had cleaned the bike while I was on holiday, jumped on it to go to work when i got home and the rear tyre had been polished up with armorall, enough to slip as I went around a sedate corner, low sided it and caused a few hundred $$ in damage ripping the brake master piston apart as the foot pedal got pushed too far up. Needless to say, I was annoyed. The major, A few years back I was travelling along one of the nice empty relatively straight backroads in the country and out of nowhere the rear wheel locked up at around the 70mph mark and the flicked me off a little bit after that, luckily enough I survived with only minor scrapes and nothing broken, what's also lucky is that I was slowing down from a rather much faster (think twice the speed the wheel locked up) blat down the straight ;D ahh well, the bikes has been in the garage since then, until I can afford to fix it up. |
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Skyline: 1963 - 1973 - 1983
Sunny: 1982
450SLC: 1973
Navara: 1992
Gloria: 1992
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in 15 years ive had 3.
my chevette was concertina'd between a pug 405 and a volvo 240.a girl in a golf gti caused that one by driving into the back of the volvo at about 50 mph.
a woman drove into the back of my camper.bent my bumper and engine surround.the micra she was driving was written off.the roof was bent.and she had the nerve to ask if id say it happened in sunderland,cos her husband didnt know she had the car.i think not love.off to see your other bloke like?
pulled out of a junction in my manta 400 rep.saw a car at the last minute,tried to reverse but got no traction.bang got hit.it was mantamads dad.doh.£600 pounds worth of damage on his,20 mins with a hammer and a tub of fibreglass and you'd never tell id hit anything.
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I'm 14 and have already had an accident Driving a friends xr2i round a field, handbrake-turns etc. Managed to do a J-turn and ran straight into a tree. Virtually no damage as I was only doing 20mph ;D |
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1997 TVR Chimaera
2009 Westfield Megabusa
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rolled my mum's megane into a mk1 fiesta at a roundabout... literally 2mph prang. fiesta was deemed unrepairable, i looked for ages for any damage to the megane but found none - not even a cracked numberplate. turns out his insurance was invalid anyway, i paid nothing  |
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Never trust a man
Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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I've had one accident in 8 years driving, and that was a few months ago in the Benz . Went into the back of a spanking new Corsa as I was approaching a roundabout. Foolishly assumed the woman in front had gone as I was looking right....crunch! A few bent panels on mine (which I still have to repair!). The Corsa had a buckled boot floor. I had a sort of...intentional accident whilst driving in London. Some rep in his Audi or some other big saloon (can't remember what it was) tried to barge his way in front of me after tanking up the bus lane and jumping the queue of decent motorists who drive properly. He thought I'd yield after trying to nose in.... ummm, nope! Nasty scraping metal sound as my already crumpled wing swiped his!! Hahahahaha!! Don't mess. Needless to say he did a lot of gesticulating in my rear view mirror. ;D |
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Been driving 18 years.... The first car I had on the road was a MK1 Escort, gave it some on a left hand bend and hit the opposite kerb..... lucky no one was comming the other way.... Result was bent rim, track control arm and anti roll bar.... Couple of years later I ran into the back of a MK3 Escort in my Lada 1200 estate.... About ten years ago I did the same thing to Fiat Uno with a MK5 cortina.... Had a couple of people 'bump' me at traffic lights.... no damage done.... Don't know how I forgot to mention this originaly, but about 2 1/2 years ago a woman in a MK3 Astra ran into the back of my MK2 Astra estate at a roundabout. There was no visible damage to her car, mine had dented tailgate, smashed fog lights and a small crease in the floor. we swapped insurance details ect, but that night she came round with her boyfriend and asked if they could sort it out without going through the insurance. I agreed, as I thought the insurance would probably write my car off. To cut a long story short, after about 6 months, all I got out of it was a S/H tailgate in the wrong colour...... NEVER AGAIN!!! Oh, and I once stoved the back of a mini in and demolished a wall with a ford Corsair with no engine in.... Don't ask.....  |
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault. |
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1 minor prang on a narrow road in my first Fiat 127, went wheelarch to wheelarch with a VW Jetta, then major write-off of a Fiat 127 Sport, managed to get it into a rear wheel drift , hit bank, flipped it onto its side across the road, I ended up sitting in the passenger seat. Luckily I was 100 yards from home. 3 months later wrote of a Uno Turbo at 25 mph, came up behind a bus that was slowing at a crossroads with his right indicator on, I went to pass on his inside, when I drew alongside ,his left indicator came on and crunch. Owner of the bus took me to court and I won the case, sweet...
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Not been driving that long compared to most of you, but I've had the odd loss of control followed by massive embarrassment. The closest I ever came to real injury was when someone stopped dead in a little Pug 306 in front of us with curse word all warning, apparently making a turn but for some reason I never saw indicators OR BRAKELIGHTS, until ridiculously late, the lights can't have been working properly or I'd have slowed down earlier. (I was in a mk 3 Astra at the time, not mine, motability car) and the resultant smack gave the car a good deal of frontal damage, me a bit of a sore neck, I think the passenger had the same, and I seemed to be slightly dazed and confused afterwards for some reason. Off the road I had a hilarious brake failure in a knackered racing Imp I was rebuilding, which ended with me flying into the back wall of the brick lock-up garage and f*cking the front end of the car right up!! ;D ;D ;D Oh and on the road I had a weird incedent involving a brake lock-up, a Volvo 240, a shop window, a confused and embarrassed commie, and a pretty raging shop owner, but I won't go into that, nobody was actually hurt and little damage was done to the shop or the Volvo. |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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I used to always be whanging into ditches when I was younger driving various old Morris Itals, but I've never crashed into anyone else. Also drove my rover 800 diesel into the side of a bridge. This was 'not my fault' as I was carrying a massive mattress which meant my seat was far too far forwards and I could not steer properly! The iron railings went through the oil cooler and all the engine oil curse word out into the stream under the bridge.... Nice.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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Also drove my rover 800 diesel into the side of a bridge. This was 'not my fault' as I was carrying a massive mattress which meant my seat was far too far forwards and I could not steer properly! Well that won't be happening now that you have that 929 EBAY BARGE THINGY!! "Mr_Bo11ox Mattress Delivery Service" in dulux down the side would be the dogs danglies. |
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One biggie as in siggy pic below Sideways, smash, spin, smash, spin, spin, stop!!! The drivers door was the only panel to completely survive ;D Missus had a 7 half tonner roll into the back of the Golf last year. & really that's about it between us except for a bit of facing the wrong way on roundabouts & the like..... ;D ;D |
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Resulting in one bent rim, knackered wheel bearing and two flat tyres 
spun and hit the curb bending the rear axle ;D
, luckily i didn't bend anything and just buggered the wheel bearing!
