Ever crashed, smashed, scratched, dinted, dinged or dented your car??

[macdaddy]

Glad you're still with us, Diabando! Sounds like you and Corollas simply don't mix!

The thing about my accidents that I'll never forget is the noise. Almost surreal.

Years before we met, my wife was sleeping in somebody's car when it went off and into a tree. She was carried away by ambulance.

[Alan Jones]

HMMMMM, never done this

1. In my girlfriend's mothers immaculate 1963 mini that she had from new with a wood grain dash. We were waiting to turn right and some dude ran up our backside.

2. While exploring the sliding capabilities of my TC Cortina, bounced off a bank and dented the rear quarter panel......it popped out.

3. Was the last car in a six car pile up......ALL the drivers claimed off my insurance SHEESH!!

4 Borrowed the " Moffat" commodore and had a slight altercation with a dude on my side of the road.One new guard!!

5. I'll save the best for last......

Hitchiking as a young 17 year old on the side of the Pacific Highway on my way out for a BIG night with the locaL crew but there's no one on the highway. I decided to smoke half the joint in my top pocket and then try hitching again.....5 mins later two hippies in a combi pick me up and as they are heading to Scotts Head as well, I'm feeling pretty lucky at this point. They light a joint and as I'm up the back, and the music is loud, don't hear my sudden yell of " LOOKOUT!!", and roll the combi as they try to take a very tight 10 mile an hour turn at 45.....
We went over 3 1/2 times according to the car behind us and when he came to dig us out, I was trapped under the bed and had the stove and a chest of draws on top of me. All I could smell was petrol and I was just starting to think this could be a problem when some dude helped me and the hippies out.

[Amaroo Park]

I had an accident in a clients car when I was working in a Dealership. The car was written off. Not my fault. I was stopped in traffic when a bloke in a Lnd Rover ran fair up the arse of this VT Berlina. The car ended up startin at the base of the rear windscreen.

[KC]

I've had a few dings and dents a couple of big hits as well. I had a guy in a 3/4 ton Ford pull out in front of me and I hit him and did $5500 dollars damage to my Ford Ranger. The same Ranger had $4500 dollars damage to it by an optimistic 90 pound white tail doe on the Indian Nations Turnpike. I had a goober from Mississippi run a red light and driver over the hood of my Honda CRX Si.

[Tristan]

This wasn't me, but my chum was lazing in his car in his driveway on a really hot sumers day. He had the door open, his legs dangling out. Time came for him to go, so he reversed out of his long driveway with his usual flourish.

Upon hitting the gatepost, the door, which he had neglected to shut, was bent back on its itself alsmost flush with the front wing. Had to drive to work without a driver's side door.

[woodyracing]

lol

[Maisie]

Reminds me of what Chris did with his race car once. We'd had a whole season of no panel damage, until the day he reversed the car off the trailer with the door open, thinking he could shut it at the last minute ... but missed and ended up wrapping the car door round the trailer stanchion!!

[Dutton]

I have had one relatively minor accident in the car that used to be my Mum's, but i still maintain all evidnce points to the tyre coming off the rim. Anyway, it wasn't too big an accident really. I was in an accident in a car with a mate driving, which was a magnificently spectacular job. I have had a couple of rather close calls, which could've, perhaps should've, turned into quite a nasty experience. They were during the straight after your test see-how-fast-Mommy's-car-can-go period though, so somewhat calmed down now. I still drive too fast, without a doubt, but it is far more controlled and reasoned now.

[Speedworx]

I have scraped my door on a wall and had my mum open hers onto my door. Also scraped the bumper past a flower tub.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by AlanJones
HMMMMM, never done this


4 Borrowed the " Moffat" commodore and had a slight altercation with a dude on my side of the road.One new guard!!

I remember that! Cost me my insurance excess, which you still owe me!

[Alan Jones]

Dear Bro,

you still owe me a TS250 !!

[garcon]

Oh boy...

Seventeen years of mayhem...

1. Dad's Austin Maestro. Going to some gig or other, parking up in the dark, hurled it on full lock into a ditch. Came to move it - stuck in the mud, so a friend said he'd tow me out with his Ford Transit. Still no joy, just covered the Maestro in mud, so we tried the pendulum effect, with me kind of half in/half out of the Maestro, left (!) foot on the throttle. Suddenly it shot out of the ditch, backwards - on full lock - and headed for the Tranny - I jumped in and hit the brake just in time for the front to spin round and smash into the back of the Transit. No damage to the Tranny, bent the chassis on the Maestro. Had my hand on the gearlever at impact too - 1st went backwards, 2nd was first, 3rd was 3rd, 4th didn't work! And it went round roundabouts without steering!

2. Dad's Ford Escort. Black ice, left hand turn with a stone wall on the outside. Lost the back, over-corrected, hit the stone wall forwards. Then backwards. Er. Then forwards again.

Then: Mercifully, a gap of several years!

3. My Mazda 626 coupe. Heading down my side street, in a rush somewhere. Parked cars towards the junction meant cars entering the street had to use the 'wrong' side. A Metro does exactly this, I lock up and slide into it head on. Only 15mph, but enough to total the Metro, which was my local garage's "courtesy" car! He said I'd done him a favour, so I only had to fix the Mazda - i.e. bend the front wing back into place and spray it...

Ok - now it starts getting silly.

4. Nissan 200SX. National Speed Limit rural road, blind 90 degree left hander - having just passed an RS Turbo (!), go flying round the bend to find a line of standing traffic behind a breakdown. Hit the back car - a big Rebault Estate. Totalled my front end - wings, bonnet, headlight assemblies etc, cracked the bumper on the Renault!

5. Vauxhall Senator 3.0 24v. My first write off! About 300 yards up the road from number 4 (!). Very icy morning, still half asleep, lost the back on a patch of black ice, no traction control... fishtailed off the road to the right, missed a big tree by feet, uprooted 30 foot of 200 year old hedge. Now the farmer obviously liked sturdy gateposts - sections of telegraph pole to be exact. I hit the first post with the front LH corner and the second with the front passenger door. Finished right way up about 50 yards into the field in a 2 ton boomerang.

6. Subaru Impreza Sport. Got cut up on a single track road, lost it on some wet leaves (4wd can only help you so far!), hit a bank on the lhs, gracefully went up the bank, leaning further and further over til it finally came ot rest and toppled ever so gently onto its roof.

That last was over 5 years ago. Expensive way to learn how to drive I guess, but hey - it was fun! The last three were actually after I passed the IAM Advanced Driving Test - I guess partly down to overconfidence and partly down to not having done the skidpan course. I get more pleasure these days from driving within slightly less extreme limits and treating every journey as a lesson. Taking my Impreza Turbo on trackdays helped too - the worst I ever did on track was a little gardening on the outside of Cascades at Oulton!

[DAVID PATERSON]

If I ever find enough time, I might sit down and type out all of my shunts, take a while though, I'm really not the world's greatest driver.

[Neil C]

garcon, if ever we should meet? I'll drive.

[kristof14]

Well I had my first and only crash back in April, exactly a month and a day after passing my test! Reversed off my mates driveway at a ridiculous speed and hit a huuuuge Toyota Previa (cunningly hiding in my blindspot) with the back of my mums Wagon R!!! Suffice to say there was a £1000 of damage to my mums car, the Previa had a cracked bumper and a bit of green paint on it!!

I have however started driving at about 25mph after a friend of mine was killed in a horrific car accident 3 weeks ago. The stupid get wasn't wearing his seat belt when the car he was in flipped whilst overtaking at 90 on country roads. He came out the rear window and was found 30 yards from the car. It's shocked alot of the local people into driving more carefully and serves as a reminder that anyone can be killed in an accident even those who've managed to survive many big shunts.

[Bluebottle]

This afternoon I aquired a bent bumper on the back of the Granada- the Honda CRV behind me had been rear-ended and was shoved into my towball. He recieved light front end damage, I have my bent bumper but there is justice- you should have seen the mess that was the front of the BMW that caused the whole thing! (The Honda had a towbar as well- hehe!) A bent bonnet, broken grill, broken lights....oh, and we're both claiming on his insurance

[garcon]

Some days you know there is a God.

[bella]

some chimp drove into me while i was in my mum's m3 on the way to brands hatch just before the dartford bridge. i stopped, he didn't, he'd been tailgating me for about 3 miles at 50. luckily there was only a few scratches on my car and it was at a relatively slow speed, his was a volvo so it bounced quite nicely. i got out of the car, took the keys with me and had a momentous girly hissy fit at him for driving into me. took me a day to stop shaking and to cool down about it...

i've watched my dad reverse my car smack into the corner of a wall at home. as a result, i had to drive around while people thought i'd done it. alas no, it was my dad with about 30 years driving experience...

touch wood though, that's all (apart from bouncing off a couple of cars when i've been ill) that i've done. from nearly 3 years driving experience, it's not too bad..!

[Craig]

Thank god for garcon! I was starting to feel a little worried it was just me! haha! Though, as a qualified white van man, I am probably allowed to have a few more stories to tell than many others here. All my 'stories' have happened in white vans I think.

Nowadays I am quite well behaving... at least until I get off road on some loose gravel... anyone ever been in the car park at Donington ? Marvellous...

[neilwaynesmith]

My first car was a 1981 Lancia HPE 2000ie automatic in BRIGHT yellow Beautiful car, good performance, **** electrics . Went the way of the dodo at a set of traffic lights due to a combination of a transit van in front, a well-curved young lady in a well-filled crop top and cycle shorts to the left and a misunderstanding over which pedal was the brake and which was the accelerator.

[neilwaynesmith]

Originally posted by garcon
6. Subaru Impreza Sport. Got cut up on a single track road, lost it on some wet leaves (4wd can only help you so far!), hit a bank on the lhs, gracefully went up the bank, leaning further and further over til it finally came ot rest and toppled ever so gently onto its roof.

I remember reading a quote by a (name forgotten) rally driver to describe a HUUUUUGE accident he and co-driver had just walked away from:

"Four wheel drive is pretty useless when you're airborne"...

[garcon]

Probably the same rally driver that said...

"The accident began about six corners earlier..."

[Chris Gray]

I've only recently passed my test, so I'll just tell you the ones my dad's done.

1. Scuffed the wing on the garden wall (x3)
2. Scuff the mirrors on the house (x2)
3. Had an egg thrown at his car the first day he got it.
4. Scuffed a Mini in ASDA's car park.
5. Ripped his bumper off on a kerb.

They're all pretty minor I'm afraid. Still, that probably makes them moor annoying. No major accidents just yet...

[Bluebottle]

Originally posted by Bluebottle
This afternoon I aquired a bent bumper on the back of the Granada- the Honda CRV behind me had been rear-ended and was shoved into my towball

I DON"T BELIEVE IT!!

Just over two months have passed since that little incident (Oi! You with the red phone..Where's my cheque?)
and i get rear ended again!
This time, it was on a road with speed humps and I had stoped at a pedestrian crossing when I was struck firmly in the rear by a young lady almost in charge of an Alfa 156! I had a bit more damage this time- the rear panel is now concave and my reg-plate got broken- oh, and the bumper is even more bent! (hadn't got around to replacing it!)

The Alfa has a big hole in the front and a burst radiator where my towbar went in. Shame really, pretty car...

[woodyracing]

unlucky :\ at least they came off worst.

I was rear ended by a young girl a few months ago (oo er ) the only permanent damage is a bent tow eye, but still