Your most embarrassing accident?

BeachBall · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: Your most embarrassing accident?

I don't expect many men will post on this topic, because as they're always telling us, they're all excellent drivers who never do anything wrong.

Me? Well, I know I'm not the world's best driver, by any means. And I've had a few mishaps in my time.

Perhaps the most embarrassing was when I was looking for a farm that I'd never visited before. I thought I'd found it and turned into the yard, but it turned out I was at the wrong farm. They helpfully gave me directions, but while I was trying to turn around in their yard I managed to scrape one of their cars and cause about £200 damage to its paintwork Embarassed

(It was a beautiful car that they'd just restored and were very proud of, too!!!)

Close on its heels comes the time I reversed out of my drive early one winter's morning. I'd checked carefully for traffic left and right, but didn't actually check right behind. There's never any parked cars there .... only this time there was, and I reversed straight into it making a massive dent in the side. Embarassed

Fortunately, my neighbour was very understanding. He said it was an old banger which he'd bought as a cheap runaround, and it didn't make any difference to him that it was now a dented old banger, because it still ran just as well. Clap

So what about you? What silly things have you done that you're ashamed or emabrrassed to admit?

BeachBall · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject:

I've just remembered an even more embarrassing one.

This was waaaaaaayyy back, when I was 18 and in the run-up to my A level exams. I'd had no morning lessons so had stayed at home revising, but I had to go in to school for the afternoon. It was a lovely hot summer's day, so I borrowed the family car (a nice, shiny new Rover 2300) and I thought it would look really cooooool if I went swanning into the school yard rather faster than you're meant to, windows and sunroof open, music blaring, not a care in the world.

So that's what I did. And I was right. Every head turned, everyone in the yard thought "who's that acting so cool?"; and everyone in the yard saw me misjudge my braking point and fail to stop the car without bumping it into the classroom wall. It made a tremedous "DOINK!" sort of noise as it did so, and I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me Embarassed

minigirl · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject:

in the fifteen years i've been driving i've had three accidents. the first one was just after i got my licence and i was driving my father's car when a man drove into the back of me at an intersection. he was very apologetic but said "i thought you were going to fit into that gap in the traffic" (the insurance company agreed it was his fault)

the third time i was starting off from a set of traffic lights when i was hit from from behind by a taxi driven by a man that was doing at least 70 km/h. all he could say was "didn't you see the green light"! - it changed to green less than five seconds earlier, so even if i had floored the accelerator the moment it had changed to green he would still have hit me - and this time my car was written off and i only had it for a few weeks! (once again the insurance company agreed it was his fault)

i like to think i'm a good driver but the other accident i've had was my fault although it was relatively minor - i reversed into another car when i was parking

Starfish · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject:

I took my mum and her friend to the airport and when to back in to a place with loads of cars watching me I backed in to a pillar and dinted all my boot. I was shamed to death cause people were waiting to get past and they all saw me do it Embarassed

K-Babe · You Go Girl (100+ Posts) Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 123

I passed my test 6 years ago and i havent actually had a prang or a crash or anything like that. I did overshoot a corner in town with my first car and hit a curb ripping the wheeltrim off lol. But ive never actually hit another car or anything.

When i got my second car, Ford Escort, i came home at night and was parking in my space and wasnt concentrating and went into my own fence lol.

Bobin · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:03 am Post subject:

wellllll ....

during my first driving test, i thought i was doing pretty good. I was told to make a 3-point turn, that was a pretty easy thing to do. got the signals right, made sure no traffic was coming, made the first turn. then, when i backed uo, i backed up into a tree. instant failure. when the test results came in the mail, the examiner wrote "collision with tree".

Moonstone · Guest

After 6 years living in the same house, I misjudged the drive and went through my own front garden fence.