http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=2760

Ah didnt see that.

Lol....now thanks to Hyperactive both topics point to each other

Oh no, he created an infinite loop. Soon the universe will collapse :eek:

OOPS!

If you get trapped in the limbo, just restart windows and it should be ok...

Eh, yea, 3 times in one year, not really severe but it was more (in 2 cases) the lack of expierence

1- Had my driving license for 1 month, and it was snowing really bad.
I had to go through a corner and lost the rear. Then I slammed on the breaks and headed towards that heightened thing were pedestrians walk on (don't know how to name it) I got on sideways, but luckily my car didn't suffer any damage

2 - I drove (very slowly) through parking lot.. some german dude backed out of a parking spot (don't know how to name it, again :P) and crashed into my bumper.
I really freaked out while it happened, but luckily noone got hurt, although my car suffered €600 of damage (new bumper, new headlight, bit of paint etc (There were only scratchmarks on it, but hey ) )

3- While driving trough a small village in the middle of the tourist season on vlieland (small island with only 1 village, so it was pretty crowded) i had to turn into another street, but made the turn too sharp, so I hit a rock, which got stuck under the side of the car (Ford Transit)

The onlookers had a bit of a laugh and i backed out an luckily i got off the rock an continued my way (laundry service)


1 and 2 were with a Rover 214 Si

a guy in a mitsubishi truck pulled out on the road without looking right ahead of me, i was doing about 90 km\h, nailed him in the rear end, since as soon as i saw him starting to pull out i slammed on the brakes, the front of the car was squatting when i hit him, so the end result was his towing ball on the rear bumper ended up a foot from the windshield. he had virtually no damage, my car was almost totalled, about 3000$ or repairs. I was fine, asides from a little seatbelt burn, it was a 96 nissan sentra, no airbags and shitty tyres. this happened in '99.

Thats the only accident i've ever had..... i've had tons of close calls though, but thankfully, either im damn good, or someone was watching over me for those accidents not to have happened :P.

Well since this seems to be the "live" version I'll give it a go.

Been driving nearly 18 years now, had a few scrapes and scratches in that time, not all of which were my fault.

First car was a '78 2 door Mark 2 Escort 1600. It had a Kent high lift cam, a Peco cherry bomb, and a 3 litre Capri carb [I was too young and stupid to realise that made it drink like a thirsty alcoholic without making it go any faster]. Had an argument with the girl I was seeing at the time, threw teddy and stormed off home in a huff, came out of a junction when I should really have waited for a bigger gap, stamped on the throttle and ragged the nuts of it up to the top of second when the transmission destroyed itself, and spat bits all over the road for the car behind me to run over before it ploughed into the back of me. Wasn't ever so serious, because he wasn't doing more than 15 mph or so when he did hit me. Escort went for scrap, I went back to the Mark 1 foot.

Second car was an Orion 16i Ghia, rolled that one night street racing, to this day I'm not sure why it rolled, it all happened too fast, but I think I'd hit a sudden and quite adverse camber change that dug the passenger side front wheel in, certainly that's the side that got crushed almost down to the top of the door panel. I walked away from that, and learned a sharp lesson.

Went through various crappy Astras and Escorts, and other than blowing a couple up and having some dips**t reverse into one in a car park that part is pretty boring.

At 27, I bought a Sierra Cosworth 4x4 Lux, which was already modified with 2 stage T3/T4 hybrid & bigger injectors etc. It pushed out close on 380bhp and I was a hooligan in it, usually although not always on the track, but on the odd occasion I did rag it on the road there would have to be nothing about. Melted the solenoid for the twin aftermarket fans blowing a Scooby away when I was in Wales for the rally about 4 years back, it overheated bigtime, and drank literally 40 litres of water getting back to Derby [most of it was coming back out as steam]. Sorted the fans out, but it was never quite the same again, obviously damaged the block somewhere pretty untraceable, so I sold it.

Grew up and bought a Golf Tdi, quite a come down, but nice car nevertheless. Decided to go to uni 3 years ago and also decided to pay for as much of it as I could myself, so I sold the car and am still using buses/pushbike/feet to get around now.

I've only totaled 1 car, albeit indirectly. I crashed a Chevrolet S-10 pickup in a mountainous region. When the crashing was over, the roof of my truck was below the road surface in a creek bed. Luckily, neither my wife nor I got hurt. It took two tow trucks to get the truck out, which during the extrication, the frame bent. The damage, so said the insurance company, was $200 short of totaling it. I sold it to a guy who fixes wrecked cars. He took it and had the frame straightened, then proceeded to back the truck into a barrier in a highway accident, thus totalling it. I put 75,000 miles on it, wrecked it twice, and after getting insurance money and the sales money, I made $350 on that thing.

I just remined myself of this years summer vacation. Ok so heres my story: Me and my brother bought Fiat126 P and took it on a little off road journey.(You might question yourself 28 horse power and off road? But yes it is possible.) So when my brother let me drive, I started showing off. First I went 40 KM on the road with holes and rocks and everything went fine until I got stuck in one place. It was a situation in which I wasnt able to do anything with my lack of experience. If I left the brake I would go down a little hill and got stuck for good and since the handbrake didnt work (Nothing new in Polish old cars.) I had to manuevere really quickly with my legs. Finally I took my leg off the brake, added full throtle and realesed the clutch. My Fiat 126 P is coughing and dying but but hey im reversing. I was so excited that I managed to move this rusty piece of junk forgot about everything until I heard some BANG!!! Guess what I hit a tree with my left mirror. The most funny thing is that it didnt even break. With my hand I bended the mirror other way and everything was ok.

I will post my pictures soon if I can find some. So far Im with no results.

No majors for me. Only put one car into a ditch so far.
Was in a 91 Mitsi Galant, FWD
Went into a blind corner at about 100, the corner started off wide, then went downhill and turned sharp, rear of the gave way tried to counter steer but it just kept going sideways and eventually head on into the ditch.

Only needed a new front bumper and a bit of hammering on the hood and it was ok.


(Btw, that's 100 km/h, the speed limit here)

Ive had a couple, the "best" by far in terms of recalling the story, was hitting a police car. He was going through a red light with the lights and siren going, I was going through the green light

Totalled the police volvo and my companies toyota avensis. What made it worse was it being rush hour, and the cars having to stay in the middle of the junction until accident investigators turned up to find out whose fault it was. People in the pub over the road came out to watch the carnage. I was a minor celebrity for an afternoon on the Coventry road.

I know what your thinking, that was your fault! Well, not really, I couldnt see the police car because of 2 lines of stationary traffic which I was under-taking (what? they were stationary! and yes I did think it was odd that they were stationary on a green light), I didnt hear it because I had my radio on as loud as it goes. Oops. I t-boned him at about 35mph.
I think I got away with it because the copper was on his own in the car, no-one checking left for him.

Im pretty jumpy about hearing sirens when I drive now, and
the music volume stays low (ish), lesson learned. Luckily, we both walked away unharmed.

Oh and Smax, your a nutter, maybe your safer without a car

I was once sitting in a bung old car and my brother came and tipped it over with a forklift with me inside. He thought it was the funniest thing he's ever seen illepall

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I was once sitting in a bung old car and my brother came and tipped it over with a forklift with me inside. He thought it was the funniest thing he's ever seen illepall

A practical joke!

No public road wrecks (...yet, touch wood).

I have wrecked 3 racing cars, In a FFord Zetec I went off at paddock hill in brands hatch and hit the barrier at 80MPH on the telemetry, the force of the impact made the engine punch through the chassis bars that hold it in place. That hurt a little.
A year later i was racing a Fiat Punto HGT in the wet and my windscreen fogged up (not heater to demist it). I could see out a tiny bit at the bottom of the screen about 10cm high and about 30cm long but i misjudged the a flat out corner, hit the curb got sideways and then onto the wet grass. It didn't take long until i hit a metal armco barrier on the drivers (right) side... my clutch (left) foot bent the brake pedal over onto the accelerator with the force of the impact.

The following year i was racing an Alfa 147 GTA in Zandvoort and someone spun off hit the barrier and then bounced onto the track infront of me, i couldn't do anything and hit him pretty hard (about 50-60MPH) then alot of people hit the 2 of us in the middle of the track, i didn't hurt myself but it cost about €8-9k of damage. the guy i hit broke a vertibra (spelling)...

Later that year in a qualifying session in Monza in the Alfa again i lost it all by myslef coming through the parabollica (last corner). That was a big one, dunno what speed but the gravel trap did nothing... wrecked the whole drivers (left) side of the car and hurt my neck and arm a bit. Still raced the next day though

And finally about 6 months ago i was teaching in a Racing School in Mondello Park in Ireland, it was wet and we were on slicks (thats a whole other story). i was in the passenger seat and the guy driving was crap, i told him to slow down or we'd go off but i've no controls so all i could do was let him finished the last lap. We never did... he spun on a fast corner and the back left wheel caught the bank, it launched us in the air and we landed onto of the tyre-wall upside-down. I abused him verbally a little.... not very professional but when you not driving that sorta stuff scares the s**t outta ya! illepall

Ive had an incidents, driving while at work.

for my sins i work for royal mail, and when i was on a rural delivery i used a ford escort diesel van. One of my calls was a farm miles a long a track at the top of a very steep hill. One morning it was very cold and frosty and at the bottom of this hill was a very sharp left hand bend. As i drove up it the van skidded on some ice, but it was ok...i carried on up the hill and delivered the mail. Remembering the icey corner, i was expecting a bit of a slide, so i booted the van into the bend, for a laugh, but it span like a b***ard. I oversteered to correct it and it span 180', hitting the verge square on. this was enough to make the van tip over onto its side. Inside it was manic! letters, packets and my food going everywhere!
I managed to get out and realised that if i had travelled a few feet further down the road i would have gone onto a steep bank and the van would have rolled right over several times!

it was both funny and scary, but no real harm done.

I've only had one accident in a car.

I was driving home from school one day in my big american 4000 lb FWD boat (94 Pontiac Bonneville) and it was snowing. The roads had not been cleared yet. I'd never driven in the snow before so I didn't know just how easy I had to take it. I was fine on some back roads where there were just sharp 90 degree turns. Then I approached a bend while doing about 15 mph, and for a little bit, it seemed okay. Then all of a sudden, terminal understeer. I was going straight towards the curb. PANIC. Full right lock, more understeer. Slammed on the brakes and they came right back up. Oh shit... I gritted my teeth and braced for impact with the curb. The front left wheel, cranked way over to the right, took pretty much all of the impact. When I came to a stop, I got out and surveyed the damage. Immediately I noticed a hissing sound coming from the front left tire. Aww crap... I only had 2 miles to go and really didn't want to try changing the tire in the snow. So I hopped back in the car and started driving a bit. Steering seemed okay, so I took it all the way home. A few minutes after I got home it was completely flat.

Then when my father came home he took a look at the wheel and noticed something that, in the heat of the moment, I had not: a small section on the edge of the front left rim had sheared off, a piece about an inch wide and a few inches long.

On my bike I've had a few incidents, none of them really major and none involved anyone else or any cars but all were really scary at the time, and all of them involved me being an idiot.

The first time I was in a parking lot practicing for the motorcycle license test. I got the idea that I might try pulling a wheelie. I sat there, stopped, revved it up a bit, and dumped the clutch. It seemed like the front wheel may have come up a little bit, but the engine just pretty much bogged. I tried again with a little more revs but a similar result. Once more I tried with a lot more revs. The front end immediately came up and I very quickly had trouble keeping from falling off the back. With my death grip on the bars and the way I had gripped the throttle, I couldn't let off the throttle. Still holding onto the bars, I jumped off the pegs and tried desperately to hold the 300 lb bike up as it went completely vertical and then fell on its left side. As it fell, I fell on my left knee and scraped it up a bit. Needless to say a few parts on the bike needed replacing after this one.

The second time I was showing off a bit in my driveway and along the side of the house. On the grass, approaching the driveway, I was doing about 15-20 mph. At that moment, I suddenly realized how high and steep that edge of the driveway is, and I think I must have grabbed a handful of front brake while on the grass. The front end washed out and I went down just as I got onto the driveway. I wasn't wearing any protective gear at the time. Needless to say, that hurt, a lot.

The third time around I was heading into school. There's this one sharp right hander on campus that I loved to take at speed and get the bike leaned over a lot. I knew that, doing about 30-32 mph, I could scrape my boot on that turn. So this time, I figured I try it at about 35 mph and try scraping the peg. I approached the turn, neutralized the throttle, and leaned it in. It all happened really fast. Next thing I knew, I was sliding on the pavement on my stomach watching my bike slide in front of me. I got up and immediately noticed a sharp pain coming from my right knee. Road rash. The bike also suffered some damage, the worst of which was the slightly bent bars which made riding it home that day a little difficult. Surprisingly enough my leather jacket suffered almost no damage.

I have to say, though, I'll never regret getting the bike and I plan on continuing to ride throughout my life. Also, I'm sure that, if my bike had better tires, I would have gotten through that turn just fine.

I bought motorcycle last year summer vacation and have to agree with you that there is no better transportation then bike. Unfortunately my breaks all the time. Sometimes I cant shift one of two gears and I dont have front brake. But who cares the ride is still very pleasents. Once I went off roading with my brother (He was on a bikecycle and I was on my rig.) Everything was ok until the chain fell off. Ok no problem my brother rode homeand brought some tools. We fixed it quickly and started riding again and guess what. My gearbox broke. When we came back home from our great trip we opened the gearbox. Some metal things fell on the ground but my brother put back one iron ball and everything was working again. Yeah right it worked. I was able to ride hour but then it was breaking. I am suppose to get good motorcycle this year but I wouldnt be happy too soon since my father is really against motorcycle. Dont know why. All I hear is this stupid saying: You will break your bones. If I ride carefully nothing will happen to me. My mom is saying yes then no then yes but it has to be as slow as this one (40 km) and blah blah blah. I hope I will finally get better motorcycle.

Here are two pictures of my bike.

I had a bump last night:

Me and my mate were doing handbrake turns in the snow, i drive towards his car (doing around 10mph) hit the brakes and skid into him.


Only knocked some paint off

i didnt have any till last night... was going down a road that i didnt know, it had the streetlights turned off, and it came to a sudden end with no warnings, there was a car turning around near where the road ended so i had my main beams off, if i had the main beams on then i would have seen that the road ended, but i didnt, road ended, huge bump onto alot of bumpy grass, hit it doing about 40mph landed very heavily on the front, bumper is screwed, frame is twisted around the radiator... somehow the fog lights on the front still work! and everything else seems fine, just the bodywork... theres me off the insurance and not being able to afford my own car/insurance