Scared of driving after having an accident???
16-06-2008, 08:25 PM
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I got a bit sideways at the ring last year, came out of no-where. I really was not pushing it, but the ring becomes an ice ring when it rains at 8 in the morning! Lost all confidence in the ability to push it round corners never mind go round them normally after that, as stupid as that seems. So I booked myself a track day when I got home to re-lean what my car could do 
16-06-2008, 09:34 PM
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is it me or are ALL the new vauxhalls shit when it comes to corners?
drove a new vectra a while back at brunters, and the peice of shit just wouldnt go round corners, and then a bit later a new astra - that was the same. and now i have a combo van on hire as my dispatch is fucked, that pile of shit is exactly the same, nearly crashed it sooo many times!
mid bend they just seem to loose all grip and let go, usually the front end tho.
you always bounce back.
drove a new vectra a while back at brunters, and the peice of shit just wouldnt go round corners, and then a bit later a new astra - that was the same. and now i have a combo van on hire as my dispatch is fucked, that pile of shit is exactly the same, nearly crashed it sooo many times!
mid bend they just seem to loose all grip and let go, usually the front end tho.
you always bounce back.
i've also put a little bit down to the vectra being a shit handling car... but agree with them not being very good around bends, astras also, not so much the corsa's tho.
16-06-2008, 09:48 PM
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i had a blow out at 80 on the motorway a couple of months ago now its always on my mind when i go on the motorway,waitin to get my car mapped but ive still got the blow out in my head so dont want it to happen again with rick the map man in the car too
16-06-2008, 09:51 PM
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yes and no, i eneded up hitting a tree and landing on my roof
next day i bought another car and was driving as normal, but for some strange reason i carnt be a passenger in any other car since that day, as i start to feel sick and go light headed, but if im driving im fine, but i carnt do long distance, say drive down to london or somewhere aswell, been like that for 5 years now
next day i bought another car and was driving as normal, but for some strange reason i carnt be a passenger in any other car since that day, as i start to feel sick and go light headed, but if im driving im fine, but i carnt do long distance, say drive down to london or somewhere aswell, been like that for 5 years now
i cling on and brake when someone else is driving lol
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16-06-2008, 09:51 PM
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i rolled my zetec s i had at over 100 being a complete twat down a backroad, i had only had the car a month or so!
tbh i was ragging a van about a week later and not even thinking about it but i did sometimes get flashbacks which used to shit me up bad!
it was however the end of me being a properly dangerous idiot and taught me a lesson
tbh i was ragging a van about a week later and not even thinking about it but i did sometimes get flashbacks which used to shit me up bad!
it was however the end of me being a properly dangerous idiot and taught me a lesson
Bollox were you doing 100.......
16-06-2008, 10:23 PM
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i had a 'moment' and ended up on the roof a few years back.
tbh i still drive careful on the roads even now. after that,
as i know now how easy it can happen, and i wasnt really even being silly that night..
tbh i still drive careful on the roads even now. after that,
as i know now how easy it can happen, and i wasnt really even being silly that night..
17-06-2008, 05:14 AM
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I was slammed into a tree by a car driver who then drove off, and was never caught, I was on my m/bike, spent 19 months in hopspital(1st thre in coma) but was onb a bike 2 days after getting out riding off road, A+E moaned like buggery as I got the plaster wet though, so had to be recast!!
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17-06-2008, 08:10 AM
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You get over it eventually.
I've written off a couple of cars and fallen off my old moped countless times.
Falling off the bike is worst, you stop leaning into corners and drive like a granny because you have no faith in the thing.
The only lasting effect my accidents have had on me is I now leave a proper stopping distance in front of me - and get all arsey when some ignorant cunt pulls into it.
I've written off a couple of cars and fallen off my old moped countless times.
Falling off the bike is worst, you stop leaning into corners and drive like a granny because you have no faith in the thing.
The only lasting effect my accidents have had on me is I now leave a proper stopping distance in front of me - and get all arsey when some ignorant cunt pulls into it.
17-06-2008, 08:15 AM
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but my problem is im scared to give it some on the bends, and the bends is where you leave those tailgating wanabe drivers behind.lol
best thing to do is a track day of somesort which ppl have suggested.
best thing to do is a track day of somesort which ppl have suggested.
17-06-2008, 08:31 AM
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I was rear ended in queuing traffic at 60+mph 5 years ago.
i had flash backs and panic attacks after wards for a good while, especially if i was in queuing traffic and someone looked like they were approaching too fast.
I had counselling too as i had a massive change of attitude, became very short tempered and stressed alot. i've never fully recovered tbh.
I cant be a passenger in a car if its making progress if i havent been in a car with you before or dont trust you. One old mate who took me for a spin in his car had a history of poor driving and i was always concerned being in a car with him.
i was punted 100 yards down the road in between queuing traffic and traffic coming at me at 60mph. Kinked the roof in 2 places (near the sunroof and C pillar), bent the exhaust so the car didnt really like starting, brakes didnt work, drivers seat collapsed and the stereo flew out lol
after being carted off to hospital as a precaution (st johns ambulance guy was concerned id broken my neck or something), once i got home i got straight back in a car.
i had flash backs and panic attacks after wards for a good while, especially if i was in queuing traffic and someone looked like they were approaching too fast.
I had counselling too as i had a massive change of attitude, became very short tempered and stressed alot. i've never fully recovered tbh.
I cant be a passenger in a car if its making progress if i havent been in a car with you before or dont trust you. One old mate who took me for a spin in his car had a history of poor driving and i was always concerned being in a car with him.
i was punted 100 yards down the road in between queuing traffic and traffic coming at me at 60mph. Kinked the roof in 2 places (near the sunroof and C pillar), bent the exhaust so the car didnt really like starting, brakes didnt work, drivers seat collapsed and the stereo flew out lol
after being carted off to hospital as a precaution (st johns ambulance guy was concerned id broken my neck or something), once i got home i got straight back in a car.
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17-06-2008, 11:10 AM
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I had a drunk driver pull out in front of me in feb, wrote my van off but the same night i jumped in the corsa and drove home at the normal 70+ just to show myself i wont let it scare me. I do slow down a lot more at junctions now waiting for the sods to pull out on me again
17-06-2008, 11:22 AM
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I'm a control freak too, hate being a passenger and really freak out in the back of anything 3 door, always planning ways to escape when we're upside down and shit like that.
Only had one proper smash but had loads of near misses that I've corrected due to the experience understeering wildly in the past has taught me, if you live, you learn.
Only had one proper smash but had loads of near misses that I've corrected due to the experience understeering wildly in the past has taught me, if you live, you learn.
17-06-2008, 07:11 PM
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i stopped and called the services as no other fucker did, cops came and done a rolling road block and stopped the traffic to clear the van off the carrageway. one cop then hands me a shovel to help clear up. i gave it back as i was already late, and then had about 10 lovely clear miles of motorway to myself.. did i drive at 50? did i bollocks
luckily it was 6am and not much traffic about, but could have been nasty if it were 9am or such.
anyway, crashing is a part of life, ive had my fair share lol, last one was t-boning some bint on my motorbike at about 45mph as she decided to turn out of stationry traffic and make an illegal right turn... that one hurt the gonads i tell thee!
17-06-2008, 07:18 PM
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i was doing over 100 when i lost the car, granted most of that would have been scrubed off with the spinning and taking out a post and a fence but i was defo doing over 100 when i lost control.
btw the car flipped and flew through the air upside down it didnt barrel roll.
the road was the other side of the trees in the distance
17-06-2008, 08:33 PM
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i went off roading on the a1 at 100mph in a mondeo and i was in passenger front and got seriously fucked up as my corner took the full impact and i refuse to be a passenger except when our lass is driving as it scares the shit out off me
17-06-2008, 08:43 PM
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Ive had someone take me out when turning into a road they drove straight into the side of me. Also when edging out of some garages on a 30 road with parked cars blocking my view, a speeding motorist hit me in the side at atleast 50 and t boned my golf gti. Makes me a bit wairy now of people pulling out on me at junctions and side roads so always slow down a bit when i never used to
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