Some of you may have seen my thread from yesterday. I was parallel parked on a residential street, cars nose to tail like, got in my car, reversed back and bang.. I don't even know what i was doing or how it happened, i swore it was the clutch just lurched at first but looking back now i really don't know, why would I just get in a car and reverse without looking behind? Eitherway the car behind me needs a new bumper and mine has a dent/small pierce in it from the crash bar. Probably going to cost about £500 ish to repair the car i hit and mine a new rear bumper. Could cost me a years no claims at this rate.

Anyone else done anything dumb like that? Looking to hear others stories to make me feel better about my own stupidity

 

i did the same kinda thing once, i had a auto honda accord at the time and me and a couple mates were going out i was driving, so we all piled into my car and i selected reverse and for some reason just revrsed into my mates escort lol , no damage luckily just my pride haha

 

I can't say I've done anything that daft - at least in a car...

I did see a chav in a nova (few years ago!) fly into the car park and attempt to hand brake turn into the space next to his mates car, only to smack straight into the side of it!

Tom

 

Weird accident number one......i had been into a petrol station and filled my van up with diesel, must have stood in some on the floor, sat in traffic and my foot slipped off the clutch and the van jumped forward into the car in front, no damage to either vehicle but then the twat wanted whiplash etc.

Number two..... Again in a van, the council had been doing roadworks and had put the big metal panels across the road to cover the ditch they had dug, I was coming upto stationary traffic, it had been raining and I skidded on the metal panel and hit a rover up the arse, not very hard but enough to do some damage, I pulled in the bus stop to exchange details and he drove off, I sat there stunned for a second then just carried on myself.

 

years ago i had a stunning one owner red mk1 xr2,i was parked outside a bakery in wigan getting my dinner a lad came past in a supersport was eyeing my car and ran into the stopped car in from smashing his 4 cibie spots lol

 

Thats cheered me up a bit today.

 

We laughed our tits off - you should of see his mate - he went ape shit!!

Tom

 

i could be here all day with some stories of some of the accidents our 55000 drivers have but my all time classic was the guys who drove under a height restriction barrier in a high top transit and ripped the roof off!!! when quized as to what the purpose of there journey was it turned out they'd been there fitting the said height restriction barrier!!!


TWATS!!

 

a years no claim isnt a lot

 

I was parked in a car park and a mate of mine swung in next to me quite close and managed to get his front wheel arch wedged iside my rear wheel arch, fook knows how it happened.

Then the next day he did exactly the same fucking thing, this time he reversed in and caught his mirror on the top of the rear quarter panel and dented it in. His mirror was fine though, the cunt

 

The funniest accident that springs to mind for me has got to be when I was with my dad when I was about 13-14.

We were in a multistorey car park and he was trying to show off saying what a brilliant driver he was, proper smooth etc as we were looking for a parking space.

He found a space and said to me 'watch how well I can get in this space son!'!!

He swung into the space way too fast and didn't see the big concrete pillar (fuck knows how!!) and smashed straight into it ruining the bumper, nearside wing, headlight, bonnet and slam panel!!

I just replied along the lines of 'yeah, proper smooth!!' whilst pissing myself laughing to which he got proper angry with me!! Lol!

He got that repaired and the same day he got it back, hit a bollard and creased the nearside rear door and the same day after getting that repaired, he reversed into a skip destroying the tailgate!!

He gave up repairing it after that!

Got made redundant from his job due to accidents in the van. He had to use my car for a job interview once. Hit a parked transit and smashed the brand new genuine Ford front bumper I fitted to it a couple of months earlier and then just drove off!! Cock!

I banned him from using my car again after that.

He never drove a car again which is a shame as he loved driving but unfortunately his health took a turn for the worst (hence the reason for the most of the accidents).

 

in garage moving RS by pushing it..... rolled into my 20 tonne press.... now need to respray rear quarter pannel I was fuc**ing incandescent with my self and family for giving me the run-a-around all day long as I didn't have the strength to stop it!

 

My elderly neighbour had a mk2 orion which was automatic,
He sneezed and hit the throttle and crashed through a wall. He gave up driving shortly after
as he felt he was a danger to others

 

This made me laugh, unlucky....

 

Lol at the vid.

 

Parking my workvan on a sidewalk, becouse the owner of the resaurant i was working needed a few more feet for his tables and chairs, so, i look in my mirrors, see nothing backup, and after a few feet a the sound of a falling metal plate... I step out my van, and i backed up on a no sign saying no parking on this side of the road, and the whole thing snapped, and fell on the street. So, i threw it in the backmof my van and brought it to the local government and explained the situation. Got a lot of laughs, my van only had a scratch on the bumper.

Ive read slipping of the clutch pedal, my collegue cleaned his merc van, and sprayed everything with a lot of cockpitspray, and while he got in the van he almost slipped becouse of the cockpitspray, and his clutchpedal slipped while parking, hitting the curb of a sidewalk with two wheels, so the van suddenly stood still, and my collegue hit the steeringwheek with his face, i loughed my ass off, really funny

 

about 6 or 7 on my school holidays had a fiesta and was wrecking about in a field with trees
the day before the oul boy was teaching me a few tricks reverse 180s burnouts etcc

so rallying around bit bored then i see the dog, stop get it in the car!

dog gets scared climbs from passenger seat and lays across onto my knee

i go to do a burnout select reverse instead of 1st because the dogs laying across it and panick

i go straight back into the tree

til this day i still havnt lived it down

 

When I was a trainee one off the mechanics drove a customers car straight over mot ramp and through the wall, the bricks that fell through into next door landed on the lads rs turbo! This was in 95 so rs turbo was still a newish car!!!

 

I crashed into a wall once when one of my rear seat passengers threatened to stab me. I saw him reaching for something and turned round to see what the craic was and ended up mounting the kerb and hitting a wall. He opened the door and legged it.

 

Ive done a few pretty impressive dumb crashes.

Rolled a mitsubishi into a ditch. drove my old puma off a small cliff when the brakes failed landing in bushes - car undamaged apart from scratches in paint!!

This is my most infamous crash though:



started the automatic car in Drive by mistake and it shot forward apparently there is supposed to be some interlock to prevent you starting an automatic car in drive. apparently not in this case

 

Warren, they invented that quayside road sign for that very crash

 

a couple of years back me and the mrs went with her mother to do some food shopping... driving round the ASDA carpark we were struggling to find a space... She however spotted the overflow carpark, but she didnt see the barrier blocking it off!

She drove straight into (AND UNDER!) it, leaving us trapped in this over flow carpark, caused no real damage to the car, and only slightly bent the barrier (not enough to get us back under it though!!! lol)

the worst bit was trying to tell them what had happened without breaking into fits of laughter!!!

Also!!

a couple of months after on route to work one morning, she cant have got more than 30 seconds away from the house, pulls off the estate, cuts across a spot island and ploughs straight into a barrier completely writing off her car!! lol

This woman thinks she is a good driver too!!!!!!!

 

The day I passed my driving test, picked up some friends, went for a drive to a nice pub out in the sticks, pulled into the parking bay, stopped, went to put the handbrake on and hadn't knocked it out of gear took my foot off the clutch and it stalled straight into the side of the pub
Good job it was a mk2 fiesta that had cost me £100 with 10months tax and MOT

 

My aunt wrote off 2 cars in a year by parking them in the car park trolley bays....got her Corolla that stuck she had to get out of it by the sunroof as it wouldnt move forward or backwards so the doors wouldnt open!