Question Your first ever car bump/prang/shunt/crash

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Just had Mrs AS on the phone to let me know that she has just had her first bump in her car.

Fortunately it was a small 15 mile an hour shunt on a wet and greasy road with no real damage.

Do you remember your first ever car shunt???????????

Mine was in an Opel Kadett out side the car dealers in front of the Access building on Priory Crescent

 

[MK Shrimper]

Uh, I think I skidded on ice and crashed my £750 Escort into the back of a BMW - he had absolutely no damage, I did about £200's worth which fortunately my car mad mate helped fix.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Uh, I think I skidded on ice and crashed my £750 Escort into the back of a BMW - he had absolutely no damage, I did about £200's worth which fortunately my car mad mate helped fix.

How long had you been driving?

 

[MK Shrimper]

How long had you been driving?

Only a couple of years - I reckon this was about '93/94?? I didn't pass my test until 92...

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Only a couple of years - I reckon this was about '93/94?? I didn't pass my test until 92...

2 years with out your first prang is not to shabby mate

 

[MK Shrimper]

2 years with out your first prang is not to shabby mate

Yeah but I had a lot of driving lessons and a good few tests! Failed two miserably at 17 and then knocked it on the head for a few years until I passed when I was 21. Never was (and still not) a car nut and I used to get the mick taken out of me by mates for spending my wages on (ahem) other things while they blew it on their motors.

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

Went to overtake a tractor along lower road in my JPS Capri Mk II but unfortunately I hadnt seen the small white van which was already overtaking me. I clipped the back of his van. Dented my front wing but that was about it. His van was already covered in dents so you could not tell where it hit it....:unsure:

 

[Davros]

been driving 5 and a half years without a prang... ok, so i took 6 tests to pass, but most of my mate who were at college @ the time who past there tests first time, and thought they were great, wrote off a car within a year!

 

[returningshrimper]

Had my first prang about a month after passing my test when I was 17.

To make matters worse. it was my Mums car, and I managed to write it off by sliding off the road into a brick wall

 

[MK Shrimper]

been driving 5 and a half years without a prang... ok, so i took 6 tests to pass, but most of my mate who were at college @ the time who past there tests first time, and thought they were great, wrote off a car within a year!

Lol cheers Dave, I don't feel so bad now! New thread started :)

 

[toellandback]

I passed this year and crashed about 2 months ago. Driving back from Newquay on a horrible wet day i have tryed to pull into Exeter services when my wheels have locked. Not much damage to the bloke in front as i had nearly stopped when i hit him but i need a whole front wing

 

[WestRoadShrimper]

Had someone reverse into the side of me as I was turning into a side street. Luckily my mum was in the car at the time (it was her car.....) to know that it wasn't my fault.

 

[Mr. Benedict]

I hadn't even passed before I crashed it - we live on a blind bend and some idiot came flying round it, so I had to take evasive action sharpish. Thankfully I only bumped into the parked car and did little damage save cracking the headlight glass on mine - however it was my dad's motor so he gave me no end of grief about it for months....

 

[MK Shrimper]

I passed this year and crashed about 2 months ago. Driving back from Newquay on a horrible wet day i have tryed to pull into Exeter services when my wheels have locked. Not much damage to the bloke in front as i had nearly stopped when i hit him but i need a whole front wing

Hope the whippet was ok mate.

 

[Ricey]

My first and only crash (touch wood) was in my first brand new corsa I had. It was wet and cold the road was greasy I went round a corner down some back roads on my early journey to work, when I hit a kerb lost control and flipped it onto its roof. Luckily I was ok apart from bashing my head when I undid my seat belt cause I was upside down. The police and ambulance people couldn't believe I was alright cause of the state of the car. I was not speeding, early and lack of concerntration.

The moral of my story is: ALWAYS!! Wear a seatbelt. It saved my life it could save yours.

 

[Mr. Benedict]

My first and only crash (touch wood) was in my first brand new corsa I had. It was wet and cold the road was greasy I went round a corner down some back roads on my early journey to work, when I hit a kerb lost control and flipped it onto its roof. Luckily I was ok apart from bashing my head when I undid my seat belt cause I was upside down. The police and ambulance people couldn't believe I was alright cause of the state of the car. I was not speeding, early and lack of concerntration.

The moral of my story is: ALWAYS!! Wear a seatbelt. It saved my life it could save yours.

I've slid off the road before like that, although thankfully I didn't do anything worse than rip up the grass verge and I certainly didn't flip it (you must have been going some to flip the car!). I wasn't speeding - just going too fast for the conditions as you probably were.... a common mistake amongst inexperienced drivers.

 

[MK Shrimper]

The moral of my story is: ALWAYS!! Wear a seatbelt. It saved my life it could save yours.

Not wrong. My mate's husband was adamant he wouldn't wear a seatbelt, fortunately now he's a father, he's buckling up.

 

[Pubey]

i had my first one about a year ago. going down bread and cheese hill and the car in front was turning left at the lights at the bottom so i slowed down and looked in my rear view mirror to see some tw*t changing a CD as he slammed into the back of me. fortunately his car was miles worse off than mine was!

 

[Andy_Shrimp]

24/11/1989 - I had passed my test in the June and was travelling to work on this morning along the old A13. I was approaching the One Tree Hill traffic lights and decided to overtake a lorry as I didn't want to get stuck behind it on the single carriageway to Five Bell roundabout. As I increased my speed the lorry moved in the the middle of the road so I slammed my foot on the brake and lost control on the wet surface. I ended up smashing the keep left bollard to bits and knocking the traffic light completly down.

I was gutted as I had paid £750 for my Vauxhall Cavalier 2000 GL and also £450 on a complete engine rebuild.

I had to pay for the bollard and traffic light and my insurance went through the roof.

 

[dashman]

Dropped a few motorbikes in my time, some at speed, but my first was on a sheet of black ice at night from a water spillage that day. Not fast but it hurt more than one's at speed as we went down very quickly trapping my leg and it was all I could do to stop hitting the car in front. Oh, incidently, the car had stopped in the middle of the road to drop some yoof off at the college for an evening event & didn't see me(!) behind them, and they all walked off/drove off with cars behind me skidding on the same ice - nice! After Essex motorway plods got me banned I moved onto cars to nurse my bike injuries, then kids came along............. c'est la vie