When was your first car accident?

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No crashes here either, but that means that one of us to be due soon :scared: .

EDIT: If this thread includes karting accidents, then yep, I've been in one. Nearly rolled it @ 50 mph.
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For car accidents no, I did roll my 3 wheeler trying to go up too steep of a hill. Ouch, thank god it only weighed a bit more than a person. 294lbs.
 
I had my driverslicense less than a year, so I was feeling pretty good about myself and thought I could make it into the corner. Guess what :D I didn't!

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I'm a nice example of someone who thought he could, but didn't. Like so many young drivers... So please look out when you're fresh!

(I'll upload the 'just after it happened' photo later, with the thing that caused it)
 
When I was 17, went too fast into a roundabout in the Skyline, locked up the brakes and went straight up the kerb. Ripped apart 3 tyres and bent two steelies along with the steering rack.
 
About 6 months ago I was driving home through a snow storm in the Grand Prix. A Honda Pilot ahead of me stopped and I couldn't stop in time. He suffered no damage but his hitch mount punched a hole through the license plate and through my bumper into the energy absorbing foam block behind it.

Looked like I rear ended a pole vaulter. :lol:

Never fixed it, just got a new plate to cover the hole.
 
About 19-20 years ago, I fell in love with a car that I wanted BAD, the Mazda MX-6 Mystere. There was a dealer in town, so my girlfriend and I decided to check it out, and were convinced to go for a test drive in this black beauty.

Everything was going great, when a kid with daddy's car decides to cut across 3 lanes of traffic to get into a parking lot. Well I T-boned this car at 70km, and BOOM, the airbags go off. It felt like Tyson had hit me. Thankfully, all 3 of us were ok (myself, the GF and the salesperson) and the kid and his GF were shaken up but good.

With enough witnesses around, I was deemed not at fault, but lost the chance to buy that car I wanted oh so much... :(

Have a good one
 
Haven't been in a crash yet (thank God), but I managed to put a scratch on my bumper on the first day after I bought my car. I felt horrible. But I've been in car accidents before when my dad was driving (it wasn't his fault).
 
I've been really fortunate so far in my 7 years of driving. Only had a few minor accidents. The first was in my old celica when I was passing through a green light at an intersection. A bloke turning right from the other direction failed to give way, so I slammed on the brakes and t-boned the very rear of his corolla. Only minor damage to my car, but his rear bumper was toast.

The other crash happened a few months ago at a give way sign. The dude waiting in front of me drove off, then stopped again suddenly. I thought he had already driven off, so I drove forward whilst looking right for incoming traffic and i ran into him. His car was owned pretty good. It cost more to repair than the actual car was worth, but mine wasn't too bad. Whoopsy!

I was once also sitting at a red light, and the woman in the landcruiser behind me just decided to roll into the back of me. I pulled over, but she did a runner! Pure evil.
 
When I was young and dumb, 16, I took my friends civic SI to get cigerattes late at night. Was going through side roads too fast (I wasn't sober) and caught air and went head first into an oak tree at about 50mph. Hit it so hard the cd player flew into the back seat. I jumped out and took off on foot because I already had 1 DUI and the car was totaled. When running back home I heard sirens and made it to my house and police showed up about 40 mins later.

Driving under the influence is very serious and I won't get behind the wheel if I've had more than 1 drink. I was wild at such a young age that I grew out of that behavior by the time I was in my late teens.

I'm a very defensive driver so I anticipate peoples mistakes before or even if they don't happen so that is my only accident.
 
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When I was young and dumb, 16, I took my friends civic SI to get cigerattes late at night. Was going through side roads too fast (I wasn't sober) and caught air and went head first into an oak tree at about 50mph. Hit it so hard the cd player flew into the back seat. I jumped out and took off on foot because I already had 1 DUI and the car was totaled. When running back home I heard sirens and made it to my house and police showed up about 40 mins later.

Driving under the influence is very serious and I won't get behind the wheel if I've had more than 1 drink. I was wild at such a young age that I grew out of that behavior by the time I was in my late teens.

I'm a very defensive driver so I anticipate peoples mistakes before or even if they don't happen so that is my only accident.
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I'd like to add that you are spot on with the last paragraph ,Driving in a country with just about no rules I found out the key to not crashing is anticipating the worst and the dumbest thing drivers around you can do and make sure yyou know what to do in case it happens
 
My first accident?

I was 3. Borrowed mom's keys to her '89 Civic (base model, 4-speed manual). Started it. Let the clutch out. Rolled into a little pile of logs about 3 feet in front of it. :lol: No damage, just a very strong telling off.
 
I was 16 and a big desire to drive before I got my licence. The problem is I was driving too fast for my knowlege at the time. It was Saturday mornig and my mother was still sleeping. I stoled the car keys of of my mother car the Renault 4!

I drove about 5 km away from my house on a twisty village road. Of coure going too fast in a corner I went of the road and fliped the car several times. The car was a totaled and my mother throw me out of the house for 1 day! :dunce: Strangely I just had a scratch on my hand.

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Learned to drive on uk roads, went on a mission to visit local Mercedes dealer for job application, I was in a used Citroen Saxo, the road was nice and the sun shone, so I was trying to overtake a slow moving Nissan Micra, before a bend and when I pulled out the car lurched slowly forward and when I got to the bend I just.... Understeered into a ditch I took out the front springs, radiator and wheel, my dad bought me that car.... And I totalled it :(
 
My first incident (because it wasn't anywhere near an accident) was a perfect combination of lack of thought and lack of skill. I had one year of driving experience at that point.

Barely five minutes earlier I had scraped a seriously thick layer of ice off the windows before getting on the move. Mistake one: I failed to realize that the ice hadn't formed only on my car but also on the road. I actually missed the first junction as the windows misted slightly in the freezing winter night, no problems, I took the following one. Everything went well until I came from a long straight into a roundabout, slowed down and shifted down. Mistake two: I went right from 5th to 2nd at perhaps 30 km/h with very inadequate throttle blipping in a RWD car. As soon as I released the clutch the effect wasn't much unlike pulling the handbrake and the tail went out to the left, I managed to catch it with the cabin full of hands and avoid crashing into the centre of the roundabout but the following flick to the opposite direction proved to be too much and I took half of the outside snow bank with me. No damage to the car (Volvo 240, built to last) and only ego damage to the driver. Two lessons about winter driving definitely learned.
 
Only one (so far) with a few close calls.

Earlier this year (when I was driving my S10), I was backing out at school and managed to hit a friend's car when she was also backing out. I honestly don't know what the 🤬 happened - I swear nobody was behind me when I was backing out. Thank god I didn't do my usual "throw it in reverse and gun it"). Just a good sized dent in her Japanese-built door and not even a minor scuff on my bumper. We settled it without going through insurance: $2000 for a new door...which I still owe to my parents...

A month ago, I randomly lost 95% of brake pressure while I was driving my Mustang. Just almost hit a car in front of me at an intersection, but steered around him at (literally) the last possible second (and feel like I looked like a jack:censored: for doing so). Still don't know what caused it, but we have 2 suspects - master cylinder or adjustment spring on the right rear brake.

Just today I was driving home from school and was accelerating after the crosswalk-thingly turned off - out of the middle of nowhere the :censored:ing idiot in the Lexus next to me thought it was cool to cut me off because the guy in front of him was going too slow. And yes, the horn was used with justice. And judging by the luck I'm having so far, I'll probably end up dying in the damn thing...or at least getting seriously injured...thanks to some jack:censored:...


Seems like Arizona is starting to get competitive with California/New York in the amount of dumb:censored: drivers out there. So many idiots who don't know what a turn signal is, how to turn off their damn high-beams, how to make a right turn while another driver is making a u-turn, and various other irritating actions that piss off even the most humble of drivers. Sorry for the rant, just need to vent my anger at the idiots in this world. :mad:.
 
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I haven't had a car accident... yet though my brother just broke off the side view mirror of my dads 2001 lincoln ls (maroon color so one of the rarer ls's)not more that 10 minutes ago while backing out of our drive way.
 
Just the one, involving a Citroen and a lamp post. In reverse. With the passenger door being opened.

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Deformed the door and it sort of uh... wouldn't shut again. £1100 of damage. Oops.
 
Reversed into my mates car, within 2 weeks of passing my test at 17.

He'd tried to block me into a spot but I'd assumed he driven straight past, windows were all misted up as there were 5 post-football lads sat in the car eating Mcdonalds. My car was fine, his door was £400 to sort.
 
So far in my four years of driving I have not had a serious accident. Only once. Only a month after I had owned my first vehicle a 2000 dodge ram I was in Santa Cruz late at night with a lot of friends with another car of friends behind in a Volvo sedan. We were driving along fine then all of a sudden two cars ahead of me slammed on the brakes and decided to pull into a hotel parking lot at the last second. So the car infront of me and myself were forced to do the same. Unfortunately the Volvo behind me was not paying attention. Was a sick feeling getting hit and the sound. We got out and as I was going to the back I saw his car. The hood crumpled up like an accordion all the lights smashed radiator the same. Mine? Not a scratch. As far as I can tell he hit my trailer hitch. Solid metal attatched to the frame vs sheet metal and plastic. Was minor but I still don't want to experience another crash again.
 
I've been driving since 1996.
Never had an accident until I got into two car crashes in the same month of the same year 2005.
Both times it was raining.
first one, going into a right hand turn, 3 lane street, I was on the outside lane on the inner lane a Volvo spun out and crossed all 3 lanes and made everyone stop I hit the retaining wall on my left, breaking the axle on my '93 corolla at the time. Got that fixed!
Second Accident, I was driving a 2 lane street, a lady decided to pull out her parking space on the right side and make a u turn without a turning signal, she was trying to beat the on coming traffic and did not see me driving down towards her. I smashed onto her back door on the drivers side. Luckily I was driving slow and nothing else happened except for the plastic broken stuff.
 
No accidents as driver, bit one when riding shot gun. My friend and I had made some bad decisions and he was driving to his house. It was pouring and he took a long right handed turn way to fast for the weather. Hydroplain, caught it, hydro again, in a ditch along with 2 farm fence post. Totaled the car but we walked away fine. It was his secound accident of four now.
 
RIP bunny. :(

Don't think that counts as a car accident though, I bet you didn't kill it intentionally. Poor bunny shouldn't have been on the road in the first place. :ouch:
 
Hollow
RIP bunny. :(

Don't think that counts as a car accident though, I bet you didn't kill it intentionally. Poor bunny shouldn't have been on the road in the first place. :ouch:
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Yeah, it was dark and it literally ran right into my car. I didn't even have time to brake. :indiff:

At least I was in my minivan. If it had been my GT-R, I would probably need a new front splitter.
 
Hollow
I unfortunately had my first car accident today >snip<
Hopefully this thread doesn't bring out any sensitive memories to people. :scared:
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You young pup.

First real FU was my '86.5 Supra falling afoul of a Chicago winter and introducing intself to a very immobile tree. I miss that car.

Here's to no more of the same for anyone. :cheers:

May all your damage be virtual.

-Izain
 
A year ago very drunk man in a green Hyundai elantra managed to crash into a utility pole and bring the entire line down in the middle of a poorly lit street(because he took out the lamp too...) in my neighborhood. In total darkness I come around the corner and whaam...Seconds later all I know is the Land Cruiser is now stuck underneath some live power lines. The lines leaning on the roof and cracked windshield.

Last week my dad got hit from behind by a NJ TRADE shuttle while sitting at a red light. Rear end of van destroyed... Fortunate not to get shoved into the middle of a busy intersection by a twit.
 
Rotary Junkie
My first accident?

I was 3. Borrowed mom's keys to her '89 Civic (base model, 4-speed manual). Started it. Let the clutch out. Rolled into a little pile of logs about 3 feet in front of it. :lol: No damage, just a very strong telling off.
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That reminds me of a story my dad told me happened when he was 3. He was in his car seat when he hit the center stick just perfectly, threw the car in park at 35mph and put them through a wall at the local deli.

Also, lost a close friend to a drunk driver last night.
 

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