You guys can back me up on this one, I'm an Idiot.

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So i have night school right.....and we get like a 15 min break. i got my dads car with me, so me and some buddies rip it down to mcdick's. with some spare time, i leave them there and decide to go in the local trainyard for a little spin around. r
low and behold its pitch black with no lights or markers and the road turns while im doing like 70 km/h......over some tracks. i fail to turn and the car slams hard onto the tracks sliding for like 100 feet. i freak out and realise the driveshaft snapped outta the tranny, and the rear wheel is bent off the bearing. also the whole mounts of the frame to the rocker arms are dented and damaged.

all in all this was the stupidest thing ive ever done, and the greatest lesson ive ever learned. no longer in my LIFE am i ever going to drive someone elses car.
i feel soo s%@$ty, like theres nothing i could ever do to make up for this, and i wrecked my dads sweet car. the tow truck guy said its repairable, but i still feel like a complete bag of waste. hes really badly affected cuz of this. i dont know what more i could do than to give him the money i make off selling my car towoards repairs for his car. its just really sad how careless i was, and how i thought i was such a good driver. even before it happened i remember saying "hah, i never get in accidents, im too good". well, we see how good i am now. Reality kicked me in the %@#...and now only time will tell the outcome. i just hope my dads car will be repairable up to normal standards.

i know lots of kids get into accidents with their parents cars....i was wondering if anyone heres had a similar expierience. i just feel soo sad and angry at myself. it would kill me to find out the cars a write off. there would be bno possible way in the world i could ever make up for it.
 
You've now joined the statistics that say 99.9% of males get in a car accident before they turn 21. The lucky part you hav eright now, is that noone got injured or killed.

Stupid things? My little brother managed to get Mom's Dodge Shadow 3/4 of the way through a barrel roll before he landed. The phone rang at 11:30pm and I just rolled out of bed and started getting dressed. I was walking down the stairs when Dad went to yell up to me to get dressed to go get him.

Brother was fine, Car was totalled. Seems the back end broke traction and he went up a bank at "35mph" and the car flipped.

I'm the rare individual that in 17 years of driving, I've only got one speeding ticket. It was in New Hampshire where they don't keep track of any out of state drivers licenses. So as far as my driving record goes, it's clean for 17 years.

My mother on the other hand, she's wrecked 5 Dodge Neon's. Tween trees, snow and deer, Dad thinks she'd be better off driving a tank.

AO
 
Yeah, my brother toatalled, completely totalled two cars before he was eighteen. One of the cars was only about 2 months old and that wreck bent the whole frame of the car. (He claims in both wrecks someone pulled out in front of him or just appeared out of nowhere but it was obviously the complete opposite. Both were his fault) Fortunately no one was hurt in either of his wrecks.
 
Der Alta
My mother on the other hand, she's wrecked 5 Dodge Neon's. Tween trees, snow and deer, Dad thinks she'd be better off driving a tank.

AO
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That's pretty funny...

The rest kinda scary, I guess I was a lucky one too. :scared: The only real ticket I ever got was for speeding 35 in a 15 zone. I was late to a XC meet. :rolleyes: Cop needed his quota. The there's that little fender bender by myself in a turn right after a rain and the ground was still wet. That was a bad time because I shouldn't have been driving at all. My laptop crashed and I had lost a good 1/3 of my work from the semester. This was at the end of the semester mind you. :banghead: A laptop is litterally an Industrial Designers life.
 
A couple of years ago I was driving mums car when a drunk driver went into the side of me at 50mph. Luckily I was in a Volvo! Thats the only accident I have been in, in 6 years of driving and my licence is clean.
 
I'm 17 and I have not yet even recieved a warning. I've had a couple close calls, but no accidents. I am the 0.1% so far, and I'd like to keep it that way.
 
I was in school and my dad took me his newly restored and painted 68 chevy to put shocks on in auto shop. I didn't have my liscence yet and was told to let the shop teacher drive it. did I listen ? Hehehe just to pull in and put a car on a lift ? Anybody can do that !
I wped out the whole left side of a newly restored and painted car and contemplated moving to Finland under an fake name...it was the longest 5 hrs of my life until he came to pick up the car....he didn't kill mr like I thought, or even torture me over hot coals. But it was until I was 22 years old before he evere let me drive a car of his. ( it only took me two weeks to total that one but thats another story ).
You are not alone.
 
Well, my opinions on your mental capacity are well known, so there's no need for me to flog you when you're down. Sorry to hear you had an accident; glad to hear nobody got hurt. It's rarely the situations you know about that get you into trouble but it's always the nasty surprise that bites you, hard.

When I was 17 I rolled my father's Honda after falling asleep at the wheel. He never yelled at me but it was tough to wake him up at 1:00a after the cop dropped me off and tell him I totalled his year-old car.

Good luck.
 
I did some stupid things when I first dot my licensce--I still do quite a few stupid thins, but thats a differnet matter entirely.

New england snow can kill you if you are stupid in a car. I had had my licensce for about a month. Pulled out of the school parking lot, and the ground was dry but with patches of snow that kids had thrown onto the ground. I wanted some rotation in my 4WD car, went into the corner rather fast, cranked the wheel, tapped the brakes, and--whoah--yeah, the tail was out, but I was on the outside of the turn (left turn), and that put my nose into the other lane (no one was coming in that direction). So I hit the brakes again, cranked the wheel the other way--and over corrected. So I spun almost 180 deg., now in my lane but facing in the wrong direction, with my nose in a snowbank. Everything on the dash ended up in the back seat. That shook some sense into me for a while.

I did finally figure out how to go around a corner sideways in the snow in that car, though. No brakes needed, just countersteer and gas it.
 
I hit a curb that was submerged under water, bent the front wheel in, set off the airbags. Ended up costing about $4000 to fix (thanks to my dads best friend/my mechanic that gets the parts with an employee discount from honda)
 
F.Zamataki
low and behold its pitch black with no lights or markers and the road turns while im doing like 70 km/h......over some tracks. i fail to turn and the car slams hard onto the tracks sliding for like 100 feet. i freak out and realise the driveshaft snapped outta the tranny, and the rear wheel is bent off the bearing. also the whole mounts of the frame to the rocker arms are dented and damaged.

all in all this was the stupidest thing ive ever done, and the greatest lesson ive ever learned. no longer in my LIFE am i ever going to drive someone elses car.
i feel soo s%@$ty, like theres nothing i could ever do to make up for this, and i wrecked my dads sweet car.
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What car was it?
 
Thanks for the comments guys, it helps to know im not the only one. I just feel horrible for my dad. fact is yah, ive learned my lesson good, and like i said im never driving anyone elses car again, except for one i payed for with my own money. the car was a 2003 Sunfire....5spd, the things a blast to drive. i figure selling my car will get me the money needed for the repairs and then some. for now its public transport and begging mummy for rides till i save up enough for my own ride......
 
I'm in the 0.1% of males who have not crashed/damaged a car while under 21 years old. :cool:

I nearly spun out/crashed the Skyline last October in the wet (i was 20) (all Skylines have a reputation for breaking traction in the wet - even 4WD ones like Dads).

I floored it while turning right at a 'T' intersection (the ground was wet) and as soon as the turbo's kicked it away went the back of the car. So i countersteered - too much which made the car slide the other way (and this over correction happened about five more times until i tapped the brake and regained control - all without hitting the curb or driving over the centre line on this narrowish road, i had a picture describing it better but can't find it).

I'm 21 now and only have $1,800 left to pay off the Skyline in question. :)
 
Der Alta
You've now joined the statistics that say 99.9% of males get in a car accident before they turn 21.
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Now, what % is that for females? It must be 99.999999%. All of the girls at my school drive like their cars a rentals. They are CRAZY! :crazy:
 
I've been driving for 1.5 years and I've also had my reality check, although it wasn't as bad!

I clipped a concrete block with our front bumper when parking. It was a dent right at the front right corner of the car, about 30cm wide, 20cm high and 10cm deep. It happened when I was out with some friends and I felt like I was going to die when I had to tell my parents. In my defense, the concrete block wasn't visible from the inside of the car (too low...).

My parents took it pretty well and in the end we found a 2nd hand bumper (100% match) for a little over € 100.

I know from myself that my driving isn't bad, I just go with the flow. I'm good at paying attention to everything that happens around me on the road and don't do any of the stupid stuff anymore, even if it was just a small dent in the bumper.
 
Im also in that whatever percentage, but Im only 17 so I still have some time left. The worst thing that happened to me was when I was driving home from the skatepark at like 7:30 in the morning and a semi tossed a chunk of something in my way and put a dent about as big as my hand in the bumper of the Olds. Rents didnt really car seeing as EVERYONE hated that car and we were about to sell it for something less...crappy.
Thank god I wasnt in the Camaro, wrecking that could double my insurance easily.

Im an OK driver, but I am known to zone out every once in a while.
 
you guys should see me driving a standard. i am learning for my permit. My first time behind the wheel of a standard EVERYTHING on the dash flew off. I didn't do it on purpose neither. I was used to automatic, standard confuses me.
 
Sorry to say; accidents as a result of idiocy get no sympathy from me. Accidents as a result of circumstance get sympathy from me.* Good to see the pink is gone.










*both assuming no injury/loss of life is involved.
 
I scratched two cars at once, once. I was precision parking my mother's Volvo C70 next to a Mercedes Vito in our garage.

That, and I totalled about 10 go-karts.
 
My brother took his MX-6 to Fusz several months back to work on it on the lift in my dad's area...he got it set up and begun to raise it but didn't see that the driver's door was open. The top of the door at the window got stuck on a lift control box thingy, and by the time he realized it, the door was bent down and, well, messed up. He had to bend it back up so that he could close it.

That's the dumbest thing anyone in my family has done in recent time. :)
 
hey it's alright don't feel that bad it's an ACCIDENT remember, i've totalled two cars hahaha and they've all been my fault.
1st. i went across an intersection when the traffic light wasn't functional, i spaced out and went through it and got smashe from the side.....completely totalled :D
2nd. i rear ended a car doing 65 and they were completely stoped, i totalled 3 other cars in that one hahaha, my head went throught the windshield i got a big as scar right above my hair line, thank god it wasn't on my forehead those never go away

ya i was irresponsible and careless but belive me i learned my lesson, now i really am driver #1, i just needed a reality check ya know?
 
It could have been a lot worse.. You could have had your friends with you, then have an accident and kill them!!! That would be horrible. At least it sounds like you are smart enough to learn from your mistake. You already did the best possible thing to make your dad feel better. You gave him an apology. A lot of kids these days could care less. Sounds like you have a decent head on your shoulders. We all make mistakes and if you learned from it then thats what counts. 👍
 

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