Stoopid accidents

polo69 · Post by **polo69** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:13 pm

I live at the bottom of a big long winding hill, so my mate thought it would be a good thing to turn his ignition off at the top of the hill and see if he could make it right down into my street and outside my house. So he cuts the ignition, and coasts down into my street. Coasts along to my house and right into my next door neighbours front garden

Brakes didn't work

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:43 pm

lol someone didnt realise about the servo assistance then

arrrrrgh whys the pedal gone all rock solid

(i loevs teh coastage ... remember children ... always coast responsibly ... saving a fluid ounce of fuel on each slope doesnt give you license to be a numpty)

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:41 pm

mysteryboy wrote:Ok... I've not had an accident but I've had one hell of a close call....

Was on a lunch break, so went to mcd's with a workmate.
I zoomed past some big round-about and onto a road back to work.... I see ahead trafic light just turned green and 2 cars at the lights... I notice 2 girls on the path & couldn't resist having a look, so I turn back around only to see a car about 2 meters ahead... Slam the brakes & stop about a millimeter away from him... My Milkshake flew and hit the windscreen (haha funnyly enough it didnt spill). So anyways I turn right a park up as nothing had happened..

I've done that a few times mate, I think that good looking girls should feature in the hazard perception test.

Oh and in reply to the topic I once pulled off in the wet, went to go left then thought no I'll go right (on a roundabout). Bad idea yanking the steering wheel the other way at 30 in the wet, car slid right, I caught that then slid left nearly caught it, braked after panicking and keeping my foot on the gas and slid into a wall missing a post somehow, only got a scrape on my bumper. I learnt after that.

AshLeMacq · Post by **AshLeMacq** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:42 pm

Hmm, I took the keys out once just I was about to begin the 90 degree right turn into my driveway then *lock*. Woops, wont be doing that again. No damage, just looked a right pillock infront of my watching neigbours as I took a somewhat obscure line into my driveway via their lawn.

Aside from that coming back from preston mid early morning (3/4am ish) over the west pennine moors (belmont road if you know it), a journey which I'v made many a time. I switched off all my lights on a long straight for a second, total pitch darkness.

I don't know why I did that

Barney · Post by **Barney** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:52 pm

see , alot of us do really stupid stuff , only once mind. still no excuse for driving like a t*at, thats why i've calmed down now.

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:24 pm

The problem is you only calm youself down for a few weeks untill you do something stupid again...

why do we calm down

bcoz what ever you did sh!t u up

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:33 pm

God knows, because once you settle back into it, you usually nearly or do something that sh!ts you up again

Big Nick · Post by **Big Nick** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:09 am

I've had some right stoopid bumps in me time, my first car was an H reg clio 1.2, a few years back now, and it was absolutely p1ssing it down. I was showing off to my two drunk mates ( i wasnt drunk at the time, i don't drink)
pulling handbrakes on an empty industrial estate, until i came across a very high kerb which snapped of the rear nearside wheel and bent the hell out of the torsin bar. My mates thought it was funny, until they realised we had to walk about three miles home in the blasting rain.

Live n learn, don'tcha?

nick