Now I don't believe I wanted to do that.

[Cavcraft]

Anyone got any random/daft crash stories (personal experience) to share?Many moons back I'm on my C70 and all my mates have got proper bikes.At that age where stupid things impress me and watching my muckers giving it some pegs down action on roundabouts etc looked class to a simpleton on a shit bike like me, so I had a go with a fair bit of success.Until the night a mate of mine get's a new X7 Suzuki and starts pulling power wheelies, races past me on the way to the pub and takes the piss.So I'm in front of him coming back from the alehouse, I'm pissed off with him showing off and I see my favourite corner on a housing estate.Screw him I think to myself as I slow down just a smidge, bank it over and look down to see the sparks flying off the pegs and I'm thinking how utterly cool I am.Until the stand hit a pothole. The last thing I remember was seeing the road coming to and fro from my visor and woke up a few minutes later with my mates kicking shit out of me to get me to come round.Broken bike, gravel rash and severely bruised legs, arms and ego and never lived it down Anyone else want to share moments of madness/stupid accidents?

[VWPowered]

oops

[shite_meister]

Going up a long long steep hill in Paignton, Devon, my brother behind me on his motorbike and me in my Rover SD1 Vitesse...with two brand new tyres on the front, I'm try to keep a brisk pace in a poor effort to try and lose him and at the crest of the hill a car in front of me is trying to turn right, no probs I'll just drive onto the left pavement where there is a gap (for pushchairs to get up etc) so it was all going beautifully untill I heard an almighty bang-fuck there was no gap in the pavement. Knackered the tyre and had to call the AA out as the Rover jack which is about sixteen foot long didn't work.

[Justin Case]

I still have a small scar on my knee from when I learnt many years ago (the hard way) that a gravel-surfaced cinema car park is not the best place to discover that releasing the twist grip on a bike doesn't necessarily result in the throttle closing.

[woolleyiain]

Yugo 45 into a petrol station (sideways) At about 25 mph, two pumps flattened, one RSJ bent and finished up embedded in the side of the owner's Transit. It hurt. We found the battery 300 feet away in a field...

[STUNO]

Yugo 45 into a petrol station (sideways) At about 25 mph,

MMMM... sounds more like 75 ,but it was a Yugo.

[whitevanman]

YUp.... 2.5 fingers missing because they got too near the steering pump on a Mondeo Zetec and I got distracted 4 holes in my head where my Halo frame fitted to heal my broken neck, when I stupidly slowed down for a roundabout...........the truck full of scrap cars didn't.........rolled me over 3 times and smashed of the central reservation, closed the East of Scotland down for 2 hours while they cut me out..............obviously my fault for being there in the first place Went sideways in an ole D series 7.5 down the A68 at Sutra, due to bad roads and a shit truck at 20 mph, watched a Montego go under the pasanger side with the occupants still talking instead of looking ahead...until the last split second, I got spun around and thrown around and out of the windscreen feet caught on dash ....oh the fun............but they were a lot worse of than me, poor sods.thats the worst of them I think

[Guest]

A few years back I managed to T-bone a nearly-new Focus that cut across me while turning left from Edinburgh's Princes Street into Lothian Road. There are two lanes for this sharp right angle turn and (as I was driving a long wheelbase Leyland Olympian bus at the time) I needed more of my lane to let the nearside rear wheel clear the kerb than the other driver allowed me.When he pulled over to swap details etc I realised I'd hit the jackpot - the chap was a German tourist and the Focus (now with its entire nsr wing totally stoved in) was a rental motor. Tiny bit of paint chipped off the Olympian's osf fibreglass corner panel and that was it. I did the paperwork and didn't even get asked to explain myself by the bus depot manager

[VWPowered]

Went out and got a tidy Mk1, was abit scruffy when i got it but dead straight, 1983 1.1..

 

 

after spending lot of cash getting it ready for Bristol Volksfest (ripping interior out, cut and polish, graphics (bhp booster dont you know), Half Cage, Buckets, Harnesses, New Lights, Grille, Bumpers.. etc etc

 

 

so they i am happy as larry after a trail drive to northern wales (now that was hard, stifferened suspension, buckets, no carpets, etc will hurt )

 

so its saturday got mates around all having a BBQ ready for the show on sunday.. bugger no food, so off i go like a hamster to morrisons, pulled up to the main road, renault coming from the roundabout on my left indicating left, as the roundabout is about 200 yards down the road, o presume shes pulling into the road that im pulling out off, so go to pull out, wallop...........

 

 

woman i hit had her nice shiny megane written off took out, front and rear shocks to pass side, wheels, front wing, both pass doors rear quarter, her first comment was 'well i need a new car anyway'

 

dunno what happened to it, as i sold three mk1's I had when i moved to france afew months later, i only brought my 5dr GX to france

[ashmicro]

Many years ago I was replacing the carburettor on my Samba. One of the tools I was using was a great big lump of a screwdriver, which fell down the front of the engine and activated the starter motor. The car was in gear, and I got squashed up against the back wall of the garage.I also had a Beetle fall on top of me.

[Rocket88]

Many years ago, my uncle used to have an old B.S.A , fitted with a side car. He's had it for years, then decided to remove said side car for a bit of remedial fettling. Jumped onto his now unencumbered bike, and set off to get some bits. Stopped at the first set of red lights, forgot he no longer had a sidecar, and didn't put his feet down.............bloke behind said he thought he was watching a Laurel and Hardy film

[Station]

YUp....

2.5 fingers missing because they got too near the steering pump on a Mondeo Zetec and I got distracted

 

 

4 holes in my head where my Halo frame fitted to heal my broken neck, when I stupidly slowed down for a roundabout...........the truck full of scrap cars didn't.........rolled me over 3 times and smashed of the central reservation, closed the East of Scotland down for 2 hours while they cut me out..............obviously my fault for being there in the first place

 

Went sideways in an ole D series 7.5 down the A68 at Sutra, due to bad roads and a shit truck at 20 mph, watched a Montego go under the pasanger side with the occupants still talking instead of looking ahead...until the last split second, I got spun around and thrown around and out of the windscreen feet caught on dash ....oh the fun............but they were a lot worse of than me, poor sods.

 

thats the worst of them I think

[Justin Case]

I still have a small scar on my knee

2.5 fingers missing because they got too near the steering pump on a Mondeo Zetec 4 holes in my head where my Halo frame fitted to heal my broken neck, when I stupidly slowed down for a roundaboutWent sideways in an ole D series 7.5, I got spun around and thrown around and out of the windscreen feet caught on dash thats the worst of them I think

I concede victory to Mr Whitevanman

[ashmicro]

I still have a small scar on my knee quote]

2.5 fingers missing because they got too near the steering pump on a Mondeo Zetec 4 holes in my head where my Halo frame fitted to heal my broken neck, when I stupidly slowed down for a roundaboutWent sideways in an ole D series 7.5, I got spun around and thrown around and out of the windscreen feet caught on dash thats the worst of them I think

I concede victory to Mr Whitevanman

+1!

[Cavcraft]

Many years ago, my uncle used to have an old B.S.A , fitted with a side car. He's had it for years, then decided to remove said side car for a bit of remedial fettling. Jumped onto his now unencumbered bike, and set off to get some bits. Stopped at the first set of red lights, forgot he no longer had a sidecar, and didn't put his feet down.............bloke behind said he thought he was watching a Laurel and Hardy film

[Rusty Pelican]

Victory to WVM indeed , my main flurry into twatish driving , circa 83 , local humped back bridge , single track with a good run up , 5 idiots in the car , 60 mph ish , We took off but because of the extra rear weight of twatish passengers not to mention a boot full of junk car landed on its home made towbar , bent the shell , drivers door never opened properly again , OSR door never opened again , whiplash all round

[whitevanman]

Why thank you I'll graciously accept the award. though only one was my own fault......... and I've got pics of two of them not that anybody would want to seed a Halo frame on me or missing fingers........

[Station]

I've heard of a a few really grizzly ones where the person was the only survivor in the whole vehicle of four, while the rest were all decapitated due to a Sierra colliding with the front and going straight over due to the 'sporty' sloped front end of their car. The bottom of the Sierra took the roof off and ...

[wuvvum]

I can't even get close to competing with some of these. The only time I've ever crashed a car was when I lost the back end of a Manta on a wet roundabout (I was 19 at the time) and clouted the Armco. Even then it wasn't a particularly impressive accident - the car drove home, albeit with the NSF wheel rubbing on the wing every time I turned right. I also went into the side of a builder's van at 40mph on a bike once, but that was his fault as he turned across my path without looking. Earned me an open fracture of my left femur among other things, and three weeks in hospital.

[Station]

^ Nor me. I once lost the back end of a car at low speed with no-one about, that's about it. I used to try it loads intentionally.

[Spottedlaurel]

Sure I've posted the before, but...

 

 

A hole beside the road where I managed to park my 309 upsidedown. This was the next morning when I returned to the scene.

 

 

 

 

Luckily only me in the car, and I didn't hit anyone else at the start of this process. Do I get bonus points for being recovered by a Transcontinental?

 

This was in 1991, and the 309 remains the newest car I've ever bought.

[whitevanman]

Transconti bonus from me

[Father Ted]

I cant compete with WVM, but....

 

1987 was involved in a crash in a Capri belonging to a lad at college, a tyre blew out and we careered off the motorway into a bridge (no armaco back then protecting the bridge supports) the car quite literally snapped in to two and the fuel line caught fire ( Plod later said that the Capri was a poorly repaired cut and shut). One lad died (Andy) the rest of us got out with various cuts, bruises, broken bits and burns. I myself spent a not very enjoyable month in burns and plastics getting skin grafts to my right leg and having nurses ply flamazine on my singed scrotum. I was catherterised for "cleanliness" reasons, developed a phoemosis and wound up having a circumcision. Bloody painful. I sometimes wonder if that is why I became a nurse as whilst i was in i watched a TV documentary on nurses. That and the uniforms and Sister Bell kind of stuck with me forever....

 

Then last year as a sort of cliax to my "falling off motorbikes phase" I high sided the Yamaha and went rolling down the road. Again many bruises ( though the leather pants and jacket saved me from worse) and spent an entertaining few minutes trying to get my flip front lid off as the catch had been broken off in y impact with the road... Anyway the upshot was a fractured dislocation of my distal radius and ulna in eight places which due to various cock ups in A&E went very blue. Then ore operations were canceled then eventually they put two nails in the ulna and an eight inch plate and many screws in the radius. Im left with a wrist that no longer moves and have no feeling in about two thirds of my hand, and it aches like a bastard when cold. Several weeks later in out patients the doctors also noticed that my right wrist had a chunk knocked off too which was causing the pain i had been complaining about since the crash

 

Anyway - I got to watch the op on the wrist which was very interesting as they did it under a block... Have apicture f the before and after...

 

 

Oh. and then just as I was getting ready to go back to work I set myself on fire and burned my back and hand...

[babydriver]

Back in the mid 80's when I was young & stupid me & a mate had been to the pub for a few jars and decided we were hungry on the way home so as we were walking past my girlfriends house (who was on holiday in spain) I decided to 'Borrow' her rather nice 66 mini on the drive, (Could open the doors & start it with a pen knife), & go to get a takeaway which was down some fast country lanes, anyway we got grub & on the way back driving waaay to fast I lost it on a bend & rolled the car, God you should have seen the mess Curry everywhere, we manage to get it back on its wheels and then I drive it back and put said car back on her drive.A week later Girlfriend rings me in tears and tells me some bar steward had smashed up her car & thown food all insde of it.To this day she don't know it was me, she dumped me for someone else about 6 months later. Bitch.