Driving Fails

[Zhadramekel]

Hey there Escapists.

I have my practical driving test in a few hours and I'm starting to get super nervous. Sure that's natural and all but having experienced a crash already in my driving life, that doesn't help. People tell me that crash was not my fault, since the other guy drove into the back of my car at a junction when he wasn't looking where he was going.

So tell me Escapists, what driving fails have you had?

 

[Angerwing]

I was fiddling with my iPod, going about 30kph near my uni. Guy a few cars ahead slammed on the brakes for a yellow light, and I didn't realise in time to stop. Rammed up the back of the guy in front of me. Luckily his car was fine, but mine was fucked.

 

[TheSaw]

Few days after passing, I was looking down at my ipod, once I looked up I saw I was driving on the pavement, thankfully it was during the time when people were at work and school so no one was ran over.

Never again did I do that.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

I was backing out of a spot in a parking lot, lady a few spots ahead of me backed out when I was almost out, puts a dent in my car. She then proceeds to yell at me for not looking when I was already HALFWAY OUT OF MY GODDAMN SPOT BEFORE YOU STARTED BACKING OUT YOU DUMB *****!

 

[Funkysandwich]

I had just had the brakes on my car done, and was testing them out by driving very fast on some twisting roads. Little did I know that the mechanic had forgotten to tighten up the bolts on my brake calipers. So instead of slowing down I heard a loud banging nosie as my brake calipers slammed into the inside of my front wheels. Luckily I didn't crash, but i could've been killed.

I serivce my car myself now.

 

[BabyRaptor]

This happened to me while I was driving up I35 towards Dallas a couple years ago.

I was in the far left lane. There was an 18 wheeler in the last next to me. My phone beeped, so I glanced over and grabbed it. I was distracted for a total of maybe 2 seconds. When I looked back up, the 18 wheeler was trying to get in my lane, and hadn't noticed that I was there.

I panicked. Still not entirely sure what happened, but I'm told I spun out across all 4 lanes of the freeway. All I recall is that one second, I was thinking I was about to die from being crushed between an 18 wheeler and the freeway barrier, then everything went blurry. I remember some voice in the back of my head screaming "Turn INTO it!" And then I was in a ditch, shaking and barely able to breathe.

Somehow, I didn't get hit by any other cars. And the only damage to the Tiburon was a busted tire.

 

[Whateveralot]

I remember driving through fresh snow with 4 miles an hour (no jokes, cars go that slow) and I had to take a corner but my car couldn't hold it. I slid straight into a fence. Fortunately, I wasn't going fast enough to even slightly damage the car. It was a definate fail though.

Another time I hit a pole with the side of the car taking a corner too sharp. It was a big thumb, but again no damage. I felt like the luckiest person on earth at that moment.

Oh and once where I nearly crashed my car doing over 110 mph (180 kmph) and that SUCKED. Nearly killed a lot more people than I felt like that day.

 

[Rawne1980]

My first car was a Reliant Robin.

For those that have never seen one....

Thats right folks, my first car was a 3 wheeler.

I took a roundabout a little bit too fast with a bit too much weight on the wrong side and I flipped the car.

 

[devotedsniper]

Had an Audi A4 go into the back of my first car when i was turning right into my houses street (only had it 9 month) after a 300mile round trip. The womans foot got stuck on the gas pedal...needless to say my little peugeot 106 crumpled like a tin can, but it went out fighting! The A4 had the Bumper, Radiator, headlights, the general sub struture, written off, it got repaired since it was brand new while my car got written off =(.

Oh and the engine mounts failed as the engine was at a weird angle and making funny noises...the worst part for her? It wasn't even her's it was her boyfriends and it only had 100 miles on the clock, wonder if there still together lol.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I failed my Driving test? I failed on Monday the 4th and passed on Monday the 11th!

I havent crashed though, as I am a Granny driver.

 

[photog212]

I've been in more accidents than I can remember. I have hit just about everything you can imagine. Light poles, parked cars, moving cars, mail boxes, telephone booths, a tank, concrete barrier, metal barrier, a tree, almost a camel (that would of been bad), a fence, and a river.

The worst driving experience I had though was when I was trying to get certified in the UK.
They drive on the wrong side of the road, the stick is on the wrong side, the steering whell is on the wrong side, and my instructor had a really thick accent and kept yelling at me about US foreign policy. I got stuck on a curb in London and told him I was done and just to fail me so we could go to the pub.

 

[gewata]

Took my driving test, curbed it (which in England should be a fail) coming out of the test centre. And not a gentle brush either, the entire wheel went up on the curb and the entire car bounced...

Still passed though.

 

[devotedsniper]

I've been in more accidents than I can remember. I have hit just about everything you can imagine. Light poles, parked cars, moving cars, mail boxes, telephone booths, a tank, concrete barrier, metal barrier, a tree, almost a camel (that would of been bad), a fence, and a river.

The worst driving experience I had though was when I was trying to get certified in the UK.
They drive on the wrong side of the road, the stick is on the wrong side, the steering whell is on the wrong side, and my instructor had a really thick accent and kept yelling at me about US foreign policy. I got stuck on a curb in London and told him I was done and just to fail me so we could go to the pub.

I just wanna know....how...did you manage to hit a tank...?

Also the UK drive on the correct side, it's the rest of the world that has it wrong!

 

[Bobbity]

Just had my L's test this very morning, and I'm going to go driving for the very first time on the weekend.

Thanks for painting all of these wonderful pictures of accidents, guys.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Not quite my own, but my driving instructor (when I received tuition) operates out of Bathgate, which is the town that Susan Boyle lives. He was taking a student out on a lesson when he saw her out on the street; she looked and acknowledged he was there. She then walked out onto the road right in front of him forcing him to break. She gave him a 'sorry' look, and walked across. further down the road she then did the same thing, my instructor nearly ran over Subo twice.

My first car was a Reliant Robin.

For those that have never seen one....

Thats right folks, my first car was a 3 wheeler.

I took a roundabout a little bit too fast with a bit too much weight on the wrong side and I flipped the car.

Rodney you plonker!

 

[deckai]

While practicing for my driving test on private property I wanted to show off how good I was... drove backwards, tried a u-turn...only made it half... failed at shifting the gear and drove backwards into a tool shed.

To my fortune, no harm was done... but thanks to this, I learned never to show off while driving, no matter how good you think you are...

 

[Quaxar]

My first car was a Reliant Robin.

Ah yes, the Robin. Whoever thought it was a good idea to take a perfectly okay 4-wheeler and subtract one front wheel for... uh... aerodynamic(?) should be run over by his own monster.

OT: Never had an accident, really. I mean first time alone on the motorway I almost hit a small lorry while changing lanes because I forgot to look over my shoulder. But hey, it was my first time alone on the road and it was on a really busy section.