After passing your test , when did you have your first crash/accident?

leecall4a

6 months after passing my test

HampshireH

Been driving 21 years. Yet to have either.

I've had someone drive into my car whilst it was parked in residential parking but I don't think that counts.

This is your 3rd thread with a 1 line random question. 

DullGreyGuy

About 4 months, drove into the back of a brand new Mercedes being driven off the forecourt. Thankfully it was a guy from the garage driving but was being delivered to someone that lived close to us. 

Called our broker who said they'd send out a claim form that I never received. A while later got a letter from Mercedes saying the repairs were £1,300. Spoke to our broker again who said they'd resend the claim form. 

About 2 years later, after no further comms from anyone, got a letter in a Mercedes branded envelope. Wasnt a chaser for the bill but an invitation to the "all expenses paid" launch of their new car at the local event space as a 'valued customer". Decided not to attend just in case it was a trap. 

Since then hit a blue light police car, a plant pot, a truck overseas when both of us were technically uninsured, and twice car was hit when parked. Doesn't sound great in 27 years of driving 

marcia_

 Never had an accident, never had a parking ticket, never been caught speeding. 

I was driving for 10yrs before I had a seizure and had my license withdrawn. 

FlorayG

A few months. I backed into somebody's bumper and dented my wing. In those days bumpers were metal so no damage to the other vehicle and you could employ a man called a panel beater ( is that even still a job?) to fix your own car, so it didn't cost me much

DullGreyGuy

FlorayG said:

A few months. I backed into somebody's bumper and dented my wing. In those days bumpers were metal so no damage to the other vehicle and you could employ a man called a panel beater ( is that even still a job?) to fix your own car, so it didn't cost me much

Ahh the good old days where the killed or seriously injured rate on the roads was 5 times what it is today.

Panelbeaters is still very much a job, they complain a lot about cars with aluminium panels.  

vacheron

Nothing reportable to insurance but I remember lightly impacting with the rear bumper of someone in front of me while waiting to join a roundabout when they started pulling away but then stalled. This was in the mid 90's about 3 years after passing my test. It served to teach me a cheap lesson to never assume that the car in front will do exactly what you expect it to.

I do remeber we discussed this with my close group of 8 or so friends at the time, and out of the 8, I was the only one that didn't have an accident within 12 months of passing my test. So based on this small sample, I could at least understand why insurance is so high for new drivers! 

oldagetraveller1

None in 50+ years.

One endorsable speeding offence, 42mph in a 30mph zone, back in 1980 something.

Does a close encounter with a double decker bus during my first (failed) driving test count?

KittenChops

Almost 3 years after passing my driving test, my first car was written off on a motorway when a HGV changed lanes into mine.  I was very lucky as the HGV shunted my car sideways up the middle lane of the motorway until it stopped and all I had was a sore arm.  Taught me a very valuable lesson about blind spots.  Took me about a year before I'd overtake a HGV on a motorway without having an empty lane between us!  The excess on that car was £350 & the insurance initially valued my car at £360 so they sent me a cheque for £10

A few months after passing my test, I was trying to exit a multi story car park where the narrow lane had an almost 90 degree bend and got the passenger door stuck on a post - had to wriggle the car off of it.  So technically that was my first accident - but as the HGV on the motorway smashed into the passenger side of the car, that little scratch/dent wasn't visible anymore!!

On a driving lesson, I was waiting, with the handbrake on, for a woman to reverse out of a parking bay.  She reversed straight into the front of my driving instructor's car while I sat there open mouthed - my instructor reached over & sounded the horn so the impact wasn't as bad as it could have been.  She was adamant I'd driven into her!

sinar

Never, in 43 years, no points on license either.

facade

About 4 years.

I fell into the trap of not looking where I was going.  It was at an island, the car in front set off, so I set off in the next gap and ran into the back of the car in front who not only didn't go when he started off, but wasn't going in the next gap either. When I looked forwards again it was too late for my reactions and the drum brakes on my old car to stop.

Now I have a car that will brake by itself, so I still don't need to look where I'm going