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Car crash
Probably a lot of these on here, but hey nonny;
Just passed test, as a 19 year old and was the proud ragger of a 1 litre peugeot 106, which I had driven to the pub and then offered 3 ladies a lift home down the country lanes, as you do.

I exceeded the grip available for one particular corner and the car just understeered off the edge of the road, but here's the lucky bit:

As I went off the road, the two left side wheels went into the ditch at the side, and the angle and speed at which I was driving meant that they simply travelled down the ditch like a massive scalextric, so I had 2 wheels about a foot off the road on the soft grass verge, and two in the ditch, whilst the windscreen literally looked like one of those rally shows on dave, where all the branches are hitting it and stuff.
I travelled about 15m or so in this fashion through the thick shrubbery in said ditch, finally coming to a rest in a fog of whitish smoke and screaming girls (bit like my 18th).

Managed to clamber out of the car to survey the damage, and to my astonishment, there was a huge tree slap bang in the middle of the ditch 3 yards in front of where my car stopped - if I'd been travelling 5mph more i'd have hit it straight on.

The prologue is that I got a recovery chap to tow it out, and here's the second astonishing thing, I feared the worst, broken axles, the lot, but after putting the tyre back on which had popped off the rim, there was absoloutely-nothing-wrong.. The car was filthy, and there was a forest wedged under the floor, and the tracking was a bit off, but even the side that went in the ditch was hardly scratched by the bushes.

Went to the local petrol station next day and jet washed it all, and the car looked absolutely fine, no dents or scratches at all. Simply couldn't believe it.

The girls never got a lift with me again, however.
(Thu 19th Aug 2010, 17:10, More)