In Dec '86 as I was driving my unrego / un wof'd Triumph Dolomite home from a friend's place where we'd been working on it I was following a black 'Knight rider' Trans Am along Corstorphine Road in Dunedin. The road ends in a wide intersection where three roads meet. The driver indicated to turn right but drove to the left (being a left hooker he was apparently lining up to see into the intersection). I thought he was actually pulling off to the left so I went straight ahead. and when he did turn right the front of my Dolly ploughed into the rear right quarter of his car. They weren't too happy but could've been worse and it wasn't all my fault actually. I wasn't too happy either but thankfully the cops weren't called and my Trumpy was hardly damaged (solid beast). I paid for his car to be repaired and that was that.
brapbrap8,
Sep 15, 5:45pm
I sort of backed over some guys hotted up Falcon in my ute, he was parked behind and to the side of me in a dip in the yard on a wet and dark night, I jumped in wanting to head home after working 14 hours straight. Backed around without looking too hard as the mirrors were wet, I had gear on the tray and my reversing lights didn't light up his vehicle because I was backing uphill and he was in a dip. Not a mark on the Triton, almost wrote off the Falcon though.
Other than that I have never caused any accidents.
mimik3,
Sep 15, 10:31pm
Whanganui, 1982 Morris Nomad. Alcohol. Lots of it Trying to go around a corner, missed and ran into a parked car. 'nuff said
andrewph,
Sep 15, 11:53pm
Hit a parked car while tuning in the crappy stereo that used to wander off channel. urgh! If id looked up as i got closer i would have seen it was parked about a foot away from the kerb. but did i? nooooo. urgh.
bjmh,
Sep 16, 5:37am
racing ! a Vauxhall cresta in the firms 100e prefect van home from night school tried to past the cresta ran out of road, saw a car heading my way turned to get back on my side of the road.Van nosedived and rolled end over end down the road ,me bouncing around inside,petrol tank burst and covered me.Finally the van came to rest upside down,with me sitting on the road behind the open back doors.16 yrs old . the bosses must have seen some potential,i got my r's reamed and they never fired me.
tgray,
Sep 16, 5:41am
I braked heavily on the motorway once coming up to a queue of traffic, and the car behind me did the same and got wacked up the rear. I often think about it and perhaps I needn't have braked so hard. The car behind was munted.
sifty,
Sep 16, 5:59am
Nil.
brigette6,
Sep 16, 6:29am
This ones a bit different. As a kid i use to adventure over the road into the kiwifruit orchard. the neighbours Labrador decided to follow me one day. i yelled "get home" and she turned and ran towards home and got bowled as she was crossing the road. She survived without and injuries but i sure did feel guilty
kazbanz,
Sep 16, 6:44am
I headed up to Waiwera hot pools with the girlfriend. Back then SH1 went straight past the pools but was a narry road with lots of corners. Hopped on the bike to head home . Pulling onto SH1 from the pools and the back end of the bike shot round and overtook the front. -Turns out the gearshift oil seal had popped out dumping a litre of oil onto the back tyre . Bikes on the ground and im rolling towards the edge of the road, The girlfriend literally stepped off and walked to the roadside. No real damage done and an easy roadside repair. But then a freightrain of cars came hammering down the hill doing 100km/h. First car swerved and avoided the bike. After that it was mayhem with cars going in every direction. One car was a 2 day old Jag which was well damaged. SH1 closed for 3 hours. The jag owner wanted me to pay for the damage but then the cops asked why he couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting me.
kellie30,
Sep 16, 6:47am
i once flashed a guy driving a hilux and he drove into a fence
macman26,
Sep 16, 6:47am
Spent 4 weeks pulling into a yard and reversing in to park. Leave and come back 20 min later and . Bang. Hit a sea container, Got dropped off while I was gone. Worse thing was the ute had just come back from the panel beaters from having the same door and mirror repaired from someone else's mishap.
poppajn,
Sep 16, 7:02am
Was'nt me but our apprentice took a brand new Charger for a road test, did a U turn and a MK 1 Zephyr t-boned him
tamarillo,
Sep 16, 7:23am
Left turning lane at lights in Auckland early 1980's, we had a green, cars turning, car in front moved off, I moved off, all good, looked right to check again whilst still crawling forward. bang. MG front into VW Baja buggy rear. Kinda bent his weird exhaust system and damaged my beloved midget.
Why he stopped when he didn't need to didn't matter, still my fault.
Apart from that the usual falling off motorcycles under teenage stupidity and alcohol in the 70's.
tintop,
Sep 16, 8:47am
A close call coming over a hill with a right bend in a thick fog,and clipped a fence post with my beloved Midget ( Series TF) , but carried on.
When I got home the was a bit of a bend to the front bumper, and a graze at the peak of the left front guard.
Going back to work - with a bit of a late start in the middle of the morning - there was a couple of tractors, cockies all over the place, and a great length of fencing down. I stopped while a tractor was backing across the road, and a guy came rushing up to me all cranky and wound up.
"look what you have done you bugger, look at the bloody fence!"
" I did not do that" said I,
" No you didn't " said the guy, " I was following you in the fog, you got round the corner, I went straight ahead! "
kam04,
Sep 16, 9:12am
The only accident I caused was on the back seat of my Humber 80. We ended up with a lovely daughter.
kokako14,
Sep 16, 9:24am
It wasn't my fault when I drove into the back of a truck in the main street of Hamilton in the 70's, in the work van. It was the girls fault, walking down Victoria Street in a mini skirt
piperguy,
Sep 16, 9:55am
Driving a workmate's uninsured 6 month old Corolla at night, had a guy right up my a$$ so I pulled over to let him past and ran up the back of a parked Valiant at 100 kph
drog,
Sep 16, 10:24am
I fell off my BSA Bantam like that. Her knickers were pink.
mrfxit,
Sep 16, 10:39am
Backing out of a carpark turning left (right swing) & cleaned off the bumper , grill & lights off a Nissan Bluebird Was a huge "H" beam support.
mrfxit,
Sep 16, 10:41am
What are knickers? What I saw didn't include those ;-)
mrfxit,
Sep 16, 10:43am
*cough* what size headlights?
richardmayes,
Sep 16, 10:56am
1st: Christchurch, 2001, I did a U-turn in my Triumph 2500 into a parallel parking space outside one of the halls of residence at Canterbury Uni. But first I waited for a couple in a Pajero who were coming up the road in the other direction, and they pulled over to their left to park in the same spot outside the halls too. I assumed that surely they would just park their car right where they had stopped, so I did my U-turn into the park behind them. As I was doing so, they decided to reverse along the road (to get a bit closer to the door of the hall) and straight into my RF guard - which was apparently softer than their door-mounted knobbly pajero tyre. Big ugly dent but it turned out to be a relatively cheap fix.
2nd: Auckland 2004, Heading south down Broadway Newmarket (still in my Triumph 2500) where it turns into double lanes through the intersection with Khyber Pass. Night time, raining. Shitty little Nissan Vanette in front of me appears to be going into the right lane and dawdling along. Sweet! I'll go into the left lane and blast past him. Of course, the REAL reason he was slowing down is that he had absolutely no idea where he was, or where the lanes were, and as I drew alongside he slowed even more and wandered back into the left lane, and I nailed his LR corner with the front of my car. He spun about 90 degrees anticlockwise and I carried on straight ahead like a battering ram. By the time I was able to stop somewhere safe to inspect the damage, he was long gone, never to be seen again. Front of my car was better after the repair than it had been beforehand.
Come to think of it, both accidents that I've felt partly responsible for, my main mistake was assuming I knew what the other driver was going to do, and assumption is the mother of all f###-ups, as U.S. military men say.
tintop,
Sep 16, 11:16am
Yep - the car in front moving well over to the left to stop in a vacant parallel car park is really just a prelude to a sudden unsignalled 'U' turn to park on the opposite side of the street.
4 very scared kids the back seat less than a metre away from my front bumper and a very shaken mother getting out of the car. Didn't feel too hot myself.
Fortunately, one of those situations where the 'body language' of the car in front says 'expected the unexpected here! ' , and I had already started to brake before the U turn took place.
2sheddies,
Sep 16, 1:34pm
Hahaha! Best one by far!
trogedon,
Sep 16, 3:09pm
Another one from me; some years ago I was driving up Candia Road at the back of Hendo on the way to teach in Massey. It was really foggy and its a notorious hill for the sun shining down at that time of the morning(as it was) + my Astina had a sharply raked screen. I just couldn't see! I was down to about 20kph with traffic building up behind me so I decided to pull off to the side (no curb) of the road. BANG! My car smashed into a late model Corolla that an old woman had parked there. She like me hadn't been able to see either. She wasn't pleased - having just gotten it back from the 'beaters. My car had stoved in the back of her bumper etc. The Astina bumper was pushed in, lights messed up and bonnet kinked up. I drove to school and when I arrived (nearly late) and through the day I had kids coming up to me saying "Mr W. what happened to your car. " Joy.
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