Soldato
No pictures because I'm old and this happened before camera phones.
Mine was my first ever time driving on a motorway when I was a student who could barely afford to put fuel in the car. I was on the M6 on a Friday afternoon so it was understandably rather heavy, stop start traffic. As I approached an overhead bridge somewhere around Newcastle-Under-Lyme there were some kids mucking about on the bridge waving at traffic and suchlike. Having heard horror stories of kids droppng bricks through peoples windcreens etc I was distracted by them and didn't notice the cars in front come to stop. Wrapped my Metro around the back end of some reps Audi
Police attended, details were taken, I was by myself and out of my depth. Police called a recovery company who took my car to their yard and basically said it was a write off. Being only 3rd party insured I just took their word for it, gave them verbal instruction to dispose of it and got a lift to the station and a train home.
Few weeks later I got the bill for recovery (couple of hundred quid) and the NIP for undue care and attention. 5 points and a £450 fine followed and that was the end of my driving for a year or so until I finished uni and got a job that paid enough to buy a car and pay the inflated insurance. The whole episode cost me a fortune all told and meant that I missed out on that early twenties phase of working through quick cars as I couldn't ever afford to insure anything decent (I had a Cinq Sporting for years!)
Mine was my first ever time driving on a motorway when I was a student who could barely afford to put fuel in the car. I was on the M6 on a Friday afternoon so it was understandably rather heavy, stop start traffic. As I approached an overhead bridge somewhere around Newcastle-Under-Lyme there were some kids mucking about on the bridge waving at traffic and suchlike. Having heard horror stories of kids droppng bricks through peoples windcreens etc I was distracted by them and didn't notice the cars in front come to stop. Wrapped my Metro around the back end of some reps Audi
Police attended, details were taken, I was by myself and out of my depth. Police called a recovery company who took my car to their yard and basically said it was a write off. Being only 3rd party insured I just took their word for it, gave them verbal instruction to dispose of it and got a lift to the station and a train home.
Few weeks later I got the bill for recovery (couple of hundred quid) and the NIP for undue care and attention. 5 points and a £450 fine followed and that was the end of my driving for a year or so until I finished uni and got a job that paid enough to buy a car and pay the inflated insurance. The whole episode cost me a fortune all told and meant that I missed out on that early twenties phase of working through quick cars as I couldn't ever afford to insure anything decent (I had a Cinq Sporting for years!)