How long did it take you to have your first proper bump?

You're all much better drivers than I was at 17. I wrote my first car off after about three months. Rolled it into a ditch because I was driving like a loon in the wet.

Fortunately with age sometimes comes maturity and it has been 13 years since my last accident.
 
Oh and was told by a friend the other day that some guy he works with who just turned 17 passed his test, had a car already had it a day and then wrote it off, he said it cost him 800quid per hour of driving, as he was only tpft.
 
10 years now and no accidents so far.

I like to think I drive reasonably sensibly so hopefully can go a while yet without anything :)
 
I had a bump 1 month after passing my test :( . That was just under a year ago, no bumps since, touch wood.
 
I drove my parents cars after passing my test and had no accidents or even close calls. About 2 years latter within 5 days of buying my own car I'd stuck it into a wall. Non in the 7 years since then.
 
Two and a half years.....some berk drove into the side of me as he pulled out from a line of parked cars without checking his mirrors/blind spot. Cost £640 to repair, settled outside of insurance.
 
Adz said:
Safe driving IMO is all about awareness, anticipation and intuition, something you don't have when you pass your test and which has to be learnt through experience.
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So your saying every person who has just passed there test has no awareness, anticipation or intuition? :confused:
 
about 2 months after i passed.

Some old guy on the motorway going in a straight line lost control span and smashed the front offside of my car to pieces ended up stranded on the central reservation and then the old sod drove off. Fortunatly he did phone the police and say he had left someone after an accident which was his fault. Unfortunatly for him he then decided to try and change his story before he realised my dad was a copper, and so ended up with the police knocking on his door with his telephone recordings and they kindly informed him that he should not change his story.
 
Illusion said:
So your saying every person who has just passed there test has no awareness, anticipation or intuition? :confused:
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The less experience you have, the less likely you're going to be able to anticipate what will happen in any given situation. You don't know what to look for, so it's harder to be aware of what poses a potential threat or to intuit what the outcome of a particular move will be.

That combined with youthful over-exuberance = more likelihood of a prang.
 
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mjer1984 said:
about 2 months after i passed.

Some old guy on the motorway going in a straight line lost control span and smashed the front offside of my car to pieces ended up stranded on the central reservation and then the old sod drove off. Fortunatly he did phone the police and say he had left someone after an accident which was his fault. Unfortunatly for him he then decided to try and change his story before he realised my dad was a copper, and so ended up with the police knocking on his door with his telephone recordings and they kindly informed him that he should not change his story.
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would love to have seen hes face :D
 
Von Luck said:
The less experience you have, the less likely you're going to be able to anticipate what will happen in any given situation.

That combined with youthful over-exuberance = more likelihood of a prang.
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Yup, hence why I did what I did to mine, and my mate flipped a 306 DTurbo, young and stupid. I learnt from mine, and whilst I have built my confidence back up and empty my tank quickly ;) I know when to just leave it and not take risks, especially ones like I did in the 5.

InvG
 
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