[Closed] 4 days old ! 😤

While my father supervised him on L plates, my brother reversed fathers car into his grandfathers car on our drive - with grandfather sat in the back of the car at the time...

(I have all this to come this autumn. I am dreading it...)

16 years old, got my motorbike CBT, my dad used to work in a Yamaha dealer so got a good deal on a nearly new FS1E from there. The day they delivered it, I was under orders not to touch it til he got back from work.

I ignored the order and less than 8 miles later overcooked a corner and crashed into a victorian drinking fountain. Bike written off...

My single parent mum worked really hard to get me my first 125cc motorcycle. I'd had a 50cc one before that which was woefully slow.

The bike I got was an RD125 LC and it was like a rocketship after the 50.

Had to get lots to get it through the mot too.

I'd had it two days, took a mate on the back of it down a local lane, put it through a hedge on a corner. We were fine, the bike was written off.

😢

Passed my test aged 17 and parents left me with the car to go on holiday 5 days later, they had no choice as the car was being repaired the day they left. It was a 1.3 Vauxhall Belmont lol. Took it down the lanes, going too fast, come round a corner to be confronted by a tractor turning across my lane. Slammed the brakes on and the car spun across the other lane to end up facing the other way on the grass verge. Sooo lucky that lane was clear of vehicles, car was undamaged. Drove home very slowly

I could also tell you about when I took the car out before I passed my test without their permission 🤣🤫 what an idiot.

.

OP... Have you put in a claim for the pothole he/she hit?? 😉😉

Not  teenage incompetency, but I am pretty skillful at damaging new stuff..

Cut through the ribbon off a new donkey kong game as a very young child because it looked messy. Obviously never worked again.

First day of driving a new van, caved in the passenger door panel against a wall (one of only two accidents I've ever had).

Brand new Ford focus (less than a month old) - bad angle reversing and ground a  deep 2ft gouge into the sill - on my own bloody driveway (yup, that's the second).

Bought the watch of a lifetime for someone of my means. Banged the ******* against a Premier Inn door and put a big mark in the casing within 2 weeks.

New suit -  Italian made 110's job. First time wearing and went on a few beers with a mate. The jacket sleeve caught a sharp edge of a skip on the roadside - whole lot ended up in the bin.

If I thought about it I could go on, but I'm not going to!

Teenage incompetency?

I wrote off a prototype/demonstrator Lotus Cortina, and used a Morris Minor full of teenage girls I was trying to impress to do the job. Spare wheel came through the back seat, engine went through radiator, Lotus was shortened considerably.

I still have a scar on my forehead where the skin split resulting in an impressive row of stitches. Just bruises for everyone else.

Not a major one but similar to the OPs,  got 4 new tyres for my focus,  and the local shop to work offered to fit them cheap at lunch (cash...) so popped round to get em fitted, they got the first (front) two fitted to run out of time saying they'll do the others tomorrow...

Nice muddy roundabout on route home,  used to slightly sliding all four wheels on it,  go to do the same but of course front grips, back slides out so I countersteer straight into the curb and wreck my 4 mile old tyre

A girl at school got the brake an accelerator confused and,  whilst she was driving around the long driveway with her dad on her first lesson,  drove into the garden pond.

I once watched a brand new car being delivered at work, gracefully slide off the back of a low loader and roll straight into a metal bollard putting a ruddy great dent in the back. The driver then sheepishly winched the car back onto his vehicle and took in back to our workshop to be repaired.

I have nothing to add other than that is a fantastic photo.

My wife normally drives to work, I cycle.  One day I had to take the car home, it was parked facing out of a 90-degree space on a main road.  I approached from the driver's side, loaded the bike into the boot, back round to the driver's side, and waited for a gap in traffic.  And waited.  Eventually saw one but had to pull out and make the left turn pretty quickly to avoid holding up the oncoming traffic, so I exited quite aggressively...  hadn't seen the low bollard adjacent to the left front wing, completely invisible from within the car.  Because of the quick getaway I managed to dent and gouge the paint in the front wing, both doors, the rear quarter and the sill beneath the doors before I cottoned on and stopped...

WE- my 3 brothers- inherited my grandad's metro. My older brother took care of any sharing issues by firing it about 100 feet into a field, nobody knows how. The accident investigation more or less said "We'd say that the car was doing at least 140mph, except it's a shitbox Metro and on that road there's no way you could have got it over 70. Maybe he used a trebuchet".

I was inspired to deal with all the young driver shenanigans by not learning to drive til I was 30. It's mostly gone pretty well except that time I drove into my house.

And last week when out on site (a bus stop, dead glamourous) there were a bunch of shiny new minivans being delivered to a dealer nearby.  About four turned up at once and were driven into the small, empty forecourt.  As they shuffled about, trying to park and make space, a fifth and sixth turned up but couldn't enter, so queued in the shoulder and across the footpath.  Once the first four had got out of the way the fifth driver started in.  Except he'd originally being going straight ahead and now, after a few minutes of being stationary, decided to do a hard left into the forecourt.  He'd forgotten about the low wall either side of the driveway and managed to mount it.  As well as being brand new, the van was kitted out with a wheelchair ramp under the sliding door, which took the full impact...

A colleague wrote off his brand new TVR within about 30 minutes of it being delivered. There's obviously something about Metro's - in the 6th form a friend managed to put his dad's new Metro GTi onto its roof the day after he passed his test.

I tried to help my wife learn to drive. That lasted all of about 2 minutes before we decided that in the interests of familial harmony it was not a good idea. Luckily my father-in-law is a driving instructor so he's already been lined up to teach our two girls. There's no way I could do it..

A mate at school flipped his car two days after passing his test, the driver's window was open to so he managed to almost scalp himself (the initial jealously of him being able to drive and have a car vanished when we saw him...).

I was always annoyed my dad wouldn't let me drive his car, or help me to drive or buy a car in anyway whatsoever, however, maybe he was right! lol.

I eventually passed aged 21, saved up and bought my own lovely Rover 214 with walnut dash, and never had any accidents, mostly due to how much money I'd spent on the whole thing.

Not teenage, 20/21 I think, a new Vehicle Leasing Rep in work was given a new Alfa 147 which I was immensely jealous of, not to mention it was the top of the range (at the time) 2.0 with the 'only seen on Ferrari's until now' paddle-shift gearboxes. It was even in Black with a tan leather interior, which I would have chosen given the choice. The worst part was she was both good at her job and a nice person (rare in finance) so I couldn't hate her for it.

The gearbox was crap though, shat itself at "70ish" on the motorway, in a really, you don't think they really do that in real life bits of metal and oil showering from the bottom of it sort of way, scared the shit out of her, but she got it stopped on the hard shoulder, called the Police to help with the mess and recovered. Arrives at the hire car place pretty flustered, given the keys to another new car.

Now, still a bit flustered at the Alfa going bang and being hours behind in her day, and understandably shaky  foot slips off the clutch pedal and hire car smashes into another one.

Not sure any were write-offs, but 3 cars badly damaged in about 90 mins.

When I was early twenties I worked as a Saisonaire in mainland Europe, my chum was the area manager - life was golden. My chum got a delivery miles only Ford Escort or perhaps Focus delivered to her site, and dropped on the pitch she was staying at.

Chum gets in car, turns engine on mixes up forward / reverse and drives straight into/under the end of the static caravan. Knocks van off it's supports and 40foot of static caravan comes crashing down on the bonnet of her brand spanking new car.

Serious damage done to £100k caravan and car totally written off. 7miles on the clock.

Oh how we chortled!

Thanks ladies and gents. Your tales of ineptitude have made me variously chuckle and wince. 🙂