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Backing out of a tight parking space on a very busy boulevard. Under pressure to get out quick while there was a gap in the traffic and took out a low standing, unsighted bollard!!!!!!
Bumper a bit skew whiff and back end ragged up.
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Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.
Have been unlucky with damage to vehicles over the last two years. Have had vehicles damaged five times in accidents (none of them our fault) in which three resulted in the other person`s insurance paying (eventually). The other two were bumps while the car was parked where people drove off...
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When was the last time you pranged your car? on 14:12 - Feb 1 with 1187 views
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 14:02 - Feb 1 by spudgun
Have been unlucky with damage to vehicles over the last two years. Have had vehicles damaged five times in accidents (none of them our fault) in which three resulted in the other person`s insurance paying (eventually). The other two were bumps while the car was parked where people drove off...
Not your fault.
I've done that, raked up other cars in the carpark and driven off unseen. Once when in a rented van I did an unfortunate car in quite badly. Got away scot-free.
I assume the other posters here are honest John types who'd leave a chit of paper with contact details under the windscreen wiper.
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Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.
I reversed slowly into somebody’s van outside their home in Cleveleys last August. Due to the scraping noise the owner came out, looked at the damage, which was minimal, and said don’t worry about it That was last years lucky day.
when the monkey is high you do not stare you do not stare 🥴
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 14:20 - Feb 1 by Lala
Spell
I reversed slowly into somebody’s van outside their home in Cleveleys last August. Due to the scraping noise the owner came out, looked at the damage, which was minimal, and said don’t worry about it That was last years lucky day.
Last year spell, did the same as you with low bollard. We need reversing sensors
Tangerine is the new black
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When was the last time you pranged your car? on 21:07 - Feb 1 with 1155 views
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 21:07 - Feb 1 by spell_chekker
Reversing into low bollards is a fact of life Stu, even for the best of us drivers.
Parked in Sainsbury’s St Annes car park with trolley bay on immediate left. Sat in the car listening to music for half an hour while my long suffering missus did a bit of shopping. Shopping safely in boot, reverse out on full right hand down, horrible grinding! You need to be a special daft like me to forget where the trolley bay is (which you can’t see from the drivers seat) - but you can hear it!
That one didn’t 'buff out'
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When was the last time you pranged your car? on 23:19 - Feb 1 with 1143 views
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 21:36 - Feb 1 by 3goalsfred
Parked in Sainsbury’s St Annes car park with trolley bay on immediate left. Sat in the car listening to music for half an hour while my long suffering missus did a bit of shopping. Shopping safely in boot, reverse out on full right hand down, horrible grinding! You need to be a special daft like me to forget where the trolley bay is (which you can’t see from the drivers seat) - but you can hear it!
That one didn’t 'buff out'
The first time I wrote off a car, Blackpool FC were indirectly to blame.
Listen I once went to the Lakes with the ex and the children and he didn’t get out of the car. What makes it even worse is he was a claret fan listening to the Burnley commentary! Can you believe I even gave him another 2 months of my life after that
when the monkey is high you do not stare you do not stare 🥴
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 14:57 - Feb 2 by Lala
Listen I once went to the Lakes with the ex and the children and he didn’t get out of the car. What makes it even worse is he was a claret fan listening to the Burnley commentary! Can you believe I even gave him another 2 months of my life after that
Lala that is very caring of you taking pity on those from the hills types? It must have been scary for him seeing civilisation and riding in a car?
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When was the last time you pranged your car? on 15:03 - Feb 2 with 1103 views
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 14:57 - Feb 2 by Lala
Listen I once went to the Lakes with the ex and the children and he didn’t get out of the car. What makes it even worse is he was a claret fan listening to the Burnley commentary! Can you believe I even gave him another 2 months of my life after that
😂😂LaLa
A few years back - parked the car up the drive, got all the shopping out the boot and went inside to unpack it. About 10 mins later there’s a knock on the door, lady asking me if that’s my car. I lived on a busy main road, my car had rolled back off the drive and then (how I don’t know) missed not only the traffic passing but two parked cars opposite and came to a standstill in the middle of the road. How lucky was I.
We’ve got Simon Sadler
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When was the last time you pranged your car? on 15:05 - Feb 2 with 1099 views
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 15:03 - Feb 2 by janegallagher
😂😂LaLa
A few years back - parked the car up the drive, got all the shopping out the boot and went inside to unpack it. About 10 mins later there’s a knock on the door, lady asking me if that’s my car. I lived on a busy main road, my car had rolled back off the drive and then (how I don’t know) missed not only the traffic passing but two parked cars opposite and came to a standstill in the middle of the road. How lucky was I.
Oh my word! You were lucky there. Did you say you’d be out there in minute once you’d finished unpacking and your brew? Lol
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When was the last time you pranged your car? on 15:07 - Feb 2 with 1098 views
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 18:16 - Feb 2 by stu
Forgot about Rocky
Picture the scene.
I am working in Scotland, it is Tuesday and Blackpool are away at Carlisle. I have no intentions of missing it.
Unfortunately, at 4.30 I am still in the Regional Office in Grangemouth and know I have to call back home in East Kilbride to get some warmer clothes to wear.
I storm back down the motorway, and I as I leave at the right exit I notice how dark it is getting and how the weather seems to be closing in. At the crest of the hill ahead I can see dirty clouds gathering ominously.
Nonetheless, I keep my foot down as I am still a couple of hundred yards from the roundabout, but as I crest the hill I realise (far too late) that the dirty cloud I had observed is actually a brown Mini, parked at the back of a long queue of rush hour traffic.
I brake, far too late. The Mini finishes up neatly parked in the roadside ditch, with a small dent in the boot door. My front end, meanwhile, is in a couple of hundred pieces and scattered all over the road.
I had an uncomfortable chat with my boss the following morning, and I didn't much enjoy being breathalysed either (even though I hadn't touched a drop). Worst of all, I missed the match....
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 12:10 - Feb 3 by basilrobbiereborn
Picture the scene.
I am working in Scotland, it is Tuesday and Blackpool are away at Carlisle. I have no intentions of missing it.
Unfortunately, at 4.30 I am still in the Regional Office in Grangemouth and know I have to call back home in East Kilbride to get some warmer clothes to wear.
I storm back down the motorway, and I as I leave at the right exit I notice how dark it is getting and how the weather seems to be closing in. At the crest of the hill ahead I can see dirty clouds gathering ominously.
Nonetheless, I keep my foot down as I am still a couple of hundred yards from the roundabout, but as I crest the hill I realise (far too late) that the dirty cloud I had observed is actually a brown Mini, parked at the back of a long queue of rush hour traffic.
I brake, far too late. The Mini finishes up neatly parked in the roadside ditch, with a small dent in the boot door. My front end, meanwhile, is in a couple of hundred pieces and scattered all over the road.
I had an uncomfortable chat with my boss the following morning, and I didn't much enjoy being breathalysed either (even though I hadn't touched a drop). Worst of all, I missed the match....
Oh no Is that why you don’t drive now
We’ve got Simon Sadler
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When was the last time you pranged your car? on 12:21 - Feb 3 with 1044 views
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 12:16 - Feb 3 by janegallagher
Oh no Is that why you don’t drive now
Oh no, I had another accident after that.
I gave up driving when I moved to London and not only did I not need a car, but I quickly worked out owning one would be a constant source of aggravation.
I benefit from the triple whammy - no car, no mortgage, no kids.
When was the last time you pranged your car? on 12:10 - Feb 3 by basilrobbiereborn
Picture the scene.
I am working in Scotland, it is Tuesday and Blackpool are away at Carlisle. I have no intentions of missing it.
Unfortunately, at 4.30 I am still in the Regional Office in Grangemouth and know I have to call back home in East Kilbride to get some warmer clothes to wear.
I storm back down the motorway, and I as I leave at the right exit I notice how dark it is getting and how the weather seems to be closing in. At the crest of the hill ahead I can see dirty clouds gathering ominously.
Nonetheless, I keep my foot down as I am still a couple of hundred yards from the roundabout, but as I crest the hill I realise (far too late) that the dirty cloud I had observed is actually a brown Mini, parked at the back of a long queue of rush hour traffic.
I brake, far too late. The Mini finishes up neatly parked in the roadside ditch, with a small dent in the boot door. My front end, meanwhile, is in a couple of hundred pieces and scattered all over the road.
I had an uncomfortable chat with my boss the following morning, and I didn't much enjoy being breathalysed either (even though I hadn't touched a drop). Worst of all, I missed the match....
when the monkey is high you do not stare you do not stare 🥴
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