Hello all,

What's the worst crash / damage you've ever had in your car?

Personally, i wrote off the complete underside of my old punto when i hit a roundabout at 55mph...snapped the rear wishbone..ouch!

Oh and then i reversed into a car in my brand new punto just before xmas No damage to my car but it cost me £560 to fix his

Excellent topic.

Priory Roundabout - Beeston Nottingham, August 1992, about 3:45 p.m.

I'm on the roundabout, in my little Panda, just about to pass an exit, when this loony in an Orion at 50 mph decides to cut me up and hit that same exit. A glancing blow only, but this flung the car on to the pavement straight in front of a woman pedestrian. She was unharmed and was in fact a witness.

Damage: offside front tyre burst, bent bonnet, both wings, offside headlight, front bumper (just missed the unfortunate woman), front panel - in fact, looking from the front the whole front end looked as if it had been pushed sideways!

BTW, it was still driveable, and I did drive home with my bumper in the boot and my heart in my mouth!

His damage: a tiny dent in his nearside rear wheelarch. Bastard.

Luckily he did stop and exchange insurance details but that's all he did do. He didn't help to clear the bits off the road or replace the burst tyre. There was a definite smell of alcohol but I wasn't sure whether it was him or the woman so I didn't press it. He was in a hurry to go however.

It took a month before the insurance gave the go-ahead - unfortunately the replacement tyre's tread was borderline (this was the spare you realise) and it held up the claim but they did finally agree to repair the car. I was convinced that they would have written it off ... but the shell had not been twisted.

Due to the witness giving evidence his insurance had to pay up, and there were rumours that he was to be prosecuted but I never heard more. And I got my excess of £200 back.

Oh, and embarrassingly, big Steve bursts into tears and cries his heart out when he saw the damage, although this was probably partly due to the severe shock - I was shaking so much I was unable to write my insurance details so I had to dictate them ... at home I just locked myself in the toilet and was throwing up constantly for at least 15 minutes ...

In retrospect, I should really have called the police because it made me feel so ill at the time and shouldn't really have driven home.

Steve
(I'm also on [email protected])


1989 Fiat Panda 1000CL "Rustwagen"
Electronic Distributor
Metamec copper brake pipes
Currently immobile with a knackered gearbox
Replacement 5-speed 'box and new QH clutch in garage ready to fit
and is likely to remain there for some time yet due to my EXTREME
LAZINESS (and it's wet out there - okay, so I'm a wimp) ...

hello...well as you would expect..im a baby so im still new to driving and therefore havent had an accident..yet...hope not to have one either...!!!
The only damage I have had is two break ins where they have completly wrecked my door......the bastards....[!]

The One & only xxx

My worst one was a narrow escape. Bought a Cinquecento Sporting and five weeks later it got written off. A Dagenham Dustbin Mondeo ploughed into the side of my Cinque at speed. The car rolled onto the drivers side and slid along for quite a way. I dont know how far as at the time I completely froze. All I know is at the time I thought I'd had it. But it landed on its wheels, and I got out of the car with nothing more than minor whiplash. Lucky. Impressed with those little cars.





regards,
Paul




www.fiatbravo.org.uk - [email protected]
Current Fiat fleet:
'98 Seicento Sporting - '02 Punto Sporting - '94 Tipo 1.4 ie S

Ouch!

Steve

My first crash and hopefully my last crash happened on 30/12/02 so only 2 weeks ago, I went into the back off a mondeo wrecked all the front end off my car, this was only at 20mph, but it could be fixed, until the insurance decided to right it off.

Although I think it is the wrong decision, they haven't taken long to sort all the paper work out.

I still have the police investigation to deal with cause some d1ckhead phoned the police, me and the women where prepared to go after we exchanged our details, but then we would off been leaving the scene of an accident!!!

Gaz[^][^][^]

Looks Good, Drives Sh!t.

bloody hell this forum is like wading through treacle! Anyway after 8 minutes......

1. November 1988
Car Sunbeam Lotus
Accident Left country road at speed and hit various trees and destroyed a hedge trying to drive like Hannu Mikola and failing.
Result Car written off and the police attempted to do me for driving without due car and attention

2. June 1989
Car Abarth 131
Accident Took avoiding action to miss a paperboy who decided to play chicken with me on a wet road. Ended up in Bungalow Bill Wiggins (remember him?) father roses after entering his garden through a hedge
Result Lots of front end damage, two bent struts and a knackered wheel

3. July 1989
Car Range Rover Vogue
Accident Lost control on works test track and piled it into bank. The car was brand new with 216 miles on the clock
Result £2,500 worth of front end damage

4. August 1989
Car Land Rover S2
Accident Took it over what I thought were normal railway tracks!
Result Total write off including engine!

5. May 1996
Car Rover Vitesse
Accident Sideswiped at a roundabout by a Volvo
Result Beleive it or not the Volvo was written off and my side was repaired

6. September 1998
Car Nissan 200SX Turbo
Accident Wifey driving this time with me as a passenger! On a dual carriadgeway doing 50mph towards a roundabout - she floored the go pedal and not the brake.
Result 50 to 90 very quickly and took poor matey's Pug 309 out on the way. Over £6,000 worth on my Nissan!

7 December 1998
Car Nissan 200SX Turbo
Accident Doris hits me up the rear end after being behind me for three hours in a traffic jam - unbeleivable!
Result 3 1/2 years of pain trying to get my excess back - oh and £1,300 to the car.

8. July 2002
Car Fiat Bravo HGT
Accident Numpty motorbike rider overtakes on double white liones and piles into side of the car as wife turns right.
Result I was following in the Jag and nearly killed the **** there and then - he refused to take his helmet off until I was restrained he he

There have been a number of minor scrapes as well! All in the course of driving an average of 50,000 miles per year since 1987!


Fiat Bravo HGT155
Jagaur XJR-S 6.0 V12

I've had a few minor knocks over the last 14 yrs of driving and only two scary ones...

1) 1989 - Vauxhall Viva failed to give way at roundabout and plowed into the passenger side of my Polo. I was shunted sideways across two lanes of the roundabout, the polo was drivable, which was lucky as it took his insurers 6 mths to authorise repairs and I was only 3rd party. I've never liked vauxhalls since and I took out fully comp insurance for my next car.

2) 1999 (is there a pattern forming?) - A Pugeot 106 cut accross my path whilst turning right and I went into her side at about 25mph. My car suffered a completely knackered front end and the passenger side wing was pushed back over the door and I had to use a lot of muscle to force the door open and free my prgnant wife. My car valued at £2800 was written off. It took her and her insurer 12 mths to admit liablity and another 8 for them to compensate the wife for her whiplash.

Baby was fine now aged nearly 4, loves the Stilo as it has a reading light in the back!

Ouch XYFAS!

So who was dragging their heels? The other driver? Or the insurers? Or both?

I know that some insurance companies can be pretty slow. Fortis (allegedly) is one of them ...

Glad to hear that both your wife and child were not seriously injured, although I know that whiplash can be very nasty indeed.

Steve.

Although on my previous reply on this thread, I said the the insurance where very quick in dealing with my claim, I would like to retract that statement, they told me that my car has been been written off (they must be blind)[!][!][!]

I only got my cheques yeaterday, and now they have not contacted me by letter or phone to tell me when they are taking my car away, they seem to have just lost contact with me, the last conversation was over 2 weeks ago[V][V][V]

Gaz[^][^][^]

Looks Good, Drives Sh!t.

I have to say that when i crashed my car, my insurance company, Corinthian, were absolutely brilliant. They dealt with it ASAP, had no arguments whatsoever, they authorised the work as soon as they could and i had a courtesy car for nowt for over 6 weeks. The only reason everything took so long was because the garage was waiting for a part from FIAT which as usual they couldn't be arsed to make a plentiful supply of.
They should also have written the car off given the repair cost V value at the time. still i suspect they wouldn't do as then they'd have had to have given me a brand new one as it was less than 2 years old at the time.

I have really only had one bad accident. My fault unfortunately but it was when I was driving a truck. Crashed into the back of a Civic. Doing about 15mph in a little traffic and was not paying attention. Completely wrote off the back of the Civ. That was eight years ago.
Since then I've only had 2 accidents, (well three if you count the one where I was parked and not even in my car. Truck backed into my car and it needed a a whole new face lift.

Before that, only a year before, some knobend hopped the lights and couldn't stop in time before he hit me. Luckily for him only two weeks prior to that someone hit in to the back of the car behind me and shunted her into my car. Complete face lift to the back of my car was required.

Thats' about it in 13 years and about 150,000 miles of driving. Could be worse, could be better.

I almost had a bad accident 2 days ago, I was driving along the bypass seeing how fast my new sei sporting would go, I heard this massive 'CRACK' noise and the next thing I knew the bonnet smashed straight into the windscreen, the garage have agreed to pay for the damages!!!

Gaz[^][^][^]

Looks Good, Drives Sh!t.

I got shunted into a McDonalds Welcome sign from behind. Only minor damage, but first one ever in my Bravo :I

:: Green Fiat Bravo SX ::

i put a Tipo into a field late one winters night

changing the radio station i hit the verge - pulled off to quick and started to fishtail - completely lost it - car tipped, flew and landed on the boot - then rolled a few times (not exactly sure how many) - every window smashed except the windscreen and the drivers window and there wasn't a body panel anywhere that didn't have a dent in it - car ended on its side - me(in shock) had to climb out of the passengers side window (car lying on drivers side) - then (still in shock) i went back in for the keys (like the car was going anywhere)- complete write off - my mum still hasn't forgiven me

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My worst accident was in a works van. I was overtaking a car and caravan on a long straight. Then with out checking his mirrors he just turned right! Needless to say my van went straight through his caravan and only stopped when it hit the back end of his frontera! It left the van parked in the back of the caravan like it was on a trailer and it left me with bad whiplash and a cracked collar bone.

It didnt make matters no easier with the fact that the van said "specialists to the caravan and marina industry" on the side of it! B)

It aint a car unless its modified!

XYFAS said:

I've had a few minor knocks over the last 14 yrs of driving and only two scary ones...

1) 1989 - Vauxhall Viva failed to give way at roundabout and plowed into the passenger side of my Polo. I was shunted sideways across two lanes of the roundabout, the polo was drivable, which was lucky as it took his insurers 6 mths to authorise repairs and I was only 3rd party. I've never liked vauxhalls since and I took out fully comp insurance for my next car.

2) 1999 (is there a pattern forming?) - A Pugeot 106 cut accross my path whilst turning right and I went into her side at about 25mph. My car suffered a completely knackered front end and the passenger side wing was pushed back over the door and I had to use a lot of muscle to force the door open and free my prgnant wife. My car valued at £2800 was written off. It took her and her insurer 12 mths to admit liablity and another 8 for them to compensate the wife for her whiplash.

Baby was fine now aged nearly 4, loves the Stilo as it has a reading light in the back!

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I wonder if he was OK last year?