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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: sneakypenguin on 12 October 2009, 18:43:01
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biggest thing I've hit is a pigeon whilst driving a double deck bus. Was pulling into a stop and the stupid thing just stayed there. Made a very satisfying crunching noise, although the two women at the stop were cringing ;D
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A tree! :-[
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ouch, hope it had insruance :P
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Tree, garden gate & fencing :-[
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Spun on some ice and found the only brick wall for miles, my left knee cracked the dash (Fiat Uno)
Filtered a Pheasant through a Carton Diplomat headlight (Bones n all)
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a house :-[
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a house :-[
Did it jump out on you? ;D ;D
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I've had an articulated lorry hit me, BIG OUCH, but the biggest thing I've hit was my brother years ago when he annoyed me (with my fist ;D) :y
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a house :-[
Did it jump out on you? ;D ;D
Something like that :-[
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Next biggest thing I hit was a Capri - head on :-[
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Next biggest thing I hit was a Ford (Wish it was a Manta) Capri - head on :-[
eh? bloody word censor ;D
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Hehe, I also had a mishap the 1st time I drove a forklift truck, thought the pedals were the same as a car (NOT) anyway, came down a small slope, thought I was braking (was the reverse pedal) other than it clicking nothing happened. So I turned to the right with the intention of coasing to a halt and it started to roll over, was allready up on the left wheels. ::) Had to think quick, spun it round to the left doing a 180 which killed 60/70% of the speed. But then I promply parked it into 2 huge tyres on a 17.5 ton truck. :-/
Got a way with a huge bolloking and the sack as my Dad was the Transport Manager, and to this day I dont think my gaffer actually found out.
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Hehe, I also had a mishap the 1st time I drove a forklift truck, thought the pedals were the same as a car (NOT) anyway, came down a small slope, thought I was braking (was the reverse pedal) other than it clicking nothing happened. So I turned to the right with the intention of coasing to a halt and it started to roll over, was allready up on the left wheels. ::) Had to think quick, spun it round to the left doing a 180 which killed 60/70% of the speed. But then I promply parked it into 2 huge tyres on a 17.5 ton truck. :-/
Got a way with a huge bolloking and the sack as my Dad was the Transport Manager, and to this day I dont think my gaffer actually found out.
You got away with only a bollocking and the sack? you jammy sod ;)
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A block of flats. ;D :-[.............was driving an LDV van with extended fibreglass roof,went to drive the van through a underpass type thing to go from the front of the flats to the car park at the back.Forgot about the high roof until there was an almighty crunching/cracking noise.The block of flats was sat on the roof of the van (actually the roof of the van was mostly on the floor in the back of the van.Had to let the air out of the front tyres so I could reverse it out.Should have seen the look on the blokes face who I hired the van from when I drove into his yard with the roofless van. :-[ ;D ;D
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a house :-[
Managed a house too - totalled an Astra Estate. Also managed to hit a Triumph GT6 head on in the E-type in Leicester in the 60s - bent a chrome bar on the E-type but pushed the front end of the GT6 back so that doors wouldn't open! That one wasn't my fault though ;)
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A lamp post quite a few years ago in my Hillman Hunter ::) and a tree in my Elite a month ago. Reversed into the bloody thing and smashed tailgate glass and creased tailgate. :'( :'(
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A stone wall & a very very large tree with my first car (Morris Marina-- cough cough). The tree still has the scars where it's bark is missing & that was twenty seven years ago :D
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biggest thing I've hit is a pigeon whilst driving a double deck bus. Was pulling into a stop and the stupid thing just stayed there. Made a very satisfying crunching noise, although the two women at the stop were cringing ;D
Biggest thing the wife has hit was a fire station!
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a hill. i was in a p100 pickup truck i do event security over arena essex and the hill well more like a cliff it didnt look that steep from were i was sitting so i took a long run up i nearly managed to put myself through the windscreen turs out it was a bit steaper than originaly thought lol oopps ;D
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Yonks ago, when I owned a MK1 1500 Cortina, I was driving through a picturesque country village when Mrs
Grumpy spyed the local shop. They had lined some
middling size boulders outside of it and painted them
white to look nice.
How can you miss some white painted boulders? :-[
I picked one that sloped gently backwards and drove
up it, raising the nearside front of the car into the air.
When I backed and screeched off it and inspected
the underside of my car I found that my nearside
steering arm was bent upwards in a fetching kind
of 'U' shape. :'(
Mrs Grumpy has never let me forget it. :-[
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A Peugeot pick-up truck, a Ford Feista, and a bus stop (on three separate ocassions...). But that was many many years ago.
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.....with my first car (Morris Marina-- cough cough). ......
I was behind one of them the other day!!! :) :) It looked to be in reasonable nick :o :o, a coupe too! :y :y
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an arcticulated lorry, side on... :-[
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Whilst doing a night event rally many moons ago, navigator calls a bend as flat right only to find it was a 45 right. so whilst doing about 80 mph we hit planet earth VERY hard. I dont think you can get a more immovable an object than earth........................... hence new rally car a few weeks later :-) >:(
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the earth after dogding an oil tanker trying to knock me off my old kwak 500!
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somebodies granny!(she stepped into the road without looking!) :o
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the earth after dogding an oil tanker trying to knock me off my old kwak 500!
Ah yes, like most bikers, I have kissed the tarmac. And it smarted somewhat (still does 4/5 yrs later :-[)
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Hehe, I also had a mishap the 1st time I drove a forklift truck, thought the pedals were the same as a car (NOT) anyway, came down a small slope, thought I was braking (was the reverse pedal) other than it clicking nothing happened. So I turned to the right with the intention of coasing to a halt and it started to roll over, was allready up on the left wheels. ::) Had to think quick, spun it round to the left doing a 180 which killed 60/70% of the speed. But then I promply parked it into 2 huge tyres on a 17.5 ton truck. :-/
Got a way with a huge bolloking and the sack as my Dad was the Transport Manager, and to this day I dont think my gaffer actually found out.
You got away with only a bollocking and the sack? you jammy sod ;)
I considered the bollocking I got far far worse than the sack, he was spitting feathers. remember it as if was was yeasterday and it happened 32/33 years ago. I got "The look what might have happened" lecture. and fully deserved it. :-/
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hit a mini metro...............with a ten ton steam engine, put rather a large wheel shaped dent in. :D
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hit a mini metro...............with a ten ton steam engine, put rather a large wheel shaped dent in. :D
had a mini metro hit me about 16 years ago, it came off worse, i went over bonnet taking the grille, headlight and some of the wing with me! i was winded tho!!!!
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Only ever hit 3 things in my driving career....
1. 2.8i Ca[ch961]ri (brand spanking new on an X plate)
2. Pug 205 GTi (owned by a yuppie, so doesn't count really)
3. PC Roberts from Mitcham police station.
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my other car !
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A great big Stag.wrote the car off but had a bloody good dinner.As if you hit a deer your not allowed to take it ,my mate and my son put in his pick up.Also acts as proof for insurance :) :)
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I broke a telegraph pole in half with the front of a 302 Mustang ::).
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A Renault 5. I was in a Volvo and it had to be jigged and pulled straight afterwards. You can imagine what state the Renault was in. ;D Saved it from rusting away, I suppose. ;)
Kevin
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About 6 years ago,on the way back from a Dordogne holiday, I hit the Eurotunnel train...well actually one of the internal doors.It decided to close again as I was moving through it,due to an electrical fault...very nice people accepted total blame and I had both my front doors repainted at their expense...plus a free return trip ........No damage to the train.
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my funniest one was chasing a grey squirel down an empty lane in my old eunos. i was all over the road trying to line up my wheel with the squirel. then just as i got near to it it darted to the right, so a quick flick of the steering wheel and 2 very satisfying thuds followed.i was giggling to myself all the way to work.
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Was following my daughter-in-law, she signalled to turn right, I stopped behind her (I was going streight on) but the Volvo articulated lorry following did'nt, both cars write off's. Shortened my cav by 5 feet and boy did'nt it hurt. >:( >:(
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Came off my bike back in the 70's and hit the ground :-[ can't get any bigger than the Earth ;D ;D ;D
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I took out about 50 feet of fencing years ago in one of the works vehicles when the nearside tie rod failed at 60+mph... :(
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I hit a 20ft by 8ft metal skip before......slid on ice into in the 18t truck I drive, only hit it at fast walking speed but hit it hard enough to move it......
:y
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Well I didn't actually hit it as I was the front seat passenger, but travelling to work one dark, damp morning in the works van, a deer tried to leap over the top of us and only got as far as the windscreen! We were doing about 40mph & the screen,roof & pillars were totalled, but the bloody deer which had been thrown forward about 20feet just stood up, shook itself & galloped off like the clappers! :D :D :D
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...... but the bloody deer which had been thrown forward about 20feet just stood up, shook itself & galloped off like the clappers! :D :D :D
Not all bad then! ;) The dear was OK! ;D ;D :y
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...... but the bloody deer which had been thrown forward about 20feet just stood up, shook itself & galloped off like the clappers! :D :D :D
Not all bad then! ;) The dear was OK! ;D ;D :y
Yes Andy, me & my mate were both glad the Dear got away with it, even if the van & our underwear didn't LOL ;D :y
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An almost new Mk 3 Astra. Cost me 3 months in chokey and a 3 year ban. Didn't have a drop of alcohol in me but may have been speeding a bit. Looking back, I thoroughly deserved it, just wish the punishment was the same for everyone.
A huge deer, cost over 3 grand to repair that Passat.
And a goose in the outside lane of the Peterborough ring road. That done £1200 worth of damage to my Mazda 6!
Plus many many hedges/banks etc when I was 17/18 in my Mini and Astra
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2 seater sierra was four until i hit it i needed a new wing on by volovo :-[
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A lamp post quite a few years ago in my Hillman Hunter ::) and a tree in my Elite a month ago. Reversed into the bloody thing and smashed tailgate glass and creased tailgate. :'( :'(
Sounds like a good reason to have reverse parking sensors ;)
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Biggest thing I've hit? Apart from chewing a wee bit tarmac when the bike and I parted company, how about a hundered thousand tonne ship/tanker?
Was getting steering ticket time many moons ago whilst playing ships in the '70's and the next door neighbour and us had a wee contratemps, as it were.
Nowt a decent welder couldn't fix in drydock, apparently.... :-[
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.....with my first car (Morris Marina-- cough cough). ......
I was behind one of them the other day!!! :) :) It looked to be in reasonable nick :o :o, a coupe too! :y :y
I hope it's syncro on 1st & 2nd gear are ok, mine was FUBAR ;D
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my funniest one was chasing a grey squirel down an empty lane in my old eunos. i was all over the road trying to line up my wheel with the squirel. then just as i got near to it it darted to the right, so a quick flick of the steering wheel and 2 very satisfying thuds followed.i was giggling to myself all the way to work.
Good on ya matey :y :y :y :y That's another one less :) :)
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wow, this is proving really popular, my one seems boring compared to most of your lot!