Fender Benders

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Not really, I'm just in my own world from time to time and it's not exactly the best place to be on the road.

How the fuck do people like you get driving licenses? I mean, how can you reverse off a drive way and into a stationary car? It beggars belief really. Having a bigger car is a pretty crap excuse for an accident too. I've driven cars from a mini to a long wheel-base Transit van and never once clipped a kerb or caused any sort of accident. How hard is it to just loko where you're going?

It makes me pretty angry hearing stuff like that because while I've never caused an accident I've been in a few and they've all been caused by some dickhead pulling out without looking or driving too close or being unable to drive in a straight line.

I had one car written off because we were in a queue of traffic which started moving off, someone cut in front of me so I hit the brakes and the twat behind just drove straight into me. He had started moving and was "Miles away" apparently, far enough to ram a Mercedes 4x4 into a Corsa at at least 20 mph. Bent the back axel and wrote off the car.

Another time I was in a mate's Landrover coming down a smallish but busy road in the country and some dumb bitch pulls out of a driveway literally 15 yards in front of us. We must have hit her at about 40mph and smashed the shit out of the front of her car, it was a Clio I think. Luckily, Clios are made of plastic and fail and my mate's Landrover was one of the old cast iron ones and he had but a small dent in his bumper whereas her car was scattered over about 20 yards of road. We waited for the police (Who arrested her for careless driving) and went on our way.

But yeah, if you're incapable of spotting immobile objects or can't manouever the car you're in without hitting things you shouldn't be on the road. There's just no excuse.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Tritoch

I've never seen one big enough to warrant multiple lanes, but how does that work? Surely that would cause a ton of accidents from people trying to get out of the inner lane.

The Magic Roundabout in Swindon is a roundabout made of five smaller roundabouts. It's easier to get round than it looks though.

Most roundabouts in the UK have multiple lanes. You use the inside when you're turning right and the outside when you're going straight on or turning left. There's very rarely accidents though, you just don't go until it's clear, not rocket science. I hear that a lot of Americans get confused by them when they try to drive over here though.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Heh heh, the closest I've come to crashing was in France as it happens. Driving on the wrong side is fine in itself, it's jut when you pull away from a parking spot you have to remember which side to start off on. Playing a lot of American based driving games like GTA helps bizarrely as it's easier to get into the mindset of the traffic being on the right hand side. I still hate driving in France though.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.