Tons of car accidents (not me driving)...
One I was in the front passenger seat, we were drifting.. My mate decided 60 km was too easy so he upped the anti, 80 km he found manageable, although we went off the road and missed a cow (somehow... we were going straight at it sliding sideways on grass and he just managed to correct within 10 feet of it, it was on the grass lying down looking at the car like "***"). Then he decided to slide at a buck... He lost it and we went head on with a tree.
The car was a write off, understandably. He was scared of the consequences that were most definitely (and understandably) about to be dished out by his old man, so we found a road kill rabbit, smashed it all over the car to look like a roo, and then staged a new crash zone in an area he was allowed to be driving...
Second time, my mate who was in the back of the first car with me (I'm sure we're jinxed with cars) was in the back again, and I was in the front passenger. We were drifting and the *** end clipped a street sign, it pulled it RIGHT out of the ground, ruined my mates rear 1/4 and the bumper was hanging by a thread... Lots of people came out of their homes in time to see us drag the bumper down the road.
The third one is the real ball tearer....
My mate and I had been working on an engine conversion in my car, and he was going to head home for the day. He went out my driveway, down the hill and turned left onto a road that I had 100% visibility of because next door was just a paddock. He drifted and he was SO sideways that his car was 90* to the road for a good 50 m (no idea how). I thought he'd gone and went back inside.
Three minutes later, he came back to brag.... I (stupidly) said something along the lines of "Brooooo that was HEKTIC SKIDZ take me!" (I don't really talk like that, but it's good narrating alright?). He agreed and my GF jumped in the car. I told to her to get out, and she said "If you're gunna crash I'm coming with you"... I should have pulled the pin at that very moment, but I didn't think we would crash.
We took off down the road and entered the corner. The car didn't get too sideways, so my mate clutch kicked, took off quicker and then jerked the wheel to enter a slide. We went backward and forward and I could tell what was happening so I grabbed the bar that's above the passengers head and braced myself.
There was a bank that we were heading straight for, and a power pole. I yelled out "Bank" but it was too late for my mate to steer away from it. We hit the bank at about 90, and the car did a FULL barrel roll without any other bits of the car touching the ground (we were completely airborn for a whole rotation). During that first rotation we missed the power pole by less than 2 feet. We hit the ground and rolled a further 2 times (this time the whole car was getting crushed around us). It would have rolled a 4th time, but we hit a tree. The tree being there was extremely lucky, because we would have rolled off a 20 foot drop into a creek if it didn't stop us.
Now keep in mind that I said we were doing an engine conversion on my car, because obviously that sort of a task requires lots of tools, right? Well there was about 4 grand worth of tools in the back of the car, and these were catapulted through the cabin. A 3 foot long solid breaker bar just missed my gf's head, along with anything else you could think of.
My mate was devastated, my GF was hysterical, but for some reason the only thing I cared about was them calming down. The whole crash didn't scare me at all, I knew what was going to happen and I braced myself for every single roll. Everything was in slow motion and the whole crash didn't shake me up at all. We got out without a scratch, my gf had a small mole ripped off her neck, and I sliced my hand open but that was it.
As far as speeding offenses go, I've been on my P's for nearly the whole duration without getting a point taken from me. A couple of weeks ago I was on a DESERTED road at night. No parked cars, no houses, nothing to hit. I was just cruising and got booked. It was an unmarked nissan patrol ute, that had a flash for cash in the canopy. I got booked at 93 in a 60 zone (I was hoping it would be under 100) and for some reason, only 3 points were deducted. I've gotta pay the fine, but I'm lucky that someone took the points for me.
I'm not proud of getting booked, but I'd like to have a chance to say that I never speed in built up areas, or areas with any traffic. If someone's gunna go down it's only going to be me.
I've no idea how some of you can get booked and continue to do it, time and time again? The DUI's are just wrong, too.
