Who’d be a young driver these days? You’ve just passed your test and are itching to go out for a burn, but your mum won’t let you take the car and you’re finding it impossible to find cheap car insurance.
But it’s not surprising. According to Learnerstuff.co.uk the two years following your test are when you are at your highest risk of accident. And let’s face it; we’ve all been guilty of doing silly things when we were first let loose in the car.
So if you’ve just passed your test and done something embarrassing, don’t worry. Chances are it won’t be as bad as this little lot.
“I ruined Mum’s car”
“I’d just passed my test and my mum let me take her car to my friend’s house, as long as I went straight there and back. She'd also just had it valeted and left me in no doubt whatsoever that I’d be in trouble if there was a mess.
On my way home I stopped at the shop (despite Mum’s instructions) and bought a can of drink which I opened, then propped up on the passenger seat. As I turned a corner the can tipped over my mum's clean seats. I was so scared, I went to pick it up and as I did so, lost control of the car and rammed it straight into a bus full of passengers.
In shock, I forgot to take my foot off the accelerator and just kept crashing into it again and again. The bus driver had to take me into a nearby estate agents’ office to calm down. They were lovely, but said they’d have to call my mum – they assured me she'd just be happy I was alive.
Oh no she wasn’t! She was so angry she rode down there on my bicycle and caused such a scene, I requested an ambulance to hospital to escape the humiliation!”
Sally Morgan
“Mirror, signal, duck”
“I did my driving test with a trainee examiner who was on his test too. They asked if I minded but I was so nervous, I just nodded. Unfortunately, my car was a tiny Cinquecento and it could barely accommodate the instructor’s examiner in the back seat – he was huge!
I was trying to remember to 'mirror, signal, manoeuvre’ but every time I checked the mirror, all I could see was the man ducking down saying, ‘Oops, sorry!’”
Natalie Taylor
“The world’s biggest seagull”
“I’d just passed my test and was driving my friends to Brighton for the day where we hoped to impress some girls. We drove down winding lanes, following a lorry filled with rubble. Suddenly, a massive piece of wet sand flew out and landed on our car.
Luckily, it did no damage, but the way it exploded on the bonnet looked like the world’s biggest seagull had just taken aim. We then got caught in a traffic jam with everyone pointing, open-mouthed, wondering what enormous bird could have made such a mess. Girls were looking at us, but sadly for all the wrong reasons.”
Andrew Maybank
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