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Tonight , I reversed into a parked car...can I have your stories to help me feel better

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Dowser · 01/03/2019 22:58

Just that really. Trying to line up with a parking bay and just took my eye off the ball
Went too far back on a not very wide road and heard the sickening crunch.

Gutted.

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Bloodybridget · 02/03/2019 19:50

Got into the driver's seat in my friend's automatic, got the pedals mixed up and drove forward into a wooden barrier. And parked at a petrol station in our car, forgot there was a very low barrier in front and drove into that.

JuneFromBethesda · 02/03/2019 20:01

I reversed into the gardener’s van. Same sickening crunch. Then had to send a message round to our neighbours apologising for the bits of broken headlights scattered across the communal car park 😖

It was years ago and I’ve never forgotten it. I was on my way out for a very rare solo shopping trip - it was when my kids were small and getting a few hours to myself was a very rare treat. I didn’t feel like going after my driving blunder 😫

JuneFromBethesda · 02/03/2019 20:02

(The gardener was very nice about it and fortunately no major damage was done)

thesnapandfartisinfallible · 02/03/2019 20:08

I used to drive a small access machine at work. Sort of like a mini ride on forklift but with a shelf instead of forks. In one smooth manoeuvre I managed to take out a row of six BBQs, crush a display unit and run over a flat pack chest of drawers. Before very carefully extracting myself and promptly reversing into a supporting column because I was so busy looking at the carnage I had created. I was the one to ask if you needed to get it in and out of tight spaces but when I cocked it up, I did it good and proper.

gggrrrargh · 02/03/2019 20:37

I needed this thread! I misjudged and ended up scraping the side of my car along a brick wall recently and it has really knocked my confidence. This is a reminder these things happen

Millie2013 · 02/03/2019 20:44

Last year, recently bereaved and in a brain fiog, I drove into someone’s car in a car park and scuffed it 🙈 I was sobbing, as I was feeling wobbly anyway, the lovely owner said “nah, don’t worry, it’ll polish out”

It was never going to polish out, but he was insistent

My mum once totalled a trolley park in Sainsbury’s car park, that was quite an achievement.

delilahbucket · 02/03/2019 20:46

Reversed into our house two weeks after passing my test, with reverse sensors. A week later I fell out with a pillar in a car park. I reverse park in bays all the time now.

BlueSkiesLies · 02/03/2019 21:45

These things happen / it’s only a car and money - take today to be upset over it then move on.

I reversed into a low bollard when doing a 3 pointer in an empty car park. Knocked the tracking out of line (hit the wheel) and the garage said it needed a new axel and had to pay over a grand!

BeautyQueenFromMars · 02/03/2019 21:55

I reversed into the same hedge 4 times in a row this evening. Just could not get the angle right (cul de sac with oddly shaped parking area at the end). Minor scratches to car from the prickles, slightly more damage done to my pride.

OpportunityKnocks · 02/03/2019 22:18

I poked one of my parking sensors into the bumper and now they don't work.

I reversed off my drive into a parked car last weekend.

Thestral · 02/03/2019 22:25

While discussing (smugly) with my husband the time he reversed down our drive straight into the security post that he'd forgotten to take down, I reversed down the drive and into the same, newly fixed security post.

Less smug about that one now, I can tell you.

Catbot · 02/03/2019 22:29

Yesterday I filled up my car with diesel. It's a petrol car. It stopped a mile down the road from the petrol station.

What's worse is that the nozzle for the diesel fuel didn't fit into the neck of the tank and yet, instead of stopping, I told myself there was something wrong with it. Even as my car was chugging along losing power I was outraged that the garage had put the wrong labels on the pumps. After a little while I remembered that my car takes unleaded (I've been driving it for two years)

Echobelly · 02/03/2019 22:34

A week after passing my driving test, when I was 32, I parked in a bay, then, when reversing out, totally smashed one of the rear doors into a column not realising how close I was and I could not work out how to move the car without causing further damage. Fortunately a passing bloke came to my rescue as I stood their blubbing and drove it out for me in a way that caused minimal extra damage, and though it looked awful it was still drivable!

What was really annoying was that there was a woman in the car next to me, and I thought I'd wait for her to go, but then she got out her phone and started talking, so I decided not to wait. It wasn't a long conversation in the end, so if I'd waited another 30 seconds it never would have happened. Oh well.

Echobelly · 02/03/2019 22:35

stood THERE blubbing, sorry

MrsWicket · 02/03/2019 23:00

I’ve managed to reverse into the corner of our house it’s not like it’s big and hidden or anything... sheesh

Girlofgold · 02/03/2019 23:01

I reversed into car and it bumped the car behind,

Girlofgold · 02/03/2019 23:02

I crashed my first car waving at someone I didn't like

Fairylightsandwine · 03/03/2019 09:47

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April241 · 03/03/2019 09:51

I was parking in a multi storey last year and hit the car beside me, a super expensive 4x4, could have cried!!! I left a note as the owner wasn't there and you know she called me and said not to worry 😯, said thanks for leaving the note but I didn't have to pay a thing and she'd get it sorted.

So relieved, would have been so expensive to fix I imagine.

Bananasarenottheonlyfruit · 03/03/2019 09:52

I reversed into a bollard. I was en route to the garage to trade the car in for a new one
Luckily, they didn't care at all.

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Dowser · 03/03/2019 10:08

This thread has cheered me up so much...especially the ones where people whose cars have been damaged have been so lovely.

The young lady whose car I hit was really nice about it too.

I kept thinking, how did I hit it...I saw the red one. Hers was black and side on. It was dusk and just not enough light to make it stand out especially with these horrible new lights.
It just shows how it can happen to anyone.

Millie...so sorry to hear your story. Same thing happened to my mum when my dad died. She had a little bump in the car..she was only 68 just a year older than I am and no amount of me trying to persuade her to keep on driving would convince her.
So sad because she lost a lot of independence that day.

Drove around the outskirts of york yesterday. Was fine but I really hate car parks with a vengeance...there’s often so many sticky out bits for starters and people looking for spaces, not paying enough attention.

Driving home today. Not a problem..we are all going in the same direction.😁

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greathat · 03/03/2019 10:15

My first time parking in a mult story and some impatient tossed behind me started honking. I'd literally only just arrived. I pulled forward and scraped the side of my car on the pillar. All the pillars in the car park had scrape marks so it must have been a regular occurrence

sockportal · 03/03/2019 10:26

When I was new to driving I drove into my mum's car on the drive at a very slow speed. I was concentrating on not hitting the wall on the right hand side and forgot to look out for her car on the left hand side 😳 worse thing was there were several neighbours having a chat outside and they watched the whole thing. Luckily for me my mum was very understanding about it and just made me s cup of tea instead of shouting at me.

Frith2013 · 03/03/2019 11:10

I’ve told this story on MN before...

I had to do an emergency stop when a man stepped out in front of my car. I didn’t hit him but he sprawled across the bonnet.

He stood up, gave me a cheerful wave... and then I noticed that I could have killed Robert Plant.

JustAnotherPoster00 · 03/03/2019 12:17

He stood up, gave me a cheerful wave... and then I noticed that I could have killed Robert Plant.

You might have left him Dazed and Confused but he clearly and a Whole Lotta Love

I'll get my coat

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