I went to a private boarding school.
As this was many many years ago, I cannot really comment on the cars at the time, but most of them were decent and new cars.
So I was sitting waiting for my mother to collect me at the end of final term. She was late so I had my suitcase with me waiting outside the hostel along with a group of other kids.
Next thing I hear this THING coming, then all I see is smoke..... From under the cloud I could make out my mother in the clapped out yellow Audi, which, at the time, had to be at least 150 years old. Much to my dismay, it seems the smoke had distorted my mothers vision through the front windscreen - as she proceeded to drive straight into the fence and knocked the whole thing down!
Yes, it was mortifying. I then had to get into the drivers side and CLIMB over the drivers seat to get to the passenger side, as the door was stuck shut. To an audience.....
All I kept thinking was "thank god we have a 6 week break - everyone may have forgotten about this by next year"