Tom
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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Span my nova (1st car) on a main road once 
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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Spun a car at 70 before.
Nearly hit a bus.
A tyre blow out from a lorry nearly hit me.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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My "near miss" in the Ibiza involved a tree and an insurance pay out 
When I was driving off road, span my Dad's audi at car club setup @ Combe. Was the first out in the morning, giving it some pace up the back straght, went into the back S, and ended up backwards in the grass.
Was shit scary at the time, yet funny 
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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I spun on a roundabout on the A43 Dual carriageway; the last but one roundabout before you get on the M42 - I entered at about 40/50 from 70ish - went round and next thing span and went backwards, up the kerb and backwards towards a ditch. Ended up with front wheels on road, back wheels up the kerb. Weird thing was that I managed to make it up the only lowered part of the kerb on the whole round about which was only 6ft wide or so; and was also the only place on the roundabout with no reservation/barrier 
Got out, checked for damage but there was absoloutly nothing but clear why I span when I saw how much diesel was all over the roundabout
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DYL
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Registered: 19th May 06
Location: CAERNARFON
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had close calls on back roads....back end jumping out....
nearly hit about 20 people on a hairpin on the JD ROMAIN rally.....nice video footage 
Hit a telegraph pole going 60....saved me from going into the lake
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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Traffic stopped dead on the m4 at J27 and I slammed on the brakes, Astra did a 720 degree spin and went into the central reservation
needed new pants
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drbeansri
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Registered: 10th Dec 06
Location: Hertfordshire / Plymouth
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Some one hit me at 70+ and we were doing 35 - 40..
broke both bones in lower leg and badly broke my collarbone.
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andy1868
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
Location: Burscough, Lancashire
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some young lad in a clio pulled out in front of me when i was in the van, anchors on and it skidded within afew inches. he drove off like nothing had happened, i don't know if he knew how close i had been to hitting him
another one was on a dual carriageway in the wet, i was behind a lorry and the lorry was behind a woman in a daewoo. the woman in the daewoo slammed on unexpectedly to a stop, the lorry slammed on and skidded, closely followed by me, stopped about a metre away, perhaps abit more but it was closer than i wanted to be when the lorry and myself went round the woman she was on her phone  she risked getting rear ended by an arctic for a phonecall
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Jenko_Sport
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Registered: 25th May 06
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
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I was sat at about 80 on the m6 (was about 2-3 in the morning) and had a lorry pull into the far lane which the arnt aloud to do, he saw me and pulled right over into the inside lane and i slide past him sideways at about 70
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Ally
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Registered: 2nd Jul 03
Location: Pontypool Drives: a Skoda
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None
I hit the back of a coach when the road was stupidly wet and i didnt brake quick enough
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willay
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Organiser: South East, National Events
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Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
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I nearly went into the back of someone at 3 figures when they pulled out on me.
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
Location: Liverpool
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i rolled my corsa on an a road at about 70mph, thing rolled 3 times or somethin daft and i walked out without a acratch on me.
about a week before i took my sub box out of the boot which was lucky becuse most of the junk out of my boot ended up in the front of the car 
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Stu
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Registered: 3rd May 00
Location: Madchester UK Drives: 2014 BMW M135i
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...............every time the Tuscan comes out!
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
Location: Liverpool
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quote:
Originally posted by Hamish
more importantly what were you doing 70 on a back road for?
Its cause of people like you, why where living in a PC country. Hypocrite, as if you've never done it.
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
Location: Liverpool
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Spun my brothers Supra when I lost the back end on a slip road coming off the motorway.
He unfortunately wasn't so lucky when he lost it
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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I have spun on roundabouts a few times but its all part of learning how to drift
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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No major near misses.
Mostly getting a bit skittish around back lanes on my way to work.
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corsa - gus
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Registered: 8th Jan 07
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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lost the back end in my old mans beemer on a round about while showing off. was pretty scary! if i crashed that i probably would get murdered!
Had a few scary moments in my old corsa, hit a bridge in it after hitting some black ice, needed a few parts! and the usual scary moments you have when your going a little too fast!
Hows the car arctic monkey? would be gutted if you damaged it cos i love it too much!
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Ellis
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Registered: 11th Sep 07
Location: Aberdeenshire
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Diesel patch whilst going to fast on roundabout racing another sport, missed railing by the width of a pube
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JonnyJ
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Registered: 23rd Sep 05
Location: Scotchland
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quote:
Originally posted by Kyle T
At the goole Junction of the M62 we've got two big roundabouts linked to each other (think figure of eight).
Came off of the first roundabout late at night to find a foreign plated skoda coming towards me on my side of the road - I slammed on and skidded to the otherside of the road, my wing mirror stopping about half an inch from the barrier of the flyover (the bridge between the two roundabouts goes over the m62) - the skoda fishtailed onto the centre of the roundabout i'd just come off of, reversed off then continued round the roundabout the wrong way, then down the slip road onto the wrong side of the M62
Fuck knows where he ended up!
Thats about closest i've come to crashing *touch wood*
[Edited on 21-01-2008 by Kyle T]
PMSL I know where you mean, crazy foreign drivers. Ive seen the same thing at monks cross, some guy driving the wrong way round a roundabout followed by going the wrong way down the road, lucky i didnt enter the roundabout or he would have taken me out
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Once I put the brakes on and the ABS decided to kick on meaning the car wouldn't stop quick enough. What a shit idea, ABS brakes.
[Edited on 21-01-2008 by ed]
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
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spun once in the rain on a round about
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Simon_16v
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Registered: 14th Aug 06
Location: Yorkshire
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quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
quote:
Originally posted by Kyle T
At the goole Junction of the M62 we've got two big roundabouts linked to each other (think figure of eight).
Came off of the first roundabout late at night to find a foreign plated skoda coming towards me on my side of the road - I slammed on and skidded to the otherside of the road, my wing mirror stopping about half an inch from the barrier of the flyover (the bridge between the two roundabouts goes over the m62) - the skoda fishtailed onto the centre of the roundabout i'd just come off of, reversed off then continued round the roundabout the wrong way, then down the slip road onto the wrong side of the M62
Fuck knows where he ended up!
Thats about closest i've come to crashing *touch wood*
[Edited on 21-01-2008 by Kyle T]
PMSL I know where you mean, crazy foreign drivers. Ive seen the same thing at monks cross, some guy driving the wrong way round a roundabout followed by going the wrong way down the road, lucky i didnt enter the roundabout or he would have taken me out
I know what you mean too, lucky as it's a fair drop from the flyover lol
Worst iv had was in my 1.2 going round a corner tapping the braes and the back end trying to kick out and go sideways
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TomSBD
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
Location: Spalding, Lincs
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my mrs did this to my old car and had the smallest cut on here cheek
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AdZ9
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Registered: 14th Apr 06
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In 5 yrs i've had 2 near misses.
One was kind of a miss but i still hit them, came up to a roundabout and i thought the car had already pulled off, when i realised he hadnt i locked up and just bumped into the back of him, bumper had the most damage. Lucky for me he didn't ask for details, the night before i was involved in an ABH incident involving my ex gfs ex bf, my face was all cut and bruised, when the guy got out i got out to apologise, he took one look at my face got back in the car and drove off 
Other time was in the wet on a B road, locked up and span 180 and ended up facing the right way in the other lane, lucky it was quiet and no cars coming, scary thing was i was only doing bout 35 as i was just accelerating :/
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