No pics to show if you've never crashed

[blugnu]

I am sort of fascinated by the 'Show us your crash pics' thread. Although quite rightly a lot of people on PH seem to get upset by other people driving dangerously, it seems to me that the general tone of the crash pics thread (with a few notable and sobering exceptions) is 'tsk! what an idiot I was, still, no harm done eh, it was a bit of fun really?'

Is it just me that reads it like this?

[Fish981]

I think there's the implied element of 'I was driving like a tt but it all went Pete Tong, I'm not quite so stupid now'.

[mattman]

there's always going to be some idiot on here who thinks they are better than everyone else - and have probably never had a crash in their life (but strangely seen a load in their rear view mirror!) - and trys to take the high ground.

Ideally we need to ignore these idiots but I can see why its difficult not too.

I applaud peoples honesty in posting, and glad they are all here to tell the tale.

Some pics are ripped from the web though so wouldn't mind seeing those go.

[tribbles]

mattman said:

...and have probably never had a crash in their life (but strangely seen a load in their rear view mirror!)...

There's a rear view mirror? Must look out for one.

I have crashed (a few years back) and learnt my lesson: never floor a RWD car whilst coming off a roundabout when it's just started to rain

[mattman]

tribbles said:

I have crashed (a few years back) and learnt my lesson: never floor a RWD car whilst coming off a roundabout when it's just started to rain

I learnt at 17 - never try and look down your young female passengers tops whilst in a slow moving traffic queue! hmmmmm - boink! =

[blugnu]

mattman said:

there's always going to be some idiot on here who thinks they are better than everyone else - and have probably never had a crash in their life (but strangely seen a load in their rear view mirror!) - and trys to take the high ground.

Didn't take many replies for the implication that if you haven't crashed you must be a rubbish driver to come up. I think this is part of what I meant - the thought that a crash is somehow a rite of passage, and if you haven't had one you must be useless.

[mattman]

blugnu said:

mattman said:

there's always going to be some idiot on here who thinks they are better than everyone else - and have probably never had a crash in their life (but strangely seen a load in their rear view mirror!) - and trys to take the high ground.

Didn't take many replies for the implication that if you haven't crashed you must be a rubbish driver to come up. I think this is part of what I meant - the thought that a crash is somehow a rite of passage, and if you haven't had one you must be useless.

Blugnu - thats not what I meant - i'd rather have not had a crash to be honest! - and don't think it makes anyone a better driver. Just think the small minded people who try and link crash photos to a friend/news story of someone else getting hurt need to get a life basically! every incident has its own uniques

[Doniger]

blugnu said:

Didn't take many replies for the implication that if you haven't crashed you must be a rubbish driver to come up. I think this is part of what I meant - the thought that a crash is somehow a rite of passage, and if you haven't had one you must be useless.

I agree, that sort of thinking is a load of old bks.


Now if you've been on a trackday and never spun you're not trying hard enough.
But smashing up a car or having an oops on the road isn't a rite of passage. It's either unfortunate if it wasn't your fault, or bloody stupid if it was.

Edited because I don't know my rite from my left.

Edited by Doniger on Monday 13th December 13:15

[Thorburn]

blugnu said:

mattman said:

there's always going to be some idiot on here who thinks they are better than everyone else - and have probably never had a crash in their life (but strangely seen a load in their rear view mirror!) - and trys to take the high ground.

Didn't take many replies for the implication that if you haven't crashed you must be a rubbish driver to come up. I think this is part of what I meant - the thought that a crash is somehow a rite of passage, and if you haven't had one you must be useless.

To be fair when I first passed my test I drove like a bit of a dick. I wrote my first car off, and while I got away without making a claim (road works with no warning signs over the crest of a hill, claimed back off the company doing the work) it taught me a lesson in driving to the conditions - while I wasn't speeding I was carrying more speed should have been given the fact the road was wet.

[rob.e]

mattman said:

I learnt at 17 - never try and look down your young female passengers tops whilst in a slow moving traffic queue! hmmmmm - boink! =

Interesting use of the word "boink"

[TheLurker]

rob.e said:

mattman said:

I learnt at 17 - never try and look down your young female passengers tops whilst in a slow moving traffic queue! hmmmmm - boink! =

Interesting use of the word "boink"

[omgus]

blugnu said:

I am sort of fascinated by the 'Show us your crash pics' thread. Although quite rightly a lot of people on PH seem to get upset by other people driving dangerously, it seems to me that the general tone of the crash pics thread (with a few notable and sobering exceptions) is 'tsk! what an idiot I was, still, no harm done eh, it was a bit of fun really?'

Is it just me that reads it like this?

Kind of but IMO the fact that the majority of the posters are very honest about what happened and that many of the posts include people telling how lucky/stupid/hurt they were instead of blaming someone else adds a lot to the thread. As far as i am concerned it's the difference between someone cutting you up and looking forward and someone cutting you up and then aknowledging their mistake