Interaction with a tree

focus_mad

Not trying to get up anyone's nose with this I just have to get it out of my system...

My mate bought a '00 Pug 206 as her first car about a month ago but has been using the instructors car while doing lessons.. the instructor told her to go out in her car by herself so I hopped in with her last saturday with her for her first time... she was a nervous wreck and was taking it really slow, we got to the bottom of her road and turned left.. she didnt straighten the car up, bounced up the kerb while still accelerating and all I could see was this BIG ASS TREE right infront of us, I pulled up the handbrake and knocked it into neutral and we kept going.....smacking the front left of the car into the tree..
she needs a new headlight, new quarter panel, new bumper and the bonnet panel bet...after we unwrapped it from the tree!!

Has anyone else had near death experiences with learner drivers?

ottostreet

'interaction with a tree'
i like it!

recently went out for a drive with my sister whos just after starting to drive. cocky and sure of herself, until i told her to turn left, she didnt really slow down and we went hooring it around the junction and onto the other side until she got it straightened out..she wasnt quite so cocky then!

Tragedy

First time on an open road(had been practicing in a tesco car park up til then).

Had to cross traffic to turn right, and the corner was about 130degrees.

"Feed the wheel, feed the wheel FEED THE ****ING WHEEL".

Yeah, like that helped Dad >.>

T-Maxx

If you had time to pull up the hand brake and knock it into neutral, you might as well have grabbed hold of the steering wheel.:pac:

unkel

focus_mad wrote: »

she was a nervous wreck and was taking it really slow, we got to the bottom of her road and turned left.. she didnt straighten the car up, bounced up the kerb while still accelerating and all I could see was this BIG ASS TREE right infront of us, I pulled up the handbrake and knocked it into neutral and we kept going.....smacking the front left of the car into the tree..

The only car she should be driving is a dual controlled vehicle with a qualified instructor beside her :mad:

What if she killed someone driving like that? She'd say "sorry, I can't drive, I'm only learning" :mad:

snowman707

focus_mad wrote: »

Not trying to get up anyone's nose with this I just have to get it out of my system...

My mate bought a '00 Pug 206 as her first car about a month ago but has been using the instructors car while doing lessons.. the instructor told her to go out in her car by herself so I hopped in with her last saturday with her for her first time... she was a nervous wreck and was taking it really slow, we got to the bottom of her road and turned left.. she didnt straighten the car up, bounced up the kerb while still accelerating and all I could see was this BIG ASS TREE right infront of us, I pulled up the handbrake and knocked it into neutral and we kept going.....smacking the front left of the car into the tree..
she needs a new headlight, new quarter panel, new bumper and the bonnet panel bet...after we unwrapped it from the tree!!

Has anyone else had near death experiences with learner drivers?

First thing she needs to do is change her driving instructor
IMHO neither of you should be teaching a learner driver.

mikedragon32

the instructor told her to go out in her car by herself

Fire his ass! He knowingly advised her to break the law.

voxpop

Tragedy wrote: »

First time on an open road(had been practicing in a tesco car park up til then).

Had to cross traffic to turn right, and the corner was about 130degrees.

"Feed the wheel, feed the wheel FEED THE ****ING WHEEL".

Yeah, like that helped Dad >.>

LOL

voxpop

unkel wrote: »

The only car she should be driving is a dual controlled vehicle with a qualified instructor beside her :mad:

Are there many instructors with dual controlled cars ?

DonJose

unkel wrote: »

The only car she should be driving is a dual controlled vehicle with a qualified instructor beside her :mad:

What if she killed someone driving like that? She'd say "sorry, I can't drive, I'm only learning" :mad:

Agree 100%. The government should have completely scrapped the provisional license a long time ago. Provisional drivers are learning the mistakes of the accompaniend drivers who in most cases never had a proper driving lesson and in some cases got their license due to an anmesty.

R.O.R

voxpop wrote: »

Are there many instructors with dual controlled cars ?

Are there any instructors without dual controlled cars ?

Buffman

I hope the tree was OK.:D

igglou

While having a bit of a BBQ at my house one year, Mam suggested we let her take my Mazda 626 2.0 Petrol for a spin. (Dad tried to teach her years ago but then got caught up teaching us in various carparks that she never bothered to learn) I didn't agree but was over ruled, so in she gets at the top of the drive, fairly straight long enough with high kerbs and lawn both sides.

Off she goes flooring it! Up on one side of the kerb heading for the front wall, then quick turn back down across the drive and up on the other side of the garden heading for the other front wall! She got stopping with only inches to spare.

I was having a panic attack!! :eek:

focus_mad

T-Maxx wrote: »

If you had time to pull up the hand brake and knock it into neutral, you might as well have grabbed hold of the steering wheel.:pac:

good point yet when the tree is actually coming at you, it was split second ya know?

[quote = First thing she needs to do is change her driving instructor
IMHO neither of you should be teaching a learner driver.

Ive told her to fire his ass and when I got in the car I thought she knew what she was doing, I wasnt getting paid so I wasnt instructing her if ya know what I mean?

Mena

I recall one of the first times I ever drove on the open road, went ok'ish until we got back home. We had a crescent driveway with two garages, and as I pulled in I got distracted by something, hit the accelerator and parked the hood of the car 4ft into the closed garage door

T-Maxx

Kind of like this I guess:

Link

VERY funny!:D

Hal1

focus_mad wrote: »

good point yet when the tree is actually coming at you, it was split second ya know?

The tree was coming at you? I'm intriged :pac:.

partyatmygaff

T-Maxx wrote: »

Kind of like this I guess:

Link

VERY funny!:D

The last 2 were the best

O.A.P

T-Maxx wrote: »

Kind of like this I guess:

Link

VERY funny!:D

Thanks T-Maxx I enjoyed that.:D:D:D

tommmy1979

Girl in work told me this story about when she was learning to drive a few years ago, always makes me giggle..


On her way home, her 21st birthday cake sitting on the passenger seat, takes a corner, birthday cakes starts to slide off seat, bimbo decides it's better to save the cake than drive the car around the corner, result : car upside down in the middle of road, nobody hurt, one smashed cake.

:pac::pac::pac:

T

Buffman

tommmy1979 wrote: »

On her way home, her 21st birthday cake sitting on the passenger seat, takes a corner, birthday cakes starts to slide off seat, bimbo decides it's better to save the cake than drive the car around the corner, result : car upside down in the middle of road, nobody hurt, one smashed cake.

What a tragedy, she had to buy her own 21st birthday cake.:eek::D

PinkTulips

i learned to drive whilst pregnant.

my boyfriend suffers from road rage and hates being a passanger.

doean't take much imagination to guess how successful that was then does it

a week and a half after starting to drive i had a hospital appointment in castlebar and no-one to drive me so had to drive myself. through 50km of driving, 3 biggish roundabouts and a very overcrowded hospital car park... and then back again. i must have stalled the car about 20 times that day!

a week later i was in town and had to reverse out of a parking space onto the road for the first time ever... i was so busy checking for oncoming traffic i didn't see the huge white van double parked behind me... took my boyfriend a month to notice the dent thankfully

the best one ever isn't me though, it's the boyfriends sister. we took her out in our car to practice at night in a college car park. at one point she said 'ooh, i wonder what's over there?', swung the wheel and veered across a lawn and practically drove us into a lake! i was pregnant then too and damn near broke my waters in shock!

PinkTulips

another one, this time a friend of my boyfriend teaching his girlfriend;

they approach an intersection and he tells her to break, she panics, forgets which is break and slides through the intersection into oncoming traffic, he shouts 'stop for ****s sake!' and she screams, takes her hands of the wheel and puts them over her eyes!

he slammed on the handbrake, stormed round and pulled her out of the drivers seat and understandably never let her near the car again

focus_mad

Hal1 wrote: »

The tree was coming at you? I'm intriged :pac:.

ah the secret is out, on the northside we have moving trees :D