When was the last time you pranged your vehicle?

January this year. I reversed off my drive having checked the coast was clear. As I reversed a builder in a big white van pulled up across the road and DINK!!!!

More damage to mine than his and he wasn't bothered. £120 to my local bodywork wizard to get it fixed!
 
2003, '97 GMC with a load of hay, followed much too closely by a commercial dump truck. Put on right turn signal WAAY back and start to slow down, so this idiot tries to run the shoulder on my RIGHT side because he can't stop, (guess what, ALSO on his cellphone..) dumps my load of 10 bales and takes out the entire right side of my truck. Would have killed me if I hadn't been watching him and pulled back from the turn. I couldn't get completely out of his way due to oncoming traffic in the other lane, but at least they made good witnesses.
 
I was stopped at a red light. From my rearview mirror, I saw this car doing 40/50 miles an hour. She slammed on her brakes; her tires were smoking. And I watched her ram into me. She damaged the rear bumper, and trunk.
BTW, she tried to bribe me not to report it to her insurance company, they were already paying for two of her accidents.
 
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Only once. Summer of 1964. My parents had a brand new Mustang that was a loaner from the dealership while their car was being serviced. They made the mistake of letting their 16 yo son take it on a short errand.

Approaching a traffic light at 25 mph and decided to change lanes. Checked my mirror but didn't turn my head to check the blind spot. o_O

Neither my parents nor the dealership were pleased. :mad:
 
I hate to say I've never had a prang in my car in case it jinxes me... however I did have one on my motorbike in the 90's ..not my fault. It was early morning around 7am, going to work .. I was approaching a roundabout on the Dual carriageway and stopped at the junction for cars to approach from the right ( left in the USA it would be ) , and an impatient driver behind me kept revving his car to get past me, which he couldn't. I pulled away from the junction and as I did he came roaring up behind me and clipped my back wheel, and it sent the bike flying one way across the road and me another. :cautious:

Fortunately I had my crash helmet and leather jacket on, and they saved me from serious injury, but he stopped his car , and came over to me lying on the ground , asked me if I would like some brandy that he had in the car... Yes of course I was going to accept.:oops::rolleyes:. not on your nelly, he was clearly going to try get me arrested for drink driving at 7am ..in the morning!!...
 
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In my early 20s, I bought a used car and had it in for repairs before I drove it. On the way home, someone turned left in front of me at a green light and I hit them. They had a turning arrow that was red, but said that where they were from (Washington state), people were permitted to turn left on a red arrow. The lady I hit was livid, and I thought the police were going to go out of their minds dealing with her. It was obviously not my fault. She was driving an expensive car, and I was driving something really old. We went to court. The lady lied. I pointed my finger at her and yelled "she's lying". The judge didn't bat an eyelash. She got the ticket. My car was totaled. No injuries. Her car had a bashed-in door.

Again when I was in my earlly 20s, I was driving a Plymouth Fury (III, I think) down a crowded narrow road that had parking on both sides. A yellow truck came roaring toward me and the only way to get out of his way was to sharply turn my steering wheel to the right.. I hit a phone pole. I was going slowly (speed limits) and the car wasn't hurt too badly. My friend and I were fine. My boyfriend worked up the street, and he came and took care of everything, including putting my friend in the driver's seat since I didn't have a license. I was on an errand of mercy at the time, or I wouldn't have driven without a license.

Other than that, no wrecks, never stopped by a cop, no speeding (or other) tickets.
 
I have however been in a car that was involved in an accident. I was 20 years old,. My male friend newly qualified driver, was driving his dads' vintage car, in the front there was the old bench style seat, and he, another male friend and my sister were in the front. I was in the back with another friend.

We were driving through the woodland road which is behind my house here.. ( long before I lived here)... it was dark and the road was quiet, he had the radio playing loudly and we were all singing at the top of our voices, and he lost control of the car on the gravel road on the bend , and we smashed head first into a tree!!

The driver escaped with no injuries.. the 2 guys were bleeding from their heads, and one from his eyes.. I got a dislocated shoulder... but my little sister ( 17) was thrown through the windscreen . The lad sitting next to her yanked her back as her head went through the screen , and the glass tore her skull to ribbons!! We all survived , but to this day, at 64 years old , when my sister has a shower or washes her hair she can still pick tiny shards of glass from her head!!
 
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I have however been in a car that was involved in an accident. I was 20 years old,. My male friend newly qualified driver, was driving his dads' vintage car, in the front there was the old bench style seat, and he, another male friend and my sister were in the front. I was in the back with another friend.

We were driving through the woodland road which is behind my house here.. ( long before I lived here)... it was dark and the road was quiet, he had the radio playing loudly and we were all singing at the top of our voices, and he lost control of the car on the gravel road on the bend , and we smashed head first into a tree!!

The driver escaped with no injuries.. the 2 guys were bleeding from their heads, and one from his eyes.. I got a dislocated shoulder... but my little sister ( 17) was thrown through the windscreen . The lad sitting next to her yanked her back as her head went through the screen , and the glass tore her skull to ribbons!! We all survived , but to this day, at 64 years old , when my sister has a shower or washes her hair she can still pick tiny shards of glass from her head!!
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Wow, sometimes it is better to leave an injured person alone lest more damage is done.
 
Bretrick said:
When was the last time you pranged your vehicle?
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I've been lucky, no prangles as bad as yours or what others have described. Never so bad that I could not drive away, and not much in the last 40 years.

These days my prangles are minor, but I do seem to be backing into a few more obstacles than I used to, only very minor scratches so far.

Thanks for the new work "prangle" never heard it before, but it seems to fit just fine.

Not to be confused with Pringles... never singular, no one eats just one.
 
Em in Ohio said:
I've never personally "pranged" a car because I'm not that kind of girl, but - oh my - I hope this car was in a demolition derby, not a freeway accident. /-;
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No, it was a country road. A little too fast around a corner, lost control. skid, then rolled on it's top, then cleaned a little front porch off a house and wrapped the car around a big old elm tree. Living proof God loves fools as 3 young fools walked away with nothing but some scratched knuckles where the roof came down on the steering wheel.

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Alligatorob said:
I've been lucky, no prangles as bad as yours or what others have described. Never so bad that I could not drive away, and not much in the last 40 years.

These days my prangles are minor, but I do seem to be backing into a few more obstacles than I used to, only very minor scratches so far.

Thanks for the new work "prangle" never heard it before, but it seems to fit just fine.

Not to be confused with Pringles... never singular, no one eats just one.
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Prang - to crash a motor vehicle or aircraft.
 
Bretrick said:
Prang - to crash a motor vehicle or aircraft.
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Yep, I looked it up, good word.

Prang /praNG/

INFORMAL•BRITISH

verb: prang; 3rd person present: prangs; past tense: pranged; past participle: pranged; gerund or present participle: pranging
  1. crash (a motor vehicle or aircraft).
    "Ernie pranged his sports car last month"
    • DATED
      bomb (a target) successfully from the air.
noun
noun: prang; plural noun: prangs
  1. a crash involving a motor vehicle or aircraft.
    "he had numerous prangs and near misses in his motoring life"
    • DATED
      a bombing raid.
      "tell him about your wizard prangs in the war"
Origin
1940s: imitative.
 
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