Your driving record

Accidents: I think 8
Insurance claims: 8
4 x 3point speeding plus various others abroad - probably easier to say I've not had a speeding ticket in Africa or Asia.
Countless parking tickets and recently a COVID compliance note stuck under my window from the police.

Driving for 34 years
0 fault accidents/claims
Been hit 3 times and 1 malicious damage claim (Alfa GT got walked across).
0 points yet.
2 parking tickets.

I can add in 1 cambelt failure resulting in an engine rebuild (covered by warranty thankfully).

I've also witnessed 2 fairly spectacular (and injury-free) write-offs happen right in front of me.

Driving for 31 years and for 25 of them I won't have done any less that 25k miles a year, with a few 35k+ years

1 x Accident that was my fault - Low speed in the snow (not as low speed as it should have been....)
2 x Non fault accidents - Both in my 520d. An old guy changed lanes and it the rear qtr when it was a couple of months old and a pickup hit the back of it when I was stationary behind someone waiting to turn right
0 x Insurance Claims
2 x 3 points speeding (plus 1 x speed awareness course)
1 x Speeding ticket in France, pulled over on the Autoroute, but I wasn't guilty (still had to give them cash)
2 x Parking Tickets
1 x Bus Lane fine

Too many times being lucky (along with good observation of course!) as in my 20's/early 30's I used to cruise at 90+ on the motorway all the time and did 30-35k miles a year.

Driving since 1993 - 28 years.

Accidents:

Barrel rolled my Corsa SRi in 1994 while taking avoiding action on a narrow road. Fault claim and total loss.

Horsebox accident - hit almost head on by a Jewson lorry. Total loss, none fault and personal injury claim.

Reversed a hire car out of a space in Cala D'Or Mallorca and a van pulled up behind me as I was doing so. My fault and made a right mess of the van. Total cost to me was €50 for a tail light on the hire car as it was a right shed and had extensive damage prior to me picking it up.

Insurance claim:

Attempted theft of the above mentioned horsebox.

4 speeding offences - 2 of them cameras - one exceeding 40mph limit, the other exceeding 60mph limit and two traffic stops - one for 79 in a 60 and the other for 90 on the motorway which is the only one still current.

I think I've only ever had two parking tickets.

Driving for 19 years. Two cars written off, neither of which were my fault. First was my first Polo that was rear ended and written 0off because it was worth fuck all. Second was my company Focus on the M23 which was hit by a driver from the other carriageway breaking through the central reservation. Have also had several other drivers hit my company cars when parked (and that's not because my parking's shit!). Only accident I've caused was when I backed my Civic into a parked car directly behind me due to tiredness and inattention about 12 years ago.

Only had one parking ticket because I was desperate for a piss and accidentally put my ticket on my dash upside down but amazingly Crewe council rescinded it.

Been pulled by the Police a couple of times in my student days but never charged - one dickhead in a panda car used the line "I had to do 40mph to catch you up". It quickly dawned on him that if he caught me up he must have been going faster than me so I wasnt speeding!

Only conviction was from a red light camera at Fosse Park in Leicester. I slowed down to try and locate the entrance to the Sainsbury's so I could get some lunch before hitting the M1 but just missed the light turning red. Letter said I'd been done by less than 1 second. Did a driver awareness course though so my record is technically clean.

- Driving for 15 years as of this year (since 2006)
- One at fault accident (some of you may remember)
- Two no-fault accidents (very minor rear collisions with just small scratches)
- Roughly about a dozen speeding tickets, all in press cars. I'll have to defend myself and insist that only one of which can I really class as 'speeding' (Mercedes AMG-GT). The rest were single digit over the limit infractions. That said, I've been clean for three years now.
- Many, many parking tickets. Mostly for just exceeding the time. Because God knows they're efficient here in Singapore.

That's just rude of them. I could understand them doing that, if they ran ANPR and discovered your car was registered in London. But 15 miles away, in the countryside, is no distance at all. Presumably they couldn't find any real offenders.

I do think the police should have to salute the public when they’ve interacted with them as they do on the continent.
Every copper I’ve suggested this to hates that idea which is why I’m convinced it’s a good move.

Driving for 23 years. No points ever, but have had a section 59 in my 205 GTi.

2 fault accidents, both in cars not belonging to me. First was my Stepdad's Renault Espace that I ploughed into the back of a stationery Primera. Second was the customer car at work that I bifurcated with a lamp post.

27 years driving, but nothing like the levels of detailed recall you lot seem to have. Or good fortune with the law.

I think I have been caught speeding 7 times, with points 3 times and 4 courses (offences well spread out). 1 smart motorway and I think all the others were of the 36 in a 30 variety. I would consider myself very careful with speed, but clearly that can’t be true.

Accident wise only one proper ‘crash’. I aqua-planned my Mk 1 Golf GTI into the rear 3/4 of a Toyota Avensis. I must have been 3rd party only as I decided against the repair bill and sold it to a Beetle specialist in London for about £300. The stereo was worth nearly that much. Really regret this one as I loved the car and it would have been less than £1000 - I think I decided I could afford a PCP on a Focus at £200 a month more easily than the lump sum.

2 cars stolen. My first car, a Montego Countryman td, was stolen and never recovered. My first company car, a 2004 Galaxy 130pd, was stolen and set on fire, but it went out and just burnt the seat. My wife’s MX5 was taken in the same robbery and totally torched.

We passed our Tests at about the same time.... 19 September 1977 for me (just checked, I have an old paper licence and the pass date is printed on it).

I've made contact with a few stationary objects over the years but touch wood, never another moving vehicle.

Mum reversed into the parked and unoccupied Fiesta on her driveway in the V70 a few years back before she gave up driving, the only time I've had to take my car to a bodyshop since 1970-something.... ah no, just remembered the lady who reversed into me in the Scenic when she changed her mind about going into a car park, around 2001.

3 points for mildly exceeding a 30 limit in the last century, camera on centre of a roundabout catching out people who accelerated to join the flow of traffic; same camera caught a friend of a workmate twice in the same day in the same week as me... he got done on his motorbike on his way to work in the morning, then in his works van on his way back after work same afternoon

My dad had a very old Austin A-40 which he hated due to its amazing (Lack of) reliability. He left it outside with the key in the ignition but the bastards kept bringing it back. On one occasion it had a full fuel tank too. He took it to a scrappy in the end but a few weeks later saw it being driven down Fulham palace road.

I’m instigating the 5th amendment on this one .

My dad had a brand new white Montego estate in 1990 and it was far from fault free. He chose the option of the sunroof which, for whatever reason, was a dealer fit option rather than factory fit. What this meant in practice was that the dealer had their technicians hack a hole in the roof which inevitably led to it not being particularly water tight and my Dad's head being dripped on every time it rained. He chopped it in after a year and the next time we saw it driving around locally it was covered in rust despite only being about 2 years old.

My Dad will slate the Montego to this day but reckons the Maestro he had before wasnt a bad car.