F***in teenagers!!

.... the lad wrote his car off yesterday morning .... both he and his girlfreind are absolutly fine, but cus its his first car (a little Corsa) .. and it was a parked LANDCRUISER that he hit because he didnt defrost the windscreen properly ... its an Ins. write off

At least they are not hurt, does your lad pay his own insurance? It's not just teenagers, my mrs has just driven away with a glove sized hole in the ice and she's 47 no sense at all

So glad they're both ok, that's the main thing!

I bet he won't get the full value off the insurers, though!

Sorry to hear that and glad they are both okay.

We are hoping the guy will settle without an ins claim tbh, otherwise at 19, the renewal cost will out of the question .... just to put that in context, his first years ins was £3k on a corsa worth a grand if that ... he's just had his second yrs premium at £1200 ... so it will rocket back up to god knows what

Glad they are ok. I have a 19yr old son and I know how frustating and downright scary they can be.. Hard lesson for your son to learn I'm don't think I have had a decent night sleep since mine got his car..

glad there ok but thats teens for you i would say it takes 2/3 years of driving to get used to changing over to winter from summer driving .
hopefully not to much damage to the tank/land cruiser .
but on the bright side he will now have a wakeup to the dangers of winter and be a better safer driver.
i know i was a cocky driver when young and my first crash calmed me a lot.

They are a pain at least they were not injured. It could have been worse. What damage has the other vehicle got

Yeah we are counting our lucky stars as it was only about 25mph .. I havent seen the landcruiser yet but my son said all he could see was part of the rear bumper off ... but who knows

Andy wrote:Yeah we are counting our lucky stars as it was only about 25mph .. I havent seen the landcruiser yet but my son said all he could see was part of the rear bumper off ... but who knows

would not suprise me if thats the extent of damage well lets hope
so andy in the mean time are you letting him use your car

Pleased they are both ok , I know I was a know all when I first passed my test and had a write off on my hands after 2 weeks but I was on me dads insurance and it didn't have that much effect

bigwazza wrote:
so andy in the mean time are you letting him use your car

... can you imagine the carnage he could cause in this

Was the corsa a complete write off ?? Or is it repairable ?? Could you buy it back from the insurance company at a cheap price ??? Or are you no longer able to do this kind of thing ?

kathytake2 wrote:Was the corsa a complete write off ?? Or is it repairable ?? Could you buy it back from the insurance company at a cheap price ??? Or are you no longer able to do this kind of thing ?

dont think thats a issue kathy i think this one trying to be kept quite from the insurance company :-$