Midchuck and Barry - I learned to, and regularly drive in London which has road conditions and drivers that would make even a hard-arsed Bostonian blench. I have never had an accident that involved another vehicle except once when I was distracted and just nudged the vehicle in front in a traffic queue. I have never 'written a car off', nor damaged any other vehicle. Any damage I've caused to our cars has been minimal and cosmetic. I broke a side mounted indicator light once and that was on a bollard. There is a time to drive offensively, and a time for defensive motoring. If you're damaging vehicles, you haven't yet got the timing right.

Stilly - you are right. It's my interpretation of her explaination of how she wrote off the vehicles. In all 3 incidents, she has hit the vehicle in front of her and in all 3 cases, she insists that it was not her fault.

I have been driven by my sister. She has joined the (thankfully short) list of people I will never get in a car with if they are driving.

LTS