Oh, and yes, I have been in one accident.
It was the morning after a Slinky at the Alexandra race course. A couple of years back now.
I was exhausted and went back to my Suzuki Escudo. Only to find that my window was smashed and someone had stolen my CD player, guitar amp and a DVD.
Along come my friends whom I brought with me, me being somewhat devistated as this was the first time I had my car broken into.
So anyway, we start to head off to a friends place to relax and just forget my worries. We stop at a dairy on the way to pick up provisions.
4 - 5 of us all hop back in the car and I start to reverse. Only I should have been paying more attention. BANG. Right into the front of a Camry wagon. I think I actually started banging my head against the steering wheel.
Something like $600 for the bonnet and a couple of hundred more for bumper work. WHAT A GREAT $$% START TO THE DAY!!!!!
The mighty Escudo however, came out unscathed. Go Suzuki, go.
So yea, it seemed that fate really took me up the rear that day. Since then, I've been much more careful in all aspects that happened on that fateful day. The faceplate for the CD player ALWAYS comes off. Alarm is in place and always set, no matter if I'm even 10 metres away from my car and I have developed a 360 degree detection in my brain that keeps me aware of all that is going around.
And to this day, I have not had anything else stolen or any other crashes.
Motorsport is like sex. You could take it to track and have a long, enjoyable session, or you could take it to the strip and get it over with in less than 20 seconds.