I am very serious about driving safely, but I also corner hard and like to have fun. Have not had the joy of doing any track days yet, tracks make it incredibly difficult to sign up for track days. There really should be a cheap track available for people in their everyday cars to keep racing off the street, and let people build their hard driving skills, but nah...That makes too much sense.
Also, a legal way to let people top out their vehicles would be nice too.
Of my 6 years of driving so far, only one "crash", I backed into a large metal door for a dumpster enclosure. The door was only a few inches wide, so there was no hope for seeing that thanks to my C pillar. I called it a crash, parents said I was exaggerating. It sounded and felt pretty crashy to me!
Footage of the "crash" is on this dashcam video, already matched up timestamp to right before it happened. I have built up PLENTY of dashcam footage, so I need to start making more of those episodes!
I don't know if the auto timestamp is working, skip to 28:48 if it starts at beginning.
Other than that, I have quite a few close calls, some mine, some other peoples' fault. One notable one was when I was in the left of two turn lanes, along with a bunch of other people, I made the turn then the people in front of me started slowing down, so I looked over my shoulder to go to the right, when I looked back they were going a lot slower! I had to brake hard and ended up changing lanes, then I saw the whole cause of that situation. Someone in the left lane wanted to turn right into a gas station IMMEDIATELY after the intersection.
Also notable is ZERO tickets, ZERO times ran from cops, etc. I have been pulled over twice, but those were for hooning. Second one I full throttled a miata with an aftermarket exhaust(not all that loud, but loud enough apparently), shortly after passing a police induced gawk block. The person I passed at full throttle called the cops on me cause they got
TRIGGERED. Cop caught up to me after a few miles, threatened to throw me in jail, etc. I was polite, didn't speak my mind, and got off without even a written warning.
On bikes, I have not had many close calls, dropped a VFR 800 once(rolled off kickstand) and couldn't pick it up by myself. Crashed dirt bikes way too many times to remember.