 And as soon as I could, as soon as I turned 18, I got a loan from the bank For a car, a car that I'd wanted for years And that car was a 2000 Subaru Legacy B4 Twin Turbo, way too powerful for me, but I wanted it Alright you guys, we're going to put this over here I think there's more light, is there? No, there's not really Okay, what is up everyone? Welcome back to another video In today's video, we're going to be, we're going to be talking You know, we're going to be shooting two birds with one stone as they say Oh that's Barnet Park, that's where I used to play football Or soccer Right, so we're heading to a place called Sumner In the previous video you saw, or you heard me talk about My first ever car crash First of two And look, there were some lessons learned And those lessons stuck with me for a long time The trust between myself and my father Due to the fact that I crashed his car Was broken early on And it took me years and years and years to try and get that back And it created an awkwardness Especially when asking about using the car or just It just wasn't good It was a terrible start to my driving career Now, three years later I sort of get my act together a bit And I actually quit high school, halfway through In fact, later in this video series We're going to be checking out my high school But I ended up quitting high school halfway through my last year Got a full time job, it was quite a good one Felt quite proud about it And as soon as I could, as soon as I turned 18 I got a loan from the bank For a car, a car that I'd wanted for years And that car was 2000 Subaru Legacy V4 Twin Turbo, way too powerful for me But I wanted it It had leather seats, it had 80,000km Or 50,000 miles It was basically brand new And it was mine So I'm just setting the scene for you guys I had my glory days in that car For probably about four months And then I started drink driving Which is the basis of this life lesson That I'm going to be talking about The lesson is don't drink drive Because it's not worth it And not only is it not worth it For your safety, for other people's safety But it's not worth it because at the end of the day You're not in control Anything can happen And if you're as drunk as I was You can even fall asleep behind the wheel And that's exactly what happened That's exactly what happened to me I fell asleep behind the wheel So I am going to put the camera away We're in a place called Sumner And I'm hoping to get a bit of closure On this as well because I drove from Sumner over the hill to Littleton That hill, that road has actually been closed For the last eight or nine years Because of the earthquakes Too many rocks fell down So today I'm going to get closure on Through this situation again With you guys and with myself But I'm also going to Drive the same road that I crashed on For the first time since crashing Because it's been closed for years So it's going to be interesting I'm going to try and stop exactly Where the crash was And I'll run you through how I felt And what I learnt from it Because there's some lessons to be learnt I could have killed myself that night That's all you need to know So with that being said, I'll see you soon So I'm just looking for my old Air it is Arnold Street This is the one Yeah, me and my mates came down here a few times Fair few times It was my One of my good mate, Adam's place Here in Sumner And I can vividly remember One of the last times coming through this intersection Looking left and right Boosting the fuck out of my car Going With the blow off valve Coming down here and parking up In his house I believe Was number 27 Arnold Street That's exactly it right there So let me set the scene My car was parked right here Right here On Arnold Street I'd had a massive night of drinking Home was only five minutes over the hill But that five minutes Turned into the whole night And I never made it home I never made it home guys I was on the piss in there drunk as fuck Thought, you know what Nah, I'm gonna risk it, I'm gonna drive home And I probably got about two minutes up the hill And Got the biggest shock of my life When I basically came to From whatever happened And I'd smashed my car Head on into the bank It had hit the bank on the left hand side It had come bouncing out And I'd actually Ended up probably about 30 centimetres Away from the edge of the hill And that edge goes straight down You know, I don't know how many feet I don't know how many metres, we're gonna check it out now I haven't looked at it For 10 years guys It's probably about 11 years it's been now So we're gonna Do the entire drive I came out here, I came into my car It's not a laughing matter but it is the truth And it's something I do want closure on So we're gonna do that right now Let's just hope it don't crash this time So coming through Sumner I spent so many days here man Because I lived in Littleton And one of my best mates Adam lived in Sumner And literally it was linked By this summit road And the summit road goes up All the way over there and over to Littleton Which is where we're gonna be going today And It was great having a mate That was here in Sumner, we played football together We played soccer For the Ferrymeade bays which is just around the corner And it was a great time It was a great time, a lot of drinking A lot of smoking weed And a lot of car crashes To be honest because it wasn't just me He crashed a couple of times Our other mate Tim Crashed Liam crashed He crashed like four cars Fucking hell, Liam ate him Jesus Christ He was an interesting one So look We all had our moments But this is my moment And it looks as if No There's entry down here fucking Okay So Here we are So I had come Along here Along here And I boosted up this way all the way up this hill All the way over to Littleton But I didn't get there So I'm probably not gonna come back down this hill So what I'm gonna say is that once I crashed it I actually rolled it backwards The entire way down the hill All the way down here And probably about 500 meters down that way And that is where I At 4 o'clock in the morning Knocked on the door Of a random old ladies house She came out at 4 in the morning I was drunk obviously but I was in shock And I needed someone To come and pick up the car So I called a tow truck They came, picked up the car Took it home and I was dropped off At my dad's place in Littleton By the tow truck driver With my car And that was another interesting conversation With my dad Very very interesting In my naivety I even wanted him to say that he was driving I wanted him To fucking ring the insurance company That morning and say look I've had a crash I need to claim Because I was drunk And Come to think of it I was also unlicensed But we're not gonna go there Let's go and check out this area man This is gonna be As I said I'd actually fallen asleep So I couldn't tell you The exact spot But I'm assuming it's somewhere around here Boosting, boosting, boosting And like I said this This road has been closed For the last 8 years But I honestly think It was pretty much Right Right here As I come around this corner I think I took it too Close Smacked into the bank Let's go check it out I wanna show you How close I was To imminent death I'm not even joking This is it man This is definitely the area Beautiful Beautiful area Summit Road The Port Hills in the background So I wanna take a quick Walk up this way Hopefully no cars come But I don't know if you can imagine Four in the morning Wasted as You just got basically woken up by a fucking Massive car crash That's the thing that I want to say This was my pride and joy man This was everything I just got Alone for this car I was just 18 I'd had it for probably 3 or 4 months I was on top of the world And I fucked it I had no car It was all smashed up Completely written off No insurance, I had a loan now This was my first experience of bad debt Okay Basically my first experience of like A credit card because I had this Had this car Had this loan I had a smashed up car I had a loan for a car that I didn't have And so from age 18 I was already in debt Paying off something that I didn't even have It was absolutely depressing as hell And This is This is the area Once this car goes past I'll give you a look So I'm thinking I'm thinking I came up this way Just as this car is I think I probably hit right There And so what I've done I've gone smacked into the front left hand corner And I've come bouncing out Across the road And the back of my car Was right on the edge of this And this is A stone wall So I might not have got killed on the first impact But as my car Tumbled all the way down there I think I most likely You know God would have got me at some point So this is it man, this is fucking it This is the summit road going all the way over to Littleton Up there Over the top and then down into Littleton That's where I'm going to go next To check out my primary school Which is in Littleton, but this is This is the first time I've seen this in years man And This moment set up My next 10 years of Being in debt Being in debt and Being depressed Being depressed because At age 18 when everything was going so well And then it can all be taken Just like that and It was my fault Because I drunk Drove, I fell asleep behind the wheel And smashed my car And so the lesson learnt guys Is Well two lessons, two lessons We're going to go now, that's it That's all I wanted to say All I wanted to show you, I've done it I've gotten what I needed out of this But there's two lessons I want to leave you with I'm not saying I'm any wise guy In fact I've made some pretty stupid mistakes But I do Like to think that I get At least a lesson learnt Out of these mistakes and the two lessons learnt were Number one Don't drink and drive Doesn't matter how close you are to home Doesn't matter if you're around the corner Don't drink and drive and it's not only Because you'll get caught It's not only because you'll get caught It's the fucking safety It's because you can put your life On someone else's life that's on the road at that time In danger Because it's just not worth it So that's reason number one Lesson number one, lesson number two is Be careful about what you take death out for I mean just recently I have Fought back from bankruptcy This is ten years on from this But this, the notion of me Getting a loan, getting an $8000 loan For a car at age 18 And thinking that You know that was Okay, thinking that was fine Thinking I'd always be happy With paying that back Was Just Wasn't true I mean here I am ten years later Finally having got out of all of my debt Except for my mortgage And I just wish I'd never even taken on Any of that debt So the second lesson is be careful about What you take death out for Make sure it's something that's You know Make sure it's something that's Worth it And At the end of the day Don't crash your car I don't even know what this video is You know, gonna come out like to be honest This is just This is just me This is just me This is a part of my life man I think it was December 2008 I'd gone and got the loan Bought the car And then fucked it Luckily it was my car and not my dad's again That's all I can say So after this After this crash, after this Saga I finally paid the loan off Not long after heading to Australia And that was that But I've never forgotten it I have never, ever forgotten it And I used to replay it over and over in my head Just like with the previous crash With the first one And it's not a nice experience And I'm lucky I am lucky to be alive right now And that's how I'll end this video So with that being said guys Have a great day I hope you've learned something Don't drink and drive And if you can, buy your car with cash So if you do smash it You'll be the end of the world Peace out everyone If you're paying loans If you're paying credit cards loans For things that you don't actually have You might be able to do it for a few months A few years but eventually that is going to cause Some kind of depression In some way So be careful about what you get debt out for That's all I've got to say Peace everyone