 met up with a couple of my friends and we decided to go for a drive a good old drive and actually come to think of it here is the street right here okay so I was coming from the other side but if you can imagine it came around this street that is the phone my god the fucking fence post still has the the indentation oh my god all right I'm gonna park up right here all right you guys what is going on welcome back welcome back to another video welcome back to Christchurch we're here we're still here it's it's Monday the 14th of October and this is my final day here in Christchurch so I've woken up this morning it's about 11 o'clock it's not a good day unfortunately so you probably won't be able to see the beauty of Christchurch but I do have a few stories I've got a few things I want to talk through myself I want to work through I want to get a bit of closure on a couple things and I also want to create content for my YouTube channel this is personal content this is content that really affects me you know it's it's my childhood Christchurch and Littleton is my childhood up until the age of 19 and any of you guys out there thinking about your own childhoods you'll know what I mean some of you may not even be 19 yet but I spent the first 19 years of my life here I've then spent the next 10 years of my life in Australia so today today today I want to make probably five or six different videos and we're gonna get into those once I go through these lights I've got to put the camera down hold on okay so oh there's an anytime fitness and ferry made I didn't know that so five or six different videos today the first one is gonna be how I crashed my car and what I learned from it the second one is gonna be how I crashed my second car and what I learned from it fundamental lessons I got from the first one was don't try and drift when you can't even drive the second one the main rip the main lesson I received was don't drink and drive and I'm gonna run you through both of those stories as we as we come across the area and the the area that I crashed both cars in because I do want a bit of closure both of those crashes affected me in a massive way shocked to the shit out of me and taught me some lessons so those are the two places two first places we're gonna go after that we're gonna visit my primary school in Littleton which looks a whole lot different than I used to than it used to because of the earthquakes it's actually it's not there anymore the second place we're gonna go to is my intermediate school which is Christchurch South I have not stepped foot in there for like 15 or 16 years so that's gonna be insane and the third place is gonna be sorry the fifth place for the day is gonna be my my high school catch me high school I want to take a stroll through there it's school holidays at the moment so hopefully no one will be there and I'll be able to walk around and reminisce so that's five videos my first car crash what I learned my second car crash what I learned having a look through my primary school my intermediate and high school and that's pretty much it guys that is pretty much it so with that being said I'm gonna shut the camera off and I'll see you at our first location which is where I crashed my dad's car at age 15 having just got my learner's license trying to drift around a corner in a rear-wheel drive that was automatic and that's all I need to say so I'll see you soon all right so as we're as we're nearing closer to the site the crash site yeah there's no other way to say it really the crash site the road is major eight can drive I'll never forget it in fact my best mate at the time his last name was Aitken Liam Aitken what a great guy in fact thinking back on it guys this is how this is how fucked up this was both myself and Liam similar birthdays we just got our license at the same time very similar stories that same night the same night that I crashed my mate Liam crashed his mom's car same insurance companies we both went into it to come to think of it like two weeks later we went in to make our statement about what happened in either our crashes both my dad and his mom had insurance policies with the same person with the same company and we both went in and both sat down they thought that we were like connected in some way so not only were we trying to you know explain how we crashed and basically make up some bullshit they thought that we were connected and that we crashed together and that we were trying to fabricate some story so that's just come to my head actually that was part of it that was part of it but look I want to set the scene I want to set the scene a bit so it was the final day of high school in fifth form I was 15 I just got my license and we had our final end of year prize giving I had never been able to use this car before dad let me I must have begged him the whole entire night so I can't imagine him letting me use it I definitely can't imagine him letting me use it after this because it really fucked things up but setting a scene it was our prize giving end of year prize giving and I take in the car after the prize giving I met up with a couple of my friends and we decided to go for a drive a good old drive and actually come to think of it here is the street right here okay so I was coming from the other side but if you can imagine it came round this street that is the phone my god the fucking fence post still has the the the indentation oh my god all right I'm gonna park up right here let's let's check this shit out I shouldn't be laughing because it was it was an absolutely terrible scary shocking moment in my life but now I can look back at it and talk about the lessons I've learned and that's what this video is about so let's do that let's go check it out all right so 15 years old 15 years old nearly 16 but not quite end of year prize giving thought I was the man rolled in in this Nissan Sefero and back back in like 2007 2008 sorry this is 2005 fast and the furious had come out need for speed underground was out everyone loved the Japanese cars everyone loved the rear-wheel drive cars and the Nissan Nissan Sefero was one of those man and if I hadn't have crashed this car it would have been my car throughout my childhood throughout my teenage years throughout school I probably would have still had it now it was an absolute classic but it wasn't to be it wasn't to be so look I don't know if you can imagine this but this fence this car is gonna go past this fence right here I vividly remember sitting on that after the crash going into shock basically or they told me I was in shock they gave me a blanket this is after the prize giving probably 8 o'clock at night it's it's dark this is one of the first times I've ever driven by myself and I crashed the car I didn't know what to do it was a terrible moment terrible moment but the lesson learned guys the lesson learned there is a lesson learned is that I brought it on myself I didn't drive properly I drove as if I was a fucking professional drift racer and I hadn't even started driving yet so let me let me paint the picture here let me set the scene and let's run through this on a bit a bit of closure that's what I'm doing this for I'm doing this to to get some closure for myself and also to share a lesson a life's lesson so here we are there is the street okay now I don't care that people look at me funny I've got no shoes on but who gives a shit so we're coming along from cashmere high school coming along this way just like this coming along coming along okay here's the street now what I saw happen in front of me I was driving along with this with this guy his name's Simon Bergen Simon if you ever watch this actually Simon Bergen just played for Scotland in the Rugby World Cup as a replacement prop so well done mate but he was in front me and him met up with another guy Alex after the prize giving thank God I didn't have anyone in my car with me but those two were up ahead I saw them come along in front of me they came up to this corner he did a little skid a little skid around the corner and that's it it was nothing crazy it was a front-wheel drive I mean what can you expect then I come along I see that I've never tried to skid before never tried to drift before I see Simon go and do that in front of me and what do I do well I try and do the same thing and it was an automatic car a rear-wheel drive quite powerful and I think it was wet at the time so what do I do I get to about this point here I put my foot down turn the wheel to the right and hope for the best and it didn't work out very well so the first lesson learnt guys is to learn how to drive and don't try and drift when you don't know what you're doing look that's all I could say I could try and I could try and make it funny for you guys I could try and put some some sort of comedic spin to it but really that's all I got to say is don't be a fucking idiot when you're 15 years old and you got no idea how to drive so came around this corner and flying around here come to think of it I don't actually know how I got how I got this far around the corner but I did and so well actually I didn't get that far around the corner because as you can see this is the corner and flying around would have probably had to counter stare at about this point and went straight smash into the retaining wall and that my friends is the mark that I left on this corner look at it now looking at that you probably wouldn't expect too much damage to have happened to the car and neither did I but I can safely say that the car was written off so there's no cars coming now I can tell you I came along from there came around the corner tried to try to imitate what my friend had done earlier and completely fucked it so that's it I guess this is my closure and this is me just just running through my first ever car crash what happened after that I actually hit my head on the steering wheel and got a cut on my head so I couldn't forget about it for probably the next six months because there was a cut and then there was a scar and I honestly guys it was it was a real shock it was a fucking shock it all happened really really quickly you know here I am thinking thinking I'm gonna do a perfect skid around the corner and next minute I'm ringing dad saying I've crashed the car sitting on that fucking lamppost sitting on that fence post with a blanket around me with everyone telling me I'm gonna be alright oh you're in shock you're in shock no fucking shit I was in shock one thing has actually come to me probably in the last couple of years and it was it was a general attitude that I have with things especially negative things or you know so-called negative things I try and get something positive out of it I try and get a hidden meaning out of it I try and think everything happens for a reason now the reason why I crashed on that corner there before coming up this massive hill and possibly crashing summer up there because I can guarantee you guys I can guarantee you if I didn't crash on that corner I would have crashed up here somewhere I was in the mood to try and spin those fucking wheels and try and get some drifting going when I had no idea what I was doing so that was so that was that was the positive that I got out of it that was the the reasoning why it happened there and why God was watching over me and made it happen down there and not up there is because if it had it happened up there I could have most likely killed myself very similar could have been a very similar situation to what nearly happened in my second car crash which is what I'm gonna talk about in the next video okay so the lessons here are well the major lesson is we should not be allowed to drive at age 15 15 is too fucking early I think it should be at least 16 if not 18 because at age 15 I had no idea and it was always gonna happen it was always gonna happen I was gonna push my luck and fuck it up somehow and it happened very very very early in my driving career and it gave me a shock a big shock but it still didn't stop me crashing one more time unfortunately so touch wood I've had my last crash to this date which is to this was my first and you know what I will say is thank God it was on the last day of school thank God I didn't have to turn up at school that next week because you know you know the way that rumors happen because you know you know the way that news travels in high schools and it didn't take long for me to basically sadly be the laughing stock the two guys who were driving in front of me Simon and Alex they knew the seriousness of it but they were the kind of guys that loved a story terrible terrible times terrible times had a massive cut over my head like I said not a cut it was like a graze but it scabbed up and I ran through that that moment I had that the feeling and the sound of it running through my head like over and over again for probably a good two or three years before I actually completely forgot about it and never thought about it again but you know every time I drive past major I can drive every time I come back to Christchurch every time I fucking have to ask dad to use the car just like today it goes through my head you know and it's one of those lessons it's one of those times and and moments that I'll never forget and now it's now definitely never forget it because it's on my YouTube channel so in the next video we're gonna we're gonna check out the summit road which is a road that goes from Sumner to Littleton it's a beautiful drive beautiful drive but unfortunately I didn't make it one time in particular and we're gonna get to that so anyways guys hope you enjoyed there's no time like the present I'm gonna get over to the summit road turn the camera on again and run through another situation that I need closure on so I hope you enjoyed peace out so I hope you enjoyed peace out and I'll see you in the next one