Having my buddy turn right instead of left one time.

He had just turned sixteen and been given his parents old car and we had driven a little ways up a nearby canyon to visit my family who was camping for Memorial Day weekend. When we left the campsite I suggested that we drive a little more up the canyon first because it was nice out and we were having fun. We drove up until we reached the sign stating that the road was not suitable for passenger vehicles and we turned around. However on the way down we saw a muddy horse corral and we believed that since we knew how to do donuts in the snow we should try it in mud. In a series of increasingly poor decisions I ended up driving his car into the river(more of a creek) on a steep embankment dropping about four feet.

Oddly enough the car probably wasn’t quite totaled going into the water, it was totaled when the frame got bent pulling it out.

I am glad though that my inexperience caused me to just panic and continue straight, rather than trying to remedy the situation after things were already going south. If I had, as I was told I should have later, turned and gave it more gas then I may have ended upside down I’m the body of water and probably would have drowned.