My first crash happened on black ice at the end of my road....
I was in my mkiv Escort and went tootling down the road towards the junction, going 'very, very' slowly as it was icy... saw this guy in an old astra on the next road so I applied the brakes gently, and...
nothing....
at this point I try them much harder and ...
nothing...
the guy in the astra realised that I couldn't stop and hit his brakes too, and....
nothing...
we were both doing less than about 5mph but there was nothing either of us could do we just looked at each other, shrugged and whinced as the cars bounced off of each oter No damage to his at all but my body coloured bumper was all cracked... fixed it with some duck tape and it stayed like that til the day I sold her