One of the present foremost road testers that I know from back in my motorsport days when he first applied to join a leading motoring magazine as a journalist, was asked the question at his interview as to whether he had ever crashed a car. Answering truthfully and in detail, but fearing the worst, he owned up to rolling a car and writing it off.
Was offered the job, beating a number of other hopefuls, and somewhat surprised about owning up to the accident was told that he would have a learnt a big lesson about his own limits and in which case he was less likely, in their view, to crash another being someone who clearly had a passion for motoring and that was a big factor in their decision.