Scary Driving experiences!, NO STREET RACING PLEASE!!!!! Options

[goferris]

Ok i just thougt that i would start a post to see some things that have happened to others on the site.

doesn't have to have been in the celi. basically what i am looking for are stories of where the car and driver shoulda been hurt a lot more than they really were but due to extreme luck very little to no damage at all was done.

Ok
heres mine.
this was when i still had my 97 ST Limited. i was driving to my parents house for a sunday night dinner. i had just got on the freeway. i was going about 75 when all the sudden there was a tire tread in the middle of my lane. i didn't see it til i was about 20 yards away from it. i swerved to miss, over corrected then over corrected again, did a 360 on the freeway and landed on the side of the road. heres the lucky part. not a scratch on my car. it was in traffic too.
where i slid off the freeway was level where most everywhere else drops 20 feet or so, there werent any signs or posts or anything. i must say that is the scariest thing that has ever happened to me.

what inspired me to start this was i just read someones story about how the lost control of their car but the only damage was a screwed up rim.

PLEASE POST GUYS! Interestered to hear your stories.
Thanks

[GTSOwner]

One time, at band camp...

Nah, just kidding lol.

In the summer of '05, some friends and I organized a track day. Problem was that the only affordable one was about 5 hours away. Anywhoo, I get into my little '04 Mitsu Lancer ES with one of my friends girlfriend. Seatbelts and helmets on, and then we take off. We were just about to come back into pit when I looked at her and said : "One more lap?" "Sure!"

A few turns later, I end up exiting a turn telling myself that that was really quick, probably the fastest all day for that turn. Just before the next turn was a dip before a rising sweeping turn. I ended up oversteering badly, going litterally sideways on the track, facing the cement walls, behind which was a small stream. I tried to regain control of the car (which I would've had the track been wider) and did to a certain degree, I was now at a 45 degree angle with the wall. I hit it at about 50-60 kph (I really have no idea but that's what it felt like) and the small cement wall (more like a highway divider when there's construction) leaned over and acted as a ramp. Ended up doing an aerial McTwist and landing on the dividers on the roof.

The girl and I were ok, the impact was surprisingly smooth, but it was still a close one. Had the car landed maybe a foot forward, I probably would've had a neck injury. The car was totaled, the radiator support on the passenger side came back a foot and probably rose just as much. Surprinsingly, only the rear window and the driver side rear window busted.

That accident changed the way I look at suspension setups completely.