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

[Racer_J]

A few years ago, I was out driving up in the countryside of Northumberland (North East England). It was a nice sunny summer's afternoon and I had my mother in the car with me. I was driving down a long tree-lined country road where the speed limit was 60mph. I wasn't that farmiliar with the road and maybe should have slowed down a little, but there were no other cars around and the driving conditions were perfect so I thought, what the hell..

Anyway, as I got further down the road, the trees to either side gave way to open fields and hedgerows The road ahead curved to the right and began to go up a gradient although the fields were flat. I continued at the same speed but realised as I got to the top of the gradient that it was infact a hump-back bridge with a sharp and sudden drop on the other side! The car took-off as I went across the crest of the bridge, gaining quite a lot of air and narrowly missing a car that was approaching from the other direction.

There was an almighty bang as my car landed and I was convinced I'd caused some serious damage but to my amazement, everything was OK.

I got out and looked around the car and at the road for debris/oil etc but nothing. There were scrapes in the tarmac from where other cars had evidently done the same thing but they were way back from where my car had landed which resulted in a new set of scrapes quite a few yards further down the road!

I've been down that road since and there's no sign post warning drivers of the bridge, no wonder I didn't see it coming!

To this day, I still don't know how I got away with it.




This post has been edited by Racer_J: Jun 5, 2007 - 2:17 AM