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

[stephen_lee]

ah, well coming home from work it had just rained and was about 28* outside.
ont a highway i was going about 45 (speedlimit 70) hit this huge slab of ice, did 3 1/2 spins, i had my clutch in so it didn't die, it caught traction going backwards! my speedo read 40 still, and i tried braking but didn't work(texas = summer tires all year) and i decided to pull my ebrake and jerk the wheel. i ended up doing 1 1/2 spins and going 30 like nothing happened. there was quite a bit of traffic too... i think i crossed only one lane.
scary... its the first frost i've seen in my life. i had no idea ice traction sucked soo badly.