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

[laff09]

People never check their mirros here in Delaware it seems, I can think of two really close instances in the past few months.

One was when i driving the camry and was heading up I95 from school to home, about 20 miles. They were doing road construction and had it down to two lanes, then when it opened back up to 4 lanes I got all the way over to the left (I always use my turn signal!) and decided that the winnebago going 55 in the PASSING lane was not up to my speed, so I put on my right turn signal and am 3/4 of the way into the lane when the car in the Middle-right lane decides who needs a turn signal and attempts to merge into me. So I had to whip the wheel to avoid a collision did a 180* and then another 180* in the other direction and back and forth a few more times. I managed to get over to the shoulder and stopped to catch my breath and stepped out and let loose with tirade of expletives that only a mother could love .


Another incident happened when I was on the on ramp of I95 and being in the celica that handles so well I was probably going a little faster than I should have been, and the path I had chosen had 2 broken beer bottles on the left side (I like the hang high coming into a corner and then cut it back towards the inside line producing a more spirited ride) so I had to cut right a lot sooner than normally, and went about 180* before I corrected and continued about my way. None the less, a lesson learned (I have probably driven on that onramp over 200 times before, so I was very familiar with the layout of the road, just a lesson that the same road you travel on every day does NOT always have the same conditions)

This post has been edited by laff09: Jun 8, 2007 - 3:10 PM