What’s the closest thing to a wreck you have had without actually having a collision? I have had a few really close calls on a road course, or out playing in the snow/ice, or someone running a stop sign.. but on Saturday afternoon I had the closest call I think I have ever had.
I was helping the g/f move back up here from south of Houston, and I was driving the old clunker car she bought recently after she sold her car.. Different story.. but anyways, it’s a 93 Camry and it’s a hunk of junk.
We were just south of Dallas on I-45 where there are 4 lanes + a right turn lane.. going about 85mph.. and a black Mercedes decides to conquer my lane by force. The bitch caused me to dive right just a bit in the car to avoid her, and when I did, the front sway bar on the Camry let go. I spun completely around, slid backwards down the interstate, managed to spin it back around forward again, and get it back into a lane, and finally come to a stop pointed in the right direction in a single lane.. No idea how it didn’t flip the car when it was sideways at that speed, and also no idea how I didn’t get hit. I know there were some cars around me at the time.. I did manage to keep it mostly in one lane though.
The black car that caused the thing pulled over quite a ways ahead, and all lanes of traffic came to a stop.. I was able to drive the car off, and just kept on going. No one had a collision so I wasn’t worried about it. I couldn’t believe the car did that. It was crazy feeling a really hard thud, then the car just suddenly take off in a spin.
Actual damage to the car: front air dam is fubared and hanging down, front sway bar is broken, feels like the shocks are blown out in the front (has about 6" of travel when you sit above either front wheel), transmission is slipping now, brakes are toast, the camber of one of the wheels is way off and it looks like its leaning a bit, and I blew off a hubcap during the slide.. 2 of the other ones have big gaps where they are way off the wheels now.. haha. Needless to say the steering is just horrible. I think she'll be trading it in on a newer gas saver car in the near future.. haha.
The near miss I described here last week. Old man on a major 4 lane highway decides at last second to brake, change lanes and cross highway with no signals...all right in front of me and my wife. Thank God for 4 wheel discs.
My car almost got T-boned with my gf in the passenger seat.
I was driving on a small road when a car of some sort proceeded to turn left out of an alley right at my car.
I don't remember if I had time to react and hit the brakes or not, but I do know that I jerked HARD to the left.
It was like time slowed down for a second while I watched and waited for my car to get clipped and send me around. I was actually more worried about my gf at the time than the car getting hit.
Years back in my Spirit R/T on a rainy morning on the way to work. I saw an RX7 in the opposite lane start spinning through the median on a head on to me. I downshifted and hammered it. Luckily he spun around my car slinging mud all down the side and did a head on into a van in back of me. I saw in the news that it killed the guy in the RX7 and seriously injured several in the van. I was soooo lucky that the spin was timed perfectly to miss me by inches. Whew......I had the shakes for a while from adrenaline after that one.
we were at a 4 way stop. i watied my turn to go when some idiot decided to run the stop sign. didnt even do a rolling stop they literally just drove through it. scared the crap out of me at teh time. they were so close i wish i would have spit on them as they went by
it was about 10 at night, after it rained, so the roads were wet and still pretty crowded. I was on the thruway, which has 2 lane and 3 lane areas. I was in the middle lane, a semi to the right, and a land rover the my left. the 3rd lane(left) merges into mine at this point, so the SUV goes behind me. well, the lane to my left hadnt dissapeared yet, and for about a 1/4 mile theres still the pavement before it turns into guardrail. the land rover decides to pass me- in the non-existant lane. the drivers right next to me when they realize they are doing 75 and theres a guardrail coming fast. they swearver over- right into me. i go right, while slamming on the brakes. ABS goes nuts, and the car goes sideways some from the wet roads. in the end, i was behind both cars with the land rover having no idea what happened.
good gawd man, you spun completly around on the interstate
im thinking of Fast and Furious 2 where that one dude turns around and drives backwards on the highway while giving the finger, only he's a little more controlled
ok im driving down a 2 lane road at 5:30pm. right as everyone gets off work so its busy. Some teenager in a jeep slams on his breaks in front of me, i am like "Oh ****!" so i swurve to the right to avoid hitting him. luckily for methere was a road to pull off into but i still went into the dirt. but the guy behind pulls right also.
heres another. almost got Tboned on drivers side
pulling out of a business area. i wanna go right. well i wait a while and traffic gets backed up to where im pulling out. someone decides to be nice and let me out. well the guy behind that nice guy wasnt paying attention, he swurves right to avoid hitting the guy in front of him and almost T-bones me.
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Just found this thread and I thought I'd throw something in. I was driving 880 in Ca. its 4 lanes approaching a junction. the van in front of me slams on his brakes and swerves across my lane to make the junction. I'm in the '66 coupe, 4 whell drums. I had just dought the car and only God knows how long it had been since the brakes were adjusted correctly. The car instantly spins 180 to a complete stop across three lanes. I throw it into reverse, stomp the gas, throw it in drive and am on my way. scary tho... a few months later I bought a SSBC disc brake conversionFun times tho.
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I was driving a company truck and was inthe lane to get off the freeway and merge onto another freeway. Needless to say this freeway is notorius for random stopping. Well it was rainy and I had just gotten over from the HOV lane and was going the speed limit when the car infront of me hits his breaks, so do I. I realize that he is slamming on the brakes and I don't have enough time to stop, especially since it is raining, so I do the old "oh ****" and swerve to the left lane and after passing the five cars that are randomly stopped for no reason I merge back into the right lane with no one infront of me. The guy in the passanger seat was in a wreck with the same van in the same spot a year before, and on the same day he crashed, my dad almost crashed my truck in the same spot. I really do hate that spot, and retarded drivers.
Whats the closest to a wreck you have had?
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Fun times tho.
