Scarriest driving Moment?

[Robs71Nova]

I was wondering what everyones "Scarriest" driving moment is. The reason I bring this up is because mine happened to me earlier tonight while I was on my way out to work.

I work on an industrial complex. This is basically 10 square mile (roughly) area that has a bunch of smaller processing plants on it. I work at Ge Plastics which is one of the 8-10 plants on the complex. Anyways, we get alot of semi traffic out here. The complex is out in the middle of nowhere because all of the plants are hazardous and there is a large buffer zone with a single, two lane highway going through the woods.


Well as I said earlier, we get ALOT of semi traffic out here because there are so many plants. Well on the drive to work there is one BAD curve, where the speeds change from 70ish to 40ish rather quickly. Well as I was going around this curve there was a semi coming at me from the opposite direction. The Semi must have misjudged the speed of the curve because I could see he was hitting it too hard. He realized as well because half way through the curve he locked his breaks up trying to slow down. The ass end of the trailer he was towing swung over halfway into my lane. Like of the area in between the lines showing "your lane", his trailer took up nearly 3/4 of MY lane.

Now keep in mind this is happening WHILE going around a sharp curve at 40ish MPH. When I saw the trailer in my lane I instinctively hit the breaks, but I soon realized that the trailer wouldn't be able to stop in time to keep from hitting me. As soon as I realized that I hit the gas again and ran my car completely off the road and around the trailer. When I came back onto the road my car swerver back and forth a little, then fishtailed as I was hitting the breaks. I was so shaken up/on the verge of popping pissed off that I couldn't stop moving. When I thought things couldn't get worse I loooked up in time to see Mr. Semi driver trying to drive away. When I saw that I immediately took off after him and pulled up along side of him. I shot him the bird a few times, then proceeded to get infront of him. I wrote down his Truck number, truck tag number, trailer number, trailer tag number, and lastly I got the phone number off the back of his trailer to report him to his company, and also the sherrif's office.

Anyway, I immediately called the sherrif's office from my cell phone and gave them all the info I had and told them what had happened. When I got to work I called his company and reported his driving. They assured me that the Sheriff's office had already gotten in touch with them, and that the driver would be dealt with. In all honesty I HATED being so harsh on the guy, but there is NO WAY they should be letting an idiot like that drive a 75000 pound weapon, and thats exactly how he was driving it.

Well, feel free to share your "scary moment" driving stories if you have any. Im at work right now with only 7 hours left in this 12 hour shift , but I figured Id share this with you guys.

Rob

[Toksin]

Had a brainfart one morning at 6am driving up to the drift finals. Looked down, looked up and i was straddling the centreline as a truck swerved around me. Totally my fault, and scared the shit out of me.

[96Civ]

Scariest moment? Probably trying to miss a cat running across the road. I was going 40mph on a back road and I see this cat dart out in front of me. I turned really hard and I must have over-steered 3 times in a row (back to back) and I somehow recovered without spinning out. A couple of mini rushes all in one.

[Sandhawk]

Originally Posted by 96Civ

Scariest moment? Probably trying to miss a cat running across the road. I was going 40mph on a back road and I see this cat dart out in front of me. I turned really hard and I must have over-steered 3 times in a row (back to back) and I somehow recovered without spinning out. A couple of mini rushes all in one.

haha me too only it was a rabbit. And its happened to me 3 times now, and once I hit one running across the freeway while I was going 75mph.


Although I think my scariest moment was when I rolled by 240sx and thinking how am I gonna roll it back over, as it rolled again.

[a_hol06]

Dont you people know the small animal rule? Just hit it if its as small as a dang cat or rabbit. Car will have hardly any damage, if any at all, and its much safer than trying to swerve going 40-70+ miles an hour.

[87lToronadol]

just a few of em......bein in the passenger seat when ur friend is barraling down on the cra infront of him and they got the brakes on and ur like 10 feet away and he hasnt started braking yet......and was on the freeway driving my camry and some idiot infront of me (i wasnt tailgating) hit his brakes so i started to hit mine a lil and i looked in my rear view mirror and the guy in the suburban had to tae the exit off the freeway not to hit me....

[ec437]

Only a few days after I got my 2+ ton lexus, it decided to rain. Remember, this was after I had been driving a bmw 325es (e30), and for those of you that don't know, e30's are incredibly nimble, responsive, light, and easily controllable cars. They provide an amazing sense of the road for a car of their demeanor. Also, my model was especially underpowered (120 hp) and therefore slow; it also had an LSD. My lexus, however, is a completely different animal. It is a huge car with soft soft luxury suspension. It has 250 hp and is much faster than the BMW. It has an open diff, and the power steering assist curve is completely nonsensical. The brakes are also considerably undersized for a car of such weight and the car is an auto instead of a stick. Well, like I said, it was raining, and the roads were slick. I had accidentally left it in sport shift mode, and I came up on the road I had to turn off onto. Being used to the BMW, I took the turn as I ordinarily would have. In the BMW the outcome would have been completely controlled. In the lexus with the open diff, the results were nearly disasterous. The rear end swung out, and I had a very difficult time correcting it (fishtailed several times before I got it straight again) and I almost went off the road into a ravine. D'oh!!! I want my BMW back.

[FairyDust]

Mine would have to be when I was driving down this clear lane, next thing I know I got a van sitting across my lane not even 30ft away and the "OH SHIT!" feeling I had right before we slammed into him going like 30mph. I hardly even ahd time to slam the brakes before I slammed into the stupid sonofabitch. We actually walked away without even whiplash, and my car was fixable. The other guy wasn't so lucky, he had a lot of neck and back problems, bruising, etc. His van was totaled, wasn't his van actually and the owner didn't have insurance either and the guy had no license, arrggghhhhh!!!

[WickedNYCowboy]

My scariest moment was this past november after a horse show near syracuse upstate. I was going down a hill on Rt. 20 and lost my trailer brakes going on a tight turn. Next thing I saw was some SUV coming flying in my mirror. I then started getting the trailer ready for impact to a tree. I had my 3 horses and a friend's 100k english show horse I picked up on my way back. I smashed the frontend into the tree. It was nothing a torch and hammer couldn't fix. Only one of the horses who was a nasty little thing got hurt. Got him stitches and patched up and took him to the sale last week.

[FairyDust]

To the sale? As in horse auctions?

[Broke_as_****]

In the 240SX, driving stupid way the **** back out in the moutains at 2 in the morning, hadn't seen another car for hours. Coming around a corner about 50 mph and suddenly all I can see in front of my windshield is 10,000,000 watts of lumber truck headlight. Some how I ended up spun out in the middle of the road watching the tail lights disappear around the corner, not a scratch on it.

[my3rdskyline]

i was 16. rolling hills, with curves going back and forth. rain. driving too fast. ended up doing a 360 while completely staying on the road. no other traffic thank god. Drove little slower that day. :-) 1990 mazda 626 manual.

[taranaki]

heavy rain,driving home from work one day.slowed to 80 km/h[50 mph] by conditions.Following a yellow car,couldn't distinguish the make,raining too hard.Rain worsened,slowed to 50 kmh[30mph] as I could barely see past the end of the hood.Yellow car didn't slow, drew about 50yards ahead, then aquaplaned on a long corner and crossed the centrelinestraight in front of an oversize semi with another rig on its trailer.The rig went straight over the yellow car,disintigrating it completely.The front axle of the rig tore loose in the colision and bounced down the road towards me,followed by the trailer,jackknifing and threatening to tip its load onto my car.The truck stopped two car lengths in front of me, the next guy around the corner locked up to avoid me and hit the truck front axle beside me,throwing it into the passenger door behind me and shattering the window.

[my3rdskyline]

when I was in high school i was in an accident too. I wasn't driving, I was in the middle of the front seat in a new yorker. driving at about 1 AM with 4 other friends coming home from shooting pool. everyone sober. go thru a 4 way intersection at about 50 with a green light. get broadsided by a caprice going 65 blowing the red light. get this

the driver of that car was drunk
high
stolen car
and
fucker was 14 years old.

I didn't have my seatbelt on because I was previously in the back seat and had climbed over to sit in the front for the rest of the ride (2 blocks from home) we turned to the left to avoid the car and hit the telephone pole. the car got bent in half. the hood and the rest of the car was like a 90 degree L bent at the dash. I was on the hood and under the dash (my legs) I got a lacerated liver and that was it. I was out of the hospital in 3-4 days. I also have a structured settlement of a nice amount and the payments are on my birthday (Jan 12th) so next month i'll be pretty happy and the next few years after that... :-)

I'd do it all over again if it would happen the same way.

[crayzayjay]

Skidding out towards a lampost and two parked cars on an icy road. Accident averted by divine intervention.