Your CLosest driving encounter

[Hobbes]

I have a few (most in Tenn.)
This is when I was working at a warehouse doing delivery:
- I'm in a 10 ft. truck doing about 50 on the highway when all of a sudden a garbage truck turns into the highway and stops in front of me. I had to risk running into opposite traffic to get around it.

- When I had a co-worker with me one time, I had drifted asleep behind the wheel. If it wasn't for him alerting me, I probably wouldn't be here today.

- On my last day of work before moving to Maryland I'm in my boss's (sp) minivan doing local delivery. I was like 2 miles form returning to the warehouse when I enter a merge area that connected off a highway. I was already in the far lane so that a dump could merge in. Some guy in a Toyota truck behind the big rig jumps two lanes into my lane. We were probably 2 inches from an accident (that would be a bummer, wrecking your boss's van on your last day of work ). I had to swerve into a concrete part (we was under a open bridge at the time) which then turned into a turning lane where I stopped to take a breather. The guy evantually let me go on in front of him and I shook my head at him.

Then there are countless of close calls at my current job now.

[CHaserTourv]

wow, sounds like alotta bad drivers out there(not the ones who posted their stories), what u should do is contact ur local police depot, they might have a system or number where u could report bad drivers after these close encounters of yours.. but keep em coming.
come 2 think of it, my mom told me a story with my dad b4, my mom b4 in the early 90s owned and drove a Lexus ES300, and when ever my dad drove it, somthing alway happend 2 him in that car. once on the Garden State Parkway, he was driving the ES300 behind a truck with a large powerboat and the boat fell on the car, and took out the whole engine, another incident when my mom was given a new Lexus ES300 was my dad again drove the Lexus, and this was on Interstate 80, an 18 wheeler driving behind and to the rite began passing my dad when the tires on the trailer blew in the left and jack-knifed and reared the car at 80 mph. so bad luck 4 my dad wit my moms old lexus.
then i remembered my bmw, i was driving it during the giant snowstorm the northeast had during this past mid-february, and i was going up like this bunny hill, and my wheels started spinning, they werent cathing the road, and i stalled on the hill, then began drifting backward toward this ditch, where there were barracades which blocked a steep 200 ft drop, with soo much fear i switched the traction control off and floored it as my wheels smoked. i had the sport package which only came with performance tires, not all-season, i made it up the hill, with out any damage. soo that was scary

[Macro]

Well I've only been legally driving by myself for a month, so I haven't had many close calls, but the most obvious one was when I was turning left into a side street, dropped from 4th to 3rd, on the brakes slowing down, was just about to enter the corner (probably about 35km/h) when I saw another car turning right into the same street. Now legally I have to give way and wait for him to go through, but I didn't see him because he had come out of a blind S curve, and he was right in my window pillar blindspot, so I carried around the corner, dropped it to 2nd floored it, jumped to redline and spun the tires all the way up the street.

Gotta love RWD and wet roads.

[Dublinguy]

Well I have had two crashes in different cars. One completely and utterly my fault the other I still blame the taxi driver for. The first one was with the taxi driver. We came upto a junction with a major road but there was a slip road on the junction for turning left. So he is at the lights stopped and decides he is going to move of turning left. So I start moving up and looking to my right to see if there is any traffic coming I then look up to realise the damn taxi driver decided to stop halfway through the junction. Of course I rear-ended him. No damage to his car because he had a tow-bar instead I had a busted front bumper and burst radiator.

The second time through Dublin city centre I just completely took my eyes off the road and rear ended an Afla 146 again most of the damage to my car and thankfully he only needed his rear bumper replaced.

Lots of near ones, people not indicating for turns and on motorways but three stand out. One day I was going to the local shopping centre and decided I would take the back roads. Hopefully no traffic and definately no cops. So Im doing about 75-80mph on this back road but I could see for about a mile and a half in front. I see this truck coming up so I start to slow down to about 40mph but I realise the fucker in the truck decides he is going to stay in the middle of the road. I have to move over even more and nearly end up in the ditch with the truck going by about 6 inchs from my wing mirror. That was bad enough but worse still further down the same road I was doing about 50mph when another truck appears and we are both heading for a narrow part of the road I realise that I am going to fast and get on the brakes only for the brakes to lock up on me as Im going down hill. The back end of the car fish tails towards the truck. Well at this stage I was starting to make my peace with god thinking the lights are about to go out. Thats until I came to my senses and got of the brake. I think after that I drove about 30mph I was so scared.

The other one that stands out I was again on some back roads all-though much better and wider ones but I was following a truck that I couldnt pass until we made a right turn onto the better roads. So I look up the road to see if there is anything coming and its all clear. We were on a bend going to the left when I over took well I was barely outf rom behind the truck when I saw a car about 5 lengths away in the opposite direction. I got on the brakes but turned in to early and got a very close few of the trucks rear tires. I actually think part of my car was under the rear of the truck.

I only use the motor way now. Quicker and relatively safer.

Ciaran

[Sean]

I'ven ever had any accidents, but i have had one close call. It was when i was just learning to drive, and i was driving in my parents minivan.

I was driving down a 4 lane street, on the far right lane. someone turned left from the oncoming lane infront of me, to go into a parking lot. However, when they were halfway over the curb they had to stop, with their back end stuicking out info traffic. I had to cut off a guy behind me just to get out of the way.

[CivicLeader]

Time: 2:00am
Where: Down Town Saint Petersburg, FL
I was heading north on 3rd avenue going about 30mph with a cop caddy corner from me to my left and up about one car length. As we approached 5th street north...a woman in a beat up old duster ran a stop light with a passenger. The cop didn't even have time to hit his brakes...t-boned the "buster" (feel bad for the passenger), was spun 180 degrees into my lane, and I ran head on into the cop. I didn't even have a second to brake. The "buster" did about 3 360's and hit a light pole on the opposite side of the intersection. To give you an idea or the size of the intersection....3rd avenue is 4 lanes wide and 5th street is about 3 lanes wide. The "buster" was in the right lane...closest to us in the intersection. Needless to say...the cop car didn't have that much damage but my Civic was hurtin' pretty bad. What was really funny was the cop driving was taking an undercover cop back to his car. The undercover cop was in the back seat w/out a seat belt. He flew into the plexy-glass at 30 mph and nailed his forehead. I felt bad for the guy but was chuckling on the inside I must admit!
CL