Scarriest driving Moment?

[-Davo]

Originally Posted by 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.

it's highly illegal to not have a seat belt on here. If you're caught, the driver loses 2 points from their licence in one hit, and gets a huge ass fine



my scaryest moments are nothing compared to what's been said here, expecialy the quote in this post, and the original thread post, fucking truck drivers.

It was wet, i had my 2 day old, brand new (8 year old) car, I had spent 9 grand on this car, and I forgot some uni work on the highway about 15 minutes from home, and it was due that day.

so, I chucked a yewi and headed back, i had a mate in the car as well who needed to get to uni, so I was going to drop him back off at the train station where I picked him up (we carpool, and he drove down after that), but to get to the station i have to "exit" the highway, I did a stupid thing, with only 200m left till my exit, i sped up, over took 3 cars (keep in mind it was WET, it had been pissing down rain for like a day, and this was about 9am).

I approached my exit (which is only 50m long) at about 100km/hr...

...the bend at the end of the small exit is so sharp, i would have to be doing about 35km/hr to go around it safely

I turned at about 70...

well, my tires slid out, i lost control, but only for 1 second, i regained control, and was a foot away from a concrete wall...

shit....

that was fucked

why i did that, i'll never know.

[Amish_kid]

200km/h.....









in the rain
Not the scarriest but deffinately the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life. Scarriest might have been when I was doing some rallying with my brother last winter and we put the volvo in the ditch while attempting to connect a wicked mean drift, the car was burried up to the windows in snow and we were probably a km or 2 away from civilization and cell phone signal was pretty much non-existand and it was close to -15 or so celcius plus wind chill so I thought we were going to die since I wasn't wearing a winter coat or hat or anything. But we eventually got to a place where we got cell phone signal called a towtruck and got pulled out.

[rwood13]

High School, 16 driving my first car, 1965 Dodge Dart GT, 318ci auto, myself and four friends in the car, waiting to make a left onto a 3 lane highway, center lane alternate pass and turns (talk about an accident waiting to happen, semi coming down the hill from the left, had enough time to pull out, and normally would but someone, not one of my friends, made me wait, semi goes by, I pull out, got the gas about half to three quarter down, normal, and find the oil in the middle lane that I could not see, do a 360 and end up sitting accross the lane the semi just went by in ....... a definate large pucker factor

[-Josh-]

when i'm by myself i always enjoy a good scare. So i take this now abandoned road called "Snake Road" in my Buick and i try to see how fast i can go before sliding off the road. It's pretty scary and exhilirating cause there's all sorts of deer and animals that could pop in front of you at any time. I can usualy get up to about 45 which isn't bad since it's a gravel road.

[jon@af]

Originally Posted by Z28Josh

when i'm by myself i always enjoy a good scare. So i take this now abandoned road called "Snake Road" in my Buick and i try to see how fast i can go before sliding off the road. It's pretty scary and exhilirating cause there's all sorts of deer and animals that could pop in front of you at any time. I can usualy get up to about 45 which isn't bad since it's a gravel road.

I remember being drunk, in the back seat of your sister's sunfire going down that road with Bell at the wheel and Mentock in passenger seat. That's some scary shit when you're drunk off your ass.

[DVS LT1]

Originally Posted by Z28Josh

when i'm by myself i always enjoy a good scare. So i take this now abandoned road called "Snake Road" in my Buick and i try to see how fast i can go before sliding off the road. It's pretty scary and exhilirating cause there's all sorts of deer and animals...

OMG, okay I couldn't even finish reading after this point because I was on the floor trying to catch my breath!!! LOL


Fiew, okay... Well, I had a job at my neighbour's plant the summer before I started University. The tail end of the route went up a pretty damn rural residential road (40 Kph zone), then over a bridge which crossed highway 401 - from the top of the bridge you could see the little two-lane road stretch ahead about a kilometre before it ended at a 3-way intersection. Its crazy to think how fast I would drive up this street in my old '95 3.4L DOHC Grand Prix GT, and in the middle of the afternoon at around 4pm! (we worked 4-11pm shifts).

Anyways, during that first summer my neighbour's plant was like the only one that existed in the area north of the highway. There were a few hollow foundations up for future plants but nothing else. A year of school later and I got the same gig for the summer, so I'm bombing down the little residential road on my first day in my Dad's brand new '98 Grand Prix GTP, middle of the sunny afternoon with stereo cranked, windows and sunroof wide open, I crest the bridge's hill doing 140 Kph - and the first thing I see dead ahead...

NO BLOODY ROAD - ITS GONE! Seems so many factories sprang up or were completed during the fall and spring that they took the old existing road literally from the base of the bridge on the other side of the 401, and turned it into a sweeping left turn to run through the heart of the new factory alley. When I crested that hill and saw no road in front of me... man, it felt like I was headed for a brick wall. I didn't even attempt to brake, by the time I realised I had to turn I planted both feet on the floorboard and went into it both hands at 10&2 on the wheel. I knew if I had hit the brake (even slightly!) I would have lost it. Suffice it to say those brand new Eagle RS-A shitty all-seasons proved themselves and then some, howling away and bringing me within a few feet of the outside curb. The ONLY thing that saved me was the fact the new road was a five-lane instead of a two-lane, and going into the turn I was able to start my line through the fast lane of oncomming traffic (which gave me a center turning lane and my two lanes of traffic to drift through).

It also helped there were no transport trailers coming in the other direction.

[-Josh-]

Yeah, well i'm here to entertain

[ec437]

Originally Posted by DVS LT1

NO BLOODY ROAD - ITS GONE!

Don't you just hate it when they pull shit like that?

[knorwj]

scariest was probably when i rolled my gs-r onto its side last winter in -20 degree weather on a backroad with no houses for miles, no cell phone service etc. and it was at 1:30 in the morning.


just walked/jogged till i had service, called my cousin to come give me a tug with his truck and i was on my way.... (not even a scratch of damage on the teg



edit: I was doing 55-60 mph and hit some slush/ice. ass-end swung around to the left and then the right then left again, I thought i was gonna go off the road on the left but managed to bring it back enough, but unfortunately wound up going off on the right. wound up about ten feet off the road in a deep ditch, and the car was laying on its passenger side. I guess all the snow padded it and allowed the car to not get any damage from the accident.

[ec437]

how'd you get outta the car?

[sivic02]

This by far isnt the scariest thing thats happed to me while driving but today since the roads were a little wet and i was bored and all cracked out on coffee, I decided to do what i like to do sometimes and snatch up the parking brake while driving in the neighborhood around turns and stuff (no im not trying to be a pro drifter in my civic I just think its fun to do when im bored) since the roads are huge and theres nothing near them. So I decide im gonna spin my car around backwards so I do and after I do so I look in the rear view mirror and I see a deer flying (yes flying) about 2 inches from my rear bumper, Im just glad I didnt keep driving straight...Then I went home and had to change my boxers.

[96Civ]

Originally Posted by Sandhawk

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.

3rd times a charm. We humans don't make the same mistake 3 times in a row.

[superpino]

I had a couple, but the one that scared me the most? when I was 17 years old got a flat tire on the freeway going 70mph. Good thing there were no cars around at that time.

[knorwj]

Originally Posted by ec437

how'd you get outta the car?

climbed out the drivers side door. you'd be amazed at how friggen heavy a door is when you are tying to swing it up instead of out.

[Ridenour]

Rolling my car twice on a wet country curve going 70 MPH

I was driving into work fast to get my paycheck and get out of there before my boss got back. Going around a paved curve rated for 35 (way to slow) and I was doing about 70 (which wasn't too fast for the curve). As I was going around the curve, a rabit came out from the right hand side of the road (where there was a 10 ft ditch). I moved to the right to miss him, except in doing that I got my passenger side tires off onto the gravel. Thinking "Oh shit, I'm going to drive into the ditch" I jerked the wheel back to the road, except I overcorrected and started spinning, spun once so fast on the wet pavement I didn't even leave skid marks, (I didn't even get a chance to recover before I rolled it) I came around after 1 spin and the shoulder grabbed the driver side suspension and folded it underneath the car, flipping me into the ditch, where I then rolled twice and ended up landing upside down. Scariest moment of my life.