Avoided Car Accidents

Discussion in 'Real Life Stories' started by Koh, Aug 14, 2014.

  1. Today a 90 or so y/o woman pulled out in front of my car at a much slower speed than i was driving, i hit the breaks and narrowly avoided smashing into her. I then layed on the horn and glared at her, but she seemed oblivious throughout the situation. 
     
    It got me thinking though, how many potential car crashes ive avoided by swerving or stopping .. off the top of my head i can think of quite a few times .. at least 10
     
    How many potential car accidents have you avoided? or how many have you been in? 

     
  2. I think anyone over70 should be required to take a driving test to prove they're still lucid enough to drive, because i can't tell you how many accidents i have known or been involved in because there was some semi conscious old person driving.
    Shit back in high school, an old lady driving a car smashed through the door of my local 99 cents store while i was inside.

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  3. avoided way too many, got fucked once. some crack head rear ended me and totaled my car, nothing i could have done about it. 
     
  4. #4 ChemiStoner, Aug 14, 2014
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    You should have to be 18 to get a drivers license. And have to renew it at 50,60,70,80,90.

    Just my opinion though.
     
  5. LOL this guy thinks 50 is that old.. Please dude.
     
    One time I avoided one real close..  I was just driving along, not speeding just really driving the limit.  Then this moron pulls out of the gas station right onto the highway in his fancy ass Porche or Corvette whatever going like 5 miles an hour when he pulls out infront of traffic/me.  If I started slamming on the brakes it would've been trouble so I quickly looked over and saw the lane was free and moved over to the lane next to me.  There was nowhere else for me to go and nothing else for me to do.
     
    I actually noticed that another guy was in the lane but moved over to open it up for me because he saw I was going to need to swerve away from that idiot.    I drove up next to the guy down the highway, or he might've pulled up to me.  I just kind of pointed to my head like good thinking and told him thanks.  He was like "I saw that!"  and we drove off.  Good thing that guy was there.  Guy in the porsche/corvette was a total idiot.

    This isn't a major highway either.  It's a very narrow highway but also very busy. 
     
  6. Also another time this was really dangerous.  I was speeding and there were a good amount of cars on the road.  Then I notice cars getting onto the highway from the ramp.  I might end up getting stuck behind them.  I don't really slow down.  There's a pretty long stretch that they're supposed to drive for before coming into my lane and onto the highway.  For some reason these people don't do it and love to cut right onto the highway with no speed at all.
     
    So I see this idiot cut right into the lane.  I'm going so fast at this point.  I start honking and honking at them. I think I was meant to die in this.  They see me coming and probably realize they were idiots to begin with and thank God they pull out of the lane and into the other lane.  But there was still this idiot commercial vehicle that cut into the lane that I had to avoid.  So now I had the one person that moved into the right lane so I wouldn't hit them and then there was the long truck that was infront of them.  Even  worse for me if I hit into the back of that thing.
     
    I didn't want to hit the Suburban or Envoy that moved into the other lane though.  I just didn't want that to happen.  I had very little room to work with but I cut the wheel to cut infront of the suburban and to avoid the truck that was infront of them.  I didn't want to cut the wheel too hard and risk hitting the guard rail hard though.  So I cut the wheel but cut it back quickly enough to try to squeeze in the lane and minimize damage.
    If I was on a Nascar track and in a Nascar car then I may have had a shot in it.  But in a Jeep it wasn't perfect..  my Left bumper hit into the back of the truck ad then the right side of my Jeep hit the guard rail.  It dented the side but not really that bad.  I really hardly hit the truck and they didn't even stay..they drove off and everyone else did..including myself.  It shattered my window and some other things but nothing major.  I was so lucky to escape that one.
     
  7. I don't think a re-test for your driver's license every five years isn't too much to ask, like others have stated.
     
    I actually couldn't answer either of those questions, too many times really. Been rear-ended a handful of times, had the brakes in our truck at work go out, riding drunk with my friends and hit a telephone pole, ran into the ditch on a curve as a teenager, got side-swiped by a semi with a few friends. I used to be a pretty reckless fuck and I do and have always spent a lot of time on the road.
     
    But on the subject of near-misses, I actually almost got t-boned a couple weeks ago by someone who blatantly ran a stop sign, an out of jurisdiction cop. Was going 45-50 mph (the speed limit) down a familiar country road, up ahead another road meets it perpendicularly. You can only see the last ten or twenty yards of that road from where I was, the corn in the field next to it blocks the view this time of year (told you a country road :p). Said cop was going down this road, and apparently expected to just shoot onto the next one without stopping, because there wouldn't be anyone there anyway. So he didn't even do a rolling stop, just kept truckin' through. Well, obviously there was somebody there this time, me, so I had to slam the brakes and swerve into the left lane to avoid a wreck.
     
    Which got me thinking, had we gotten in a crash, there was nobody else around, it would have been my word against his. And I probably would have lost, and could have gotten totally screwed when I wasn't the one doing anything wrong. Pretty unsettling thought, really.
     
    I bought a dash cam a few days ago.
     
  8. I remember driving with my family to cracker barrel in Florida one time. We were on I95 and I was driving my mind suv. I had to slam on my breaks because a couple cars up something fell out of this guy's truck. I was diagonal and drifting in my lane it was pretty crazy. All the driving video games have trained me well.
     
  9. I've had some close calls but imo old folks over the age of say 75-80 should just hang em up and keep off the road. Call me an oldist but they drive too fucking slow for my amusement 
     
  10. #10 AR Toasty, Aug 20, 2014
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    Reckon I've avoided more than I can count. Back in the day I'd say a lot of it was due to merely avoiding the failure of my own stupid actions, but since I'm far more composed behind the wheel these days, it's the stupidity of others I most often have to evade. I'm not sure whether it's actually getting worse with time, but it seems like there's a lot more idiots on the road than there used to be.
     
    Then again, perhaps I was just one of the idiots so I didn't notice.
     
    As for accidents I've been in: I rolled and totalled my first vehicle driving too fast around a slick bend, I was riding shotgun when my buddy spun out and into a tree, I've been rear-ended a few times, and side-swiped once while parked on the side of the highway. I hitched a ride with this couple I'd just met Outback and we were driving too fast down this narrow unsealed road in the middle of fucking nowhere, with a road train coming in the opposite direction. All was peachy until a roo bounced out of thin air and onto the road. We swerved out of the way and right into the path of the oncoming truck and between our yells, the truckie's horn, and the sound of two vehicles trying to manoeuvre, it was like the sound a drunk tugboat makes right before it's about to barrel into a lighthouse. Missed the truck by a hair. I'm pretty sure my heart didn't start back up for about three days after that.
     
    Oh, and while not in a car, one time I was riding my bicycle in London during the morning rush hour and I thought I'd be sly by popping up onto the sidewalk and bypassing traffic around a corner. A kid popped out from what was probably the same vortex as the kangaroo from that other story, and in swerving to avoid him I hit the railing of the Underground entrance and went flying down the stairs to the subway. Concussion and a gnarly wrist sprain.
     
  11. I can't even count how many times people around here drive really bad because it's all tourists who have no clue where they are going


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  12. avoided a few, and i've been in one. luckily i can say i survived barrel rolling through the air at 120mph
     
  13. #13 musicman17, Aug 20, 2014
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    As a biker who goes into London pretty often I've had so many near misses that I lose track

    One of the worst ones was when I had my mum on the back and nearly got taken out on a width restrictor by an old lady, she actually put her hands over her eyes when she pulled out on me!

    Another time someone deliberately tried to run me off the road while splitting lanes (it's legal over here)

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  14. If it weren't for Grand Theft Auto I likely would have died in at least a half dozen accidents.
     
    Thank you, Grand Theft Auto for upgrading my reaction time to Godlike ability. :cool:
     
  15. Aussie's near-miss story involves a kangaroo. Go figure :smoke:
     
    I absolutely hate when people think they're justified in driving aggressively towards someone on a motorcycle, because they're "skipping ahead" or some fucking nonsense. You're really that butthurt over it that you're willing to risk somebody's life (and possibly some significant legal charges) in order to "keep them back" or "put them in their place"? It's not like it's any of your goddamn business if someone is lane splitting anyhow, even if it is illegal where you are, it doesn't make it your battle to fight. Hop off your high horse and have some fucking consideration for other people's safety.
     
  16. ^ how do you feel about the people that are in a lane with 1/2 mile+ notice of the lane closing and they wait until the very end to squeeze in? Or people that refuse to go behind you when merging? Don't care what type of vehicle anybody is using in this situation.
     
  17. That is incredibly annoying. Never tried to physically stop anybody from continuing in the lane though, I've had a few friends and work partners who would take half out of the middle, trying to stop anybody from getting ahead in the closing lane. While I found it kind of amusing, it's not something I would do personally. Though I typically stay relatively close to the car ahead to try to keep anyone from cutting in ahead of me, some people are just aggressive and still manage to get in (at least partially) when the line of traffic moves.
     
    And unless they're cutting way too close, I have no issue with people getting ahead of me when merging. It's not going to make a difference in my transport time, so I don't really give a shit. I'm trying to keep my emotions and my driving as disconnected as possible.
     
  18. That's called a zipper merge and it's far more conducive to traffic flow than the early merge method. It's actually the law in some places, and encouraged in most others because it's quicker and safer.
     
  19. Well, I learned something new today. Most people here find it pretty road rage inducing, I had no idea it was law anywhere!
     
  20. Belgium is the one place off the top of my head where it's an enforced law.

    The problem is that people (early mergers) get insecure and angry when they see other cars pass them in the "closed" lane, and road rage ensues. People generally have a problem letting others go first, trading turns, which is where the zipper fails.

    I say this as an early merger, though I no longer get mad at the late mergers.

    Witnessing road rules (or total lack thereof) in places like Thailand and Vietnam made me a much calmer driver. Zipping isn't a hard concept to get behind after coming home from a place where the right of way belongs to the driver with the biggest balls. :smoke:
     

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