What's your closest call??
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What's your closest call??
So curious to hear how some people came paper thin close to an accident...
my close call when i was racing a gti and some ******** in a minivan merges into my lane with out lights or anything. i fish tail going 60mph but thank god i gained control haha
my close call when i was racing a gti and some ******** in a minivan merges into my lane with out lights or anything. i fish tail going 60mph but thank god i gained control haha
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My close call was pretty retarded... I smashed this weenie ass Integra on the highway and after merging outward, my damned soda fell out of the cupholder and I tried to catch it and almost hit this truck coming from the other end of the road. I was so ******* scared I had to pull over and gather everything. Wasn't scared of dying or anything. I was more scared of ******* up my balt. lol.
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At the moment he didn't want the soda to **** up his car!
Haha I-95 70mph speed limit FTW!
Haha I-95 70mph speed limit FTW!
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In my cavalier, a woman was flying up in the lane next to me, and for NO reason cuts me off and slams on the brakes. I cut the wheel so hard to the other lane that i left a poof of smoke. She got the finger and a fly-by. And she looks at me like she didn't do anything wrong .... I'd thank my Eibach Pro-kit springs, Koni Red struts, and Add-co 1" rear sway bar for really pulling through. If I were stock, I'm sure I would have just slid, fish-taled and wiped out.
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I guess mine is pretty tame compared to triple digit corners and such but I was leaving the Wal Mart parking lot (going about 25) when out of no where this mini van cuts across the parking spaces and almost broad sides me. She then had the nerve to honk at me. I stopped and got out just to scare her and she backed up and drove off quickly. lol
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close no i got way fucked up (thank god not in my balt) i ridding along the highway in my s-10 and not even speeding just doing the normal 65 (virginia). i was starting to merge and slow down to get off the highway when out of nowhere some fucknut stops on the exit ramp(i wish i knew who so i could beat them senseless) and all the cars and suv's behind them slam on their brakes.. well i follow suite. as im in a pickup with some really bad tires and not weight in the rear end i hydroplane into the back of a suburban going 55 MPH. man i got fucked upa nd my poor s-10 was all folded up.
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Mine was in my Lincoln Mark 8... went around the corner and gave it some gas.. all was fine i was accelerating quickly.. i was coming up on the car ahead of me so i lifted off the gas.. but.. PROBLEM!! it was still WOT!!! Ahh so i slammed on the brakes which kinda got it slowing down.. but i really had nowhere to go left or right without crashing. well all i could do was drop it in Neutral and let it bounce off the rev limiter.. and i did... it was only inches from the guy infront of me but saved it. Keep in mind this all happend in a matter of a couple seconds.
yeah that was fun..
yeah that was fun..
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I guess mine is pretty tame compared to triple digit corners and such but I was leaving the Wal Mart parking lot (going about 25) when out of no where this mini van cuts across the parking spaces and almost broad sides me. She then had the nerve to honk at me. I stopped and got out just to scare her and she backed up and drove off quickly. lol
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Yesterday I am driving normally in the left lane, and I see a guy in his Blazer changing lanes from the far right lane to the middle lane, signal is on so thinking not to much of it. UNTIL he decides that he is coming into my lane. Bad part is he is lined up with the front passenger side of my CAR!!! So I slam on the brakes just as this dumbf**k is moving into my lane. He heads into the turning lane in front of me. I get out of the car, stand right beside his Blazer and proceed to flip him off and yell profanities. He looked at me like he did nothing wrong. I was just glad he did not make contact with my car.
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It was just after it had snowed here and i was spinning tires out of boredom and my accelerator got stuck under my floor mat and i took off like a bat out of hell towards the curb, scared the **** out of me. slammed on the clutch and put it in neutral while i reached down and pulled my mat off the petal. THEN coming out of my apt. is an upward hill i ease out, step on the clutch to go to second let off the clutch and it STUCK ON THE EDGE OF THE MAT. Stupid ******* floor mats
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second day owening the car i was comin up on an exit in the rain at like 105 and almost went head into the gaurd rail. oh and also ebrake ripping through a place called devils backbone in bethlehem. caught it strait about 2 inches from the gaurd rail next to the reviene.
other than that theres been a ton but those are the closet.
other than that theres been a ton but those are the closet.
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first... how is this a technical discussion?
Second... '84 ZX550 going about 65 down a hill flirting with the girl in the car next to me, I was in the left lane and she was in the right. At the bottom of the hill is a light, A GREEN LIGHT. Some ****** in POS escort pulled out in front of her and then realized she wasn't going to be able to avoid hitting him so he FREAKING PULLED IN FRONT OF MY BIKE. I locked the rear tire, grabbed a handfull of front break and managed to swerve into the turn lane, luckily noone was in it. I was about 10 feet from being a statistic.
Oh and before anyone asks, yes I was wearing my helmet and my armored leather jacket. Still would have hurt like hell.
Second... '84 ZX550 going about 65 down a hill flirting with the girl in the car next to me, I was in the left lane and she was in the right. At the bottom of the hill is a light, A GREEN LIGHT. Some ****** in POS escort pulled out in front of her and then realized she wasn't going to be able to avoid hitting him so he FREAKING PULLED IN FRONT OF MY BIKE. I locked the rear tire, grabbed a handfull of front break and managed to swerve into the turn lane, luckily noone was in it. I was about 10 feet from being a statistic.
Oh and before anyone asks, yes I was wearing my helmet and my armored leather jacket. Still would have hurt like hell.
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Mine is pretty tame and was when I was just playing around. Theres this little S curve on the highway access road on the way home from work that I like to take pretty quick. There are usually no cars on the access road, and the area is pretty devoid of people, so usually no problem. Well this one time, I started on the first curve of it, going about 55 or 60, just fine. I start the second part of the S, when my radar starts going off... As a gut reaction, I looked for the cop, and saw him. I got distracted by trying to slow down, and I didnt correct my steering wheel quick enough, so I fish tailed a bit. Tires screeched a bit, but I recovered it, and immediately avoided the cop......
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No the time we were flying on I95 and there was a truck stopped in the middle lane and all the traffic was stopping and you somehow got around everyone with out killing me in the car but all i remember is that my nails were dug into your leather seats cause i was scared we were going to crash!
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I had 2 close calls both in my cavalier.. 1st I was getting onto the highway and once I saw an opening I merged left with my pedal to the floor, then all of a sudden a white pickup truck merged into the lane that I was going into which left me with no place to go since there was already a car in the lane that I just left so I ended up hauling ass past both of them in the middle of both lanes with the dotted lines in the center beneath me squeezing between both cars by 2 inches between the two!!
2nd was when I was on the highway taking a friend to work when all of a sudden I noticed a second too late that their was a 4x4 long piece of wood in the middle of my lane that had fallen off of a truck...I hit it going about 70mph causing me to jump about 2 feet in the air and then landing almost sideways causing me to drift and fish tail side to side like 3 times before I regained control, good thing I had the car lowered with Eibachs and koni yellows
2nd was when I was on the highway taking a friend to work when all of a sudden I noticed a second too late that their was a 4x4 long piece of wood in the middle of my lane that had fallen off of a truck...I hit it going about 70mph causing me to jump about 2 feet in the air and then landing almost sideways causing me to drift and fish tail side to side like 3 times before I regained control, good thing I had the car lowered with Eibachs and koni yellows
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Yesterday I am driving normally in the left lane, and I see a guy in his Blazer changing lanes from the far right lane to the middle lane, signal is on so thinking not to much of it. UNTIL he decides that he is coming into my lane. Bad part is he is lined up with the front passenger side of my CAR!!! So I slam on the brakes just as this dumbf**k is moving into my lane. He heads into the turning lane in front of me. I get out of the car, stand right beside his Blazer and proceed to flip him off and yell profanities. He looked at me like he did nothing wrong. I was just glad he did not make contact with my car.
The worst one, I was in the left turn lane, the arrow goes green for me. So as normal, I gas it a little bit, so I'm losing traction coming out of the turn into the inside lane, far left. I then slowed down when I got to the speed limit, 40mph. Some old lady across the street, turned right onto the same road. I barely see her in my right side mirror. She just starts drifting over. ALL THE WAY OVER!! No signal. She is about an inch from my right quarter panel. I hit the gas so hard, I thought I coulda put my foot through the floor. The bitch has the nerve to honk at ME!!
None since those first two instances.
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No the time we were flying on I95 and there was a truck stopped in the middle lane and all the traffic was stopping and you somehow got around everyone with out killing me in the car but all i remember is that my nails were dug into your leather seats cause i was scared we were going to crash!
that was pure driver skill, i knew the SS could handle the situation
i was not scared one bit, just knew everybody in the car was and happened soooooo fast, and silent after it happen...
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Some old lady in a dark blue impala blows a stop sign and makes a right turn. I slam on my brakes and move over to the left lane. She moves to the left lane. I start skidding under the hard braking and move back right coming within a few inches of clipping her bumper. Windows down, I screamed at her at the red light about it, and sped off at the green.
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first... how is this a technical discussion?
Second... '84 ZX550 going about 65 down a hill flirting with the girl in the car next to me, I was in the left lane and she was in the right. At the bottom of the hill is a light, A GREEN LIGHT. Some ****** in POS escort pulled out in front of her and then realized she wasn't going to be able to avoid hitting him so he FREAKING PULLED IN FRONT OF MY BIKE. I locked the rear tire, grabbed a handfull of front break and managed to swerve into the turn lane, luckily noone was in it. I was about 10 feet from being a statistic.
Oh and before anyone asks, yes I was wearing my helmet and my armored leather jacket. Still would have hurt like hell.
Second... '84 ZX550 going about 65 down a hill flirting with the girl in the car next to me, I was in the left lane and she was in the right. At the bottom of the hill is a light, A GREEN LIGHT. Some ****** in POS escort pulled out in front of her and then realized she wasn't going to be able to avoid hitting him so he FREAKING PULLED IN FRONT OF MY BIKE. I locked the rear tire, grabbed a handfull of front break and managed to swerve into the turn lane, luckily noone was in it. I was about 10 feet from being a statistic.
Oh and before anyone asks, yes I was wearing my helmet and my armored leather jacket. Still would have hurt like hell.