Scariest Moment In A Vehicle.

[2003eclipse]

Well when I was 16 I had had my license for 2 months It was september. It was a beautiful day had the window down tunes cranked so on so forth, I was driving out in the country and all of the sudden the wind picked up and it started raining all in about 2 minutes so I rolled the window up and took a left hand turn from asphalt to blacktop. Well my tires were bald and in acceleration not even getting on it my tires hit the gravel and the ass end of the truck went out to the right and i went into the ditch on the oppisite side of the road. I felt my truck just slowly start to roll I face planted against the window i had just rolled up, If the window was down i would have gone out and probably lost an arm or my face. Well there i sat upside down in my truck radio still going listening to eminem. Well I had a couch in the back so i couldn't get out the back window or either side window without shattering them WORSE not in any state of mind to do that. well a buddy from high school came along and helped out. 2 weeks later that road was paved. I was the third person that year to do that in the same exact spot.






*post yours up*

It must be a cursed turn. Is there any other explaination?

[Matt D.]

I'd rather not comment...

[2003eclipse]

no asphalt to loose gravel the kind that makes your tires pull. maybe you have to live in wisconsin to know that and then the ditch was about a 4 foot plunge.


i want to hear your guy's and gals stories

Ok, dont appreciate my sarcasm. But ok, gotcha. Havent driven in Wisconsin before.

i started "borrowing" my parents cars when i was about 12. there would usually be a couple of my friends with me, but i always drove. one night, i let someone else drive. i wasn't expecting him to drive fast, but he got in and just started smashing through the gears and pretty soon we're doing around 80 mph down a dirt road with 5 people in the car, radio blasting, then.....a decent size buck sticks its head out of the ditch and starts walking across the road. all of this seemed like slow motion and i remember it like it was yesterday. my buddy who was driving locks up the brakes- we're still headed right at it and it's just staring at us now. he reaches down and grabs the e brake. see ya..i don't know how many times we spun, but through the windshield all i saw was ditch, road, ditch, deer/road, ditch, road.... somewhere in that sequence the deer disappeared, and we went into the ditch ass end first.
i reached over, shut the radio off, and everyone just sat there in silence until the dust settled. at that time, i suggested that it might be a good idea if i drive.
only damage done to the car was a couple of small cracks in the rear bumper, and we blew the right rear tire off the bead.

It was a couple years ago, me 92tsiawd84 and ghettostyle were all crammed into my little '95 Prelude. We were crusin' around that night and were headed north on 169 on the bridge by opus. We were in the right lane with a car behind me and a ar behind him. The truck in the very back whipped it into the left lane and came flyin' up past us. Me not about to get pissed on by a truck flored it up past them. The guy in the passenger seat rolled down his window and was throwing stuff at us. So I rolled the window down and gave him the bird :fworld:. He rolled up right next to us and threw a half empty beer in my window. Then the driver swerved and tried to put us into the wall at 65mph. I slowed down(stupidly) so he was infront of me. He hit the brakes and slowed way way down. So I stepped on it and flung it into the left lane and went around him. I got in the excelsior exit lane and so did he, so I got back on 169 and just gunned it. We was way the fuck back so I got off on hwy 7, I was going to fast and the roads were wet so I skid out comming around the turn. They caught up to us a second later. We were flying down 7 until we caught up to these two cars that were pacing each other and the truck came up along side us. I was a bit scared to say the least, we were looking over at the three pissed mexicans, and they were yelling shit. I slowed down(again stupid) and they got infront of us and kept cutting in front of us when we tried to go around. They slowed to a stop as did I, they threw it in reverse and backed right into my car. I was fucking scared that they were going to get out and either kick our asses or worse have a gun and shit. But thank god they sped off leaving us in the middle of the two lanes with a car that was dead. If you know that area it was right past texas on 7, on the back side of the little hill. Thankfully I had enough time to hop out and push it over to the side before someone came flying over the hill and nailed us.

Ok sorry about the novel but thats my worst driving expeirince to date. And oh ya I did learn a valuable lesson that day. Don't be such a little bitch driver. Iwas just thankful none of us were hurt, it just cost $1500 to fix my car. Ohwell though, it was my own fault, I just wish we would have got their plates. Fuckers got some payback commin' their way. :headache:

[BuildADSM]

Man how did your parents react?

ehh for me nothin too bad...

seeing a dog get hit by another car... well the sound was the worst.

Also my mom and I were driveing in our 73 cougar and it had bad gass at the time since it had been a wile since we had driven it so it kept stalling out in the worst places. The tunnel, going up a hill that was very buisy and someone on our back bumper with the brakes giveing out cause the car stalled and it was not restarting very easy and the car stalling out when we were turning left on a highway with cars comeing at us at 50 mph.
That wasn't so bad just kinda scary at the time.


Another kinda scary time was haveing a flat and being stuck between a on ramp and the freeway with cars swerving at 80 mph and shakeing the car they were going so fast.

Sorry for the long post.

[A//// Guy]

Back when i couldnt drive yet and was in high school, I was getting a ride home from Perkins over in Bloomington on 494 and France. A girl was giving me a ride home... becuase I couldnt drive and she was hot... so I couldnt say no.

Well we were heading south on france over the 494 bridge. There was 2 lights in front of us. One was green and the second was just changing to yellow. She drove normal through the green and decided to not stop for the yellow. Cars were just pulling across the road from the right and by the time I yelled stop we were gliding through the red light and a accord was in front of us. We slid into the side of the driver side door but more toward the back of it. Glad that we didnt hit the driver head on as they would have got hurt badly.

Well we both had our seat belts on and it hurt soo bad on my chest. We were going around 45-50 mph.

I vowed never to drive with a girl again unless I knew she was a good driver. Yea my parents didnt know about it untill the next day when her parents called my house... oops...

Another one of our friends was following us and drove me home from the crash site. It was pretty scary and that is the only accident Ive ever been in.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

110mph sliding sideways down 694 and into a ditch due to an oil cooler blowing out.

[niterydr]

Originally posted by ecoli@Mar 4 2004, 11:55 PM
110mph sliding sideways down 694 and into a ditch due to an oil cooler blowing out.

same here
90mph on 694 sliding sideways due to hydroplaning
90mph slidding sideways down a residential street
spinning the stealth at 80mph in order to attempt to avoid a deer

This isn't an accident I was in, but I was right behind my friend when he did it. It happened 2 years ago on the day of our junior prom. Three of my friends and I, along with our dates, were all driving to dinner. It had been snowing for sbout an hour, so the road was covered with a layer of slushy snow, so it was fairly slippery. As we crested a hill, my friend's explorer fishtailed, so he started to recover, but he overcorrected and he slid into the ditch completely perpendicular to the road, the explorer caught, and rolled completely once. They were both wearing their seatbelts and they walked away with nothing more than a few cuts and a ruined prom dress. Long story short, we all ended up eating dinner at a McDonalds after the two of them were checked out at the emergency room. That was probably the single scariest thing I've ever seen. Everybody is right about the events unfolding in slow motion.
Nasty stuff.

[ACRucrazy]

My scariest moment.............
I was on the way back from RF's, and the freeway was wide open, so my brother in his 95 SOHC Neon goes wizzin past me, I of course being dumb and see the wide open freeway, freshly paved didnt take to kindly...
I jam it into 4th and redline her, I fly past my bro and keep goin, 5th... doin 110,115,120,125,130,130+....... then were coming up on a weigh station and i see 3-4 WI Patrols sitting there.... all in about a seconed I see my self screwed big time, car impounded, jail, no liscence...... I slam on the brakes and go flying buy all of them at over 100mph with the brake lights lit. My buddy and i are like O M F G!!!!
Im in the right lane down to 65mph just cruzing with my eyes on my rearview mirrior. My bro finally catches up and i roll down my window and yell at him to get in the right lane that we just flew past State Patrol...hes like "huh" didnt even see him.. so he gets right infront of me... instead of going ahead a few cars and getting in the right lane...
A few miles down the road I see a Patrol come up behind us in the left lane... I told my buddy that we are soo screwed and my heart started beating like crazy. The Patrol procedes to pull both me and my bro over..
He comes up to me and asks if there was any reason for speading... I told him "I didnt realize I was speeding" He laughs and says dont give me that shit we got you on our radar going over 100mph... (to wich I knew was BS because my Passport 8500 didnt even chirp) I said I dont think I was goin over 100mph, last time I checked I was doing 65. He goes "you dont think you were speeding!? How fast do you think you were going" I reply 65mph.. He then leaves my car and talks to my bro for like 10 mins, he comes back and my says "You brother just admitted to doing 100 mph, he said you guys just came back from the race track and I see his car is all gutted" I say if he was doing 100mph thats his fault, I was not. He asked where I was headed. I say my friend has top be to work at Woodbury Pizza Hut in MN by 5, he looks at his watch and says and by doing over 100mph you think you can make it there in 30 mins?? I said no, thats why I was goin 65. He takes my info back to the patrol car, and we are sitting there for about 45 mins... in that time, the "DSM GROUP" pass us....(remeber that!!?? LOL) He comes back and notices my exhaust, askes me to start the car and rev it, he says that its too loud and illegal, then says my clear 3rd brake light is illegal, then he says I have expired tabs, I show him the paper work because I was waiting for my custom plates, and they had tabs on it. Says im still driving on expired tabs and its illegal. He then asks me for the last time "how fast were you going?" I say "honostly sir, I dont know, like i said the last time i check i was goin 65, but I dont know how fast I was going when we drove past you" he says thats is called inatentive driving, to not be aware of your speed, and thats a fine.... he leaves and goes to my bros car, i see him start and rev his car, after about 10 mins my bro gets a piece of paper and leaves. The patrol comes back to me, and he says, ok, now this is the last time... what was your speed. I say the same thing, honoslty officer, i dont know.. So he adds up all these fines (well over 700$) and says being im from antother state, he can require that I make paypment in full before he lets me leave, or they tow my vehicle, but that hes giving me a WARNING..................






My heart just stopped!!! And i just stayed cool, and said yes sir and agreed with everything he said.. including how aftermarket parts hurt performance, and how a different muffler lowers compression, and how my car wasnt designed to go fast, its a neon... and how driving fast on the road is a very bad idea, it was "Yes sir" to everything... I took my warning ticket with all the infractions, and he said "Now I let your brother go 10 mins before you, i dont want you 2 together, driving at those speeds on a freeway could turn tragic very easy, I could be here scraping you up off the ground instead of having this talk, now I dont want to catch you driving at those speeds in my state again, or you will go to jail"
Yes sir, thank you sir, have a good day sir.....
And that was the scariest moment in a vehicle....

Not once did i ack like an ass, not once did i roll my eyes or raise my voice, i didnt cuss, had my hands on the wheel, and made him feel in control. I knew they didnt get my on radar, my 8500 didnt go off. Not once did I admit to driving above the speed limit... All this helped me get lucky.. And from that day forth, I dont really speed, dont race on the streets, and am always watching for cops. Im paranoid now, that one incodent pretty much ruined me. LOL, but I think it was for the better.

[npaulseth]

2 different times. They were both in my WRX. One time was when I was being very stupid, this is most likely the reason I don't street race. I was on 35N going to Duluth with my g/f, and two cousins in the car with me. I wanted to see what then was a stock WRX, could do. So I took it up to 130 MPH (it makes a nice howling noise at that speed) and see a semi in the right lane about 700 feet from us (I'm in the left lane.) So I start slowing down, but not fast enough. Well, about 200 feet in front of us the semi swervs into my lane. My heart just sinks. There is a slow car in the right lane, and I'm still doing like 120. So I get on the brakes pretty hard, and the semi swerves back into his lane. Doesn't sound like much, but with my g/f and 2 family members, it was enough to scare the piss out of me.

#2. Going to work at 8:30 on 35W. Rush hour. Doing 50 in the left lane with about 6-7 car lengths inbetween me and the suburban in fron t of me (I like my space so people can merge.) Well, it had just snowed the night before, and there was still snow piled up along side the concrete bariers, but none on the road really (must have plowed and melted.) Then I see this snowplow coming down the left lane going southbound. About a 150 feet in front of me, maybe more or less, I don't know, the suburban slams on his brakes, and at the same time, the snowplow must have hit a big pile of snow, throwing it up and over the barrier, into my lane, in between the suburban and I. So I slam on the brakes, slow down about 10 mph, and then hit the snow. So I slide into the back of the suburban, who is completely stopped I think, doing 45 mph. Scariest thing ever. Totalled my 2003 WRX with lots of options, and I was only 18. I walked a way with a little bump on my knee. If I was in my del sol, I may have been killed. It takes a lot of damage to total out a 2003 car... I wrote subaru a thank you letter for having such good saftey designs built into there car. I will always love subaru for building such safe cars. Oh ya, and the suburban drove off after I hit him. Cop thinks they didn't have insurance or something crazy like that.

Noah

[john]

Going down 94. sliding sideways at 70 mph in a jeep wrangler. I caught it before we rolled though.

[Jacek]

doing over 120 in my old car (supprising) racing my friend in a mercedes from postville iowa to fort atkinson iowa. and taking an onramp in this small-ass town at 80mph when the limit was probably 30.. we passed on corners even when there was oncomming traffic.. never will be doing that ever again..

We were coming back from the twin cities on 94. It had been snowing pretty heavily, but it wasn't a really big deal, I had only seen one accident the entire day. We were in our new Durango at the time (i think this must have been 2002), anyway so we were going about 70 mph and the wind picked up and blew the backend at the same time we hydroplanned; we were going to roll but we hit, perhaps luckly, a bridge underpass. The entire rear end (we hit going backwards) was totally smashed in and some fairly substantial damage to the rail thing on the brdige. Hella scary.

Then, this winter, both were my fault. I was late for getting to school, so I was going pretty fast entering the parking lot. There are two little curves that I usually take pretty fast; anyway it didn't appear to be wet at all, so I punched it come out of the turn... well to make it short I started drifting hardcore around the curves and ended up doing a 180 a few inches away from a light pole. Fucking stupid... this was like two days after I bought it (the GST Spyder).

In my old car (the talon), I was by my GF house and there are some nice curvy roads, I pulled the ebrake at like 2:30 in the morning and for some reason maybe i didnt let off soon enough, it slid like 20x faster then it usually does and I ende dup hitting a stop sign and my back bumper almsot falling off (fiberglass). it was kinda funny, and I learned my lesson.

[pradamike]

i was driving down a gravel road in the middle of the winter and it is about 45 out. I come around a corner going about 35-40 not knowing how sharp it was tryed to slow down and just kept going straight. Straight over a hill fliping my car sideways and sliding about 50 feet on my side till i hit a bunch of little trees. After stoping i climb out of the passenger side standing straight up on its side. I get on the phone call up my best friend and he starts laughing. he comes with his big ass truck with tractor tires on it that we use for mudding we push the car over and surprised there arnt alot of scratchs on the paint because it slid on the snow, no damage from the trees because they were little ass twigs. So we hook it up and pull the thing out. Its a scary thing when u turn one way and cant turn because of the ice and u just keep going straight.

[SlowWhite]

The scarest time for me.

Was Freshman year of College I was visiting my brother at RIT, his fraternity was having a party and like usual I was completle trashed. So My R.A. who was with me along with one of her friends and I descide to go get some food. (the drive I thought hadn't been drinking)

Well when we hit the parking lot he noticed he had a ticket for parking in the wrong spot or something. Well as we are leaving the parking lot the campus security guy is still writing up tickets in the parking lot so this guy drives right next to him slowly and rolls down the window and screams some profity, etc at this guy And then speeds up not looking where he's going almost hits 2 other cars. Well the security guy gets in his car and give chase to us.

So we get pulled over and right as the security guy is about to come up to our rear bumper the driver of the car I'm in is like "F" this guy and just hits the gas and takes off, Which turns out to be this like 20 minutes chase the security guy even fallowed us off campus onto the city streets etc.

Being Drunk didn't help anything all the braking, speeding up, turning, etc Made me sick to my stomach. Let alone the dizziness I got from the whole ordeal.

Several times this guy almost lost control. But in the end we lost the security guy and he never recieved a ticket or anything I guess.

I personally have issues with a security guard giving chase to a car on Campus that has more then 22,000 students and then fallowing us onto city streets. Had he not given chase the driver of the car I was in for sure wouldn't have been speeding and I could have gotten the "F" out the car a hell of a lot earlier. But because of this he prolonged/put my life in danger.

Another reason I hate Rent a cops more then police officers. Technically I'd think the rent a cop could have gotten a ticket for speeding, recless driving, etc as well as us since he really has no powers.

-brian

[CVD]

On a moped, run off the road by a car. A little scary, a lot painfull.