Luckiest moments...

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Damn and all that car is truly totalled. And I thought my life was interesting... I haven't had an accident that bad, ever... even when I rolled a car, all I got was dented panels (have never had a frame bender).

You are one lucky sunuvab*tch.

One other lucky moment I had was in the fog. I was riding with a couple of guys in an old Volvo up a mountain pass in Taiwan. There was an articulated lumber truck up in front of us that was going something like 10... 10 kilometers an hour. The driver got antsy, then he got irritated, then he got pissed as we followed that thing mile after mile. So come the first straight, he guns it and pulls out to overtake.

This thing was loooong. Halfway up the truck, we see headlights in the distance... distance here being 50 feet... visibility was that bad. And all of the sudden a minibus comes into view coming down on our lane. We ended up just feet from each other as he skidded to a stop. The lumber truck driver, thank God, had the presence of mind to slow to a stop when he saw us pull out to pass, so we managed to squeeze in. Lucky us.

After that trip, my opinion of Taiwanese drivers went up. I put them right up there between Italians and Indians... (but just below Filipinos) they're ****ing crazy.
 
Me and a buddy of mine were driving from Camp Lejeune up to New York for one of the winter holidays, I can't remember which one. I just remember it was winter because there was snow on the road.

Anyway, we're cruising along the freeway, pretty late at night (after 11PM, I think), no traffic anywhere. Because of the snow, we're not going that fast, maybe 40-50mph.

At one point, we look ahead and see another car on the on-ramp, coming onto the freeway in front of us. If the person had bothered to look in their rearview mirror, or otherwise check the road, he would have seen us and slowed down, allowing us to pass before he got onto the highway. But he didn't.

So, realizing that the jackass is simply going to drive into our lane, my friend (who was driving), changes lanes, moving over into the fast lane. Unfortunately, he had to do so rather quickly. The car starts one of those left-right slingshot maneuvers, where you wind up constantly over-correcting for the spin. At one point, we went off the left side, managed to get it back on, a couple more left-rights, and then he loses control completely.

Bear in mind that there's this other car in the slow lane right next to us the whole time.

We end up sliding down the freeway sideways at around 40mph. The jackass hasn't yet gotten up to speed, so we've caught up to him by now. Going sideways. At this point, I'm in that sort of "blank zone" where I'm simply waiting for something to happen. So we're going sideways, facing the other car... our headlights are shining into the driver's side window. We start slipping that way and yep.. we hit him. Luckily, because we were still sliding mostly sideways, the actual impact speed was less than 10mph, probably closer to 5mph.

We both stop, pull over, check to make sure everyone's okay, etc. Nobody hurt (except my nerves). Minimal damage to the other car.. a little scratched paint and a new ding in the door. Minimal damage to my friend's car.. couple scratches in the bumper.

The best part of it was that the jackass in the other car claims to have not known we were there until we hit him. Despite the fact that there were at least 3-4 seconds where our headlights were shining in his face through his side window. I mean, how thick can you get, when you don't see a car pointing your direction, shining headlights in your face, from five feet away??

Ironically, they were more freaked out about it than we were, and we were the ones who went offroad and almost kissed a batch of trees in the snow.

And then he has the gall to demand that a police report be written up. Needless to say, the officer who finally showed up (after we'd driven to a nearby gas station) was less than sympathetic. Especially on hearing the "I didn't see them" part. He said quite simply that if no one was hurt, he couldn't write up a report. Which probably wasn't the case, but I don't think he wanted to be there in the first place (and we were Marines.. a lot of cops have soft spots for Marines.. hehe).

That's my only real "lucky" moment concerning car accidents. I've been in a couple other minor accidents, but that was the one that could have ended a lot worse than it did. Spinning out of control on a snowy highway is not something I'd care to repeat.
 
Bye bye Subi... :(

Some serious damage there, glad you're alright slidesquad#1.

Better change your sig though, that's one Legacy GT that won't be beating many Commodores in a hurry. :sly: :)
 
A few years ago, on Christmas Eve, my cousin and i were driving to my families holiday home in the country. My family had arrived there the day before and had set everything up. We had to work so set off in the evening of Christmas Eve.

It's about a 3 hour drive and we had only been on the road for about 30-45mins when my mother called me and told me that due to the torrential rain, the cottage had been flooded. They all decided that they would come back to London for Christmas and told me to turn around.

Up to that point my cousin and I could smell a horrible burning smell, like burning rubber. All the way back home we could smell it too.

We got home at about 10pm and proceeded straight to the pub, leaving the car at home. The car wasn't driven again until the day after Boxing day when my mum took it to the shops. She had been driving for 10 mins when the front left suspension (which had partially collapsed) tore a massive gash in the tyre. The burning that we could smell was the strut rubbing against the tyre.

Long story short. If the cottage had not been flooded, and we continued on our journey, I would have been doing 80mph+ on the Motorway and had a front left tyre and suspension faliure. Who knows what the concequences would have been. I was driving a Volvo though, so i probably would have walked away!!
 
This is not me but on some TV show ages ago i saw a guy in a Mercedes Convertable come round a corner on the autobahn at around 200+kph (120mph) and clip the outside barrier flipping his car over onto its roof (remember a convertable) and it slide for 200 - 300m (800 - 1100ft) at least before sliding off the road and up a bit of an embankment which fliped the car over once or so, flinging the roof off in the process. When the car stops the guy gets out totally unharmed and goes and sits up the embankment with his head in his arms.

How lucky is that??
 
Since it;s oh crap momnets, it would be falling 2 stories. I was lucky in two ways from that, firstly I caught my back on a pipe on my way down which left a 2 foot long cut down my back. I was lucky because I only just caught the pipe so the cut wasn't deep, it just broke the skin, it could have easilly been a bad one. Secondly I landed on my arse and didn't break a bone, I had a sore arse for about a week but I had no big injuries or bone breaks.
 
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This is not me but on some TV show ages ago i saw a guy in a Mercedes Convertable come round a corner on the autobahn at around 200+kph (120mph) and clip the outside barrier flipping his car over onto its roof (remember a convertable) and it slide for 200 - 300m (800 - 1100ft) at least before sliding off the road and up a bit of an embankment which fliped the car over once or so, flinging the roof off in the process. When the car stops the guy gets out totally unharmed and goes and sits up the embankment with his head in his arms.

How lucky is that??
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I'm pretty sure that I saw that TV show too. I think it was a Modern Marvels episode of the Autobahn on the History Channel.
 
My mates boss flipped his M3 cabriolet at a similar speed once, without his seatbelt on. He got thrown out of the car, but as it was coming to a rest, he was going too fast to be chucked out when he first flipped.
 

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