Bad crash this morning :( must have just missed it

[DJMK4]

Coming along a Dual Carriageway which is pretty quiet at that time of the morning, and I was generally gazing out the window, and noticed on the opposite side, 3 cars, flat as a pancake, next to a thick concrete wall behind the barrier with a massive 5-10 meter gap, bricks and debris everywhere and no one else in sight.

Absolutely stunned me to the core, you could tell that it must have happened about 3 minutes earlier, as I couldn't turn round to help at this point being on the opposite side. I had to drive on.

I got about 2 minutes down the road and could see the traffic cops starting to arrive.

Horrible feeling knowing that inside were probably x dead bodies

My guess is that they were in pretty close proximity driving, possible collision between the cars and all 3 of them hit the concrete wall doing what I think would be about 70mph possibly more

Makes you think about being cautious on the road given your life could be taken away in an instant.

 

[PMKeates]

I'd have been the one doing 140 MPH, and would have just driven past a few minutes earlier.

 

[David_VI]

Those things do shake you up eh? Scary

 

[Gamefreak501]

Seen a few accidents in my time, and it does make you wonder how fragile life really is.

 

[West]

Been to a couple of fatal RTCs before now.. it's not a sight you ever get used to

 

[ScottiB]

I was once scared witless whilst driving on the M25 in heavy rain.

I was in the fast lane & luckily I had just overtaken someone because out of the spray about 15 metres ahead appeared a Mazda 6 with the front end missing buried in the central reservation & debris everywhere.

A missed heartbeat or two and a swerve to the left and I just escaped becoming a statistic

can't have happened more than a minute or two before I got there because there was not a police vehicle anywhere to be seen.

The last snowy spell we had was the worst I can remember for accidents though, I counted 15 cars stranded/crashed/bumped during one trip from Middlesex to Stoke including one that closed all three lanes. Needless to say that was a long, nervy journey

 

[PMKeates]

I was once scared witless whilst driving on the M25 in very light rain, at night. It had snowed that day but was clear. I was in the outside lane in the 330i with the cruise set to 80, when suddenly I see there is snow spilling in to the road from the central reservation. I tried to swerve but the right side caught it, yanking the car to the side, and then the cruise control attempted to correct the speed reduction by toeing it. I went in to a massive drift in front of some Yaris type thing I was about to overtake, sat going sideways on full lock for what felt like an eternity... and then it went the whole way.

I span to face the Yaris and then spun what felt like a couple more times, miraculously avoiding every other vehicle. When I stopped spinning I was going backwards perfectly in the inside lane with my foot rammed on the brakes, with a lorry piling towards me on the horn. I sort of.. parallel parked at 30 MPH in reverse, coming to a slow and steady stop. I sat there for a good while absolutely stunned, and then realised I am invincible.

 

[DM]

I was once scared witless whilst driving on the M25 in very light rain, at night. It had snowed that day but was clear. I was in the outside lane in the 330i with the cruise set to 80, when suddenly I see there is snow spilling in to the road from the central reservation. I tried to swerve but the right side of my caught piled in to it, yanking the car to the side, and then the cruise control attempted to correct the speed reduction by toeing it. I went in to a massive drift in front of some Yaris type thing I was about to overtake, sat going sideways on full lock for what felt like an eternity... and then it went the whole way.

I span to face the Yaris and then spun what felt like a couple more times, miraculously avoiding every other vehicle. When I stopped spinning I was going backwards perfectly in the inside lane with my foot rammed on the brakes, with a lorry piling towards me on the horn. I sort of.. parallel parked at 30 MPH in reverse, coming to a slow and steady stop. I sat there for a good while absolutely stunned, and then realised I am invincible.

I have moments like that on clear dry days, due to being a driving god

 

[PMKeates]

Together we can fight crime.

 

[Rwac]

PMKeates - I wondered why you had slightly yellowy seats

 

[D-Ranged]

I sat there for a good while absolutely stunned, and then realised I am invincible.

I lol'd.

 

[Sho]

Seen a few accidents in my time, and it does make you wonder how fragile life really is.

This.