Almost crashed my car coming home, or died, but survived without a scratch... :o

when was the brake pedal pressed - the noise was what - brake assist/abs/esp ?

yes - local country roads surprising when people drive on the road sides through the pot holes they see every day, and don't open angle on bends
 
VincentHanna said:
Which is fine until somebody is coming the other way doing the same thing.
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Headlights coming the other way would generally be a clue. That's an MOT failure for the horses :D Driving in the middle of the road when its in that condition is pretty standard in the countryside - whenever we visit my wife's parents (Rural Suffolk) I have to do it or risk my tyres getting well and truly knackered. You just have to adjust your speed to be able to pull in when there's someone coming the other way.
 
All part and parcel of living in the countryside ;)

Looking at the stats ~2 horses per week are killed on the roads, and another 2 injured, though I couldn't see how many deaths of drivers that causes.

I've known of a handful of fatalities around here, being so tall the horses tend to go up the bonnet, through the windscreen and squish the occupants.
 
ViRuS2k said:
Sorry for the bad language.
Coming home from a hard nights backshift, with a work mate and almost died.. was going about 55mph though not sure hitting this would do much damage at those speeds.

i still can not beleave how i managed to survive not hitting them.... had to swerve to the center of the road and back to the left :o

*** video removed due to swearing, feel free to repost it without sound ***
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Did you get someone to put them back in the field?
 
Video link! Needed! Good to be safe and alive though isn't it :eek:

I am reminded of the brown pants moment from few years ago steadily overtaking a lorry during rain and then aquaplaning feeling the car about to go sideways into lorry or central res :eek: But then traction control sorting it out. This was on Pilot Supersport tyres. Glad I changed from those, always a bit unnerving in cold/wet.

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(it looks faster than it was because the lorry was going slow, and the video was 60fps)
 
413x said:
Same!

I almost died I a car crash 2 years ago but got away with a sore back. I want to see someone else's escape!
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The closest call I had was when a friend and I were driving back from York doing 60mph down the motorway and he fell asleep at the wheel. I noticed we had about 2-3 seconds before we went into the back of the lorry in front. I thumped him on the leg, he woke up and hit the brakes.

We were both a couple of seconds away from a serious injury.
 
Lysander said:
The closest call I had was when a friend and I were driving back from York doing 60mph down the motorway and he fell asleep at the wheel. I noticed we had about 2-3 seconds before we went into the back of the lorry in front. I thumped him on the leg, he woke up and hit the brakes.

We were both a couple of seconds away from a serious injury.
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Mine.
I was driving to Wales for my interview next day. It was about 8pm, road was clear. Conditions were dry. Was a dual carriage way. I was actually driving at 65ish. Ironically if I was speeding would have been OK.

I was in my s2000. Which is relevant!

All of a sudden I see lights get really bright and I'm rammed on my rear drivers side. This causes care to basically fish tail round and I make contact with the barrier head on.
But its not a solid barrier. It's a cable one.

My cars front end is low enough to go. Under the cable. The cable Comes up, over the bonnet. Smashes the windscreen and ripps the roof before going over the boot.

I end up on the other carriage way. Luckily not in traffic as I have no lights working on car at this point and it's darkening.

I check myself. Find my phone and call. 999. Get out the car. Check myself and walk over to the verge.can barely see the car that hit me it's so far down carriage way.

Police arrive very quickly. They think the car flipped and I blacked out. But it definitely didn't. That's how much damage is there. No numberplate left. Rear drivers wheel snapped right off.

If I had had the roof down (I often do) would the cable have come in the cab? Cut my head off? Possibly!.

The. Driver that hit me was an 18 year old on his nans 3rd party insurance in a citron c3 razzing it.

He obviously saw me not quickly enough. Tried to go round me and clipped me.

I went to my interview the next day and got the job!
 
My lucky escape: I was 20, in a MK1 fiesta thinking I was Damon Hill and whizzing through the country lanes, having recently passed my car test. I knew every dip and turn of these lanes from cycling them and also on my 125cc bike. I flew round a corner doing top speed, so about 60mph, and passed an oncoming Volvo and the driver, an old guy, was flashing his lights at me. Sod him, I knew what I was doing, I knew the lanes and now had a full licence! Or was he trying to warn me? I slowed as the thought occured and around the next bend there were horses and riders filling the lane. If it weren't for that guy's warning, I'd have had a horses arse in my face and would probably have died.
 
mrk said:
Video link! Needed! Good to be safe and alive though isn't it :eek:

I am reminded of the brown pants moment from few years ago steadily overtaking a lorry during rain and then aquaplaning feeling the car about to go sideways into lorry or central res :eek: But then traction control sorting it out. This was on Pilot Supersport tyres. Glad I changed from those, always a bit unnerving in cold/wet.

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(it looks faster than it was because the lorry was going slow, and the video was 60fps)
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How does one get such a good quality gif at low file size?

Edit: Glad you're safe.
 
mrk said:
Video link! Needed! Good to be safe and alive though isn't it :eek:

I am reminded of the brown pants moment from few years ago steadily overtaking a lorry during rain and then aquaplaning feeling the car about to go sideways into lorry or central res :eek: But then traction control sorting it out. This was on Pilot Supersport tyres. Glad I changed from those, always a bit unnerving in cold/wet.
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I did something similar years ago on the M6 late one night when I hit a patch of ice. Although, as my Ford Escort didn't have any traction control I ended up doing a 180 across the carriage way and stopped facing the wrong way in the hard shoulder. Luckily there weren't any barriers and somehow I only slightly clipped the bumper on the banked verge! That was probably my biggest brown trouser moment.
 
VincentHanna said:
Which is fine until somebody is coming the other way doing the same thing.
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You get lots of warning from headlights on roads like that though.

Cyclists and pedestrians taking thier government alproved walks at mad times are the night mare round here
 
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