Scariest Moment Driving.

[Continunity]

Just what the title says..

I have had a couple..

Wrote my Saxo off (4 weeks ago) when some numbnutts pulled out on me at a junction. Had my missus in the car with me. ploughed into the back right hand side of him... although to be fair i was more scared for him than for me. Nearly rolled his crappy festa.......

dont be to sad for me, at least it allowed me to buy my Lexi :-)

//Continunity

[swfcdan]

2 for me, one a couple of months ago when my accelerator got stuck under my mat, a real brown pants moment

the second was on the m1 i wasnt invlved but some stupid bmw driver came bombing down the slip road, tried to get straight onto the outside lane, but clipped the back end of a van in the middle lane. as you can imagine mayhem happened infront of me, fortunatly i wasn involved but what a mess!

another motorway incident, didnt happen to me but it was my uncle. about 200yds infront was a big car transporter he was doing 70ish in middle lane, a bumper came flying off from one of the cars on the transporter, smashed straight into my uncles windscreen and shatteed it completely. fortnatly he didnt lose control of the car and managed to pull over to safety on the hard shoulder.

[Mr Morse]

I was in Sheffield yesterday - those must be the WORST roads in the country! :duh:

[Steve]

someone driving outta control in my lane in a stolen car heading stright for me

just missed too

[swfcdan]

I was in Sheffield yesterday - those must be the WORST roads in the country! :duh:

definatly!!!

where in sheffield were u?

was you having your car washed on ecclesall rd by anychance? i saw a heavily modded lex being cleaned on eccy rd.

graphite grey colour think it was a lexx or something like that on the plate

[Monster-Mat]

someone driving outta control in my lane in a stolen car heading stright for me

just missed too

and heres me thinking you was gonna recite the story when your headlight fell out.lol

[Mr Morse]

I was in Sheffield yesterday - those must be the WORST roads in the country! :duh:

definatly!!!

where in sheffield were u?

was you having your car washed on ecclesall rd by anychance? i saw a heavily modded lex being cleaned on eccy rd.

graphite grey colour think it was a lexx or something like that on the plate

I was in a silver Tubby - Meadowhall first then into town and parked up close to Nando's in the town centre

[Continunity]

Just remeberd on other time. Was doing my morning run to Egham on the NCP 25 and someone ahead of me had a blowout..... all i remeber seeing were bits of rubber and sparks comming towards me...

[maneesh]

Left wheel clipped damp grass on edge of country lane at 50mph, car went into a skid, wrestled with steering wheel to regain control of car, but car decided to aim head on for a tree and subsequently roll over. Walked away without a scratch.

[Scarlet Pimpernell]

I've had a few corkers

1) In Florida, on a 3 lane highway (the big one in Kissimee), realised I was on the wrong side...it was 2.00am in the morning, so not many cars around, and maybe that's why I did it!

2) Driving at 65mph on M1, in my old Beemer, came up behind a Lorry with scaffold poles, as I pulled into the middle lane to o/t, a few poles slid off, just missing my windscreen....looked back and saw them dancing about end to end and cars swerving all over the place

3) M18 - narrowly missed a labrador trying to cross the motorway...he got struck by a Merc and both car and dog disintegrated!

4) A mate of mine swore he knew "shady lane" in evington in Leicester so well he could drive with his eyes closed one end to another....in the dark...no headlights...that was a brown pants moment....and I lived obviously! His dad's Merc didn't look too well....

5) Going for a ride in my mates 6 month old BMW323i, he'd claimed to have bought it for £12000...cruised around for days, only to find out it was a ringer....he never got his money back either!! £12000 lost (poor guy).

6) Hire car (a Montego), mate driving, left the motorway (m5) at the M50 turnoff, going too fast...got to the bend, slid into the barrier...Police car came...asked my mate if he thought he was "Bat man"

7) Went to Woburn Safari park - on one visit a monkey crapped on the bonnet of my Corolla 'cos I sprayed him with windscreen water (accidentally of course :o )...on another occasion (in the late 70's) we went there in a minibus (Commer) and a Grizzly bear came up to the van and shook it...that was blooming scary!

These things all happened in the late 80's (except the USA thing) and I learned then you have to drive sensibly - death is too close for comfort. Also, stay away from Bears!

PS - the one top it all was when we got lost in Jacksonville....in the night!!

[maneesh]

Remind me never to sit in the same car as you mate..;-)

[Lexmas]

Due to my own stupidity and slight intoxication I accepted a lift home from someone way more inebriated than myself. I told them to let me out of the car 5 miles from home just after we rocketed around a bend at 50mph, struck a curb and two wheels left the road for a while. Never again!!!!!

Bizarrely, the girl's name who was driving was Portia (I kid not).

[Mr Morse]

Driving to the local airport in Lagos with a colleague in a locally built Merc 200 with no seat belts in the back. The driver (who'd probably been chewing Kat) pulled out to overtake a bus without knowing what was coming our way and we almost had a head-on at 100kph with another car who was fortunately able to swerve onto the sand and avoid us.

[Noel]

One that sticks in my mind was... a few years back

Driving one night ( dipped lights)just leaving a 40 zone passed a bunch of late night revellers on the left side so kept wide of them..... then as soon as i hit the full beams there was a drunk ( Jesus figure ) walking the centre line, the bast**d was directly in front of the car, It was an instinct swerve that saved his life that night as i didn't even have time to think..... my wife was in the car as well and we were both fairly shaken as he just appeared out of nowhere

If it happened now i would get out and kick him up the hole, but at the time my legs were shaking and i was just glad i hadn't hit him......

[Scarlet Pimpernell]

I forgot to mention the time in 1976 when we went to Blackpool in a Beetle van (!). We were stopped on the sea front admiring the lit up trams, one of which looked like a rocket. It was windy, dark and raining...

An old Bedford 7.5 ton luton/box van was coming towards us in the opposite direction...

A gust of wind hit the side, and it went up on 2 wheels (actually 3 'cos it twin wheels on the back). It had the words "Godfrey Davies" on the side, I remember it well, 'cos it was a foot away from our van as it went by...

.....and then keeled over....and if we'd been 2 car lengths further backwards it would have landed on us....

After that time, every time I saw one of those 7.5 tonners, I could hear the "Omen" music!

Maneesh you're right...stay away from me!!

[Continunity]

Jamboo, does it concern you that. out of all the forum memebers, most of whom have posted 1 or maybee 2 scary driving moments. That you have posted 8......

im with Maneesh, your one bad driving omen

[Martin UK]

In the Storms In 1987 i was Driving down the A414 In essex in a Ford Escort Estate (bright yellow ohhh) and a curtain side Artic was coming towards me i dont think the driver realised how windy it was and a big gust caught him i stood on the brakes as this huge foden went up on to one sides set of wheels and cut across the road infront of me and landed on its side in a field.

I helped the guy climb out his truck he was a bit shaken and i needed a clean set of skids....

[Kremmen]

Had a car pull out in front of me yesterday evening circa 17:00.

Then he proceeded to wander about taking turnings without indicating.

Then overtook a learner driver - ON A ZEBRA CROSSING !

And the car was - - - - a Lexus GS300 LK52 U*N - what a muppet !

[peter026]

Trundling home this evening, tanking up a steep hill in my Pug, doing all of 25 mph and accelerating. At the top of the hill are lay-byes, where people can stop and admire the view over Chesil beach and Lyme Bay, There are two lay-byes each side of the road and an Ice cream van in the biggest of them............Some Pratt in a Citroen Xantia decided to cross over in front of me. Must have been a grockle, the Ice cream van Lay-bye was full, whilst the two opposite were empty. What a complete an utter Pratt.

The Pugs brakes are very good, nearly ended up with loads of Horse shoes in my lap

[steandjan]

Its got to be the one time i let the wife drive when i was still sober.

[MacRS200]

I've had a few but I think the one that I remember most is when I was on my bike zipping along at about 60 on a winters night with air temps of about -6C. Saw a blue flashing light around a corner famous for people going through the hedge so shut the throttle off but nothing happened

So pulled the clutch in to be greeted by a 2 stroke revving it's guts out on full throttle and under no load so pressed the engine stop with my right thumb with the clutch still dis-engaged. Now bear in mind this was a trials bike with no Battery so no engine revs means no lights so I am plunged into darkness approaching a bad corner, but no worries let the clutch out again and the engine turns so got lights back :D

Copper standing in the road waves me on with his torch, so as I passed him I let my thumb off the stop botton and the engine fires back up again at full throttle and I wheelie past him into the night.

Figured out that it was water in the throttle cable that froze, ever since then I lube bike control cables on a regular basis.

[Continunity]

Its got to be the one time i let the wife drive when i was still sober.

hehe. i love it.....