Driving Stories
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- seed
What are some of the strangest occurances that have happened to you when driving?
Once there was a matress in my lane in the biggest interstate in the area. I had to swerve in a split second to avoid it. Another time there was a dresser in the lane. Today a large barrel filled with who knows what flew out of the back of someones truck across about 7 lanes before the bridge. Also, some idiot also slammed on his brakes suddenly on the on ramp when there were no cars even coming up on the interstate.
- Mimio0
I was 17 driving my Red Dodge Spirit RT in a Detroit suburb when a bowling ball came flying out of an alley, hit the curb, flew up into the air, and lodged itself in my rear passenger door. I slammed my brakes on and pull off the road and the bowling ball broke loose and kept on going down the road as I just stood there.
- -sputnik-0
i once saw a motorcyclist get run over by a semi about 20 yards in front of me on the highway, going about 50 :(
i couldn't get that image out of my mind for a long time.
- seed0
As I was typing this I realized some stories may be just plain depressing. Someone I work with saw a guy that wasn't paying attention and didn't realize traffic was stopped and drove right into the back of a stopped semi at full speed on a major interstate. Probably chopped him in half.
- mg330
I saw a hood flip up and bend backwards and totally cover the windsheild of a car (true, not just in the movies). It was on the highway, traffic moving at like 60-65.
- shoulderhawk0
I was once driving on highway 36 (Denver - Boulder) and this lady passed me....she must have been going 95 mph in an old convertable VW Rabbit with the top down. I remember her face and her hair....she looked a bit crazy. Anyways, she got caught behind some slow car in the slow lane...go figure. She was going to get off at the next exit. So, she decided to swing over to the fast lane then back to the slow lane to pass this car right before her exit. At this point I had passed her. I was watching in the mirror, and her car rolled multiple times, landed on the top, (convertable with the top down) and slid don the freeway. I will never forget that....she must have died.
- Kirshar0
was hanigng out w/ friends one night in a parking lot next to a 4-way light. All of a sudden, a car passes through with a man on the front hood, holding on to the windshield wipers for dear life and yelling at the woman driving. She carried him through the light and pulled in at the police station, which was about two buldings away, where she promptly laid on the horn...
We watched in stunned silence...
ah...domestic squabbles can be entertaining.......
- -sputnik-0
hey shoulderhawk, where in denver are you?
sorry to hijack thread guys...the hood popping up is crazy! was it an old car?
- ********0
well Mine is more like this:
Driving back from L.A with bro , I glance at the gas gauge and tell him we should refule , his remarks
"gas-smash"he wakes me up about 20 mins later and says we are running way low , we pull up to a place and its closed , we hit the road on fumes and drive about another 5 miles run out of gas in the middle of Arizona , had to walk 16 miles at night with Coyotes sounds all over the place , errie ..in the end Im alive
- ********0
once I was driving home at 3:30 am and way up ahead I saw massive showers of flaming sparks shooting all over the highway--as I got nearer it turned out to be somebody driving 60 mph on bare metal wheel rims--no tires!
- nooner0
one time i went to gas station.
- -sputnik-0
once I was driving home at 3:30 am and way up ahead I saw massive showers of flaming sparks shooting all over the highway--as I got nearer it turned out to be somebody driving 60 mph on bare metal wheel rims--no tires!
Rand
(Dec 20 05, 08:32)hahahahahaha!!!
- nicko0
I once saw about a dozen Range Rovers and Land Rover Discoveries fall off a transporter trailer. The trailer became detached from the cab. Expensive accident, luckily nobody was hurt
- Dublao70
Once when I was sixteen, me and a bunch of my buddies went out to eat at steak and shake. We all had pretty fast cars (camaros, trans am, mustangs) There were 5 cars in our caravan. On the way home we all watched my brother wrap his mustang around a telephone pole. He hit from the side. The car was nearly cut in half, (the inside of the passenger door was touching the inside of the driver side door)
I jumped out of the car screaming for my brother, knowing that he was dead. Most of our friends were frozen, some were screaming with me.
Then from the corn field about 20 yards away we heard Kaile yelling. “Guys! Shut the fuck up! You’re going to wake up the neighbors!” He ended up flying out the back windshield with nothing more than a piece of glass stuck in his toe. I ran up to him to make sure he was alright and all he could say to me was, “Here take my earrings, Dad would kill me if he found out I had my ears pierced today.”
I've never hated and loved someone as much.
- ********0
once while driving home from a club downtown on i90, a white lexus 300 pulled up along side and honked it's horn. i looked over and in the car were four girls.... completely naked laughing their asses off. the girls in the back were plastering their boobs on the back window, then their asses. before i really could figure out what was going on they sped off and got off at the next exit.
it took me a couple miles before i started laughing cause i was so in shock of what had happened. then, i laughed the rest of the way home. unbelievable.
- zombiewoof0
SF Bay Bridge going to the East Bay one night in the rain after work on my Kawi. Done it a thousand times. Truck in front of my loses his plastic cargo wrapping..thick clear plastic sheet. It hits me square on, wraps the whole bike. I'm tuggin at my facesheild..then I notice it's draggin me slower. I know there is a small pulloff where the bridge turns slightly to the right.. but can barely see. Then I see this lady in a car next to me FREAKING.. she points and the frigging plastic is starting to catch fire on the exhaust...I see the pulloff, make it in and proceed to smoke 15 cigarettes shaking the whole time...Still can't get that palstic offa my pipes...
- mandomafioso0
4-wheeling outside Breck with my gf in high school. My dad let me borrow his brand new Ford Explorer for the weekend (96 miles on it when I left). I was going up a steep, icy hill with a bit of momentum. I was about 5 feet from the top when the wheels lost traction. We proceed to slide backward for about 100 feet with trees only feet away on either side. (No anti-lock brakes don't work when going backward). Passenger side rear wheel goes over the side right as we stop at a relatively flat spot. The whole time we're sliding I'm tell the gf "It's okay. It's okay." Sure enough, it was okay. Friends say she was really pissed at me for it but never really said a word. My dad would have murdered me. Got away lucky that time.
Great stories y'all. Good thread.
- chz0
I saw a crackhead ho run across Hastings Street during rush hour last night and she was about 6 inches from getting totally smoked by Chrysler 300... I don't think she even realized what had just happened.
- -sputnik-0
hey mafioso, something similar just happened to us a few weeks ago at spring creek. we'd never been led by this trail leader and he drove the group about a mile into a very icy shelf.
we were tailgunning and stopped about 20 yards in to tell them to stop. it took 2 hours to get all 7 vehicles backed down...they were sliding all over the place. on a SHELF!
skeery stuff.
- gruntt0
i was in the merge lane to get on to the interstate. beside me (on the interstate, not the merge lane) was some asshole that wouldn't get over to let me on (even though there was plenty of room for him to move over). I had to brake to get behind him and when I did I put my hands up in a "wtf" type way, not the finger or anything like that. At that moment he slammed on his brakes causing me to lock em' up, smoke was pouring out (we were going about 60-65). All of a sudden I heard a siren. An unmarked state trooper had witnessed the entire event. He drove around me and pulled over the asshole. I pulled over behind the trooper to give my side of the story (and contact info in case he needed me to show up in court). I never heard anything else and I'm not sure if that prick got in trouble but it was awesome. Instant karma/gratification.
- ********0
I flipped a Kombi (VW Van) in South West Africa (Namibia) on the way from Omaruru to Uis Mine on a dirt road filled with sand. Later, I was told that some sand has the same friction levels as ice. Two other people got tumbled in it too. I was apologetic to the two African students I had, but they were laughing. I was like kids, please, your teacher is an idiot. I smashed up this van and I wasn't even legal to drive there, so-to-speak. Long story.