I'm really lucky to be alive...

[All_bets_off]

Now like most 20+ males, i have had my fair share of brushes with death. What happened today really chills me to my very core. I was waiting at a light to turn left, the light was red and i was waiting for a green arrow. I was kind of spaced out looking at the car waiting infront of me listening to "dust in the wind" ironically. The light gives me the long awaited green arrow and the car in font of me casually pulls into the intersection with me following suit about a second and a half later. I'm about 6ft into the intersection when i hear a faint squeeling sound followed by a horn. I look to my left see the grill of a black jeep liberty bearing down on my going at least 65+. It was like the ******* VW commercial except in this crash i would not be around to say "Holy Shit". It was like everything slowed to almost a complete stop. I was just stairing at this ******* jeep's grill thinking to myself how lucky i was to have placed instructions in my will to be cremated because this would not be a good situation for my family to have a closed casket. Then at the last second the jeep veers to its right screeching and sliding sideways onto the shoulder and misses my rear by about 1/2 and inch. As soon as the car passed i swear i felt death pass right through me. I just sat there for about 40 seconds. The light turned red. People were waiting, just waiting while i sat in the intersection listening to ******* dust in the wind. No one honked or yelled. They just sat there wide eyed. The jeep slowed down but did not stop. I wasnt in the mood to chase him down, because i probably would have killed him. This day has been a total mind ****. I'm def going to the temple to chill for a while tonight. i'm happy to be around another day.

[GeezerSi]

I really believe that it wasn't your time to go. You must have more to do yet.

[CameronJr9]

Wow. Glad to hear you're okay. Strange how it seems time just slows down in a moment like that. Strange how the guy had time to honk his horn at you, yet waited for the last second to veer off.

Originally Posted by GeezerSi

I really believe that it wasn't your time to go. You must have more to do yet.

The people of planet Earth need him.

[aznives3]

damn...just reading that story sent chills up my spine. Glad to hear that your ok, thats one deep situation

[Cybergypsy]

now go watch final dest...... life is freaky.....when it your time you go.....glad your here....

[Retread]

Glad you're okay, luckily you weren't listening to Point of No Return.

[atruhondagrl]

Wow. That was amazingly creepy. You painted one hell of a visual too. Thank god everything fell into order at that very last millisecond. Thank god you're still here.

Originally Posted by Cybergypsy

now go watch final dest...... life is freaky.....when it your time you go.....glad your here....

I agree 100% here. Very Final Destination.

[GalaxyGrayMark]

Yikes.....glad to hear you're OK.

Remember folks.....tomorrow is not promised.

[sonitex]

I have a question. If you had the green arrow to make your left turn, and the jeep was approaching from your left, his light should have been red. Why was he honking at you? And what made him think he had the right of way? Weird. Glad you made out safe and sound. I had a similar experience, when I had the green light, and was going about fifty. This lady was stopped at her red light waiting to make a right turn. I saw her see me coming. She decided to pull out in front of me anyway. There was an on coming vehicle towards me. My choice was to T bone her, or try to avoid a collision. I decided to try to avoid a disaster. I sharply swerved to the left, thus avoid hitting her, but I had to make a sudden sharp right to avoid the on coming vehicle. I swear I was on two wheels in the air during both manuevers. The funny thing about it was I was blowing my horn like crazy at the lady while doing these manuevers!! I really felt ice cold and ashen and thanking my lucky stars, after that.

[Doolie77]

Glad it was only a close call.
It reminds me of a scene from the Forgotten. The view was from the drivers perspective looking at the passenger. You can see the headlights comming thru the passenger window, I yelled before it hit and made my wife and kids jump.

[thinkinblue613]

Glad your okay man, it's would've ended nasty if that jeep didn't move..

Accidents happen fast but you tend to see them in slow motion for some reason...

TRUE STORY..

Last month I was driving on the freeway at around 11PM at 65-70 mph.. Then in front of me is an old Chevy Trailblazer and a Nissan or some kind of sedan.. This is during a hilly part of the freeway where its very rural and dark. Then outta nowhere the Trailblazer takes a 90 degree turn into a steel stopper that is just 20-30 ft long and she hit it right in the middle. Bounced off (sparks flying) and spun 2 to 3 times and with the momentum the car flipped 4-5 times and spun even more outta control. I immediately break and just stop for a few seconds to just take in what I just saw.. Those things are only in movies.. Crap!!! So I pull over on the shoulder with the e-lights blinkin and get out to check if the lady is alright. Her airbags didn't go off and she was on her side and able to talk to but deeply in shock. Man its crazy and scary those things happen. I have no clue what made that lady crash but seeing it happen within 200 ft of me, man that is NUTS. I'm happy everyone in the car was safe, my bro, mom and aunt. It seriously happened in slow motion. When the paramedics came I looked at the lady again and there was a pool of blood but she looked alright... But it was scary. The cops took our statements and helped us get to our car. While going out the firemen had an axe and started hackin at the roof to get the lady out.. I started to smell gas but thats probably cuz the car was on its side but it was just scary cuz there were fools on the side smoking.. (They tried to help save her earlier but its illegal to do that unless the cars on fire)

I seriously couldn't sleep that night because I was really right behind her car and if I had been a couple feet closer we probably would've hit or she would've hit me after bouncing off the steel wall. And I'm a new driver and man that stuff is traumatizing. Just be careful out there guys.

[8thgenuser]

I'm glad to know everyone is safe. Please be careful on the road.

A few years ago, I was driving home for the weekend from college. It was approaching dusk and I spot a Toyota Tercel trying to switch lanes to exit the freeway. The driver of the Tercel obviously didn't look before switching lanes as there was another vehicle beside him. At the last moment, the Tercel driver dodged by turning the wheel the other way, tried to compensate a few times, fishtailed, overcompensated and did a sharp left into a hill in the median which separated the north- and southbound lanes. Smoke filled the air and it seemed like it was raining bits of rubber tire as it was splattering my windshield.

A bunch of cars pulled over to help the Tercel so I continued on my way. Although I was just a bystander in that situation, it made me contemplate how lucky I am to have my life.

[Jrfish007]

wow... glad to see you are still with us!

[All_bets_off]

i'm just happy i was wearing my super absorbant pair of depends...Wow, all of yalls stories sound crazy!!! Flipping 4-5 times? That is insaine. I don't want to watch final destination...i would skull f myself.

[Skylinegtr06]

Thats why you look left and right even if the light is green and wait a few seconds. anyway good to hear your alive no one should leave the earth from something stupid

[mmm def]

That's why I always tell my family and wife I love them..you never know.


Glad you're ok.

[Chase]

I have been in situations like that, There is NO time to think only react, damn I had the exact situation happen in my Moms Grand am One time, I was driving Her and My baby sister and a cavalier ran the red! I saw it out of the corner of my eye and without any thought pushed the gas to the floor and turned the wheel right, So if I had been hit it would most likely been deflected instead of a blunt t-bone Hit. My Mom applauded my reaction only after she came out of shock. She said she would have just slammed on the brakes. Haha id be a gonner.

[Fixer]

All Bets: I can imagine you are thanking your lucky stars. Your description was pretty scary. What makes it scarier was that it was up to fate that you didn't get hit. Mainly because there wasn't any part of the equation you could have affected directly.

And I believe in lucky stars. I had one once. 1980. Washington's birthday weekend. I was at Air Force technical training in Denver and my best friend and I decided to visit his parents in Texas for the long weekend. My friend, Jeff, had a Dodge 'Lil Red Express' pickup. Pickup with a big ass motor and fancy chrome trim - like a totally useless roll bar. We're driving through Colorado at about 2 a.m. because our class got out at midnight. Jeff, to keep awake, would every once in while speed way to about 95 then slow back down to around 65. February + nightime = black ice. We hit a patch during one of those 95 mph dashes. Jeff was drinking coffee so steering with only 1 hand. Neither of us had seat belts on. It wasn't the "in" thing back then. Truck went sidewides and slide toward the median. We hit that and launched. Police report said we did 4 barrel rolls and 2 end over ends. I wasn't counting. After the world stopping flipping and spinning, the truck was upside down on top of me in the opposite lanes of the interstate. I'm laying flat on the road and the hood has me pinned. My nose got mashed and I had some blood in my eyes. Not strong enough to push anything off me. One foot was someone wedged between the engine and firewall. Can't hear my friend. Bystanders stopped and jacked up the hood and bit and I crawled out. Walking but limping. Felt myself all over. No bones broken as far as I could tell. No gashed arteries, no major bleeding but my ankle hurt like hell. Cops and EMS arrived about 20 minutes later - way out on the interstate and not close to anything. They had to search for my friend Jeff. He was eventually found 45 minutes after the accident. He had been thrown so far from the truck that we couldn't find him near the road. Jeff had struck a fence post and was on the opposite side of an earth berm. They took us both to the closest major hospital. Jeff didn't make it. Head injuries. He never knew what happened from the second he was thrown from his truck. I someone had gotten a nasty chemical burn on my ankle and the Air Force decided to let it heal naturally inside of doign grafts, etc. I'm grateful for that decision. Otherwise I got no major cuts, no broken bones. Policeman told me that if I HAD worn seatbelts in this case, I would have been killed. Entire top of the truck cab was sheared off of crushed to a pulp. Granted I did spent 3 months in the Air Force Academy hospital for my burn but how come I came out relatively OK but my friend didn't make it? That ate me up for years and years. I'm OK with it now however. And I'm the biggest advocate of seat belts on the planet. I was lucky in that case but belts would have helped Jeff perhaps. Used up 8 of my 9 lives during that accident. But it does seem that there are lucky stars for some people.

Didn't mean to hijack or belittle your thread All Bets. Stay safe and I hope that will be the only time something like that ever happens to you.......

[Cybergypsy]

Originally Posted by Fixer

All Bets: I can imagine you are thanking your lucky stars. Your description was pretty scary. What makes it scarier was that it was up to fate that you didn't get hit. Mainly because there wasn't any part of the equation you could have affected directly.

And I believe in lucky stars. I had one once. 1980. Washington's birthday weekend. I was at Air Force technical training in Denver and my best friend and I decided to visit his parents in Texas for the long weekend. My friend, Jeff, had a Dodge 'Lil Red Express' pickup. Pickup with a big ass motor and fancy chrome trim - like a totally useless roll bar. We're driving through Colorado at about 2 a.m. because our class got out at midnight. Jeff, to keep awake, would every once in while speed way to about 95 then slow back down to around 65. February + nightime = black ice. We hit a patch during one of those 95 mph dashes. Jeff was drinking coffee so steering with only 1 hand. Neither of us had seat belts on. It wasn't the "in" thing back then. Truck went sidewides and slide toward the median. We hit that and launched. Police report said we did 4 barrel rolls and 2 end over ends. I wasn't counting. After the world stopping flipping and spinning, the truck was upside down on top of me in the opposite lanes of the interstate. I'm laying flat on the road and the hood has me pinned. My nose got mashed and I had some blood in my eyes. Not strong enough to push anything off me. One foot was someone wedged between the engine and firewall. Can't hear my friend. Bystanders stopped and jacked up the hood and bit and I crawled out. Walking but limping. Felt myself all over. No bones broken as far as I could tell. No gashed arteries, no major bleeding but my ankle hurt like hell. Cops and EMS arrived about 20 minutes later - way out on the interstate and not close to anything. They had to search for my friend Jeff. He was eventually found 45 minutes after the accident. He had been thrown so far from the truck that we couldn't find him near the road. Jeff had struck a fence post and was on the opposite side of an earth berm. They took us both to the closest major hospital. Jeff didn't make it. Head injuries. He never knew what happened from the second he was thrown from his truck. I someone had gotten a nasty chemical burn on my ankle and the Air Force decided to let it heal naturally inside of doign grafts, etc. I'm grateful for that decision. Otherwise I got no major cuts, no broken bones. Policeman told me that if I HAD worn seatbelts in this case, I would have been killed. Entire top of the truck cab was sheared off of crushed to a pulp. Granted I did spent 3 months in the Air Force Academy hospital for my burn but how come I came out relatively OK but my friend didn't make it? That ate me up for years and years. I'm OK with it now however. And I'm the biggest advocate of seat belts on the planet. I was lucky in that case but belts would have helped Jeff perhaps. Used up 8 of my 9 lives during that accident. But it does seem that there are lucky stars for some people.

Didn't mean to hijack or belittle your thread All Bets. Stay safe and I hope that will be the only time something like that ever happens to you.......

Just know this before my Honda, I had 49 cars, and NEVER wore a seatbelt however My Honda Makes me wear it EveyTime...and for this I thank Honda........

[Only a R18]

Yah in canada its manditory to wear seatbelts, i just feel like i'm incresing the chance of myself living when involed in an accident. I feel naked when i don't wear one driving say from the mailbox to my house.