Narrow escape

[Maljonic]

I just, five minutes ago, had a near miss and luckily avoided what could have been a pretty bad car crash. I was coming off a dual carriageway on the sliproad and this guy in front slammed on his breaks with smoke coming from his car. When I swurved around him at 60+ I saw that it wasn't his breaks at all but his right front wheel that had buckled inwards and locked up. I couldn't stop to see if he was okay, but I did see him get out and leave his hazards on. Just hope he doesn't get ran over or someone crashes into his car.

He's so lucky (and me too I guess) it didn't happen like 30 seconds earlier when he was on the busy main road with people flying along at 80-90.

He didn't look that surprised actually, maybe he knew that might happen. If he did his a total twat for driving with it like that.

 

[Tom]

Good thing you got away with it mate.

I say got away with it because strictly speaking, if your only course of action was to swerve to avoid him, you were at fault for following him with not enough stopping distance.

Anyhow, lesson learned etc.

 

[Clown]

Did his breaks brake??

 

[Panda On Smack]

His breaks were broken so they took a brake from braking

 

[Tom]

Sounds to me like a broken wishbone, or a failed spring/perch.

 

[Maljonic]

I could have stopped, but I thought it safer at the time to swurve around him. I was already in the proccess of slowing down being on the sliproad and that, but guess I must have been doing 60 or so still.

 

[Gray]

Recall a few weeks ago on an Expressway i was driving along [Speed limit for once, yayyy] anyway this driver was coming from a sliproad, so instead of staying in the first lane i moved over to the second to allow her some room to move in.

So, as im basically behind her just in the second lane, without indicating or checking her mirrors [She didnt even know i was there!] she pulled straight across my path.

Needless to say, the only thing i could do was swerve into the first lane again, theer was no cars around as it was a quiet Sunday so i was lucky, even after this swerve she STILL didnt see me. What the fuck! -.-

Im not one for Road Rage / Flashing lights / Honking horns and shit, but i tell you, i was ohso tempted to do it then -.-

 

[Whipped]

Had the same thing happen to me in a mates car. Outside lane of motor way, minding our own business. Car in middle lane just lazyly wanders over to our lane. Breaks are slammed on and back of the car missed front left of our car by about 2 inches.

Some people don't seem to have been taught about blind spots when learning to drive.

 

[tris-]

one time i was driving down a 5 lane carriage way. i was 4 lanes in, had cars on my right, cars in front and behind. a woman then for some reason moves into my lane and drives next to me, so there is 2 of us driving in the same lane. the lanes are wide sure, but they are not meant for 2 cars side by side! she drove like that for maybe 10 seconds before moving back across.

 

[GDW]

Sounds to me like a broken wishbone, or a failed spring/perch.

The car was no spring chicken then...

 

[Whipped]

Stupid Google Ads. It should at least read the thread.

"He said it was a narrow escape!!"

 

[Draylor]

Im not one for Road Rage / Flashing lights / Honking horns and shit, but i tell you, i was ohso tempted to do it then -.-

Daily Mail overdose detected.

Blasting your horn/flashing your lights at some muppet who tries to crash into you because they are driving around with their head up their arse is not "road rage".

You are doing them no favours by not reacting: as a result the stupid bitch doesnt even know she did anything wrong

 

[dave]

Good drivers anticipate stupid action like this and don't make a point of hanging around in other peoples blindspots.

 

[Bodhi]

I had one on Monday, when some stupid bint pulled out on me as I was getting me foot down to come off a roundabout on a dual carriageway. I was following another car, which she only just missed, before cutting straight across me and leaving me with two options...

1) T-Bone her and give her insurance some money to find

2) Go round the roundabout again in a squeal of tyres and cooking brakes.

Funnily enough I went for the second one, making sure I swore at her as I went round.

 

[Aada]

Woman at work had the shock of her life last week:

Shes indicating on a road ready to turn into a carpark.. idiot on his snazzy super bike comes wizzing past her on the outside of the lane (bearing mind she has been indicating for the past 20 seconds.. he goes over the bonnet admitted it was his fault to the police but her insurance company won't pay out because they say she is at fault.. wtf...............

Not sure if anyone has experianced driving along you check your mirrors as normal and about 2 seconds later a bike comes racing past you at atleast 90mph and scares the life out of you.

 

[Tom]

Organ donors Aada.