Just had a seriously near miss driving back from the weekly shopping.

Came round a blind left hand bend (in a 30 zone, not speeding) to find a car coming the other way straight for me following the kerb :eek: .

Bearing in mind this was on a very wide section of road (enough for 3 lanes) so what the f*&$ was he doing???

SWMBO screamed, I slammed the brakes on (thank god they work), shopping flies everywhere in the boot and he just waved at me as he (dangerously) drifted back into the correct side of the road amongst more traffic.

I was so in shock I didn't even get to beep the horn or yell any abuse!

Thank god we're both ok and no collision occurred :thumbdwn: .

It's taking a double vodka and coke just to calm my jellied nerves............

some people are simply crazy

Have had a few (lots I suppose in 38 years motoring) similar in the past - yes, really cr*ps you up.

Have another vodka and coke for me

Glad no one was hurt.

Idiot, playing chicken, looking for a specific address, or foreigner?

:eek: Glad you had your wits about you!

Perhaps he had been at the Vodka and Cokes?????

Glad you're both ok though!!

Just had a seriously near miss driving back from the weekly shopping.

Came round a blind left hand bend (in a 30 zone, not speeding) to find a car coming the other way straight for me following the kerb :eek: .

Bearing in mind this was on a very wide section of road (enough for 3 lanes) so what the f*&$ was he doing???

SWMBO screamed, I slammed the brakes on (thank god they work), shopping flies everywhere in the boot and he just waved at me as he (dangerously) drifted back into the correct side of the road amongst more traffic.

I was so in shock I didn't even get to beep the horn or yell any abuse!

Thank god we're both ok and no collision occurred :thumbdwn: .

It's taking a double vodka and coke just to calm my jellied nerves............

happens to me quite alot! my best one was about two years ago, (I was on a driving lesson, pupil driving) we were on a national speedlimit road, in the pouring rain, approaching a blind right hand bend, my pupil had an appropriat speed to approach the bend in question (he was in the process of slowing down, and doing about 35mph at this time..) and around the corner comes a pug 205GTI tailsliding towards us on the wrong side of the road (basically sideways taking up the whole road) his speed approx 50 mph.... my pupil braked and stopped (couldn't move left off the road due to big trees) and (luckily) he's got his foot planted (I could see the front wheels spinning)

turning into the skid, and managed to pull it out of the skid just shy of the front of my car (car was full of young males (my guess approx 18)

which makes me think he was doing it deliberatley to show off....

nearly had a big one that day, makes me think I'm living on borrowed time sometimes!

anyway... glad you're ok, and hope he hit a tree and died a bit further on, before he took anyone else with him.......

There are a few places in Chester where there are speed humps on BLIND bends and the road is only wide enough for two cars on their own side. I have followed many a car who straddle both lanes to avoid the humps going into the bends:eek:

Eventually, two will meet...

Had a similar experience myself a couple of weeks back but with a truck !!

Driving along a tight, windy country road here in Derbyshire.

90

Thought my number was up recently, on the Swindon to Cirencester dual carriage way. There is a lot of quarrying activity in the gravel pits around this area.

It had been raining and I was heading back toward Swindon in the BT van, and I moved over to the outside lane to overtake three large quarry lorries, that were driving really bumper to bumper, and much to close to each other.

As I was passing the middle lorry slammed its brakes on so as not to hit the front one, and then all I could here was skidding tyres, and like in slow motion the thing was skidding towards me, and I had the presence of mind to ram my foot on the accelerator. The lorry must have missed me by about an inch, or it would have smashed me against the central barrier.

I remember shouting 'Christ almighty' as this was happening.

I pulled over to the side of the road afterwords, and looked back to see that the lorry was facing in the opposite direction to what he had been traveling, and had done a 180 degree spin.

Never been so scared in all my life.

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Something pretty scary happened to me yesterday, 60mph derestricted straight B-road, fairly wide, I was doing about 45mph ish, a silver saab comes flying out of a driveway on the left backwards! Just reversing out without looking or anything, and at some speed too! I managed to swerve to avoid it but if said car had pulled out half a second earlier then it probably would have been a very different story.:eek:

So it looks like the world is full of drivers not really paying attention then?:eek:

Some lucky escapes listed above, it's a good outlook while driving to be wary of the other idiots around you who aren't so carefull..........

Lets hope none of us has anything more serious happen

Good advice there Matt - treat everyone else as an idiot and *expect* them to do something stupid. That way when it happens, you've planned how you're going to react and can take your evasive action safely and without fuss

Chris

Good advice there Matt - treat everyone else as an idiot and *expect* them to do something stupid. That way when it happens, you've planned how you're going to react and can take your evasive action safely and without fuss

Chris

I agree, and think I can add to it from my experience above: expect there to be an idiot lurking somewhere even if you can't see them!

All of which has reminded me of one from back in about 1985.

I was driving a 2.0l Cortina, and doing 70mph on 2-lane motorway (really, I was only on the road for about 5 miles from one junction to the next), overtaking a truck which was doing 60. I'm drawing level with the cab of the tractor, when I see the RH indicator coming on (thinks "oh , he's not seen me"), and bury the throttle in the firewall, having realised that I'll get out the front of the truck faster than out the back by braking and I'll not then be "dead in the water" in the outside lane of an m/way.

I had a close one the other day:

I was backing out of my driveway in my silver Saab when some loony in a black Skoda nearly rammed into the side of me. Nutter must've been doing over 40mph!!!

Luckily I was able to accellerate backwards past the front of him & save my skin.

Skoda drivers!!!!!!!!!