On January 20 2010 14:38 Xaanix wrote:
when i was a toddler i got 'away' from my parents and wandered down the driveway of our apartment and onto Route 31, (county road)
this is the EXACT location on google maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=route 31 east amwell nj&sll=40.400505,-74.84609&sspn=0.046212,0.066175&g=route 31n east amwell nj&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rte 31 N, East Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey&ll=40.384699,-74.823069&spn=0.001444,0.002068&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.384663,-74.82297&panoid=nsBXJx9SNy6IzndEq_4v1w&cbp=12,267.94,,0,19.21

My parents found me crawling onto the shoulder of the road.... (from the driveway shown on the left) just in the nick of time.

One other time, as an adult i was doing 85 on the NJ turnpike, northbound, (on a bridge on a 3 line highway )and some absolute a$$hole in a cab went from the LEFT lane without stopping into the right lane, in about 2 seconds. No signal, and VERY sudden... the rear of his car was actually about 2 feet behind the front bumper of my car, meaning if i hadnt reacted he would have clipped my front end. I saw jerk towards my lane (i was in the middle lane) and slammed on the breaks, fishtailed into the RIGHT lane, and had him pull right in front of me, while my wheels were screeching. I cant believe i didnt lose control of the car and go right off the side of the bridge..

here's the location on gmaps

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=nj turnpike exit 16e&sll=39.488675,-75.254631&sspn=0.187326,0.264702&ie=UTF8&ll=40.757116,-74.092686&spn=0,359.998966&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=40.757116,-74.092571&panoid=Qx9sWuP80_tJISjDKlnviQ&cbp=12,89.77,,0,13.74

The visuals help make this the best post in here.

d(O.o)a

Canada5066 Posts

January 26 2010 20:37 GMT

#102

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=92293

On April 30 2009 05:46 d(O.o)a wrote:
Today at lunch I had a near death experience, from my house to a friend's house there is a pretty big road in-between it's kinda like a highway but shorter and a bit slower. But anyways, I'm crossing it the fastest way there is to my friend's house and it's right by some rail-way tracks.

So I see a car coming followed by a little break then some more cars so I get ready to run across right after this car and as it passes I start to run but as I run I tripped and I was on my hands and knees looking at about 10 cars in 2 lanes coming towards me.

The cars were no more than 2 meters off so I rolled and just made it into the ditch as a car zooms past just missing my head.

What scares me the most though is nobody bothered to honk or take their foot off of the brake, nobody was paying enough attention to notice me, and I'm not a small guy. I'm 6 feet tall and these people just kept doing what they were doing. I was in awe at just how automated these people were.

And then later I found that as I was falling my jaw slammed shut and I cracked out a filling that was in one of my molars.

Bad day.

Cyrox

Sweden147 Posts

January 28 2010 12:45 GMT

#103

Once I was walking around in Stockholm city doing something and got distracted while standing in the middle of the road. Some inlines skater went past doing a trick or whatever. Then I heard a horn and jumped off the road- almost got hit by a bus.

I was maybe 13-14 years old at the time. The closest I've been to a near-death experience I guess.

EDIT:
Oh, I almost forgot. Here's where it was.
http://maps.google.se/maps?f=s&ie=UTF8&ll=0,0&spn=0,359.995894&z=19&layer=c&cbll=59.335471,18.063164&panoid=bJfCfKz3aR9hnodi4KTRQA&cbp=12,20.86,,0,17.26

lepshis

Lithuania62 Posts

January 28 2010 12:58 GMT

#104

Once i was cutting off sick trees with my father in our forest and 1 tree like got stuck while falling onto other tree and that tree became like a lever for falling one and its strain flew like 10 centimetres from my head, i was so shocked couldn't move while it passed my by my head and like 10 minutes after.
Thats my closest experience

Godimus

United States126 Posts

January 28 2010 13:29 GMT

#105

I was running in the heavy rain and my friend calls me and tells me yo wait up nigguh i stopped for a second for him to catch up when a huge lightning hits a tree right in front of me and smashes 2 cars open if i didnt listen to him and kept running i could of been squashed like a bug under that tree btw when that lighting struck so close my heart was pounding like 500 beats per minute and all the other cars around me their alarms went off it was crazy

kOre

Canada3642 Posts

January 28 2010 13:32 GMT

#106

A couple months ago, I was driving 150 km/hr on a highway and an animal came in front of my car, I jerked my car slightly to the right to not hit it and ended up spinning the car clockwise about 5 times and then once counter-clockwise. I came to a stop in a ditch without damaging the car at all but leaving a huge trail of dust behind me, and waking up everyone else that was in the car sleeping. The entire ride back to Calgary, no one went to sleep again ... ahhaha.

Recently, I was driving my car this morning going 70 km/h on a main city road. The car in front of me was going slower and then he just brakes out of nowhere to a complete stop. I slammed my brakes because I knew I was to close to brake properly and my ABS kicks in and my car starts sliding because of the snow on the ground. The front of my car is less than a meter away from the back of his and I then jerk my car to the left and dodge the car with half a meter of space to spare.

I check on why the car stopped in the middle of the road and see that in front of the car that just stopped there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. This faggot stops in the middle of the road and the closest car to him is like 15 meters in front of him ... WTF. I stop beside the car and tell this dumb fuck kid to learn how to drive or get out of the fucking country. I was so pissed off that I almost got into a huge car accident (speed limit is 60km/hr) because of these idiots.

Oh and in grade 3 I was in a bicycle race and I tried to take a short cut and ended up hitting a curb, flipping myself along with the bicycle into the air, me landing face first on to the cement and then the bicycle landing on the back of my head after I had already hit the ground. I kept telling people I didn't want to go to the hospital even though my head was bleeding but I ended up going and got a bunch of stitches.