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I almost just lost my life.

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Totes_Magotes
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So today i went out with my friend in his new car (turned 16 three days ago) and he just got his liscence... we were driving on the highway just bumpin to music and talking and then some fucking idiot asshole just starts to change lanes right into us.. he wasn't even looking, just talking to his damn wife.. Well avoiding a car going 65 is always a tough task but next thing i knew, i was watching a concrete wall come at us at 60-70 mph.. good fuckin luck for me, my friends actually a good driver and then swerves away from that wall..  we avoided possible death by about 1 1/2 feet..

when the guy pulled over to make sure we were ok we just stared him down ( he knew it was his fault ) but i'm sure he wasn't expecting a couple of teenagers to drive by..

so for the past hour i've just been a little... shaky.

thought i'd share

Sep 19 2009 7:41PM
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[Dawn
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cool story hansel
he almost died
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JK!! sounds scary.
Sep 19 2009 7:42PM
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k-rob
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you should have got out your baseball bat and bashed his car in and then sped off
Sep 19 2009 7:43PM
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Crack.
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you guys were bumping? thats fucking SICK DUDE
Sep 19 2009 7:43PM
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Thenowhereman42
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You probably would have lived, what with safety restrains today and all.
Sep 19 2009 7:47PM
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An10a_Eng
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good. now you live long enough to learn how to spell license
Sep 19 2009 7:48PM
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steezeeepolizeee
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haha i lol'ed
Sep 19 2009 7:51PM
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GORlLLA
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Find that guy and beat his ass
Sep 19 2009 7:52PM
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Scott22~
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Learn to use your horn~
Sep 19 2009 7:55PM
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tinkytwinky
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was his wife hot?
Sep 19 2009 8:00PM
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Totes_Magotes
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there was much horn after it happened.. but he was less than a foot away from us and still turning.. we were in the blind spot i think... oh, and the look on his face when we drove by and he realized "i almost just killed 3 16 year olds."
Sep 19 2009 8:00PM
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[BRI]noceros
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important question
Sep 19 2009 8:09PM
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Totes_Magotes
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they were both 70-ish (so no).. the day you hit 65 is the day you should get your lisence revoked
Sep 19 2009 8:19PM
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C.Wood
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charge the guy

and yeah same question
was the wife hot?
Sep 19 2009 8:43PM
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sammiedee
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65 to 0 in like 2 seconds is going to rip you to pieces restraints or not
Sep 19 2009 8:59PM
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B.Fantana
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i would have rather been hit than swerve. At least if he hits you its probably only going to be minor damage and he pays instead of risking your life.
Sep 19 2009 9:09PM
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timmi
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earlier today i almost drove 120 km/h into the back of a car. fuck big city traffic.
Sep 19 2009 9:20PM
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prontocuts.com
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Avoiding cars at 65 mph isnt that hard at all......
Sep 19 2009 9:22PM
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PAuL_Hellar
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try avoiding cars at 125 then we might be talkin
Sep 19 2009 9:39PM
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Dustin.
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Drive defensively.  Brake, don't swerve!  It's just like Top Gun, they blow right by you.
Sep 19 2009 9:43PM
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skithesprings
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thank you. this kids treating it like a nascar pileup.

just yesterday on my way home from school a car abruptly switched lanes  (slow to fast) clipping the front end of the suv in front of me which caused the car that was changing lanes to spin and go towards the barried which it bounced off of and i safely avoided.

now, i didnt feel the need to run home and make a thread on ns about it.

Sep 19 2009 9:48PM
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bootleg_BEN
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How not to swerve.
Sep 19 2009 9:52PM
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Brock.
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that was wild
Sep 19 2009 9:55PM
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yojimbo
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you should have killed him then taken his car and put the bodies in the trunk then brought them back to your house, cut them up into pieces and put them in trashbags then dropped them into the ocean. preferable in the gulf stream somewhere.
Sep 19 2009 9:56PM
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caucasian_chad
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Something similar happened to me last summer, I was also going 65 on the highway.  A big SUV started changing lanes into me but I swerved onto the shoulder.  Luckily, it was wet so I was able to swerve back easily, otherwise I probably would've just shot straight into the ditch.  About a mile later i caught up with and passed the SUV (I never actually stopped) and it was some dumb bitch on the cell phone.
Sep 19 2009 10:12PM
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blackoutbill
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Except not. A driver with 20 years of experience is going to be a better driver than a 16 year old with 3 days of experience regardless of how much of an asshole driver they are. Why do you think that young drivers are more likely to be in an accident?
Sep 19 2009 10:20PM
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meggles
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Are you guys honestly trying to one-up each other in the near-death-by-car-accident category?
Really?
Grow the fuck up.
Almost all of us have been in scary situations like that.
And I'm sorry to whoever said this, but going 125 and almost crashing will earn you no pity from me. You're going 125.

Good to hear you're alive and well. Almost accidents are scary as shit.

Sep 19 2009 10:21PM
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justinTpetricko
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werrdd i know what you mean i was in a crash now if even someone stops quick my heart will stop its scary as hell
Sep 19 2009 10:28PM
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jakepwilliams
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Sep 19 2009 10:29PM
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Moisty_Goat
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you=douche
Sep 19 2009 10:53PM
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SteezyOhio
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agree and disagree. I agree that brand new drivers are terriable regardless, i was for awhile. but i also think that some people are doomed to be terriable drivers, i know girls who drive with one foot on the brake, the other on the gas..... i also know kids who drive 30 over the limit in monitored areas. but i do also know women (non sexist comment) but i have almost been hit 3 times by older soccer moms too busy chatting on their phones, not saying i havent almost caused/been in accidents. but i have been able to avoid them. and after 18 months of driving and 10,000 miles+ i consider myself a terriable driver, but in the sense that im one of the wildest and scaries people to ride with, but i always know what im doing and i never push my car so that i loose control, all my friends would second this, but none ski, and ive been in 0 accidents, 0 tickets.
Sep 19 2009 10:54PM
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blackoutbill
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I can agree with this. I just think it is a dumbass thing to say 65 yearolds should get their licences taken
Sep 19 2009 10:57PM
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.Asain-Skiier
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Spark Notes-HE has almost been hit bye moms on phones,He thinks he is a bad driver,and 0 tickets and zero crashes
Sep 19 2009 10:57PM
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SteezyOhio
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oh it totally is, with the baby boomer generation currently just reaching their retirement age, the amount of people driving over the age of 65 might double, not all are bad, but at one point, such as 85 or when they develope weaknessess, it is a good idea, but for most it provides independence and freedom, weather to bingo or the strip club, without independence and freedom the senior citizens tend to get demensia and suicidal
Sep 19 2009 11:02PM
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mellifluous
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hmm . one time i was with my mom in the car on this busy street and we were turning into a parking lot for a store
and this huge truck stopped in the lane closest and the dude was like ok you can turn nobodys coming
but as soon as we turned we were like 4 seconds away from getting SMASHED by this car in the lane beside the truck speeding dowwwwn the street
scary as fuck i would have been obliterated
but
dear u stupid ass truck driver
FUCK U
sincerely
me

Sep 19 2009 11:03PM
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blackoutbill
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Haha I just got a picture of an old guy getting a lap dance while playing bingo

Sep 19 2009 11:06PM
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Thenowhereman42
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1) They weren't going to hit it at a 90 degree angle, that would be basically impossible. They would have skimmed it, drove up it, and probably rolled multiple times, but tons of people survive accidents like that everyday.  My girlfriend did.  ....So did my last girlfriend before that.  ....Yeah I like those sort of girls, whatever.

2)  I know someone that had a head on collision at 100mph without a seatbelt on and walked away from it, so there you go.

It certainly wouldn't have been pretty though.
Sep 20 2009 12:29AM
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Che~
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you would really be surprised, im a firefighter and ive seen horrible shit happen to people going slower than this. 65 to 0 in less than a second will fuck you up bigtime
Sep 20 2009 12:33AM
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Thenowhereman42
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Oh yeah I'm not saying it couldn't easily kill you, I'm just saying chances are you'd live.  And yeah its not 65-0 because they aren't hitting the wall at a 90 degree angle going 70.
Sep 20 2009 12:41AM
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Shredneck
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I love it when kids first get their liscence, the first issue they see is considered to be a near death experience.

A near death experience is when you almost die, not when you almost get in an accident that may or may not have resulted in death.

Spending finals week in ICU is a near death experience, waking up in a upside down minivan on christmas eve with frostbite is a near death experience.

What you experienced is a near collision.
Sep 20 2009 12:57AM
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*stew
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just thinking that
Sep 20 2009 1:23AM
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Armanzoid
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Have you kissed a girl before or did kissing a girl flash through your mind so you won't die alone? It's normal if it did, just tell us cause it happened to all of us.
Sep 20 2009 1:29AM
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Armanzoid
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DAMN IT, I fucked up the joke. It was supposed to ask if he thought about kissing his friend. I would of tricked him into exposing his underlying homosexual tendencies and we would ridicule him for days and I would become the most popular man on NS.

I have failed, it was all for naught!
Sep 20 2009 1:32AM
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traylortrash
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I really wanna hear this story...
Sep 20 2009 2:26AM
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brad5
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I have a similar story. Except we were going 120 mph on the freeway, lost control, slammed into 3 walls, flattened like 10 guard rail posts, and slid like 200 yards on one wheel. i shouldn't be alive...
Sep 20 2009 2:38AM
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bootleg_BEN
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why were you going 120? thats stupid.

And how do you lose control going straight on a freeway?
Sep 20 2009 3:15AM
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spruitm
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if he was a good driver he would have tapped the brakes when the guy started coming over.  yea, its his fault but that doesnt mean sit there and watch him merge into you, just move
Sep 20 2009 9:25AM
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Shredneck
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1) muddy mx track, fot came of peg at base of jump, slid back on the seat causeing me to open the throttle all the way and "seat bounce" the take off, jump was a 65 ft'er I cleared to the flat, my body positon caused me to do a half back flip with the bike landing on top of me, I woke up in the ER, I spent 7 days in ICU with a broken pelvis, ulna-radius, elbow, a lacerated liver, and mad internal bleeding.

2) Chritmas eve 2007, had my moms minivan running errands and shit in a mad hurry going 75 then hit black ice, flipped the van upside down into the ditch, woke up hlaf slid out of the seat wedged againt the side, I have no idea how long i was like that but my fingers had mild frostbite. and i was freezing, had to climb out and walk to a phone becuase i was in bumfuck upstate NY with no service, No cars stopped to help.
Sep 20 2009 10:41AM
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inactive
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no one ever stops for hitchhikers either
Sep 20 2009 11:16AM
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user098123
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A semi swerved while it was driving and almost hit me once....

It was when I was running after school down the side of the road. Being swerved at when you're in a car is scary as shit...when you're just a pedestrian though its a whole nother level haha.

Glad you're ok man, highway driving can be way riskier than people thing.
Sep 20 2009 11:25AM
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robtheslobonacob
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thats the reason I drive faster than traffic is traveling, yeah there's increased chance of speeding tickets but your always the one changing lanes and don't have to deal with other people's incompetence
Sep 20 2009 11:30AM
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