.... Booooom! Would have had a head on.
I was driving back home after an end of year school play (the school has 11 pupils in total
Anyway on the way home i picked up a vindaloo from a place that was recommended to me to burn my ass (did'nt even come close but anyway).
After picking up the vindaloo we headed along the highway through a place called singleton (a few members will know where that is), we stopped at traffic lights and then made a quick dash to pass a truck on the inside lane before it ended.
Just then as we (tash and i) passed the truck we both saw a car travelling with it's lights off, it was headed into our lane on a course that was very wrong indeed and was travelling at approx 60kmh, i was doing a touch over that. It's amazing how your brain works in a situation like that, a million calculations must be performed in a split second!
Now one would think that i probably applied the brakes, no i actually accelerated and swerved at the same time. Now that i think about it if i would have braked and swerved we still would have been hit, either by her or by any oncoming traffic. I didn't have time to think so i thought, lucky my brain still works after last nights pasting.
Now that we are out of danger i look in the rear vision mirror at what thought was going to be a head on collision with the out of control car and the truck i had just passed, the truck was a B double and if that little rice burner would have hit the bullbar it would have been very nasty to say the least, no air bag would have saved this women. It was full of grain too, must have been a good 30 tonnes.
I look as the truck swerves to avoid what both me and tash just say "holy f....." to, the car ends up slammin into the truck mid-way and bouncing off sideways before landing in the middle of the highway. I immediatly do a u turn and race back the 50 or so metres back to the crash site, tash is a nurse and knows what to do in those situations. There is a guy there that was travelling behind the truck that was getting the women out of the car (bad move btw, you never know if they have spine damage) as tash came to help. My attention was to the more mechanical side of things, was it burning, would it blow up, whats the traffic doing, is the truck driver ok (shock) as i knew that the little women that was driving was in good hands with tash and she didn't have any obvious life threatening injuries, oh yeh i called the ambulance too straight away, they took around 5 mins to arrive.
Turns out that she was as drunk as ten men and had been drinking alllll day with her friend that she had just taken home (how she lasted that long idk) and took the car whilst the husband bathed the children. He was a little meek guy that in my opinion had probably ordered this women via e-mail with the intention to marry her and have kids.
There were so many variables that came into play with this i am just blown away.
DONT DRIVE DRUNK! I have been guilty of this in the past by the way so i aint no angel
Rant over. Any more near misses out there?
I was driving back home after an end of year school play (the school has 11 pupils in total
Anyway on the way home i picked up a vindaloo from a place that was recommended to me to burn my ass (did'nt even come close but anyway).After picking up the vindaloo we headed along the highway through a place called singleton (a few members will know where that is), we stopped at traffic lights and then made a quick dash to pass a truck on the inside lane before it ended.
Just then as we (tash and i) passed the truck we both saw a car travelling with it's lights off, it was headed into our lane on a course that was very wrong indeed and was travelling at approx 60kmh, i was doing a touch over that. It's amazing how your brain works in a situation like that, a million calculations must be performed in a split second!
Now one would think that i probably applied the brakes, no i actually accelerated and swerved at the same time. Now that i think about it if i would have braked and swerved we still would have been hit, either by her or by any oncoming traffic. I didn't have time to think so i thought, lucky my brain still works after last nights pasting.
Now that we are out of danger i look in the rear vision mirror at what thought was going to be a head on collision with the out of control car and the truck i had just passed, the truck was a B double and if that little rice burner would have hit the bullbar it would have been very nasty to say the least, no air bag would have saved this women. It was full of grain too, must have been a good 30 tonnes.
I look as the truck swerves to avoid what both me and tash just say "holy f....." to, the car ends up slammin into the truck mid-way and bouncing off sideways before landing in the middle of the highway. I immediatly do a u turn and race back the 50 or so metres back to the crash site, tash is a nurse and knows what to do in those situations. There is a guy there that was travelling behind the truck that was getting the women out of the car (bad move btw, you never know if they have spine damage) as tash came to help. My attention was to the more mechanical side of things, was it burning, would it blow up, whats the traffic doing, is the truck driver ok (shock) as i knew that the little women that was driving was in good hands with tash and she didn't have any obvious life threatening injuries, oh yeh i called the ambulance too straight away, they took around 5 mins to arrive.
Turns out that she was as drunk as ten men and had been drinking alllll day with her friend that she had just taken home (how she lasted that long idk) and took the car whilst the husband bathed the children. He was a little meek guy that in my opinion had probably ordered this women via e-mail with the intention to marry her and have kids.
There were so many variables that came into play with this i am just blown away.
DONT DRIVE DRUNK! I have been guilty of this in the past by the way so i aint no angel
Rant over. Any more near misses out there?
