How I nearly died on vacation!!!!

[Raven]

They are getting dumber every day. I have seen more near misses , most head on's in the last few years than I care to think about.:gaah:
The wife thinks I am joking when I say I want to hook up machine guns to the horn button ( aka James Bound):lecturef_smilie:

 

[Lew L]

:agree: ... but in my case if I had tried to stop ( He was tooooooo close and going to fast ) I would have gotten killed. Nailing the throttle was my only option. ...... Thanks .... Mike :thumbup:

There was a time when I used to live by the phrase " When in doubt---- Gas it"

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

There was a time when I used to live by the phrase " When in doubt---- Gas it"

:agree: ... now I lean more to STOPPING .... However I have re-run what happened quite a few times and stopping would have killed me

 

[UtahPete]

Today we were heading out on a week long camping trip to Yellowstone, Cody, etc. Traffic was generally light on US-89 heading north thru rural Wyoming. Occasionally there would be a small grouping of vehicles bunched behind an RV or farm truck, waiting for an opportunity to pass.

We were on a straight stretch of 2-lane road and the sky was darkening with the threat of a rainshower. Coming toward us about a 1/4 mile away was one of those groups of about 6 vehicles. The one in the lead was a pickup truck towing a travel trailer. None of the vehicles had their lights on, so it was difficult to separate them visually from the road and fields. As they got within about an eighth of a mile, a dull brown sedan in the middle of the pack pulled into my lane, trying to pass the vehicle in front and there's no way he was going to make it before I closed on him. On my right there was no shoulder, a shallow ditch and then a fenced field. I cut my throttle and applied the brakes lightly, thinking I would exit right, but by then the group of cars was passing me and fortunately the brown car found an opening and got back in his lane just as we passed.

I guess I should have been expecting someone to do something stupid and be prepared for it. But, I have to admit that two hours into an idyllic ride, I had become a little more complacent than I should have. We lucked out pure and simple.

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

Today we were heading out on a week long camping trip to Yellowstone, Cody, etc. Traffic was generally light on US-89 heading north thru rural Wyoming. Occasionally there would be a small grouping of vehicles bunched behind an RV or farm truck, waiting for an opportunity to pass.

We were on a straight stretch of 2-lane road and the sky was darkening with the threat of a rainshower. Coming toward us about a 1/4 mile away was one of those groups of about 6 vehicles. The one in the lead was a pickup truck towing a travel trailer. None of the vehicles had their lights on, so it was difficult to separate them visually from the road and fields. As they got within about an eighth of a mile, a dull brown sedan in the middle of the pack pulled into my lane, trying to pass the vehicle in front and there's no way he was going to make it before I closed on him. On my right there was no shoulder, a shallow ditch and then a fenced field. I cut my throttle and applied the brakes lightly, thinking I would exit right, but by then the group of cars was passing me and fortunately the brown car found an opening and got back in his lane just as we passed.

I guess I should have been expecting someone to do something stupid and be prepared for it. But, I have to admit that two hours into an idyllic ride, I had become a little more complacent than I should have. We lucked out pure and simple.

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Glad nothing happened ..... you can go thru life thinking something horrific is about to happen ( and ruin your life ) because it's possible .... however even if your thinking it might, if it does that thought process won't help ..... you either learn / know how to drive defensively ( all the time ) or you don't ... Example I live in winter driving conditions 5 mos. a year , there are some folks who never understand , when skidding you turn INTO the skid ..... if not you will Spin. When I was an LEO , I was sent to a Winter driving school to learn the way to drive on snow/ ice. ..... during my " graveyard shifts " I / we would go to very large parking lots and practice .... we didn't damage any cruisers and really learned how to drive quite fast Safely ...... JMHO .... Mike :thumbup:

 

[Raven]

I grew up driving V8 powered pickup trucks in snow.
Drove a mail truck in the evenings all through high school in all sorts of weather.
Worked a tow truck on the superslab for five years. ( pulled four Leo's out of the ditch one knight LOL)
I would agree with Bluekight with most of what he said, but the new cars have all sorts of nanny modes.
Ours has " Yaw" control, which I hate. Turn into a skid and it tries to send you in the other direction.
During a storm last winter, the Leo's had to tell people to turn off the their traction control because they were getting stuck on the freeway.
Most people don't know how to drive.
Rant over
Raven

 

[EdMat]

Face it Mike, the hitman sent from some of your prior exploits.................missed. :dontknow:

Glad you made it thru it OK