Paying attention has saved my ass several times as well. Nice heads up
driving to keep the Dak in one piece.
Got any brownies left? I'm hungry.
TonyC
-----Original Message-----
From: Olznut@aol.com <Olznut@aol.com>
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:22 AM
Subject: DML: VERY Close Call!!!!!!!!
>
>Even though this happened Sunday night, I figured that I still should tell
ya
>anyways since I've been busy all week :) Paint the scene, we're coming
back
>from San Diego, about 9ish pm, w/b on I-10, from the I-15, raining pretty
>hard, there was 3 of us in a caravan coming home, Durango in front, me,
>Durango in the rear. We were in the #3 lane. Out of the corner of my eye, I
>spot a white S-10 coming down an on ramp, kinda fast, I see it, he then
>starts to fish tail to the left, then I let off the gas, he then slides to
>the right, aiming right at the freeway, then he starts doing 360's, coming
>RIGHT AT ME, I put my foot to the floor on the brakes, ABS, Powerslots and
>new KO's doing it's thing, he goes RIGHT BETWEEN ME AND THE DURANGO IN
FRONT
>OF ME!!!!!! I ALMOST ended up ended up hitting his left rear 1/4, but I
just
>pulled the wheel to the right a bit and missed him by about 3', my many
many
>years of over the road experience (about 500,000 miles and 9 years) helped
>here, he continues spinning, goes all the way to the #1 lane, and there's
no
>center divider there, just a barrier next to the #1 for construction, all 3
>of us go by, and I remember hearing 4 clear and loud crashes, I think he
took
>out at least 4 cars. No, I didn't stop. I still had an hour drive to go
home,
>and when I did, I made some brownies (think about that for a sec) :) I will
>never look at a white '98+ extra cab S-10 the same way again. It took 2
days
>for this event to sink in, and I'm still amazed I got out of it, as was the
>folks running with me. I just told them when they asked me how I missed it,
>and I told them "I was just paying attention" Simple, but that doesen't
>happen here very often as explained above.
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