You guys say 500k and 9 years like that was alot, I have been driving
for 12 years, and I am scared to venture a guess about the milage. But
I do agree that you did the right thing there. Action equals reaction,
good job.
Joel Esler
Network Security Analyst
Regional Computer Emergency Response Team -- South
----- Original Message -----
From: AlexReed <alexreed@charter.net>
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2002 11:58 am
Subject: Re: DML: VERY Close Call!!!!!!!!
>
> Whoa!, sounds pretty hairy. When you say over the road, are you a
> truckdriver by trade? I figure my miles run about 130k or so,
> maybe more with
> 7 years or so behind the wheel of a pick up truck. Kinda puts it
> all in
> perspective.
>
> Xander
>
> Olznut@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > 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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