Closest you've come to certain death whilst driving?
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Wrote off my dad's car three days after my test back in 97. Straight through a telegraph pole and off an 8 foot embankment, through a field and stopped in some trees.
Didn't think much about how lucky I'd been until my dad took me back to the crash site to clear our the car and I saw how rotten the pole had been. Pure luck that it was on it's last legs anyway I guess.
Didn't think much about how lucky I'd been until my dad took me back to the crash site to clear our the car and I saw how rotten the pole had been. Pure luck that it was on it's last legs anyway I guess.
AW111 said:
It may not be my closest shave, but this is my most terrifying driving (riding) experience :
Coming down a mountain on an old Suzuki many years ago, on a wet, pitch black night, travelling quickly but not stupid fast.
Cliff face on the left, drop off with no guard rail on the right.
No risk, no problems - until the main lighting fuse failed half way around a left-hand bend, and everything suddenly went dark!![eek](/inc/images/eek.gif)
I managed to wash off most of the speed I was carrying before hitting the wall on the left, but it felt like I was on the brakes forever, with no sense of speed, trying to remember how tight the curve was and scared to lock up and spear off the edge.
fComing down a mountain on an old Suzuki many years ago, on a wet, pitch black night, travelling quickly but not stupid fast.
Cliff face on the left, drop off with no guard rail on the right.
No risk, no problems - until the main lighting fuse failed half way around a left-hand bend, and everything suddenly went dark!
![eek](/inc/images/eek.gif)
I managed to wash off most of the speed I was carrying before hitting the wall on the left, but it felt like I was on the brakes forever, with no sense of speed, trying to remember how tight the curve was and scared to lock up and spear off the edge.
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I rode up the Furka pass in the dark a few weeks ago to capture the below. Scary enough with working lights...
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