Closest you've come to certain death whilst driving?

[Steve_F]

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.

[mattdaniels]

Took me ages to wash the stains out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14niTPGGRgY

[amancalledrob]

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!

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.

fk that st

I rode up the Furka pass in the dark a few weeks ago to capture the below. Scary enough with working lights...

[fttm]

24th June 1984 , front seat passenger when we got T boned , DOA . What do I win?