What is something disturbing that you have witnessed while driving?
Posted by ChartJealous3176@reddit | driving | View on Reddit | 80 comments
For me, it was winter, even super slippery and cold outside. I saw a big truck on my right that had the green light but wanted to turn right. Sadly, he was going fast and turned sideways, making the loudest noise ever, almost shaking the whole street. Everyone called 911. Luckily, from what I heard, he is okay.
KatakanaTsu@reddit
Once saw a driver behind us picking their nose and eating their boogers.
Time_Cover@reddit
WTF. I thought only children do that.
trap_money_danny@reddit
Please stop watching me inside my car.
Expensive_Plant9323@reddit
That happened to me too, but it was the person next to me at a stoplight!
Sharkeatinpizza@reddit
Okay, this is easily the worst one
SacredC0w@reddit
I routinely passed the VP of the company I worked for on the interstate during the morning commute. He was either reading the newspaper or shaving- Every. Single. Day.
Time_Cover@reddit
Reminds me of Mr Bean
Willdabeast07@reddit
Shaving while driving is crazy work
SacredC0w@reddit
The guy was a total tool, so it was an expected behavior.
KiraDog0828@reddit
Hopefully he uses a straight razor and encounters some potholes.
SacredC0w@reddit
Not that I'm aware of. But he did start having an affair with someone in the office. Lost his job, his wife, and his house in the fallout. I assume he's still around, driving and shaving like the idiot he is.
Blue8Evan@reddit
Stopped at a red light, noticed a clearly drunk person walking on the sidewalk across the street. The light turns green, and he stops by the side of the crosswalk as normal. I have a gut feeling to go slow, and right as I'm about to cross the crosswalk, he runs and tries to jump in front of the car. I slam on my brakes, and he looks up, gestures like “oh, sorry bro”, and runs/stumbles across the crosswalk then stops and waits on the other side. Not sure what he was trying to accomplish, to be honest.
PanDownTiltRight@reddit
Elderly man in a van ahead of me pulled in front of a motorcyclist hauling butt. Rider was ejected, wasn't wearing a helmet, and split his head open on a street sign. Agonal breathing with brain matter on the sidewalk. No vitals at all by the time EMS came and they declared him DOA. While this is going on the elderly driver tried driving away and other witnesses had to keep him there. He had no idea what was going on and shouldn't have been driving.
CatGooseChook@reddit
Ah fuck. Your comment reminded me of an experience I had when out cycling for a delivery job when I was 15(30 years ago). Cycled past a motorcycle accident and stopped when I saw the riders helmet on the side of the road. I picked it up with the intent to bring it over to the crash site where emergency services were at that time. He was still in the helmet. I dropped the helmet and just left. Didn't know what to do. Getting off reddit for a bit now. Bye.
Elegant-Demand-1919@reddit
Although it's pretty bad thank you very much for sharing your story that was Brave and I think a lot of us needed to hear it specially those on motorcycles and those who happen to find them on the road we need to be careful.
Eat_Carbs_OD@reddit
Dang. =(
RIP rider
Dapper-Palpitation90@reddit
It sounds like if it hadn't been for the elderly driver, the motorcyclist probably wouldn't have lived all that much longer anyway. Risky behavior on a motorcycle has a way of catching up to you sooner rather than later.
PanDownTiltRight@reddit
Right? I didn’t read the crash report, but I guessed that he was going at least 70 in a 35.
AdvancedThinker@reddit
Too many people commuting to work doing things other than driving. Newspapers fully opened and propped over the steering wheel for the driver to read. People reading all matter of things. People with stacks of papers next to them organizing them for a meeting(?). People drinking/eating with one or two hands half gripping the wheel. Driving only with their knees because both hands were doing things other than driving. A few random s*x acts. The list goes on and on. Semi truck drivers did some of the stuff too. The all around lack of care for the fact that peoples actions could, and in some cases did, maim or kill others.
Equivalent-Desk-5413@reddit
how do you know what they were doing with their hands ?
AdvancedThinker@reddit
Commuting on a bus. Happens to be just the right height to see down into vehicles.
SnooJokes5038@reddit
Jesus Christ. And where is the police to crack down on this stuff? Boils my blood that they’ll sit at a speed trap and screw over people going a few miles over the speed limit, meanwhile they could be getting off their asses and making these sorts of drivers put money in the department’s bank.
Maddienicole823@reddit
Yup one time I was driving and fully saw someone driving laid back with their knees while they used both hands to play on their phone. I was MORTIFIED 😭
OutlandishnessAny622@reddit
I have read many research papers that say humans are not capable of multitasking….the results of one activity or the other will be incorrectly, sounds like you have all seen the activity, but not the disastrous result. IMHO…….those disasters are not accidents.
grundlemon@reddit
Baby deer on road getting ganged up on by 3-4 coyotes.
bmorris0042@reddit
Back in the 90’s, there was a real bad blizzard in Iowa right after Christmas. We were traveling down the interstate heading home from grandma and grandpa’s, and in the 60-some odd miles from when we got on the interstate until we left Iowa, we counted over 70 cars in the ditches on the side of the road. Several people died in those cars. Fast forward a couple years, and I overhear a trucker loudly bragging about driving through that storm. He was upset that people were driving slower, and took pride in the fact that he came up to an old lady driving slowly, and nearly sideswiped her (on purpose), blowing her off the road with his draft. He said she deserved it, because she wasn’t driving fast enough.
SnooJokes5038@reddit
Damn that’s disturbing af. He needs to be behind bars. When you say trucker do you mean pickup or semi?
bmorris0042@reddit
Semi.
Tight-Veterinarian55@reddit
I would have contacted the police. No wonder why truckers have the reputation they have
rangeo@reddit
People not stopping at Stop Signs.
A911owner@reddit
I have 2.
We were on our way to a wedding in California, traveling down the 101; a guy on a motorcycle came absolutely flying past us, probably going 80 or 90 miles an hour. A few miles down the road we came up to some traffic. We saw the motorcyclist lying face down on the road not moving. There were people around making calls to rescue services, but it really didn't look like he was going to make it.
Another time I was on 95 going to NYC and I hit some traffic and when we got to the accident site, there was a car on the side of the road that had flipped sideways and the roof of the car hit a tree so hard that the car was wrapped around the tree with the underside of the car exposed. I could see the exhaust and driveshaft; the car was basically a U shape wrapped around the tree. I'm certain no one survived that crash.
ConceptOther5327@reddit
Brain matter on the road after a bad motorcycle crash. Happened a long time ago but I’ll never be able to unsee it.
MeatofKings@reddit
Driving related: Back in the 1980s I worked at a 1-hour photo. The police would come in some Saturday mornings with film from the night before with vehicle accidents. We printed all negatives by hand. When you would see a sea-foam green in the negative, you knew that lots of blood would be coming out in the prints you were working on. One time I saw the sea-foam green and a splintered hole in the windshield looking black as the negative of the white broken glass. Then random photos of the bushes. It wasn’t until the prints came out that I realized that the severed head had gone through the windshield and landed in the bushes. Damn, I wouldn’t have wanted to be the cop who rolled up on that scene!
Bforbrilliantt@reddit
Ahh cyan the opposite of red!
DisasterousFlamingo@reddit
Oh man you want a list?
How about when I was driving home after afternoon shift and spotted soldiers running down the road with guns (local regiment out for exercises fortunately).
Or when I turned right and almost squashed some idiot dressed in black riding their bicycle down the center of the road on the wrong side in the wrong direction.
Or about the time I realized that tiny slash of light in the dark was me headlights reflecting off the fender of a trailer being pulled by a tractor with zero lights on and stopped in time to avoid driving 80k/hr right into the back of the trailer and beheading myself.
Or the time I stopped abruptly at a traffic light I could barely see in the fog, and looked in my rear view mirror to see a fully loaded dump truck was coming and he wasn't going to stop in time. We fortunately missed one another.
MRSHELBYPLZ@reddit
The 2nd and last one are very horrific
Patrickx807@reddit
Genuine question for you. How are you not traumatized to the point where you never want to get behind the wheel again. After all of this I think I’d just turn my license in
DisasterousFlamingo@reddit
I actually have a few more stories but not as bad
There was the guy in a long coat I saw walking through a residential area near where I lived. He was extremely tall and really stood out because, well, it was 3 am. Kind of creepy.
Then there was the puppy I found sitting on the yellow line of a highway ...fortunately this was in the country in the middle of nowhere and during the day with zero traffic so I got to enjoy the puppies company while I tried to find his home.
Then there was the car driving in the wrong direction up the two lane highway at 5 am or so. Was not surprised when they turned into the casino.
DisasterousFlamingo@reddit
Because none of them ended badly. They were all close calls. I just adjust my driving in response. I now avoid driving at night.
I didn't think my experiences were all that unusual actually, lol.
MRSHELBYPLZ@reddit
You know those mopeds every city has now that deliver food and break every road law possible?
I saw the after math of one these guys getting hit by a oncoming SUV when they tried to make a left turn.
I don’t think he made it. His moped was in thousands of pieces all over the road, and the only recognizable part of it was the bit with the delivery bag on the back.
I couldn’t even see him because there were a lot of firefighters surrounding him trying to save his life. There was a huge crowd watching this and they all had that look on their face while silently watching the scene. One woman looked at me and was shaking her head as if to say he died.
MidnightAtTheGallows@reddit
I was helping my dad deliver for FedEx a while back in San Jose. A pedestrian got hit I didn't see him get hit. Emergency had already arrived but this guy was wearing blue jeans and one of his pant leg was torn to shreds and his leg was bloody. I think he also hit his head but he was up and trying to walk to the sidewalk. He was in a crosswalk. The fire truck was blocking traffic but he got to the sidewalk pretty fast with an EMT chasing him. She got him to sit. We were in the left turn lane so we were stuck trying to get over how saw this.
The other day, i was driving home from my hockey game it was around 9 pm. I could see emergency lights on the opposing traffic side. It was a fire truck all of them squatting looking like they were trying to stabilize someone there was a single car with its front end smashed. Not sure who they crashed into maybe a hit and run l.
Ok_Artichoke_2804@reddit
💀 cyclists riding WITHOUT helmets on...and lane splitting, riding in the LEFT lane of a busy street (no bike lane type street), breaking all the road rules (turning left when they have red light / not stopping at stop signs / crossing when cross traffic has green light, etc).
I swear, sometimes I think cyclists are just suicidal....
musicalmadness1@reddit
A few from me.
1 just turned 18 driving at night in a area near my home (nc out in the country 2 lane roads everywhere and trees as well.) swore I saw a dog and stopped to see what it was. Saw nothing so started driving again. 2 minutes later I come around a bend to see 2 cars had wrecked. Luckily a house off the road people called cops everyone was safe but had to go to hospital. The legend of the black dog from truckers comes to mind. "If you see the black dog stop driving immediately or you'll be dead soon."
2 26 in the army. My unit was at fort Irwin California. We were rolling in convoy I'm in gun truck in turret. (I was satcom but unit wanted anyone rolling to be in armored convoy only no "soft tops" meaning unarmoured. So they let me ride gun turret because we were bored.) It's 2 am and we are rolling to a company OP because there viasat system is messed up again. (this was third time we figured out the issue and got a LT yelled at because he was plugging his phone in which tripped the breaker shutting the system down. I wanted to beat him senseless for it.)
Well we are going up a hillside and I radio to driver to move further left because through my NVGs I see we are to far right and the lmtv infront of us is also having to move left further to not go off the trailer and down the hill sideways. Driver doesn't listen and unbeknownst to us it had rained earlier in the day. Desert climate rain not a good mix when you are in a heavy truck. To late the front tire hit soft spot and we rolled down the hill. The guys were able to help me pull myself further in turret to not be crushed for the 3 rolls to the bottom. Problem was turret support sheared and landed on my legs twice while flipping.
When we stopped rolling we were on wheels and the guys got out while I managed to dismount the 240b and they were able to lift the turret frame so I could pull myself out. My legs looked like someone got me with a weedeater and they had to call immediately for air Evac though I could walk they flew me to hospital via Blackhawk. I got xray and found nothing broken just bruised pretty nicely.
3 2022 winter driving a semi on 81 heading to upstate ny. Heading through pa is mountains and snow. It's probably 3 am and I'm making my was up a incline at about 30 due to the snowfall and snow already on road. Get to top and hit my cb asking what's up. Get a response that it slick near the bend after the hill be careful. Another truck which had been behind me shoots by me.
Mind you I radioed him no response. (He didn't have a radio.) Well I downshift and slow to about 15 mph. (Already had hazards on anytime going uphill knowing I'll be going slow due to load turn them on most other drivers with sense will do the same. (A rule for driving semis. Whatever gear you make it up the mountain/hill is the gear you should be in going down for your own safety.)
Well I start my descent notice I'm picking up speed so hit my trailer brake lever just to help control and keep the trailer behind me because there's a few long curves before the bend at the bottom which is sharper. (Older trucks sometimes had a lever you could pull which would apply the trailer brakes only. And depending on how far you pull is how much the brakes apply.)
I get my speed controlled and have another truck behind me doing the same no issues until I grab radio tell him we have to stop. It's 3 am and I'm seeing orange light ahead not normal. We slow to a crawl and stop I set brakes right before the final bend and half hanging off the mountain side is the truck from before. He hit the mountain side due to speed and veered through guard rail. We called cops because we couldn't go anywhere. (His trailer was blocking the lanes.) Police fire ems tow vehicles all arrive and start recovery. They found the driver 2 weeks later in the valley below. He wasn't wearing seatbelt when he hit mountain and guard rail the impact threw him out the front window.
Anxious-Depth-7983@reddit
Older couple drove off the pier at the restaurant in Door County Wisconsin while we were waiting for our table, and the dock workers got them out of the car before we even made it to the car. I'll never forget that blue Cadillac sitting in 8 feet of crystal clear water just off of the dock and the older couple wrapped up in blankets staring at it crying.
SK83r-Ninja@reddit
My experience while driving: a women being physically assaulted on the turn into a gas station.
My experience watching a driver: his bike flipped and he landed directly on his head. The bike fell on top of him causing what appeared to be a broken neck(he was flight for lifed in minutes)
Full families experience when driving: a guy got t boned on the interstate(I am just as clueless about how that happened) sending his mini van spinning across the road. Once he stopped he got out and pulled out a couple of occupied car seats
National_Frame2917@reddit
I have afew.
First one. As I approached an intersection everyone was basically stopped briefly and then continued very slowly. I'm wondering why because the light was green. When I get to the intersection there's a slew of blood and guts all over the road in the opposing direction next to a crosswalk. Someone decided to jump underneath a loaded semi trailer as it passed by. The driver had no idea. witnesses had to chase them down and get the driver to stop.
Second. I'm approaching a crosswalk at the speed limit I think 50km/hr and this cyclist bolts out past a fence and infront of my vehicle with barely enough distance
Third. This guy driving a new BRZ is driving and actively making a snapchat paying nearly zero attention to the road
Fourth a guy on his phone oblivious to what was going on around them. They kept swerving out of their lane and weren't paying nearly enough attention. I passed them and slowed gently to at least get them into the right lane. Which they did. I followed them for 8 kms and they kept swerving out of their lane and stayed on their phone the whole time.
windowschick@reddit
Watching people blow through red lights.
1st time - was leaving the mall in the 90s. I was turning right to go north (I was driving alone). Another young driver next to me was in the left lane to turn to go south. Old lady barreling northbound hit the guy so hard he spun in nearly a 720.
2nd time - early 2000s, was going to my grandmother's house with mom. Mom was driving. We'd just pulled out onto an east-west main road from the north-south road we lived on. There was a red light about 5 blocks ahead. A car just ahead of us in the right lane was going way too fast. No brake lights. I told mom to slow down. She didn't understand at first. I said that guy's gonna hit that line of people at the light. She said no, he'll slow down. 30 seconds later the godawful crash of him plowing full speed into a line of stopped cars.
3rd time - mid 2000s - snowy night, driving home with a takeout pizza. Some idiot runs a red light, hits some poor bastard waiting to turn in the median/boulevard and flips their car over, then he starts spinning. Came within an inch of hitting my car.
4th time - early 2010s - driving home from a Christmas shopping trip in early December. Dating my husband but not yet living with him, was heading to my apartment. It was light flurries when I left. 2 hours later it was a full on blizzard. Took me nearly an hour to get home, usually a 20 minute drive. Visibility terrible, snowing to beat the band and wind blowing it everywhere. No one on the freeway slows down appropriately (anticipating this, I'd taken city streets home). Sure enough, at my freeway exit, there's a huge 50 car pile up. No dead, but a lot of injuries. DO NOT GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE ON THE FREEWAY. DOUBLY SO IN A FRICKIN BLIZZARD.
5th time - mid 2010s - on my way to work. Watched someone driving a beater like a bat out of hell plow into some woman in a left turn lane. Pushed her into the middle of the intersection. Thank God the semi turning left the opposite direction hadn't started going yet. The hitting car tried to flee, but the car was too badly damaged and a couple of guys in pickups tried to box him in.
6th time - late 2010s - carpooling home from work with my husband. We're about 3 cars back at a red light. We're going to go straight. Some guy on the cross street barrels through the perpendicular street at about 60, hitting the guy who was already in the intersection waiting to complete a left turn.
7th time - last year, I'm in Miami for work. I'm at the Starbucks drive thru, because if I have to be in another time zone and dressed up like an alleged adult, then I'm damn well compensating with a foo-foo coffee (nitro cold brew. highly recommend!). Crotch rocket tries to run the red light and smashes into the back of a semi.
People are dumb. Give them a motor and a couple tons of steel and they're dumb AND deadly.
Mysterious_Ad_4033@reddit
I was at a red light going south. A cop car coming my way going north hit a pick up truck which had the right of way going east. When the two hit, it stopped the cop in his tracks, and the pick up went airborne to the other side of that huge intersection. It was one of those big intersections with two turning lanes. I'll never unsee or unhear that or not have fear when going thru those big intersections
Equivalent-Desk-5413@reddit
only yesterday I was driving my daughter into town when we see this strange man runnng around in the freezing icy cold with no jacket and no shoes ? He looked totally out of it . He kept running across the road with traffic on it , back and forward , back and forward !? ?
realityinflux@reddit
I was driving on an Interstate in traffic and passed a man who was reading a book as he drove. I found this very disturbing and so I tapped my horn as I passed him (on the right.) This was pre-cell phone era, pretty much. Today, the same guy, if he is alive, is probably typing emails while listening to music as he drives.
That_Cat7243@reddit
I saw a video of some dudes recording a woman playing candy crush while driving on the highway
Ecstatic_Tea_5739@reddit
I saw a guy get up to speed then open a laptop onto his steering wheel.
zacmobile@reddit
I saw a guy in a Mercedes just outside of San Diego talking on the phone in one hand, coffee in the other and one foot hanging out the window.
_SeekingClarity_@reddit
Around ten years ago I witnessed something similar on the interstate, except he was reading a newspaper and there was no traffic. I couldn’t believe it.
Soulinx@reddit
This was in the early 90s. A pedestrian getting hit by a car traveling 50 mph. The pedestrian just came off the bus but tried to dart across the road from in front of the bus and did not check to see if the road was clear. It was a 4 lane road (2 each way with a center turning lane). I was driving in the farthest lane and an older woman was driving next to me and she hit the person. The person completely bounced off her windshield and traveled in the air for another 75 feet before hitting the ground.
I stopped to render first aid (I think I was 17). He was conscious but his face looked like ground beef and bones were coming out of his legs . He kept trying to get up but with another person helping me, we kept him from trying to stand or even sit until paramedics came by. He was especially lucky because a doctor happened to stop and assist. The woman was so distraught that someone had to come and pick her up.
Moist_Rule9623@reddit
I was north bound on a divided highway coming home from work, long after sunset. Southbound lane was separated from me on my left by a narrow median with a gulley, and myself and a southbound car were both approaching where the median ended and the roads converged more closely with a jersey barrier wall separating NB/SB.
The guardrail on the SB left lane for the median sloped up out of the ground instead of just abruptly beginning. The southbound car, which was speeding and driving erratically, caught that guardrail and launched himself into what, in my rear view mirrors, appeared to be a perfect, graceful barrel roll into the median gulley.
I dialed 911 and reported a possible single car. I had no way to turn around and try to render any kind of assistance myself. But that was surreal.
loctang@reddit
Me and my friend were driving down a pretty main road at around 3:00 AM - we were the only car on the road, and we noticed what looked like a human figure coming up in front of us.
As we approached, it became certain that it was a human. Not just any human… this guy was butt ass naked with his thang out - we had to stop in the middle of the road due to him running up to our car and yelling some random stuff. He then proceeded to start FLIPPING HIS GIGGLE STICK, YELLING ABOUT “welcome to goofstock”
Crazy experience.
Ecstatic_Tea_5739@reddit
Seems friendly.
zacmobile@reddit
A couple weeks ago had a guy pass me when there was an oncoming car who got forced off the road to avoid him, then he did it again with the car in front of us forcing a Tesla into the ditch. A couple km later I saw him pull into a gas station so I followed. My wife was begging me not to start something but I can't let shit like that go, Ive had too many people I know die on the road the past few years from stupid shit like this. I confronted him and asked why he did that and he calmly said "there was PLENTY of time to pass." He had a crazy look in his eyes like he wanted to kill me (maybe on meth or something) so I was just "yeah, well, be more careful next time" and walked away. I snapped a pic of his plate and reported him though.
StilltheoneNY@reddit
This was in the US. I was waiting for traffic so I could merge into traffic from the end of my road. I was on the right side of the road, of course. An elderly man turning onto my road actually went around me on my left instead of the right like he should have, and went way up a lawn.
golfmonk@reddit
About 15 years ago, I was starting to pass an elderly lady on a local interstate. One thing that stood out was some sort of light was bouncing around in her car.
As I actually passed her, she had her rear view mirror dangling from a string. I promptly passed by her...lol
Puzzleheaded_Gear622@reddit
Back in the '70s in the town I live in every morning I be driving to work on the beltway around our city and see a person reading a book in a big van just barreling down the highway. Another time I saw a woman breastfeeding a baby while driving. I shudder to think that even a fender bender would have crushed that baby.
byers000@reddit
One time I saw someone getting a BJ, No wait there was me!
Dr-Dolittle-@reddit
Passing a caravan on a motorway. It started to wobble, I sped up and passed it just before it flipped and spun around, car still attached.
FamiliarRadio9275@reddit
Living in h-town I have seen horrendous, deadly, and interesting stuff. So it would be too long to list here.
Ok-Handle-8546@reddit
Many years ago, I, and a friend, were driving in Burlington, VT, on our way to see a movie. We were driving through downtown and were behind two cars coming up to a stop sign. There was an older woman with grocery bags crossing the street in the crosswalk, and an oncoming car ran the stop sign and slammed right into her. She went flying, and so did all her groceries. The driver of the car DID stop, and there were about 10 witnesses. The lady who got hit was helped to the sidewalk where she sat until the ambulance arrived. Never knew what happened after that, but it was pretty traumatic )for 20 year old me) to witness it happen.
LowkeyPony@reddit
Driving the Beltway nearly 30 years ago I witnessed a cargo van hit a concrete barrier at around 70mph. As it was flipping, the rear doors opened and a man was thrown from the rear of the van.
funkcatbrown@reddit
Someone reading a book on a kindle while driving at night 20 mph under the speed limit. 🤦🏻♂️
unheardmystiq@reddit
I've seen a decapitated deer on the side of the road and no head to be found.
kane_eightee@reddit
Single-vehicle, single-occupant, high-speed rollover. Driver was ejected and landed face-down on the asphalt in the oncoming lanes. Head split open, blood and brains everywhere.
Easter Sunday, 2018. Quartzsite, AZ.
guywithshades85@reddit
This was pre smartphone/gps era. Someone driving while holding up one of those huge fold out maps, blocking his view of the road. He rear-ended someone at a red light.
scottwax@reddit
So many things, just yesterday a woman missed her turn and was backing up (she was a good 100' past the turn) uphill towards the crest of the hill. Anyone coming up over it would have little time to react.
About a month ago and I could see someone who was clearly texting while driving, they ran into the curb and blew out both passenger side tires.
SharkNecromancy@reddit
Saw some people having a big ass bon fire in a cemetery, Also saw what looked like a skinned deer walking along the side of the road one night.
I no longer drive by that cemetery or take that road lol
itsyaboooooiiiii@reddit
I haven't seen too much bad shit while actually driving, but a few years ago I was walking home from work when a car ran a light and tboned an ambulance that was flying down the street. Car never even slowed down, that one sticks with me
KMK94MCR@reddit
On the way from Manchester to Yorkshires East Riding, I wish I had never looked across to the other side of the motorway to see what the emergency services were responding too. Unfortunately what looked like a young mad was being cut from a completely destroyed car, they had freed one of his legs but he was completely lifeless. Later on my journey on the radio I heard a traffic report and that he had indeed passed away. Awfully sad. It hit home that he could of been doing the exact same as me, on his way for a weekend away with his family and he never made it.
tonydaracer@reddit
0100 coming back from a concert, on a mountain highway with no other drivers and no civilization for miles. Speed limit was 65mph, 4-lane road with each direction having 2 lanes. The road was about 3 miles long and completely separated by barriers. Somehow someone going the opposite direction ended up on my side. Being very tired myself I couldn't believe it until they passed me in my left lane, but they made no indication that they knew what was going on. No hazards, no flashing lights, didn't even slow down. If they had been in my lane, we would've collided head-on both going 65+mph, probably would've killed all of us, including my two friends who were sleeping.
Somehow this is more disturbing to me than the time I flew over an embankment on my motorcycle and felt like I was going to suffocate to death. But I guess that's because the motorcycle incident was more my fault whereas the incident above would've been completely out of my control.
ReflectionOld1208@reddit
I guess not “while I was driving” but as a witness.
The house I grew up in, and where I lived with my Mom from 2015-2022, was on the corner of two very busy streets with just a 4-way stop sign.
We witnessed MANY accidents, most of them minor, but the one that will always stick in my mind was a child on a bike, hit by a car, and I was the first person on the scene and calling 911.
The kid ended up with only minor injuries, but that was a very scary moment for me.
Scbypwr@reddit
Tesla hate!
PowerfulFunny5@reddit
Driving on the Interstate in the mountains near Asheville, and on the opposite direction (mountain side) I saw a car hit something and started barrel rolling in the air several times.
KilroyBrown@reddit
True story.
It was 1 or 2 in the morning, and I was traveling east on S.R. 68 between Bullhead City and Golden Valley in western Arizona. It's a barren part of the state, It's hilly, I was on a section of the road that winds around a bit, and late at night has an eerie quality about it. There is absolutely nothing out there, but craggy hills and landscape that look like certain Mars shots within the area your headlights illuminate. On either sides of your light, the nothingness fades to black. Envision that.
Now, I was on a straight section on an incline, and when I crested it, there was a grown man in the middle of the road, on his knees with his arms outstretched like he was asking for help. Again, in the middle of nowhere. You couldn't even see a glow of lights from the nearest towns.
By far, the strangest thing I've ever seen on the road. Rattled my cage, and I dont scare easy. I didn't stop, and there was no way in hell I would attempt to video that scene.
I called 911.
Had to reassure them i wasn't on drugs or exhausted. lol