Alive to tell the tale.

Sounds like it was a close call and I am glad you and your family are safe.
Cant help thinking it would have made a good video.

A close call and I am sure all that read will be gald to hear that you and your family survived without a mark.

When you leave home and get behind the wheel you never know what could happen, accidents do happen but most often to someone else.

Glad to hear that no one was injured, did you decide to carry on and get some enjoyment from the weekend or did you turn around and head home?

Has you bloody pressure and heart rate returned to normal yet?

Hi there Brew, glad to hear the outcome by you and not the news on TV. Would have scared the sh##er out of you all. Every one always ask "did you get the number plate" but this is the last thing on your mind when your trying not to be killed. Glad your holiday turned out great and got back home safely. Buy your self a lottery ticket. Steve M

you hug them just that little big longer after something like that eh?

so, are we going to get a "which tyres" post from you now? :)

glad to hear you are all okay, a close one.

I've had a similair one where a semi with a dog trailer came around a bend doing about 120, the dog trailer came across to my side of road and I was just waiting on the bang! I had to go bush to miss the p#$%k!

And everyone including the Police at next town said 'didnt you get his number'

like evryone else in this situation self preservation was top of my priority list and my photographic memory was otherwise engaged!

My solution to this would be for vehicles to be fitted with a small dash mounted camera which is recording to a small flashdrive, which just records last 10mins and rewrites over it. In a situation like this, all your evidence is on the drive, call cops n charge, this would give number plates etc, and vital evidence in fatal single occupant crashes.

Cameras are sooo small nowadays, it could be mounted on rear of mirror and designed to come on when engine running, and stop on command or impact.
A simple removeable flashdrive (memory stick) say in glove box, and theres your evidence.

Rgds

Ron

Glad you made it OK. I hate those near misses whenyou have to stop afterwards to let the blood slow down. It doesn't matter how careful you are there is always some other clown out there who can kill you by not looking.

All the best

Pete

Good to see you didn't do the usual bloody truckies etc etc

What do you think happened? Sounds like perhaps he/she didn't realise you had dipped and thought you were further away?

Glad your all OK. Good reminder to us all to be extra careful!

Get his plate???

I would have waited at the next road house and hot his kneecaps!

Brew

I just luv a great 'self recovery story' and this one fits the 'great' category.

Well done Brewster and I now have pleasure to announce to all and sundry that you are a fully fledged member of the Forum 'pink nissan mafia', which authorises you to carry out the following:

(1) Be an expert on anything and everything.

(2) Throw 'david' at every Toyota and JEEP owner you see, and heaps of it.

(3) Brag about anything and everything

(4) Give Pesty and Muddy heaps

(5) Continue to drive that GQ 'david' heap around without fear or favour.

(6) Barrack for the Crows

(7) Continue worshiping Roachie as your Guru

(8) Whip SWMBO into line when ever you feel like or just when ever

(9) Have as many beers as you like to get over the horrendous scare you have just suffered.

(10) Claim pain, suffering, mental disturbance, physical interferance, madness, etc as a defence to any future allegations of Homicide, Fratricide, Patricide, infanticide,gout, beer belly etc that may , god forbid, befall you.

All in all you have done well my friend and survived to read this epistle.

goodday brew glad you are safe but why would you want to come to state of roadworks to see some team get a flogging i dont know
my missus had similar incident a couple of weeks ago and when she blew the horn the bdavid gave her the finger its time the cops cracked down on the drug taking phonetalking freaks we call professional truck drivers

steve

Relieved Brew69 that there was no serious damage or injury. I would however suggest that you take this as a warning. Think how did it come to this.

34 years of motorcycling left me with only 2 scars (1 from a car and 1 because I was an idiot). What I learned in that time and what you can adopt, in presuming that you don't already, is to play the "What If Game". In this case you should have assumed "what if" he hasn't seen me. The give way sign doesn't necessarily guarantee that he will give way or indeed stop if facing a stop sign. Don't assume that a green light will guarantee you won't get cleaned up. The list goes on and on.
I guess it's basically defensive driving.

There is a lesson there for you Brew. Take it and die of old age with a smile on your face.

All the best. Wayne

I blame Victoria - if you had been going anywhere else, this sort of thing would not have happened - let this be a lesson :-0) !

Pleased to hear you made it out of that in one piece Brew! Buy a lotto ticket and have a beer!!!!

Cheers

Brian

glad all are OK.....

and as for so called professional drivers...BLAAA!

Glad you and your family came out of it relatively unscathed Brew, and you must have done the right thing, because you did come out of it ok. Accidents are just that - something that is totally unforeseen and happens so quickly. Well done.

Just yesterday driving home from work, i was behind a car following a slow truck up the hill; double white line, and the impatient driver passed the truck nearing the crest - and of course Murphy prevailed and a car was coming the other way - truck pulled over onto the verge to make room and the oncoming car slowed enough to prevent disaster. I couldn't see the rego plate, and wished i had a 2way to ask to driver to take his rego and report the near miss. We are lucky if we make it anywhere unharmed.