Tuesday, Apr 10, 2007 at 15:48
Mate a very similar thing happened to me when I was a younger, the old man was driving obviously, and a Road train had stoped and was waiting for us to go past so he could turn onto a side road, we were just at the front of the truck as a 4WD pulled out from behind the very back trailer (Obviously to impatient to wait for this guy to turn, and to think to realised the truckie had not begun to turn for a reason I.E us coming the other way)
We were doing 120km/h as this guy just pulled out onto owe side of the road, the next thing I remember was dad hitting the anchors and throwing the hole car over onto the gravel shoulder fairly sideways then somehow managing to pull the car back onto the road in a cloud of tyre smoke and dust, I have no doubt that if the old man wasn’t a Cop and had done high speed
driver training we would have been killed.
That above memory is burned into my brain to this day.
The thing is the old man didn’t blink an eye during the hole thing and didn’t even stop after it happened it was just a glance in the mirror (Insert swear words hear) back up to cruising speed and out of there.
If we had left
home 30-40 minutes latter and were going the limit probably the same thigh would have happened, if we had left at the same time we did and were going 125km/h we would have already past that aria and it may have been another driver who had to face it and might not have faired so
well.
There are simply to many variables to consider them all, some situations you can control and others you just have to sit back and take what comes at you.
I have had more than a few close calls, some of them my-fault and have taken something away from every one of them; and to be honest with you mate, the way I look at it is if ya numbers up then that is it. Life is too short to be worried about what could happen. No I am not saying I go out there and drive stupidly, I am saying I go out there and drive accordingly to what is going on at the time, Round the city I am mostly dead on the limit 90% of the time.
But regardless you have taken something away from the situation you were involved in, and have changed your driving stile to fit what you believe is the best for you.
Cheers.
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