Life flashes before my eyes - close call on I-95

too many people, too many cars. don't worry it won't last long. $10 a gal gas will weed them out.

 

Glad to hear you are ok.

 

well that sucks but I'm glad you came out ok

 

Wow...that seems scary. Good thing you came out ok. Ive seen many pics of elise's crashed and those things with a truck or suv in the back of it or front can be dangerous..

 

we can only hope; the fact is, people need to get where they need to go, no matter how much it costs or how much money they make. People aren't going to call into work because they cant afford gas.

I just think that the test for a license should be much more difficult, involving evasive manuevers, reaction time, etc. and drivers should be tested upon each renewal of their license. Living in the desert, there are far too many 90 year old drivers out there who have absolutely no business on the road.

This'll never work, however, because the DMV is packed enough as it is.

 

Wow, that is a close call. Glad that you made it out alright.

I remember a few weeks back, there was a sofa cushion laying on the right lane, a few hundred feet from the onramp and incoming drivers would swerve to avoid it.

 

The Elise is a very small car.

Much like a motorcycle he may not have even seen you.

Keep you lights on in a car that small. I had this problem in my MR2's regularly. So low and small they don't even register in people periferal(sp) vision as another motorist, hence they don't "see" it. This is doubley true in emergency situations.

Get used to this if you plan on keeping the Elise. It won't be the last time someone doesn't "see" your car. You'll have to drive more offensively. Keep the car moving as to make people notice you. Stay out of blind spots. Change lanes, when safe, regularly(people will register the side to side movement in their mirrors better).

 

This thread lacks emo music. Something like taps set to honkey rap with a phase or two of thumping techno.

That would make this thread more interesting.

You could have worked this out even more... your best friend was killed by the suv in a twist of fate of some sort. The night before your wedding. The day after his pet got spade. Something like that.

If yer having a hard time with SUVs while driving a Lotus, you got problems. The least of which are the SUVs and other vehicles on the road. Your primary concern should be why you are a male being prescribed Vagisil, and why you think a near miss on the highway warrants its own emoblog on a forum devoted to Ferraris, and why you think we care about your gushgasm gheygasm life affirming near death experince with an SUV.

But.

Whatever.

 

Well, we can't all be good little socialist Trabant enthusiasts, now, can we comrade?

 

Korr,
Sir with all due respect I have to say that was the most classless comment I have ever read on Ferrarichat. The man had a near brush with death and all you could do was insult him in your post. His post brings up many valid points, and it was much more informative and "devoted to Ferraris," than your "Star War Kid Settles!!" thread. As many people have said you have full right not to read the threads if you don't want to.

 

Glad you're OK! I know how that can feel:

Scary moment #1: My wife and I were driving home from Milwaukee, she's in the passenger seat holding our new puppy (couple years ago). A truck on the left kicks something into the air, a flat, square something or other about 6 inches across. It's spinning and gyroscoping in the air and heads right for us. Turns out it's a quarter-inch thick chunk of steel and it hits our windshield about 2 inches below the roof line, right in front of my wife. It cracked the entire windshield, left an impact in the glass and dented the roof. A couple inches lower and it would have come through and killed her.

Scar moment #2: Riding with my buddy down to Indy on I-65 when a truck drover over a delaminated tire tread, throwing it up into the air. The tread cleared the 2 cars in front of us and nailed my buddies car. Messed it up pretty good, but what was really scary was the motorcycle rider in the left lane who, had he been in our lane, would be dead.

 

I am glad all you guys are OK, me and my Wife were involved in an accident where we both were unconcious and another person died.

 

Jack, I no longer drive my sports cars -- unless absolutely necessary -- on four lane/six lane highways. And I try hard to keep off these roads with my family. Gravel trucks without covers spewing rocks from above, semis out of control blasting debris from underneath, cars driven by idiots (some of whom are drunk or incompetent or both!) weaving in and out of traffic, following too close, or going too fast or too slow -- and you have a created a breeding ground for injury to person and property.

It does seem as if drivers are more incompetent than ever, and getting worse.

 

Thats nothing. I've seen a boat laying in the middle of the freeway.

 

I dunno if its some inside joke but Korr seems to be on a rampage lately... All comments usually end in how ghey the thread is...

It seems like somebody has sand in their v@gina.