Jeez - That was close!

[Redline]

Very nearly one less Z4 on the roads tonight. And one less driver too.

Less than a mile from home going over the brow of a hill with a slight right hand curve, and, in the opposite direction, there's a car stopping just on the otherside the top of the brow. With its Xenons shining upwards I'm totally and utterly blinded for a second. A split second later I get to within 30m or so of this car and as I'm getting my vision back, from below and behind this car flashing blues lights appear on my side of the road at speed. S**T!

A massive of stamping on the brakes and a microsecond of wondering what I'm going to hit - I managed to swerve well onto the verge without hitting anything as an ambulance squeezes past. I missed it by inches and seemingly no damage. The closet call for a very long time.

At least I found out exactly how good the brakes are.

Hope everyone else made it home without incident tonight!

 

[hard top]

Bloody hell, glad you are OK.

 

[t-tony]

Glad you escaped unharmed Ian. Mine happened on the way to work this morning at Saxilby on the A57, going over the brow of the bridge over the Fossedyke and railway, in the left turn filter lane one was turning down Mill Lane, meanwhile pulling out of said lane woman in a Yaris pulled accross my lane looked right, saw me and bloody stopped. There was nothing coming from Lincoln way either. A very good job I was sticking to the 40 limit.
I may have caught it on the dash cam, if I have it'll be on YouTube in my "Did you really have to" collection.
As Stacey called someone the other day, Silly Cow.

Tony.

 

[DavidM]

Luck was on your side, thankfully. Provides time to reflect!

 

[Redline]

Glad you escaped unharmed Ian. Mine happened on the way to work this morning at Saxilby on the A57, going over the brow of the bridge over the Fossedyke and railway, in the left turn filter lane one was turning down Mill Lane, meanwhile pulling out of said lane woman in a Yaris pulled accross my lane looked right, saw me and bloody stopped. There was nothing coming from Lincoln way either. A very good job I was sticking to the 40 limit.
I may have caught it on the dash cam, if I have it'll be on YouTube in my "Did you really have to" collection.
As Stacey called someone the other day, Silly Cow.

Tony.

Am fine thanks - very close though. Thankfully I was doing only 45 or so in a 60 limit and following another car by about 40-50m. Any faster it would have been a different story. I don't yet have a dash cam in the Zed (haven't put mine back in the LR after having the screen changed either). I want to get a DVR and two small bullet cams with one facing each way. Not found a solution yet.

 

[Redline]

Luck was on your side, thankfully. Provides time to reflect!

Indeed - I can't see how I could have done anything differently other than slow down to a crawl myself. If that happened everytime you get blinded by oncoming traffic, we'd be walking everywhere.

 

[EnthuZiaZT]

Be careful guys the silly season isn't over yet!

Mike

 

[hard top]

Had the same kind of thing on the way to work one morning, this bloke did just not look and pulled out in front of me on a main road.
I sounded my horn and he froze and stopped right in front of me and I was not driving slowly, thanks to mucking about in cars when younger, I pulled on the hand brake and did a right turn next to his car and into the road he was driving out of.
I sat there catching my breath and he just drove off, I could have killed him if I had hit him.

 

[Mint]

Very nearly one less Z4 on the roads tonight. And one less driver too.

Less than a mile from home going over the brow of a hill with a slight right hand curve, and, in the opposite direction, there's a car stopping just on the otherside the top of the brow. With its Xenons shining upwards I'm totally and utterly blinded for a second. A split second later I get to within 30m or so of this car and as I'm getting my vision back, from below and behind this car flashing blues lights appear on my side of the road at speed. S**T!

A massive of stamping on the brakes and a microsecond of wondering what I'm going to hit - I managed to swerve well onto the verge without hitting anything as an ambulance squeezes past. I missed it by inches and seemingly no damage. The closet call for a very long time.

At least I found out exactly how good the brakes are.

Hope everyone else made it home without incident tonight!

Yoiks Ian, a lucky escape. Pleased you made it home OK.

Be careful out there peeps.

 

[Low Rider]

Glad your safe and well. Makes the heart beat a little quicker doesn't it.

 

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Had the same kind of thing on the way to work one morning, this bloke did just not look and pulled out in front of me on a main road.
I sounded my horn and he froze and stopped right in front of me and I was not driving slowly, thanks to mucking about in cars when younger, I pulled on the hand brake and did a right turn next to his car and into the road he was driving out of.
I sat there catching my breath and he just drove off, I could have killed him if I had hit him.

As a colleague of mine says constantly, "You just wouldn't believe it."

I have no recollection of a head-on we had twenty five years ago - thankfully. Once is enough. I think "Oh no, not again..." went through my mind in those fractions of a second today.

I suspect the guy who stopped panicked when he saw blue lights in his mirror and just braked giving the ambulance driver no choice but to try and go past him. He also probably had no idea of the mayhem he caused. Just a few feet further there is a pull in where there's some equipment in a roadside cabin.

 

[Redline]

Glad your safe and well. Makes the heart beat a little quicker doesn't it.

Almost heart stopping!

 

[M666BMG]

Change of y fronts?

 

[hard top]

Change of y fronts?

You wear em on your head....

 

[Redline]

Change of y fronts?

I was going to say I don't wear them. but that might be taken the wrong way. I'll draw up a short list of potential suspects

 

[andyglym]

Close shave Ian, glad all is OK. You'd be surprised (or not) the amount of drivers who do not how to react to the Emergency Services on the road as panic sets in. In short, if from behind, just keep going until it's safe to pull over. Let the Police/Fire /Ambulance driver navigate round you, they're very well trained and shouldn't put you under undue pressure to react.

 

[Redline]

You wear em on your head....

Those the new Zaphod Beeblebrox style Joo Janta peril sensitive sunglasses?

 

[Redline]

Close shave Ian, glad all is OK. You'd be surprised (or not) the amount of drivers who do not how to react to the Emergency Services on the road as panic sets in. In short, if from behind, just keep going until it's safe to pull over. Let the Police/Fire /Ambulance driver navigate round you, they're very well trained and shouldn't put you under undue pressure to react.

I suspect the ambulance driver was as shocked as I was. Poor guy (or girl of course!)

 

[t-tony]

Spot on Andy, the idiots don't realise the danger the create by slapping on the brakes. Also they don't advertise this enough on TV in my opinion. The emergency services are using their "blues and two's" much, much more these days (I do sometimes wonder if it's really necessary) but people don't know how to react.

Tony.

 

[andyglym]

I suspect the ambulance driver was as shocked as I was. Poor guy (or girl of course!)

Yeah, especially if there's a punter in the back being worked on.