Yesterday I nearly lost my life....
I returned from a trip to Florida for vacation thursday afternoon. I ended up oversleeping Friday morning and got in the car to rush to work. I was on I-65 heading into montgomery moving way faster than I ever should've been going. A van pulled out from the center lane into the left lane, the lane I was in, cutting me off. I slammed on my brakes to avoid hitting him as best as I could. My brakes locked up, and I slid across all three lanes of traffic towards the shoulder, which was a steep drop-off into a ditch. I cut the wheel back to the left, and spun around in the middle of the interstate once that I remember, possibly twice, before sliding down into the ditch sideways. The last time I looked at my GPS right before locking my brakes up, the MPH guage read 114...
Had I continued going straight, I would've rear-ended the van and been killed. Turned left, hit the concrete barrier in the median, and died. Continued going into the ditch head-first, very likely would've rolled and died. The fact that while spinning on the interstate in RUSH HOUR Traffic that I was not hit by a car, is a miracle. The only thing I hit was an orange traffic barrell on the shoulder with my rear passenger-side.
...guys I honestly shouldn't have walked away from losing control of a car that fast. I was being looked after I tell you that. I've never felt so helpless in my life, and I've really barely been able to function the past two days it frightenend me so much.
I said all of that to say this. I know its fun and seems cool to push your car on the interstate, but guys and gals, it really isn't worth losing your life over. I turned 20 years old tuesday. I know a lot of you are even younger than I am.... not even scratching the surface of living life. Don't risk it anymore guys...you may not be as lucky as I was.
I returned from a trip to Florida for vacation thursday afternoon. I ended up oversleeping Friday morning and got in the car to rush to work. I was on I-65 heading into montgomery moving way faster than I ever should've been going. A van pulled out from the center lane into the left lane, the lane I was in, cutting me off. I slammed on my brakes to avoid hitting him as best as I could. My brakes locked up, and I slid across all three lanes of traffic towards the shoulder, which was a steep drop-off into a ditch. I cut the wheel back to the left, and spun around in the middle of the interstate once that I remember, possibly twice, before sliding down into the ditch sideways. The last time I looked at my GPS right before locking my brakes up, the MPH guage read 114...
Had I continued going straight, I would've rear-ended the van and been killed. Turned left, hit the concrete barrier in the median, and died. Continued going into the ditch head-first, very likely would've rolled and died. The fact that while spinning on the interstate in RUSH HOUR Traffic that I was not hit by a car, is a miracle. The only thing I hit was an orange traffic barrell on the shoulder with my rear passenger-side.
...guys I honestly shouldn't have walked away from losing control of a car that fast. I was being looked after I tell you that. I've never felt so helpless in my life, and I've really barely been able to function the past two days it frightenend me so much.
I said all of that to say this. I know its fun and seems cool to push your car on the interstate, but guys and gals, it really isn't worth losing your life over. I turned 20 years old tuesday. I know a lot of you are even younger than I am.... not even scratching the surface of living life. Don't risk it anymore guys...you may not be as lucky as I was.
but im glad your still alive. normally at our meets(east coast meets), we speed and race on the highway. we all do. it just happens. but we all agreed after tickets and crap we've gotten, we aint doin it no more. too much to risk. and plus, we got the track to ourselves for 2-3hrs. haha
i hope by now he got everything worked out
-visualpoet
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