Baka Sama
01-20-2005, 01:28 PM
-True Story. Learn from Our Stupidity!
It was around 1am on september 6, 2004. My friend and I had driven through dragons tail a few times before with a small car group (240s/rx7s) and thought we would do it again for fun by ourselves. Our friends followed behind in a hyundai as we lead the way in a red s13 hatch with me riding shootgun. It took us half an hour to reach Dahlonega, Ga from Duluth and almost turned back after passing a few cops nearing the mountain. Once we got to the begining of dragons tail we flashed our hazards to let our friends know and took off..
The thrill of taking those turns are something else (Over 300 in 11min I believe). There was noone on the road so we had both lanes all to ourselves going 65+mph. It had to be the most fun Ive ever had in a car. We slowed to past a suv and continued up blood mountain. Everything was great until we came to a sharp left turn. We entered completely wrong into the turn in the outside lane, going way too fast! The car shoot off the road going 70+mph. The last thing my friend remebers me saying was "oh shit!!" before he blacked out. The next 10 or so seconds were dead silience. It felt like a dream as we flew literally of the mountain and the only thing I could see were trees passing by in our head lights. My life didnt flash before my eyes, I just sat there with my mouth open taking it all in. Imagin someone swinging a baseball bat at your chest as hard as they could. Thats what it felt like when we hit. Somehow our car got stuck in between two huge ass trees which caught us and dropped us to a stop on the side of the mountain. We hit the trees kinda at a 45 degree angle so the seat belt took most of my weight. It was so strong that it broke my rib and pushed it into my lung causing it to collapse. The next thing I know we've crashed, my whole body is in pain, I cant breath normally, the front of the car is smoking, and my friend looks dead. I reached over to cut the engine off and shook my friend to try to wake him up. I've never been so scared. He started talking gibberish and moaning out loud. My next instinct was to get the hell outta there. My door was jammed shut and I could'nt crawl over my friend to get out. Which was a good thing because if I had gotten out of my side I would have fallin down the mountain to my death. So I sat there and waited until I heard my friends voice who were following behind our car. Along with them came the woman who we had past in the suv. She was a nurse at one of the local hospitals in Dahlonega. They went to the drivers side first because she thought he had the most damage. She kept asking us our names, what day it was, who was the president, and she also counted our pulse, and kept us still until the ambulance came. I owe her my life. (thank you) To make a long story short: I spent the next 5 days in intensive care with a tube in my chest and racked up over 15k in medical bills (which my friends auto insurance is currently paying off and then some). My friend ended up having a broken collar bone, concussion, and a few cuts and bruises. They told us if we had hit the trees dead on we would have died on impact, and if we did not get stuck we would have hit the lake at the bottom and drowned.
Its been 4 months since this happend and we are just now getting everything back to normal. It is a complete miracle that we even survived at all. Please learn from our mistakes. Amateurs should never try tongue by themselves. Prepare your car before any kind of motorsport. Never do stupid things on public roads. It almost cost us our lives...
Side note: Im planning on getting a tattoo over the scar on my chest where they put in the tube that says "to survive/ endure" in kanji.
Hi, my name is Chris and I was :Owned: by Blood Mountain.
It was around 1am on september 6, 2004. My friend and I had driven through dragons tail a few times before with a small car group (240s/rx7s) and thought we would do it again for fun by ourselves. Our friends followed behind in a hyundai as we lead the way in a red s13 hatch with me riding shootgun. It took us half an hour to reach Dahlonega, Ga from Duluth and almost turned back after passing a few cops nearing the mountain. Once we got to the begining of dragons tail we flashed our hazards to let our friends know and took off..
The thrill of taking those turns are something else (Over 300 in 11min I believe). There was noone on the road so we had both lanes all to ourselves going 65+mph. It had to be the most fun Ive ever had in a car. We slowed to past a suv and continued up blood mountain. Everything was great until we came to a sharp left turn. We entered completely wrong into the turn in the outside lane, going way too fast! The car shoot off the road going 70+mph. The last thing my friend remebers me saying was "oh shit!!" before he blacked out. The next 10 or so seconds were dead silience. It felt like a dream as we flew literally of the mountain and the only thing I could see were trees passing by in our head lights. My life didnt flash before my eyes, I just sat there with my mouth open taking it all in. Imagin someone swinging a baseball bat at your chest as hard as they could. Thats what it felt like when we hit. Somehow our car got stuck in between two huge ass trees which caught us and dropped us to a stop on the side of the mountain. We hit the trees kinda at a 45 degree angle so the seat belt took most of my weight. It was so strong that it broke my rib and pushed it into my lung causing it to collapse. The next thing I know we've crashed, my whole body is in pain, I cant breath normally, the front of the car is smoking, and my friend looks dead. I reached over to cut the engine off and shook my friend to try to wake him up. I've never been so scared. He started talking gibberish and moaning out loud. My next instinct was to get the hell outta there. My door was jammed shut and I could'nt crawl over my friend to get out. Which was a good thing because if I had gotten out of my side I would have fallin down the mountain to my death. So I sat there and waited until I heard my friends voice who were following behind our car. Along with them came the woman who we had past in the suv. She was a nurse at one of the local hospitals in Dahlonega. They went to the drivers side first because she thought he had the most damage. She kept asking us our names, what day it was, who was the president, and she also counted our pulse, and kept us still until the ambulance came. I owe her my life. (thank you) To make a long story short: I spent the next 5 days in intensive care with a tube in my chest and racked up over 15k in medical bills (which my friends auto insurance is currently paying off and then some). My friend ended up having a broken collar bone, concussion, and a few cuts and bruises. They told us if we had hit the trees dead on we would have died on impact, and if we did not get stuck we would have hit the lake at the bottom and drowned.
Its been 4 months since this happend and we are just now getting everything back to normal. It is a complete miracle that we even survived at all. Please learn from our mistakes. Amateurs should never try tongue by themselves. Prepare your car before any kind of motorsport. Never do stupid things on public roads. It almost cost us our lives...
Side note: Im planning on getting a tattoo over the scar on my chest where they put in the tube that says "to survive/ endure" in kanji.
Hi, my name is Chris and I was :Owned: by Blood Mountain.