holy shit

[Andrew Bohan]

i was driving on the freeway in rush hour, in the far left lane. traffic was light, but suddenly we came up on a dead-stopped pack of cars. the car in front of me swerved off to the left shoulder, which is luckily about 2 lanes wide right there. i was on the brakes in time to be calm about it, but then i heard CHKCHKCHKCHCKHCK hella loud coming from the lane to my right and it was a semi truck with no trailer skipping down his lane with all of his wheels locked. he was gonna plow into the stopped cars in that lane so he yanked it hard left and started coming into my lane in front of me, so i braked harder and he spun out right in front of me. i had never seen a semi truck spin out before. it was pretty loud. i stopped in time to not hit him, and the guy behind me didn't hit me either, and no one else crashed. pretty random and lucky.

since the shoulder was so wide, i just drove around the truck and kept going. looked in the rearview and he was backing up tryin to get situated right. fuckin guy.

[Phlip]

Holy fucking hell, good job not catching an acute case of death.

[jackjack]

DAMN. good to hear you're ok :aw:

:bigok:

[TravisSW]

Bohan 1
Death 0
lol

[hrdprkin180]

dude! I proly would of shit myself something fierce!!

[Andrew Bohan]

i was on the phone talking to my friend when it happened too.

not that it's cool to be on the phone and drive

but i was like fonzie up in there.

my friend i was talking to didn't even know something had happened hahahah

[BustedS13]

great, now you've caused a rift in death's design.

[!Zar!]

That semi truck was goin dumb. That's what happens when you're messing around in Oaktown.

[downshift_sideways]

Was this on 101N toward frisco?

I heard about it on the traffic Jam 106.1 KMEL

[Andrew Bohan]

it was in oakland
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=2073621065878431970,37.801261,-122.281804&saddr=37.801795,-122.283411&daddr=&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=18&sll=37.802197,-122.284065&sspn=0.002967,0.004823&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=18

[BustedS13]

http://i32.tinypic.com/2n8oug7.jpg

[TiNMAN]

dog...good thing you werent riding.


ive seen crazy crashes too...like 3 lanes away...less than 30yds. i was in the number 1 lane and the crash was in the number 4. an accord flipping with the driver still holding on to his steering wheel.

[Dirty Habit]

When I was about 11 or so we used to live in DC. One afternoon my family and I were in our van on the beltway going someplace when the traffic jammed in front of us really fast, going from something like 65 to 15mph in 2 seconds. Luckily we got stopped but people next to us hit someone and they were hit from behind.
All of a sudden we heard this squealing and we turned and looked to see this Ferrari go spinning. It does two full rotations before gaining traction and pulling hard left before stopping between the concrete barrier and the car next to us. Something like a foot of air between the barrier and the car next to it. It was fucking crazy...the best part was the guy inside looked over at everyone and laughed then took a drag off his cig.
Guy never dropped his smoke. It was liking watching the end of the Clint Eastwood movie unforgiven. It was just bad ass. I knew then I wanted to be able to control a car like that.

[g6civcx]

And now you know why I drive a full-size truck.

[ByeByeSti]

great, now you've caused a rift in death's design.


i sense a new final destination movie coming out. from the life of Andrew Bohan

[exitspeed]

You just never know when it's your time.

[punxva]

wow man glad your alright, crazy shit... Makes you think about everything a little differently after something like that

[240love^_^]

Talk about a near death experience...thats scary stuff....glad to hear you're okay.

[HyperTek]

you never think about it.. but you can be the most cautious driver out there, it wont save you from teh idiocy of others.

Ive had 2 friends who where in life changing accidents withen the last year due to drunk drivers.. one of my friends just broke an arm and bruises but his gf died from the accident from a head on collision with a drunk driver., and recently a friend of mine just out the hospital from riding in the back seat of a corolla and got tboned by a drunk driver..

i talk to people in thier 80s up to thier 90s everyday, and i just think about how lucky i would be to reach that age.. so i kinda admire old people lol

[w0nderbr3ad]

dude! I proly would of shit myself something fierce!!

I just spit orange juice all over my damn keyboard. hahahahaa.

OP: I'm glad you avoided a potentially extreme accident. Did you chuck your phone when you had to avoid the semi? I know when I used to drive and talk on the phone, I just threw the fucker on the floorboard and hold my wheel. Nowadays I just avoid my calls until i get where I need to be and call back.

[azndoc]

Damn that sucks. Yeah close calls.

Driving in LA is kinda like that but just everyday it seems.

[Andrew Bohan]

Did you chuck your phone when you had to avoid the semi? I know when I used to drive and talk on the phone, I just threw the fucker on the floorboard and hold my wheel. Nowadays I just avoid my calls until i get where I need to be and call back.

nope, i just kept talking like nothing happened. like i said before, my friend didn't even know something had happened

[240sx_sr20det]

He was totally lockin' em up on purpose;

showing off his drifting skills like that civic kid from another thread. :duh:






:rofl:

[Bobafreak]

damn...sometimes it pays to be on the phone.





Cause then the other person on the other end can hear your reactions. lol.

[ROUGE180]

Wow, thats crazy. Glad you didn't get mangled. I would have been white nuckle 1 handed kansai drifting past the truck listening to Mr. Roboto lol.... more like shitting a brick more fiercer than hrdprkin180 lol

[blasting_speed]

dude! I proly would of shit myself something fierce!!

Oh fuck. I'm sure that would of been louder than the noise the semi made. ahahahaha

[an_orange_s2k]

holy shit! sounds like some final destination shit

[stinky_180]

wow man you is lucky! sounds pretty damn scary considering it was traffic!

[98s14inaz]

Glad you dodged the bullet on that one. No one realizes how much real estate those semi's need to stop. At least the driver stuck with it and tried to avoid as many people as possible. That would have been awesome seeing one spin out though.

[Farzam]

That's actually a pretty badass story.

Too bad it wasn't on tape