Good day.....bad night....

[ootranceformeroo]

Well today started off nicely. Day at Infineon was alright. Came back from the skid pad hearing some funny noise from my engine. Popped the hood and somehow that plastic fan cover snapped. That was an easy fix...a little duck/duct(sp). Then from making all these turns from side to side knowing my steering wheel is way too close (away from me) to the turn signals and wiper switches....I was turnging the wheel left and apparently my knuckle came down on the turn signal/light switch it F'IN SNAPPED OFF! Now I have to use needle nose plyers to switch my lights on....ugh! :-/

Anyways on my way home, me, jay(Ieatrice), and jerry(heartwork) were on 880. I was getting tired and my eyes kept opening and closing...next thing I know I wake up hearing a smack. Turned out I hit that wall/gaurdrail whatever you want to call it and bounced off going straight. So we pull off and Jay said he saw the whole thing(he was in front of me). He said he saw me swerve all the way to the other lanes and all the cars around me spread out and then I swerved back aiming at the wall diagonally with my driver side corner light head first. Some how I straightend out a bit and just rubbed the wall. Mirror cracked(from the impact), front fender dented/scrapped, door scrapped(part of it down to the metal), and rear 1/4 panal scrapped and dented....Anyways, Ill post some pics up either tonight or tomarrow. I didnt get a chance to get pictures of the scrapped parts because I primered it already to stop from rusting. Now it doesnt look like you can see many dents....

...my life could have been over or I could have seriously gotten injured. I came out with not a scratch on me. Gotta love those angels. :(

[russian]

:faint: as long as you are ok, cars are just things, plus everyone is entitled to a mistake, so you fell asleep behind the week, look at the brighter side, you wont do this again, right?

good you are ok tho, its all that matters dude :coold:

[black s13]

good to hear your alright, do you want a new stick thing? i can hook you up cheap, i have 2 extras.

[Loofee95SE]

dude that's sucks..but u r ok..that's good. u can get more money to fix the car as long as u live.

[Heartwork]

dang, i didnt know what happened until i was way past you guys, and Jay called and told me what happened, by that time, i couldnt turn around (traffic) :(

glad you're all good though.....

[Advan]

wow, yea I'm glad too that you're also ok. That was something I wasn't expecting to hear.

[Burmonster]

Glad to hear that you didnt get hurt. Please, if you feel tired, pull over and take a few winks, it could save yours or somebody else's life.

[Annoying Eric]

Dont worry man, it could have been ALOT worse... I fell asleep driving home from school for a weekend.. Lucky I wasnt in my 240, i was in my old daily driver car....

http://community.webshots.com/s/image7/6/51/41/116865141hVNAGO_ph.jpg

[ootranceformeroo]

Thanks guys. Yeah well I just didnt think about pulling over because I turned the music up to keep me up and I was wide awake. Next thing I knew I heard a bang and that was it.

Yeah of course. I always learn my lesson. I will pull over next time. The car, I dont really care about. In the future it will get repainted probaly a differnt color along with some other stuff maybe. So I dont really care about the car(actually I do but you know what I mean)...no frame damage so its okay. No one could really tell that I got into an accident when they saw my car. All you can mostly see is just the dark grayish primer.

Sorry to see that Annoying Eric. Glad you werent hurt hopefully and also not your 240.

Thanks Jerry. Yeah its cool dude. I didnt really want to hold you guys up also knowing Jay had a dinner with his girl. So it was just a quick check and chat and we left. Ill try to get pics tomarrow since its kinda late and I dont feel like taking pics now.

edit: black s13, pm me about how much you want for it. I might be able to get one from a friend but we'll see. If not then Ill just get it from you.

[Annoying Eric]

Yeah man thanks.. I actually walked out of that and i was fine.. I wasnt wearing my seatbelt either.. i dunno why though. I think i took it off to put my coat on.. The car flipped 1 one time, end over end then rolled twice and landed on the roof and slid a little while... I crawled right out and called my boy who was driving in front of me.. I told the tow truck guy id sue him if he scratched my paint... LOL
But be happy your ok.. Thank god people swerved out of your way....

Does anyone know the secret to staying up while you drive? Even with like 9 hours of sleep the night before.

[ootranceformeroo]

Sing sing sing sing sing.....LALALALALALALALA!!!! try to drink something with caffine. Row the windows down(sometimes this makes me a little more tired b/c the wind that blows in my eyes make my eyes work harder)hehe.

Yeah if people didnt swerve out or had I spun out....Id be dead meat....

[russian]

Does anyone know the secret to staying up while you drive? Even with like 9 hours of sleep the night before.


tripple shot of expresso +uni. animal stack. thats only if you HAVE too. otherwise stick with coffee.

[Advan]

better yet, whenever you feel sleepy and you feel like you can't make it home, either try to find the closest Rest Stop and sleep there, or just pull over and on the side of the road and sleep. I assume that 880 is the interstate right?

[WilloW]

Blacking out /sleeping behind the wheels is scary, happened to me a couple time. My friend almost got killed because he fell asleep while driving (3 weeks in the hospital). Glad to see you're alright, and didn't nailed anyone else during your accident.

[DRFT]

good thing your alright, did the rims get scratched?

[typhoonslippery]

keep some wakeups in the glovebox next time ...glad to hear you are alright

[DuffMan]

Driving tired is really dangerous.

I started to drift off once on the highway, and there was some huge construction truck parked on the shoulder. I started drifting towards the shoulder, but luckily woke up and caught myself in time to get back on the road.

[tsunami0ne]

Ouch. Good to hear you aren't dead. I guess all that standing around waiting took it's toll. Screw these 50+ driver cone dodging events. I almost fell alseep on 3 separate occasions on the way home as well (arrived home 6am) but I took 3 naps also. What time did you guys leave Infineon Raceway?

[sLiDewAys]

DARN* just glad to hear that your alright man, i have fenders and such. contact me or pm me man. ill see what i can do!

lates,
brandon

[ootranceformeroo]

good thing your alright, did the rims get scratched?


One rim got scratched but it was only my SE rims so I didnt really care.

Tsunamione: I think we ended up leaving around...5-530? Got home around 730-8 b/c we pulled over. But yeah, never got a chance to get your name. Im Daniel btw incase you didnt get mine either.

sLideways: you have a PM.

[s0ldats]

falling asleep on the freeway sucks. good to hear you're ok

[tsunami0ne]

One rim got scratched but it was only my SE rims so I didnt really care.

Tsunamione: I think we ended up leaving around...5-530? Got home around 730-8 b/c we pulled over. But yeah, never got a chance to get your name. Im Daniel btw incase you didnt get mine either.

sLideways: you have a PM.

Heaven... Don Heaven.

[ootranceformeroo]

cool. It was nice meeting you Don. Taking pics as we speak...or chat.

[nightwalker]

dam, I am notorious for swerving around driving late at night.

Sorry to hear about the car. At least you are well to drive another day.

Whenever I'm super sleepy, I exit somewhere, and park, then crash. It's a lot better than risking the drive.

[Dousan_PG]

cold norcal nights how to keep away
take off your shirt and open your window
hahahahaha

works for me! kept me awake a the few times i was starting to fall asleep. cold nipples arent comfy!

[DRFT]

hahaha you said it dousan

it probably feels just like this

http://www.waterbedmart.biz/_/owned/funny_owned/vigorsol-nips.asf

[Brian]

this is what happens when you sleep-drive and run into parked trailer trucks of some sort...

http://24.59.109.135/pichost/pic//brian%20car%2003.JPG
this is a side shot from the front fender.
http://24.59.109.135/pichost/pic//brian_car2.jpg
this is what it looks like inside your car. mm mmm bloody.
http://24.59.109.135/pichost/pic//brian_car1.jpg
and the head on shot. cars dont beat big ass trucks!
this was my old Mitsu. Mirage sedan.


i'm glad you are okay man!

[DRFT]

yeeessshhh glad you made it out ok too man!

[Heartwork]

Heaven... Don Heaven.
Who is the REAL Heaven???
:nono:

[ca18guy]

How do you guys do it? I can't imagine falling asleep behind the wheel, its the one place that constantly keeps me awake (and i been on some boring long road trips)
With in a year of graduating a kid I knew from school died cause he feel asleep driving home from college, consider yourself lucky :hs:

[mrmephistopheles]

people can be so stupid sometimes.
if you're having trouble staying awake... stop. sleep.
it's not a big deal.
i'd rather be 2 hours late to wherever i was trying to go than not get there at all or fuck up my car because i was trying to make good time.

the longest straight drive i ever made was solo from San Antonio, TX to San Diego, CA. According to Mapquest, it's a venture of these proportions:
Total Est. Time: 19 hours, 52 minutes Total Est. Distance: 1275.72 miles
I left San Antonio at 10AM local time, and made it to San Diego at 3AM PST. That was 19 hours, including all stops. Mapquest doesn't factor in stops, and assumes an average speed of ~65 mph. Yes, I was hauling ass. Yes, I got tired. What did I do when I got tired? I stopped and took an hourlong nap. After that, I was able to make it home without falling asleep @ the wheel.
Don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to preach or say ootranceformeroo is stupid. I'm saying people are stupid. Hell, I'm stupid. We get behind the wheels of our cars and think we're invincible, and would rather risk ourselves and our cars for the sake of convenience. It's just not worth it.
People are so uptight about stopping for a nap. Leave the car running, crack a window, lock the doors, and set your watch/cellphone to wake you up in an hour. No worries.

[s0ldats]

this is what happens when you sleep-drive and run into parked trailer trucks of some sort...


and the head on shot. cars dont beat big ass trucks!
this was my old Mitsu. Mirage sedan.


i'm glad you are okay man!


HOORAY HE'S ALIVE

[ootranceformeroo]

cold norcal nights how to keep away
take off your shirt and open your window
hahahahaha

works for me! kept me awake a the few times i was starting to fall asleep. cold nipples arent comfy!


hahahah I gotta try that.

And that video was hilarious!!!

Didnt look like you could have survived that w/o getting injured yeswepromis.

[ootranceformeroo]

people can be so stupid sometimes.
if you're having trouble staying awake... stop. sleep.
it's not a big deal.
i'd rather be 2 hours late to wherever i was trying to go than not get there at all or fuck up my car because i was trying to make good time.

We get behind the wheels of our cars and think we're invincible, and would rather risk ourselves and our cars for the sake of convenience. It's just not worth it.
People are so uptight about stopping for a nap. Leave the car running, crack a window, lock the doors, and set your watch/cellphone to wake you up in an hour. No worries.

Yeah I understand you. Though I wasnt trying to be on time for anything. I just pulled over AFTER it happend and stayed there for a short time b/c a friend had to be somewhere(just to clear that up). Though the drive was only an hour... :( I couldnt make it...wierd...even though Ive drove from the BayArea to Buttonwillow a bunch of times and to the LA area. Anyways. Enough ranting for me. Heres the pics...


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/pb684c602ace38e8cbf8e8c39a1bed9c3/f9abdd25.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p3c22017501f7b1df4571736009ad32f5/f9abdd42.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p5238547855790ae71d2dca47076d7824/f9abddfa.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p14c536f4ff5a6a6c6d8f1472224042fc/f9abde0a.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p4ddabf03e8bd073bf8b4dfcfdb149834/f9abde23.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p6891b21670dae58467d02cbeca8da274/f9abde3b.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p730703121e65c159bad6de968bed2f16/f9abde87.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p1ed9fcb2cd8b53a9c5ba5e495d4acbaa/f9abdeb5.jpg


And heres some pics of the broken turn signal/light switch and broken fan cover that happend at the Nasa drift event. http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/pac1a40cc16f80aa0ee0af27217e0d50c/f9abdddb.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/pedd28b855f68264ccbc0d4d542b60a96/f9abddc1.jpg

A little duck tape should do the trick! :naughty:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p17597f47179b54cbd57c98f7779e1c54/f9abdcec.jpg

Sorry for so many pics...click here for the rest of them.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4287746767&congratulation_page=Y

[CleanS14]

I didnt really want to hold you guys up also knowing Jay had a dinner with his girl. So it was just a quick check and chat and we left. Ill try to get pics tomarrow since its kinda late and I dont feel like taking pics now.
Dude... I really didn't care if I was late to go out with my girl man... I'm just glad you're okay!!! But seeing that happen behind me was crazzzy!!!

[dvdevo]

yeah i'm glad you're ok..car isnt that bad.

[NZO]

Unfadeable! Glad youre allright buddy.

[ootranceformeroo]

Sorry for the blurry pics. Wish I could see it from your view Jay...well....actually...not sure. Would be pretty scary.