Now this is a close shave. Hory shet!

**red mermaid** · 31st August 2011, 19:42

I followed a car once that was right on the centre line as it went round a corner in a 100 km/h area. Right on the bend it met a car on the centre line going the other way and they hit on their wing mirrors.

The other car kept going and I never saw it again.

I stopped the car I was following and the female driver was drunk.

What was even more interesting was a few months before she had had a crash on that same bend in the same sort of circumstances, but on that occasion she ran off after the crash and wasn't found until the next day.

Karma eventually caught up with her.

**skippa1** · 31st August 2011, 19:49

fast reactions

**Spearfish** · 31st August 2011, 20:00

I would have had a spontaneous and fairly substantial evacuation then been really pissed off at having to try get the gear off and hidden in the bottom of the washing machine before #1 spotted it.

Seriously though, Holy fuck that was close!

**baptist** · 31st August 2011, 22:53

Shivers down the spine or what...

drunk, on the phone, just plain stupid? what gives driving like that

**swbarnett** · 1st September 2011, 01:15

Time for a Stebel me thinks. And perhaps a rear mounted rocket launcher so they can't repeat the stunt.

**Spearfish** · 1st September 2011, 06:40

Was it real?

**rastuscat** · 1st September 2011, 07:05

Whew!!

Holy cow, that was close. I suspect I wouldn't have been smiling quite so much after being that close to death.

I posted about people not keeping left. Great example.

**Paul in NZ** · 1st September 2011, 08:03

Yup - that was close... Had a few similar moments on the Paekakareki Hill road and I was a lot closer to the gutter on my side....

I really prefer the left hand wheel track and only approach the centre line if I'm well sighted to see whats coming. 'Course on some roads (Akatarawa's for example) thats very difficult to do.

Vehicles have gotten bigger and bigger and gruntier and the drivers lazier.

**MSTRS:Me** · 1st September 2011, 08:31

Originally Posted by Madness

Bullshit. The ute crossed the centreline completely and was lucky to avoid rolling over into the ditch.

Originally Posted by Virago

Hook, line, and...

Originally Posted by Madness

Fair call.

The way KB is these days though there's bound to be some bugger in here before too long suggesting the world would be better off if the biker was killed.

Actually, I did mean what I said.
From what I could see in the clip, the rider was nowhere near the left wheeltrack and the SUV was straddling the centreline (about centred under his diff). Also, the 'corner' was really no more than a slight bend. Yes - video sometimes distorts things - but it really looked like the rider would be able to see well ahead, so he should have seen the other vehicle in plenty of time to not be caught out.
Mind you, I can understand that it is possible the SUV driver deliberately (?) veered right at the last minute...