(04-25-2021 11:49 PM)salukiblue Wrote: (04-25-2021 10:40 PM)dwash Wrote: (04-25-2021 04:38 PM)k2tigers Wrote: sad
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Man so thankful I survived my immature years of driving like this.
Yep.
My riskiest driving occurred in the mountains of Canada going way too fast in a blizzard on the trans-Canada highway at night through road construction at that. Or perhaps simply driving here in Virginia Beach at night in a blizzard with cataracts. Keep in mind I only have useful vision in one eye anyway. Or driving home after cataract surgery.
But wait.. there's more! How about going 127mph down a mountain in Montana in a Honda Accord just to wake myself up after driving over 30 hours straight? Could have pushed it much faster but the risk was already too great and I had already woke myself up.
Oh yeah, simply driving 40+ hours straight a couple times probably tops the list because you truly do feel like a zombie after you get in the 30+ hour range with all the Monster drinks and other tactics to stay awake. I could never do anything like that anymore at my age. Or could I?
I'm sure there's much more I'm not thinking about. I've totaled several cars, one of them a couple times. And literally fell asleep driving once, resulting in the only legit flat my Accord has had in 16+ years and almost 300k miles. (But I have to argue that since it simply was torn off the rim. No hole.) So any of those situations had to have topped the list as well.
By the way that 127mph speed record was recorded in my old Garmin for years until I decided to take it on a plane. Then it was like 500+ mph.
Honorable Mention: Although I wasn't the driver, I'd say my most dangerous situation in a car was a high speed getaway chase from god knows who. All I know is the driver flipped someone off, and then we were chased through the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland going through several red lights at high speeds to finally get away. I could barely understand the dialect so I didn't quite get all the details other than that. lol