Motorway Horror Stories

[Cliphead]

Not on a motorway but couple of years ago car in front crossed to the other side of the road at a bend and had a head on. Stopped and got the keys out of the ignition of both cars. Dead guy in the back seat of one car, driver trapped but got the passenger out and on to the side of the road.

Other car had a young woman and four young children, shaken but ok.

While talking to the passenger at the side of the road she died, no response to resuscitation. Kinda changes your day a wee bit.

[Sysman]

I saw a car jump some red lights at a t-junction, a lorry was coming through the green, slammed on his brakes, and had time to lean out the cab door while braking, so the loose pipes in the back slid gracefully past him and out the window of his cab... that was HIS lucky day.

There was a set of lights on my way to work which had 3 lanes in each of 4 directions.

There must have been something wrong with the design or the traffic light sequence because every week I saw a vehicle pull off at red lights and hit something. I only went through it twice a day.

I picked a different route to work to avoid that junction.

[Sysman]

Chef's Top Tip: Don't ever go driving on a German Autobahn

Sysman's Top Tip. It doesn't matter how fast your car is, on a German Autobahn there will be something faster.

[realityhack]

Not on a motorway but couple of years ago car in front crossed to the other side of the road at a bend and had a head on. Stopped and got the keys out of the ignition of both cars. Dead guy in the back seat of one car, driver trapped but got the passenger out and on to the side of the road.

Other car had a young woman and four young children, shaken but ok.

While talking to the passenger at the side of the road she died, no response to resuscitation. Kinda changes your day a wee bit.

Sheesh.

I've had someone die in front of me, but nothing to do with motorways/vehicles. Changes your perspective on a lot of things.

[Sysman]

Why? I love it although driving down the A3 last Friday got bit hairy at one point. A BMW 3 estate was hammering (about 210-220) it in front of me and went to pull over to let me through but there were 3 rusty old Transits with English plates slowly going along when one decided to pull out as the BMW was just pulling in which neccesitated us both slamming on the anchors. The BMW pulled alongside the Transit and a few choice words and hand signals were thrown out. I reckon that they were East Europeans going back home as you now get of lot of UK registered cars going down the autobahn no loaded up with luggage and usually with 4 men in them, quite often driving slowly, sitting in the middle lane.

Ah yes. I was a passenger in an M5 on a Autobahn when we suddenly hit a tailback doing 160 kph.

"I bet it's a Brit holding us up" said the driver.
"How do you know?" I said.
"Trust me, it will be a Brit, because they are bang on 100 mph" was his reply.

When we eventually caught up with it, sure enough, there was the GB registered Mondeo. The bloke driving and his kids were grinning their heads off at doing 100 mph.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Sysman's Top Tip. It doesn't matter how fast your car is, on a German Autobahn there will be something faster.

No matter how fast your car is there's always someone more reckless

[Sysman]

No matter how fast your car is there's always someone more reckless

Also true.

[Pogle]

Sheesh.

I've had someone die in front of me, but nothing to do with motorways/vehicles. Changes your perspective on a lot of things.

Ditto

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Ditto

Crikey - I appear to have been lucky. Seen a dead bloke (my dad) but that's it.

[NickFitz]

I've had somebody keel over in front of me and exhibit no pulse and no respiration

He wasn't dead by the time I'd finished with him. Even better, one of the paramedics turned out to be an old friend he hadn't seen in years. As they were carting him off to the ambulance he was mumbling something about "Do you still go in the Red Lion?"