2 days old and almost wrecked

yaheard

OK so I bought my Z on Tuesday and it is a very big deal to me. As per my other threads I am new to driving a manual so I have only been driving to the local school that isjust around the corner from my house. No more than 2 miles and through a neighborhood. To get into the big parking lot where I have been practicing shifting and all that you go through a 4 way light. speed limit all ways is 25. Im sitting at the light and watch a guy slow and then stop , then my light turns green. I always wait a moment or two just incase of any morons to begin with, so I do that and then slowly start to shift and then start to go. From around the bend some Beeyatch in a old minivan on the phone with passengers is approaching fast about 40, and I notice her but again my light is now at leat 15 second old. I begin to roll and start going and have to stop because she just went right through as if her light was green. Never looked over, never hesitated just kept going as if there was no big deal.

I was so lost I looked up at my light to make sure it didnt turn red, and it was still green and the other guy was still sitting there in crossing traffic at his red light (should have been hers too) shaking his head and looking at me. Assuming I was either less fortunate or better at shifting I would have been tboned and probably seriously hurt if not killed and bye bye dream car and a whole lot more. I was so flustered I just parked when I got into the school and sat there for 10 minutes playing out in my head what could have happened.

What is wrong with people? Anybody else have any close calls?

Red__Zed

hate when that happens.

eksigned

I hear ya man I don't own a Z, but I'm still within' the "family" of Nissans. Morons like that are every where, and unfortunately...common sense, isn't so common. Idiots. This is terrible to say, but when I hear "old, beat up minivan," I think of extremely obese women. Bet you she was fat and retarded huh?

Good luck learning to drive that MT. If you learn to drive on your Z, you'll be able to drive just about ANYTHING (MT). It took me almost a complete year to drive the car consistently, and correctly. It has some odd little kinks to it. Annoying, but a damn fun car! Have fun!!!

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ImportConvert

Women drive for ****. Nothing new here. You got lucky. Some dumb bitch killed a guy I knew just like that. He was on a motorcycle and he was already in motion as the light had been green a long time when her dumb *** drove into him with an SUV.

yaheard

I hear you. I am also sorry about your friend, I had 3 buddies from highschool pass away on bikes. So sad, we just graduated 5 years ago, and now they are gone.

It could have very easily went that way had I been about 4 car lengths further up. I was and still am so mad at how stupid she was! Why would somebody just simply run a redlight like its no big deal? let alone on a residential/school area with 25 mph speed limits?

Im still pretty shook up about it that it could have ended very badly so easily. Some people should be taken behind a shed and beat or shot I tell you.

Rui Z

Unfortunately, I hit an old lady who ran a red light. Although my Z is repaired 'like new' since it was only cosmetic damage, I feel like I love it a little less because of the accident.

Good luck learning manual on the Z like I did.

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TreeSemdyZee

Glad you didn't get smashed.

I'll quote the first thing that my dad said to me when he took me out on my first drive.
First: Always remember you're driving a deadly weapon.
Second: Drive like everyone else on the road is a complete idiot.

It's when I forgot one of those two that I have gotten in trouble.

I'm personally sick-and-tired of seeing people constantly talking on their cellphones. It's a frickin' deadly addiction. MOST cellphone conversations are inane B.S. that doesn't even need to be said.

Keep your eyes open dude.

Vaughanabe13

This story scares the poo out of me, considering I'm also learning MT on my Z that I just bought. I'm getting the hang of it, but if a crazy situation happened I don't think I would be able to react fast enough yet to avoid disaster.

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ImportConvert

If some bitch runs a redlight and slams into you it doesn't matter what your reaction time is.

So far I have one friend dead, another with a totaled car, both from bitches running redlights, and just the other day watched a bitch just roll straight through a red-light yapping on her cell-phone. They aren't smart enough to talk and drive at the same time.

11Thumper

Had a very close call on a motorcycle once. I was 22 years old and was about to head out after I got the green. Some older guy in a Ford Explorer (who was next to me) cut in front of me on purpose. At first I was pissed but when I saw another SUV fly through the intersection I realized what he did. I chatted with him for a bit and learned his son was killed on a motorcycle at an intersection about 10 years prior. I still ride but I have NEVER forgotten that incident each and every time I'm at a light. He saved my life that day no doubt...

I still visit him once in a while but he's in his 80's now so it's not so easy. I was lucky and sounds like you were too. It's just crazy how idiots don't pay attention (like women on cell phones) but some of us 'gentleman' (not me) are stupid enough to street race. Think about it.

Set an example and be safe out there. Do it for you and your family...

yaheard

Sadly Vaughnabe its one of those things that is out of your control. I mean like I said, one way had a red light light and my way had the green light for about 15 seconds. Does that mean nawhen you rlight is green you sit there through the cycle and wait until nobody is around? What are you supposed do you know? When the light originally turned green she wasnt even there and I had given it a few seconds to check both ways and then started to go.

I didnt do anything wrong, and when the light is green your supposed to go. IT was just sheer stupidity that could have seriously hurt or killed somebody.

ZCarMan

Glad to hear your story had a happy ending in that you were not t-boned or injured in any way. Your story underscores that you can do everything correctly and still wind up injured or dead. Keeping your head on a swivel and always anticipating what some jack-wagon might do helps.

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PluckyPurcell

Always assume that everyone else on the road will do the stupidest things you can't even imagine. I was T-boned at an intersection on my motorcycle several years ago by a woman too busy doing her makup to notice that her light was red. It never changes.

Brutal 370Z

OP, I had the EXACT SAME THING happen to me about two years ago. I'm still rattled about it every time I think about it. In my situation, the lady was actually stopped (dead stop) for about 10 seconds at the red before she decided to floor it through while I was making a left on an advanced green. I had to slam on the breaks or else I would have been t-boned. We just have to count our lucky stars bro. I still try to fathom what went through her head....no luck.

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Red__Zed

I actually saw a dude on a bike get laid out a couple days ago, ironically by a young guy showing off in a vette. Dude was busy trying to get a Camaro driver's attention and blew through a light. Guy on the bike wa lucky, just launched over the car. Bike got destroyed though....and the vette just kept going