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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang Holy crap guys... I just narrowly avoided a huge collision on my way to work. If I had been in the old 370 or the 5.0

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Old 06-27-2012, 09:55 AM   #2311 (permalink)
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Holy crap guys... I just narrowly avoided a huge collision on my way to work. If I had been in the old 370 or the 5.0 I would not have been able to fit through the hole I had to slip the S2K through. The car in front of me and the car behind me are totaled. I think the one behind me also got hit by a few other cars as well.

I was in the far right lane of the highway. Volume was high but the speed was up. Was behind a Silverado doing about 70 mph. A work van was next to me on the left. All of a sudden I see the Silverado lock up the front brakes, then make a hard left into the next lane.

Through the tire smoke I see a Prius at the back of a line of traffic stopped dead ahead in my lane. I get hard on the brakes but knowing I'm going to hit him if I stay in my lane I let off the brakes and chance it that the van to my left is paying attention and quickly dart over as far as I can to the left. I was able to get partially over into the left lane and managed not to hit the van and just narrowly squeaked by the Prius at about 40 mph.

The Corolla behind me slammed into the Prius and a couple other cars piled into the Corolla. Airbags off and everything.

Madness.
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Moral of the story is to maintain a big gap between any car in front of you that you can't see through! Be careful out there, guys.

Also, this is the second close call that has me thinking I need to order PSS for the S2k right away. The last one was a giant metal pipe getting kicked up 20 ft in the air from a big truck ahead of me, then slamming down in my lane. Had to cross two lanes quickly to avoid it and the Hanpoop tires did not want to hold on.
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Oh the top was down so the accident sound effects were pretty cool. Very violent!
wow! I just pooped a little after reading that!

Glad you are safe, and came out of that situation without any marks... Other than some chocolate skid marks maybe....
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No chocolate. I just do work in those situations. Red__Zed is the one that poops in my seats when we go on off-road adventures.
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No chocolate. I just do work in those situations. Red__Zed is the one that poops in my seats when we go on off-road adventures.
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I don't know why he was afraid. It's not like we were 6" away from falling 100' to our deaths or anything.
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Holy crap guys... I just narrowly avoided a huge collision on my way to work. If I had been in the old 370 or the 5.0 I would not have been able to fit through the hole I had to slip the S2K through. The car in front of me and the car behind me are totaled. I think the one behind me also got hit by a few other cars as well.

I was in the far right lane of the highway. Volume was high but the speed was up. Was behind a Silverado doing about 70 mph. A work van was next to me on the left. All of a sudden I see the Silverado lock up the front brakes, then make a hard left into the next lane.

Through the tire smoke I see a Prius at the back of a line of traffic stopped dead ahead in my lane. I get hard on the brakes but knowing I'm going to hit him if I stay in my lane I let off the brakes and chance it that the van to my left is paying attention and quickly dart over as far as I can to the left. I was able to get partially over into the left lane and managed not to hit the van and just narrowly squeaked by the Prius at about 40 mph.

The Corolla behind me slammed into the Prius and a couple other cars piled into the Corolla. Airbags off and everything.

Madness.
Dang. I am happy you are okay.
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It is the biggest software deal we have ever worked on. We had first contact with these guys in Oct. 2011 when I answered a 1,647 line RFP that they send to 15 prospective vendors, now it's just us. Today we run through soemetechnology issues with their IS dept and show a few key workflows. If I don't blow it, then the deal is done. Sales has their pricing ducks in a row, their management team has signed off, and we have delivered proof of concept to all other departments. There you go.
good luck today, mr.onzedge! selling a 6 digit software is tough business (not that i am any expert in software).

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Moral of the story is to maintain a big gap between any car in front of you that you can't see through! Be careful out there, guys.

Also, this is the second close call that has me thinking I need to order PSS for the S2k right away. The last one was a giant metal pipe getting kicked up 20 ft in the air from a big truck ahead of me, then slamming down in my lane. Had to cross two lanes quickly to avoid it and the Hanpoop tires did not want to hold on.
i knew this was going to be some sort of PSS commercial/advertising campaigne... just kidding! glad you made it okay! i had a similar situation back 20yrs+ ago when i was driving a pos civic-hb with no-season tires i saw a cavalier or something PARKED in the middle of the fast lane. we were all going pretty fast 75mph-ish and a trunk infront of me (blocking my view) suddenly swerved out of the lane to avoid hitting the parked cavalier giving me less than 0.5 sec to react.

with pos all seasons on a stock pos civic with 90K miles, i knew the only option. i went into the grass to avoid hahaha. i thought my pos car would fall apart into pieces with tires blown and all. cars behind me also did the same and luckily noone hit, no blown tires. we all got out of our cars, and did the wtf dance. then hopped back into our cars and drove off.

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Oh the top was down so the accident sound effects were pretty cool. Very violent!

did you gopro it?! so you likes your s2k better than before now?
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I like the S2K more and more every day. Though I am getting tired of driving it. Need to fix the 5.0 this weekend!
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i knew this was going to be some sort of PSS commercial/advertising campaigne... just kidding! glad you made it okay! i had a similar situation back 20yrs+ ago when i was driving a pos civic-hb with no-season tires i saw a cavalier or something PARKED in the middle of the fast lane. we were all going pretty fast 75mph-ish and a trunk infront of me (blocking my view) suddenly swerved out of the lane to avoid hitting the parked cavalier giving me less than 0.5 sec to react.

with pos all seasons on a stock pos civic with 90K miles, i knew the only option. i went into the grass to avoid hahaha. i thought my pos car would fall apart into pieces with tires blown and all. cars behind me also did the same and luckily noone hit, no blown tires. we all got out of our cars, and did the wtf dance. then hopped back into our cars and drove off.

did you gopro it?! so you likes your s2k better than before now?
Thanks, Mr. Kenchan. This one will be 7 figures over a year. No pressure. Geesh... These guys are showing up in 1 1/2 hours and then it's all on me. I need a nap or a vacation or something. I may as well burn off my nervous energy on the forum.
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