Almost got into an accident.

So I'm driving out of town on my way to work about a half hour ago and there is a big curve in the road north of town. As I approach the curve, a Buick LeSabre comes flying around the corner, can't manage it and goes directly into my lane. I start to slow down and actually get on the brakes when I see this guy is staying in my lane. I only had a few feet to spare until I decided to take the ditch. Pretty sure the guy/girl was drunk.

I'm glad that I was able to avoid a head on collision, but it sure rattled me and I usually don't get too freaked out while driving.

This is my nightmare.

Glad you are okay.

Nothing like a nice game of chicken to get the old blood pumping.

Seriously, glad it was almost an accident.

that was how my cousin got killed. He was riding his Harley and a drunk girl, driving a car that had failed inspection that was also not registered or running insurance came around a corner wide and hit him head on.

As much as I would like to own an old BMW or Ducati, I won't touch a bike because of that

That has been a recurring fear of mine, too: meeting some idiot on the road like that. It happened to my mom once.

Many years ago she was driving a two lane road sorta late at night and was approaching a (to her) left hand turn. She said the view of the oncoming lane around the corner was obscured by brush small trees etc. so she was suddenly confronted with a car in the opposite lane which had the rear hung out in a power slide. The left rear of that car (she thinks it was a Duster) hit the left side of her car (a Cadillac Eldorado) and raked all the way down the side. There was not a single piece of straight sheet metal on the left from front to rear, it took off both wheel covers and the left rear fender 'skirt' took off for parts unknown. It all happened so fast that she was all the way through the curve before she even hit the brakes.

Sometimes there's just plain stupidity about these things. In my days as an OHV trail advocate, I was continually faced with land managers who would want two way trail. Uh, not just no but HELL no. In fact, there is a section of trail in upstate SC which is two way for its entire ~15 mile length. That way they can claim it's actually 30 miles. You go straight out to the end, make a 180 and ride backwards to the start.

Yeah, you never know what's waiting around the bend. I pass a pretty large memorial to and from work for a nursing student killed right before graduation a year or two back. She was heading home from finals met a drunk doing 80-90 in a 35 zone at like 4 pm. Drove straight off/through literally the last turn before you get into the city from a country road.