Ever avoided a fatal accident
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
About 9 or 10 years ago I was driving down a back road and completely zoned out, I shot across a 4 lane highway at about 60 without even slowing for the stop sign. I realized what I had done about half way across. So lucky no one hit me. -- modified at 15:53 Friday 18th August, 2006 EDIT: I should note the highway I crossed has a speed limit of 65 and sees a lot of traffic.
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
I was able to walk away from a motorcycle crash before (bike slammed head on into concrete). Fortunately, the concrete wasn't too high and I flew over it and skidded down the street. I was bloody as hell, but didn't break anything. FWIW, glad your not dead dude. :-D
Jeremy Falcon
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
Last year while driving from Alabama to Virginia in a heavy rain, I was doing about 35 mph. I hit a slick spot in the road, spun my car 3 1/2 times, was almost hit by an 18 wheeler, and almost went off the bridge into the New River Gorge. For a couple months after that I was terrified of driving in the rain. Thankfully that passed as I now live in Juneau, AK where it has been raining for almost a month straight :-)
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About 9 or 10 years ago I was driving down a back road and completely zoned out, I shot across a 4 lane highway at about 60 without even slowing for the stop sign. I realized what I had done about half way across. So lucky no one hit me. -- modified at 15:53 Friday 18th August, 2006 EDIT: I should note the highway I crossed has a speed limit of 65 and sees a lot of traffic.
eggsovereasy wrote:
completely zoned out
Drunk? Or sleepy?
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
The median is designed to prevent you from crashing into oncomming traffic, furthermore the lip at the bottom would have righted your vehicle. That concrete saves truck drivers all of the time. So it may not has been as close as you imagine. While driving home from July 4th holiday in 2005 in my Mustang on a rural highway going 65mph, the speed limit, a nice little old racist lady did a U-turn in front of me and another vehicle. The lady was travelling approximately 5mph. The vehicle in front of me swerved lost control and crossed the highway perpendicular and I t-boned them nearly killing the mans sister in the passenger seat. Both my car and the car I hit were completely totalled. Steven who was 10 at the time and in the front seat of my car was unharmed and so was I but it was close. Oh yeah, the little old racist lady's car was not damaged and all she could do was cuss at the poor mexicans I had t-boned. She went ballistic when she was cited for causing the accident. BTW, driving while even mildly intoxicated is not a good idea and deserves public ridicule:
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
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The median is designed to prevent you from crashing into oncomming traffic, furthermore the lip at the bottom would have righted your vehicle. That concrete saves truck drivers all of the time. So it may not has been as close as you imagine. While driving home from July 4th holiday in 2005 in my Mustang on a rural highway going 65mph, the speed limit, a nice little old racist lady did a U-turn in front of me and another vehicle. The lady was travelling approximately 5mph. The vehicle in front of me swerved lost control and crossed the highway perpendicular and I t-boned them nearly killing the mans sister in the passenger seat. Both my car and the car I hit were completely totalled. Steven who was 10 at the time and in the front seat of my car was unharmed and so was I but it was close. Oh yeah, the little old racist lady's car was not damaged and all she could do was cuss at the poor mexicans I had t-boned. She went ballistic when she was cited for causing the accident. BTW, driving while even mildly intoxicated is not a good idea and deserves public ridicule:
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
BTW, driving while even mildly intoxicated is not a good idea and deserves public ridicule:
That's a good point. I didn't put two and two together. And I agree with this 105.24%.
Jeremy Falcon
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The median is designed to prevent you from crashing into oncomming traffic, furthermore the lip at the bottom would have righted your vehicle. That concrete saves truck drivers all of the time. So it may not has been as close as you imagine. While driving home from July 4th holiday in 2005 in my Mustang on a rural highway going 65mph, the speed limit, a nice little old racist lady did a U-turn in front of me and another vehicle. The lady was travelling approximately 5mph. The vehicle in front of me swerved lost control and crossed the highway perpendicular and I t-boned them nearly killing the mans sister in the passenger seat. Both my car and the car I hit were completely totalled. Steven who was 10 at the time and in the front seat of my car was unharmed and so was I but it was close. Oh yeah, the little old racist lady's car was not damaged and all she could do was cuss at the poor mexicans I had t-boned. She went ballistic when she was cited for causing the accident. BTW, driving while even mildly intoxicated is not a good idea and deserves public ridicule:
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
I t-boned them
How can you t-bone both the cars?
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Oh yeah, the little old racist lady's car was not damaged
Considering her car wasn't hit, that's not surprising. BTW how did you judge that she was racist?
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
I t-boned them
How can you t-bone both the cars?
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Oh yeah, the little old racist lady's car was not damaged
Considering her car wasn't hit, that's not surprising. BTW how did you judge that she was racist?
Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)She was cussing at the mexicans, blaming the "illegals" for the accident, etc. My car t-boned the mexicans the little old lady just watched. Forgive my English for a native speaker I am a bad writer :p
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
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eggsovereasy wrote:
completely zoned out
Drunk? Or sleepy?
Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)Neither, I was in highschool driving home and just totaly zoned out. Was thinking about stuff and just focused everything else out. I navigated the road no problem (and its fairly windy), but the stop sign just didn't register apparently.
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
About 15 years ago or so, I had rather bald tires, and I knew it, yet I didn't take of the tires and drove on a rainy day on the highway. I ended up spinning around several times and then heading off toward the median, which had a huge swath of grass between the highway and the actual metal barrier. While not a fatal accident, though under slightly different circumstances it could have been, it taught me several lessons about not being an idiot when it comes to keeping the car in good condition. I also now always inspect cars that I rent before driving off with them. On several occasions I have had rental cars with balding tires or poorly inflated tires. Marc
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
i was riding my bike home from work one day, when i was 19. i was going about 22mph, and came to an intersection. as soon as i got into it, the light changed to yellow. i knew i could make it before it turned red, but i dug in and powered through it as fast as i could, just in case. an old woman in a giant old Oldsmobile was sitting at the cross-street, waiting to make a right turn into the lane where i was. as soon as the last car cleared the intersection, she went for it. she hit me broadside. my bike went under the car, and i went up her hood. i dented my helmet on her windshield, and bruised my ankle on her bumper, but was otherwise unhurt. i walked around to the back of her car and picked up my bike - the front and rear axles were touching. i would've been shredded if i'd gone under.
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About 15 years ago or so, I had rather bald tires, and I knew it, yet I didn't take of the tires and drove on a rainy day on the highway. I ended up spinning around several times and then heading off toward the median, which had a huge swath of grass between the highway and the actual metal barrier. While not a fatal accident, though under slightly different circumstances it could have been, it taught me several lessons about not being an idiot when it comes to keeping the car in good condition. I also now always inspect cars that I rent before driving off with them. On several occasions I have had rental cars with balding tires or poorly inflated tires. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithMarc Clifton wrote:
On several occasions I have had rental cars with balding tires or poorly inflated tires.
Strange. Most rental cars are sold off after 1-2 years of usage. Poorly-inflated tires I can understand, but balding tires within 2 years is odd.
Regards, Nish
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i was riding my bike home from work one day, when i was 19. i was going about 22mph, and came to an intersection. as soon as i got into it, the light changed to yellow. i knew i could make it before it turned red, but i dug in and powered through it as fast as i could, just in case. an old woman in a giant old Oldsmobile was sitting at the cross-street, waiting to make a right turn into the lane where i was. as soon as the last car cleared the intersection, she went for it. she hit me broadside. my bike went under the car, and i went up her hood. i dented my helmet on her windshield, and bruised my ankle on her bumper, but was otherwise unhurt. i walked around to the back of her car and picked up my bike - the front and rear axles were touching. i would've been shredded if i'd gone under.
Chris Losinger wrote:
an old woman in a giant old Oldsmobile was sitting at the cross-street, waiting to make a right turn into the lane where i was. as soon as the last car cleared the intersection, she went for it.
Didn't she even see you???
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Chris Losinger wrote:
an old woman in a giant old Oldsmobile was sitting at the cross-street, waiting to make a right turn into the lane where i was. as soon as the last car cleared the intersection, she went for it.
Didn't she even see you???
Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)i don't think so. since i wasn't hurt and wasn't insterested in calling the police, she left as soon as she knew i was ok. so, i didn't get a chance to ask her.
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i don't think so. since i wasn't hurt and wasn't insterested in calling the police, she left as soon as she knew i was ok. so, i didn't get a chance to ask her.
Chris Losinger wrote:
since i wasn't hurt and wasn't insterested in calling the police, she left as soon as she knew i was ok. so, i didn't get a chance to ask her.
So, she didn't pay for the damaged bike either?
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Chris Losinger wrote:
since i wasn't hurt and wasn't insterested in calling the police, she left as soon as she knew i was ok. so, i didn't get a chance to ask her.
So, she didn't pay for the damaged bike either?
Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)nope. she was pretty shook-up, i figured she'd learned her lesson. i learned mine: running is safer.
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
I was driving home once at about 4am, I was really tired, and the drive was about 45 minutes. I didn't know I did it at the time, but I must have dozed off for a little bit of time, because I was startled awake as I ran over something large on the road. I immediately pulled over, and it turns out that a racoon had run out in front of my car, and I ran it over (it was killed instantly). Racoons are quite a pest, but I felt sorry for this particular racoon, since it was an accident. I've always wondered if I wasn't so tired if I would have avoided the animal or not?!?
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I had a close one last night. I was driving from downtown Atlanta to my home (distance of about 35 miles). It was around 1 am. I was feeling good when I left downtown and I was not drunk. The traffic was extremely light and I was driving in the right most lane in a five lane road. I don't know when but I suddenly dozed off. When I woke up I found myself about an inch from the median on the leftmost shoulder. If I was even a second late I would have hit the median wall at around 65 MPH. Thankfully, the road was empty and there were no other cars on the road otherwise I would have hit one. Of course, that made my sleep to go away completely. This was the closest I ever came to a fatal accident in my life. In fact, I never once had a ticket in my driving career of 8 years. Thanks to wide roads in Atlanta, I am safe. Have you ever avoided an accident that close?
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -C. A. R. Hoare
I did, but I was not driving. It was 4 years ago, a friend of mine was driving me at home. We were in a peripheral city road, with only one lane for each direction. Suddently he tried to surpass (is that correct?) a slow car, just before a turn of the road. A HUGE truck was coming from the opposite direction. We re-entered our lane just in time, at about half a meter away from the truck. He was not drunk or something, he was (is) simply crazy.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
On several occasions I have had rental cars with balding tires or poorly inflated tires.
Strange. Most rental cars are sold off after 1-2 years of usage. Poorly-inflated tires I can understand, but balding tires within 2 years is odd.
Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Strange. Most rental cars are sold off after 1-2 years of usage. Poorly-inflated tires I can understand, but balding tires within 2 years is odd.
What Marc meant to say was they were bald when he was finished with them because he drives like a bat out of hell. :rolleyes:
Jeremy Falcon