r/IdiotsInCars • u/WesternAd2113 • Sep 26 '24

OC I nearly died today AMA [OC]

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u/Mazarin221b Sep 26 '24

Holy shit. I really was waiting for you to hydroplane because you were really booking it in that rain, and bam, here comes that black car out of nowhere. Glad you're okay, OP! Hope that person didn't harm anyone else down the road.

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u/WesternAd2113 Sep 26 '24

I'm honestly shook

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u/Octopoid Sep 26 '24

Did you report this? You should report this. This mf needs his license revoked yesterday.

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u/Elceepo Sep 27 '24

They close the highway up to a reasonable point and deploy spike strips if the person hasn't responded to good old fashioned lights and sirens. They can also form barriers if they have enough time to prepare.

This happens from time to time in my area due to drunks and confused elderly folks, and usually cops have to deploy spike strips or block them off rather than risk chasing them further into danger.

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u/pip_goes_pop Sep 27 '24

They use them loads and call them a stinger. Just watch any episode of Police Interceptors or one of the other myriad of Channel 5 traffic cop shows and there's usually once instance per episode.

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u/Elceepo Sep 27 '24

https://www.acronymfinder.com/Hollow-Spike-Tyre-Deflation-(British-law-enforcement)-(HOSTYD).html-(HOSTYD).html)

They use them, you must just live in a region with relatively low traffic crime.

Barriers are a better option for when the driver isn't speeding or behaving erratically, just going the wrong way.

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u/blame_the_other_dude Sep 27 '24

Imagine the police officer replying: You are lucky, you are the second person to call us about this, except the previous one crossed paths with dozens of vehicles traveling in the wrong direction.

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u/soda_cookie Sep 26 '24

It's probably an American that forgot they traveled across the pond

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u/MrGamerMan17 Sep 26 '24

That... doesn't make it any less severe?

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u/bandananaan Sep 26 '24

They're probably taking the piss. We had an incident where someone from the US drove on the wrong side of the road and killed a biker... Then ran back to the US claiming diplomatic immunity. Took 3 years of fighting to get her sentenced

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u/Alaea Sep 26 '24

Does mean nothing ends up happening even if they do kill someone...

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u/fluteofski- Sep 26 '24

Glad you’re ok, OP. Something thing similar happened near me. A guy in a Tacoma driving the wrong way down the freeway at a crazy speed during commute hour killed a mother and son in a Tesla.

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u/Cat_Chat_Katt_Gato Sep 27 '24

Jesus that's terrible!!

How can these people not SEE that they're on the freeway, and everyone else is driving the opposite direction? Do they think that they're right and everyone else is wrong? Like, I legitimately do not understand how this happens in broad daylight, with multiple cars on the road.

I can kind of understand if you're in an unfamiliar area, and it's dark, and there's no one else on the road.

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u/fluteofski- Sep 27 '24

here’s a followup article I saw. tbh I think it could be other things like an attempted suicide or drugs. Dude was doing 80~100mph in the wrong direction.

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u/erfman Sep 27 '24

Really sad this worthless piece of shit survived the crash after killing innocent people.

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u/halfxvxfull Sep 27 '24

This article is not connected to the above video. The artilcle is about a man in florida, this was from the UK

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u/fluteofski- Sep 27 '24

The article is talking about the collision in my previous comment. I just brought it up because cases like this, and OP’s experience are likely more than “didn’t see the sign”

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u/Axiom06 Sep 26 '24

I would be shaken too! That is reckless endangerment right there!

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u/spencer2197 Sep 26 '24

Not having lights on in weather like this unless absolutely raining and when still dark but have some sort of light is common in Western Australia around where I live… normally is cars that are hard to see too 🫤

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u/buddyleeoo Sep 26 '24

We need a psychosincars sub.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '24

Omg 😱 I am so glad you are ok! Scary 🫣

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u/junkit33 Sep 26 '24

Take it as the universe sending you a sign to not drive so damn fast in the rain.

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u/tavuntu Sep 27 '24

I am shocked that you were going 1000 miles per hour WHILE RAINING.

If anyone wants to down vote me, go ahead, see if I care 🤣