Have you had any hear misses lately?
I had one just now.
I am waiting at an intersection, red light.
Light changes to green, car in front of me goes, I go.
As I am turning, a car comes through the intersection, against the red light and I miss him by about 1 foot.
He obviously was not paying attention and drove through the intersection as if he had a green light.
I only gave him two toots and we continued on our way.
Concentration is needed at all times whilst driving.
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just yesterday, i was passing a car in the centre of the road turning right, a young lad hoody up and ear plugs in, looking at his mobile walks across in front of the car turning right, i screeched to a halt, don’t think he noticed 
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I was not driving at the time, but I was in the city yesterday, just people watching.
One lone male crossing an intersection on a green walk signal was looking down at this phone the whole time (4 lanes). Never once looking up, relying on all drivers to do the right thing.
If one driver was inattentive (as the pedestrian was) and went through the intersection, the pedestrian gave himself no chance to take evasive action.
Fools the lot of them.
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Yep, yesterday at the give way lines at a T junction on the apex of a bend, constant traffic both ways, a gap presented itself to right, one vehicle going past from the left so, I half pulled out to tuck in behind him but without indication he decided to turn right in front of me, I hit the ankers and managed not to hit him in the side.
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Can’t count near misses but have had four so far none of which caused by me. Two of them led to a total damage.
Not an almost but a real one .
Son drives a 2 year old Porsche. Immaculate , polished weekly , his pride . He was at traffic lights on inside lane , lorry on his right. Lights changed to green , ( 30 mph zone ) both vehicles move forward and lorry starts to pull into inside lane and crushes my son and car into the pavement . Horns blaring and shouting and lorry stops . My son steps out of the Porsche unscratched and unharmed but in shock . Lorry driver said he couldnt see the car in his mirrors . Son phoned me saying he wrote my car off mum . I was pleased son was safe but car was written off and he was gutted 
. Good news is he now has another !
Personally I’d never spend that kind of money on a car .
This is the problem, one of my old cars rolled into my next door but one’s neighbors old Hyundai hatchback, damaged the headlight and scuffed the bumper, the car had a write off value of about £800.00, not wanting the hassle, I offered to pay for the repair. She insisted going through the insurance because she wanted rid of the cay anyway, bottom line, I had a blotch on my insurance for the next 5 years but, so would she, she would have been obligated to declare to the insurance for the same period and, I wouldn’t mind betting her renewals would have attracted increased premiums.
What’s the matter with folks?
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A few years ago I was sitting at the side of the road picking a few passengers up. A car reverses out of a drive on the opposite side of the road & I had to sound my Coach horn loud & long to avoid the @*£$— from reversing into me. My coach was brightly painted, had lights illuminated down it’s length. Was under a street light & was around 12 meters long & 4 meters high. But the reversing driver claimed not to have seen me 
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Its not just the purchase cost, it is also the huge running and fixing costs. We’ve two cars as we live right out in the country. One is an old audi estate - cost a bit when we bought it and now costs a fortune to fix anything. The other is an old kangoo - even major repairs do not cost that much.
I’ve bumped a wild boar with each car. The audi was almost 2k to fix the wing and lights. The kangoo was about 600 for roughly the same damage. In each case the boar, both about the size of a sideboard, walked off.
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Not a car accident. Nothing to do with a car in fact.
I once had a boyfriend who trapped his neck in the garage door, it was the up and over type. The door, not his neck.
He finished with me because I wasn’t very sympathetic when I saw his surgical collar.
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What annoys me are people, either drivers or pedestrians, who continue walking behind me when I am clearly reversing out. Today, as I left the community cafe, I checked mirrors, started reversing, and braked suddenly when shadows went past my rear mirror. Yup, two girls. I could have hit them had I not been paying attention.
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In 57 years of driving, you’re likely to have some.
I’ve had several.
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I’m driving down a main street at 45 mph. A car stops next to the curb on my right & a young guy jumps out of the passenger side & runs across the street right in front of my car. I slammed on the brakes. The only reason I didn’t hit him was because when I hit the brakes, the front of my car dipped down & he jumped over my hood, barely clearing it. There was no way I could have stopped in time, so if he was older & less athletic, he’d be dead. I yelled at him & he flipped me off.
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I’m driving toward an intersection & the light is green. I happen to glance at a raised truck next to me & I notice a skateboard’s wheels rolling by under the truck, so I slam on my brakes just in time to see a moron riding across the street on a red light. I wouldn’t have seen the skateboard if a car or a normal-height truck was next to me.
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I’m driving down a city street in mid block. A driver’s side door flies open & a woman jumps out & starts crossing the street in front of me. I couldn’t have stopped in time so I had to swerve to avoid her. I couldn’t believe those four-letter words that came out of me…
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(The worst one). I’m 19 & on my way to my date’s house. It’s night time & raining. I see a pair of headlights coming towards me head-on around 70 mph. I swerve to the right & he scrapes my left rear fender - much better than a head-on crash. My car spun around twice. A second later, I heard a loud crash. Police & ambulance show up & an officer asks me if I’m hurt. I said “No.” After he hit me, he hit another car head-on. Police later told me he was drunk & the driver in the other car was killed & a woman in the back seat lost her leg in the crash.
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That last one does sound terrible … and incredibly lucky for you.
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