Close Encounters (of the crash kind)

[mustangman65_79]

I thought that I'd establish a place where anyone could post about their experiences coming close to or actually crashing their cars.

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I'll start off and I'll post one story per day.

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The first one is when I owned a '86 4x4 Ranger:

My friend was late getting home from my house so I had to drive fast to get him home as quickly as possible because his parents were the kind to ground him (at the age of 18) for weeks on end for something minor.

At that time I lived out in the country and the roads where narrower then usual. I knew how to take this road fast and not get hurt for I'd done it many times. Well, there is a part of the road where, when you turn right, you're going around a hill, only about 1 or 2 feet off the road.
The other side was about a 50 foot drop. In order to take this right turn fast, because it angled toward the hill, you had to cut the road by hitting a small patch of dirt that angled to the ground. This dirt was only about 1 foot wide, so it had to be done just right.

I was going a little faster then normal when I hit this corner. The speed wasn't the problem here, it was the approach. When I came to the corner my right front tire dropped off the road, (off of the dirt patch) then it hit the road again. The rear tire followed and did the same, but it bounced the bed of the truck in the air and spun the truck toward the drop off. I was able to feather the brakes just right and was able to regain control of the front of the truck, steering it away from the edge. The rear end, being light because it's a fairly small truck (a Ranger), swung toward the edge, forcing me to crank the wheel more and head toward the bank. Seeing this wasn't any better, I laid on the brakes hard enough to swing the rear end in a 180 and spun the front away from the bank. Stopping and looking the opposite way we had been going.

I then turn to my friend and said, "Lucky there were no cars coming" (two lane road, no wider the two F-250 side to side.)
Immediately after I said that, A van pulled up right behind me, almost hitting me (I had to gun it).

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I'll put another one on here tommorow, if I can get online.