I almost died today.

Discussion in 'Automotive' started by aesthetic_tea, Mar 22, 2017.

  1. aesthetic_tea

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    Today, I almost died, because of a stupid idiot.

    We were going to a restaurant called Tijuana Flats, where I was celebrating my birthday. As we were on a pretty straight road, there was a black car behind us. We were close to an inter section, and by the way, it was a two way road, and we were on the edge with a ditch next to us. The guy behind us tried to overtake up
    Or was texting and driving, and the next thing that happened was that we heard screeching with a dust cloud behind us, where once it cleared, a black car, the one behind us was flipping madly. The way we survived was our friend who was driving, sped up to 90 miles per hour.

    It was a crazy experience, and I will reenact it in the game once I get home.
     
  2. SixSixSevenSeven

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    Or you can do simple physics and conclude that if a car starts flipping, it no longer has a motive force to accelerate it and can only decelerate. There is no need to speed up. You would have been unharmed
     
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  3. aesthetic_tea

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    If only my friend knew that...
     
  4. fufsgfen

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    Depends from original speed difference, while it is a fact that flipping car slows down, if it had enough velocity and enough small distance, it could catch up while flipping. Of course that would mean that speed difference between vehicles would need to be quite extreme, but it does happen, at least in Russia.
     
  5. iheartmods

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    Funny, as most people's reactions are to hit the brake first..
     
  6. fufsgfen

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    Russians would hit horn first, next they would curse and maybe then brake, but probably just try to steer without loosing speed so they could get faster where they are going. Well, not really all from Russia, only those that tend to crash in those dash cam films, but as recently have watched a lot of fatal crashes from there, that seems to be the pattern, horn comes on first. Another thing is that I have seen lot more crashes on straight sections of roads than at turns.
     
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  7. aesthetic_tea

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    I thought the same.
     
  8. iheartmods

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    Do you know the people behind you made it out ok?
     
  9. SixSixSevenSeven

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    which is other thing, kinda dick move to flee from an accident
     
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  10. aesthetic_tea

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    No, I told my friend to stop, and he just kept going. It wasn't even on the news (I don't think so)
     
  11. CaffeinatedPixels

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    What the hell kind of thought process leads to this? Not everything revolves around a stupid game.
     
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  12. Y4123

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    what a crappy birthday lol
     
  13. VeyronEB

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    Seems legit.
     
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  14. mms

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    I've almost died on 2 occasions. one time I was sucked underwater for a long time by a riptide. the other time I almost slipped off a tall structure.
     
  15. nick99elevator

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    Tijuana Flats is in Florida near where I am!
     
  16. fivedollarlamp

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    Huh. Wow!
    I'm filled with doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt.
     
  17. aesthetic_tea

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    Yeah, I live in North Florida.
     
  18. nick99elevator

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    .
     
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  19. Ulrich

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    Hum what? So the guy could still be in the ditch dying no one would know? You've could at Least called the police, you can go in prison for that you know?
     
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  20. Y4123

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    Orlando is quite nice although it's too warm for me lmfao
     
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