MontegoRx

Ok... how does someone cut in front of you on the highway, bad enough that you have to "dip" out of their way? Not alot of info given on the situation, and I wouldn't consider moving out the way (possibly shoulder?) to be a situation that would possibly total a car.

Just my pennies worth... Sounds like you weren't giving ample following distance. If there were enough room between you and the fellow in front of you, there's no reason for cutting off (people in MD follow WAY to close, so I 'cut people off' every day). I've never seen someone total a car, but I've seen middle fingers and alot of horn honking because of people following too closely, then being amazed that MAYBE someone else would like to be in that lane.

Second, if there were circumstances that it happened and they moved into the LEFT lane quickly, then you probably shouldn't have been in the left lane. People driving in the left lane should pass one car, move right. Assess the situation, pass another car. I hate when there's a line of 20 cars in the right/left lane, and all of them are waiting on the front two people who pace each other instead of passing. This is why we can't have an Autobahn in the US. People would die because stupid ***** decide they want to just 'cruise' in the left lane all the time and don't give a **** about emergency vehicles, cars closing in on them, etc. It's their road, and if they want to do 45 in a 65, for christ's sake... they think it's a god-given rule.

Sorry for the rant in number 2, but that just pisses me off, stay the **** out of the left lane. And if those don't cover your situation, I have one last catch-all for the "cut off" scenario.

I don't buy stories of people getting "cut off" and causing an accident. In my opion, if you're cut off, in any situation other than then coming and SMASHING the brakes, you should NOT hit them. And if someone does cause you to smash em in an FD, it shouldn't cause you to lose control. You have a sports car, rear drive, hopefully manual. Learn to handle your ******* car and quit wrecking.

I drive my car like ******* *****. I drive about 5 over the speed limit and let people in Olds Alero's pass me. You do NOT have the most incredible car on the road. You do NOT own a piece of equipment that you can't replace. Get the **** over yourself and drive like a normal person. **** the sports car image. That's not for commuting to work and home.


By the way, if none of those situations fit you, sorry, but with the details I have, it's the best I could do.

dgeesaman

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Would I be on the mark if I said it sounds like you had no insurance?

oo7arkman

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Sorry to hear about your wreck... hope everything gets worked out for ya.

r1dreamer

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hey sorry to hear about it. i lost my first fd and i know the feeling. i do have a good friend in the body shop business on long island. i also have various parts for sale, fender doors hatch hood. pm me if interested.

brandon

Montego

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That's why I said this:


hopefully he has liability

I never understand people who don't have full coverage insurance on a car that they love. Especially if the car is worth more than 10k. It's much more expensive to NOT have insurance.

HKNY

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good luck with the car buddy, where in NY are you? i know a couple real good shops

Montego

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Get off the soap box man

maybe that's you but that certainly does not hold true for everone's instinct reaction to avoid what's ahead. It takes a skilled driver with a cool head to make a concious decision on what object is best to hit.

you assume too much on a situation that you weren't in. Have you ever been on a crowded highway?

how do you know that it's only a two lane road and that the wall was on the left side? There are sections where there are walls on the right as well Maybe it was a center divider on a freeway...

see my comment above.

how old are you and how long have you been driving? I've been driving for 15 years and I have seen just about everything. It all depends on how well one can drive defensively.

did he say he was speeding, driving aggressively? no...

then you should not have written all of that right?

There are some senarios that one just can't avoid. This just happened over the Christmas break for example: I'm cruising with my GF on the #2 lane in a semi crowded freeway everyone is going 65-70. The guy in front of me is at least 3 seconds away. There is a black SUV on my left (my bumper is about his door), a silver accord on my right (his front bumper is about my rear bumper), and a car behind me as well.

All the sudden the black SUV decides to change lanes without even signaling, and now is coming straight at me. Split second decision: What do I do, hit the brakes hard, honk and pray to god that the guy behind me is actually watching the road? and if he is: is he any good at defensive manuevers? Or do I swerve to my right and pray that other driver's reaction is just as good as mine? Hope that they don't oversteer and thus send them off to crash? Or do I stay in my lane tap the brakes and wait for the SUV to hit me? I mean it's his fault right...

What did I decide? A combination of all three to minimize all of the driver's reactions. In order to buy me time as I tap the brakes moderately and have the SUV not hit me, I swerved (non agressively) about 1/4 lane to my right. Basically as he is coming into my I'm moving out of the way and braking. Since I only moved a little bit into the leane next to me it kept me from hitting the car on the right (inches of room) but it still freaked him out (as expected). Because I wasn't completely in his lane it kept him from over steering and crashing, he luckily he responded accordingly and just gave room. The car behind me had plenty of time. It ended up that the SUV missed my front bumper by INCHES and initially (unntil the guy gave room) missed the car on my right by inches. All of this took about 2 seconds from evaluation, decision, to execution. Once I was done manuvering I honked. Guess what? the SUV get's scared, swerves VIOLENTLY back to his lane and almost loses it.

I actually got a thumbs up from the guy next to me and the guy behind me for my almost certain accident.

You can't expect that every situation is unavoidable. There's too many factors involved and one of them largely depends on driver's reactions in a split second.

nocomply24

nice one montego casue i was about to do the same. Dont be a dick whatever happend, happened and the guy lost his car and is upset. Dont be a cop and hassel him about it. Maybe he freaked out and then crashed not everyone keeps it cool under those situations or else there would never be any accidents.

Hey iam glad to hear you are alive..and iam a student to man and i know how it is. WE can barely afford to keep the car and after driving it selling is not an option. Best of luck to you and if you need any help this board and me are more then willing to help.

HKNY

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Bottom line is anything can and will happen.You can't avoid every situation and thats why they are called accidents.

XxMerlinxX

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MontegoRX, no one gives a **** if you think you're the Mario Andretti of the highway. Everyone doesn't have the reaction time of a fighter pilot, and that's just the way it is. It's not their fault they couldn't get out of the way fast enough, it's the schmuck's fault for swerving into their lane in the first place. Talk about getting over youself.