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People of lemmy, what was your “oh crap” moment? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by No_Support_8363@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was once driving on some back roads I was unfamiliar with. I turned a corner and didn't realize there was a stop sign until too late and went right through the intersection. As I went through it, I turned my head to the left and noticed that a car was heading right for me. It missed me by inches.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had two similar ones-

driving across a bridge and just in front of me, at the end of the bridge, a volswagon eos flew threw the air over the street and landed on the grass on the other side.
Driving on a street that's parallel to railroad tracks and then jogs to cross them. As i crossed the tracks i glanced right and saw the front of the train. I had been driving beside and just on front of it and didn't realize it.
One extra - i was going down a hill in a really dark neighborhood. It was so dark in front of me that i stopped. i was sitting on a boat ramp into the gulf of Mexico.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I have had the train thing happen to me. There were no warning lights where the road crossed over. Fortunately it was a coal train going very slowly. Scared the living daylights out of me. It's been 30 years since that happened and I'm still neurotic about railroad crossings with poor visibility.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

headlights?

[–] Today@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah. On, i think - I've wondered about that over the years. I was 17 and it was an old 1978 Plymouth Fury. Scared the shit out of me! Still does.