Your Near Death Experience

[Bantamlover23]

The scariest moment for me was while I was in a wave pool at Wet 'N' Wild. I knew I tired because I had been at the park all day but I still wanted to go and play in the wave pool before we had to go home. I am already not a super strong swimmer and I did not have any floats tohang onto and I was a little to deep so I was treading water. Then the wave started again and I just got too tired and started to go under then I finally made it to shallower water. I was ok but man did that scare me. The lifeguard also asked if I was ok and I was just super tired.

 

[redstars]

Today.
Closest I have ever came to a head on collision by some fool passing about 5 cars and he was going about 80 mph.
I was taking a right turn. Looked left, nothing was coming so I pulled out. Very close.

 

[CityChook]

When I was 18, I was driving on a 2 lane highway in North Idaho on my way to visit a friend at the University. It was a highway, but many of the curves were marked for 40mph. I was full of vinegar at that age and going way too fast, especially for my inexperienced skill level. I hit a poorly banked corner at about 70 mph and started to slide. I overcompensated and went right into the oncoming lane in time to have a head-on collision with another vehicle traveling about 50 mph. Locked in the collision, we spun in a circle and I went backwards through the guardrail and over the embankment. I rolled my Toyota 8 times, end over end, down the hill. The other car had 3 people in it -- a mom/dad and their son who had just been discharged from the University hospital and was in a body cast. They had to air-vac him back to the hospital. I had a seat belt on and stayed inside the vehicle for the entire trip down the embankment, which is probably the only reason I didn't either die that day or lose my face. The entire accident was witnessed by the guy driving behind me, who just so happened to be an off-duty highway patrol officer and he had a radio in his car. The kicker was that it was a Sunday morning and I had skipped church with my family so I could get on the road earlier. As I sat in the ambulance that morning, he told me that I had an angel on my shoulder and I'd probably better get my butt back to church....

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I spun out my car on some black ice back when I was in high school; after spinning around several times in the middle of the road while cars around us swerved to avoid hitting us, our car ended up in a field on the opposite side of the road, facing oncoming traffic. It was really scary, but no one in the car got hurt.

An accident once happened right in front of us when we were driving through Milwaukee on the way to the Lake Michigan car ferry. After swerving away from the wrecked vehicle drifting sideways toward us after it smacked into the concrete wall (seeing that was freaky!), we had to pull over and call 911.

I've had my share of dealing with others' alcohol poisoning and suicide attempts while I was an RA in college.

 

[Royd]

I am a skydiver, and had my canopy collapse, in a low speed turn, at 120', reinflate and level out, just as I went through the top of a 60' pine tree, thus recollapsing my chute....Thank God, it was Florida jungle, underneath. between the trailing vines, saplings, large and small bushes, and a foot of leaf mulch, after the tweety birds and the bells stopped ringing, I literally got up, and walked away.

 

[Royd]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

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WOW. I don't know wether to stay reeeaaally far away from you or make sure I am right next to you! You've got the best worst luck ever! If somebody out there is looking out for you, you might want to consider giving them a break every now and again! I think you need a new hobby.

What's the old Hee Haw song..... If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck, at all.

 

[JP33]

It seems a few on here have had close calls while trying to pass a vehicle. I have a friend whose hunting buddy had a fatal head on collision while trying to pass another vehicle. Killed him and two passengers in the other car. Happened right around Christmas time. My friend showed up at the camp about an hour after it had happened and the campground was a ghost town. After a few calls he got the run down.

The thing is, the man who died was survived by his son who was supposed to drive up with his Dad to the camp.

The son still hunts in the club. I have been invited to hunt as a guest of this club a few times & know the hill where the wreck occurred. Its creepy when you hit that stretch in the road.

This happened in St. Francisville, Louisiana.

Everyone, please be careful & think twice about passing where there are hills.


...JP

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

Hubby and I were being bullied by a guy on the interstate once, so I sped ahead to lose him, he followed. So I decided to duck in front of a semi and then take that exit immediately. What I did not realize is that it was a very sharp right turn exit. I started really getting on my brakes and told my hubby I could not hold the turn at that speed and my driver's front tire dropped of the left hand side of the pavement at about 100mph and I went into a series of spins. Strange but I felt like the Michelin Baby. Because I remember spinning, but it was in slow motion and was so peaceful feeling. When it came to a stop, I was barely off the right hand side of the road. Engine had died of course. I sat there in silence & disbelief for a second shaking. And hubby say's all cheery like : "Good job Baby".. I guess so since nobody or anything was hurt. I had pavement jammed in between my rim and the tire on the back where it caught the road in the first spin. I had just put low profile tires on a week earlier and the tire shop said had I had standard size tires, I probably would have rolled because the taller walls would possibly have caved when it hit the pavement causing the rim to grab and a flippin we'd have gone. I don't run from bullies no more!!!

 

[M To The Maxx]

This happened a few years ago. My uncle is a pilot for Northwest (now Delta). He wanted to take us up in a Cessna for fun on the weekend in Plant City. We drove there we got up in the plane. Everyone got to fly with my uncle. It was my mom, my brother and I. My uncle wanted to try a trick. Flying backwards. We tried it and then we got into a stall and we went spiraling toward the ground. We were at 15,000 ft. and in a few seconds we were at about 2,000 before our uncle regained control and pulled out of the stall. We all started laughing after that was over. Good thing our uncle is a experienced pilot.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Thats why he was at 15,000 feet. Plenty of recovery time. I don't think people normally fly a Cessna for long over 10,000 feet