Somewhat OT: Accident poll, Pedestrian video got me thinking... Options

[bondo]

If it turns out we are a safe bunch, we can point our insurance companies to this page at renewal time (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Andyrew]

I've had one time that I remember when I was really close, I only escaped it by "evasive driving manuvers".
I was turning left at an intersection. Its a one lane each direction and typically its simular to a stop sign for left hand turners. So I wait for the few people that kept going straight, then I waited for someone who was turning left to turn left myself (Normal driving so far) then I turn left, and I am in the middle of the intersection already in their lane, and this huge astro van goes around the other person making a left, he steps on the gas and I think for a couple of seconds that he obviously see's me, I mean im right in front of him. If I stop right now, he'll hit my front end, if I go normally he'll nail my back. Only problem of steping on it, is that he is headed right twards me and Im in the middle of my turn, The people waiting at the light are stoped and preventing me from avoiding the accident. So I step on the gas slightly and make a quick tight left to avoid the van, then a quick tight right to avoid the people stoped at the right, then another quick left to get in my lane and avoid the people turning right from the opposite direction.

I had a passanger, and he thought that the guy was gona hit me no matter..

I missed the van by a couple of inches, and everyone else my a couple of feet.

Oh do I hate careless drivers.

I seriously thought that that guy was TRYING to hit me.

Thats about it....

Andrew