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Old 05-14-2008, 12:56 AM
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close call today

On my way out of one of the schools parking lots i almost lost the front end of my car. Alright so right at the exist there was a large crane in front of me (the ones with 4 rubber wheels and a man lift, i guess cherry picker) well his arm was out in the street a little and he noticed that the cars couldn't go by so he started to back up. well i had about 3 to 4 feet between us. he apparently didn't check his mirrors because i was still able to see him in his mirrors. Well I started to honk my horn like crazy because there was a car behind me, i couldn't back up. He came within 1 inch of the bumper. After his abrupt stop i get out of the car and go look, he gets out and has the priceless look on his face like O-S%!T i just hit a Mercedes. Thank godness he didn't, he had a giant metal bumper that was above mine so we all know what the outcome would have been. And well thats all i have to say about that.

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Old 05-14-2008, 04:32 AM
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Glad to hear you're okay.

I was driving to work recently when some sort of 30 foot tall hole digging equipment collapsed about 40 feet in front of my 190e as I was getting off a freeway exit. Thank God I had upgraded to 400e brakes. The operator of the drill was alright, the workers scrambled and immediately got the situation under control, properly directing traffic. Had I been a few seconds earlier to work, I would've been crushed.
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Old 05-14-2008, 01:25 PM
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A couple weeks ago I was driving home at night and all the sudden I saw something on the road (thank heavens for my H4 upgrade lights!!)...it was a MANHOLE COVER laying in the street! Also present: Open Manholes! The crew working half a mile away had taken out all the covers and left them on the street, with no barrels, cones, or warnings of any kind. Just a dark road with open manholes and huge heavy lids sitting on the street!!! I swerved like crazy and managed to miss everything. (I was super lucky, there was like 5 of them!!) A friend of mine here at work was not so lucky, he went down the same stretch later that night and hit either a cover or an open manhole (he's not sure which) with his Kia Rio....blew out the tire/bent the rim/severely damaged the suspension....had to be towed away.... Insanity! He had swerved to avoid a cover but the rear wheel clipped either the cover or the hole. Its been in the shop for weeks....

What is wrong with those road workers?!
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Old 05-14-2008, 01:55 PM
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Some Mercedes come equiped with accident prevention angels, yours is that model....glad nothing happened.
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Old 05-14-2008, 03:21 PM
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A couple weeks ago I was driving home at night and all the sudden I saw something on the road (thank heavens for my H4 upgrade lights!!)...it was a MANHOLE COVER laying in the street! Also present: Open Manholes! The crew working half a mile away had taken out all the covers and left them on the street, with no barrels, cones, or warnings of any kind. Just a dark road with open manholes and huge heavy lids sitting on the street!!! I swerved like crazy and managed to miss everything. (I was super lucky, there was like 5 of them!!) A friend of mine here at work was not so lucky, he went down the same stretch later that night and hit either a cover or an open manhole (he's not sure which) with his Kia Rio....blew out the tire/bent the rim/severely damaged the suspension....had to be towed away.... Insanity! He had swerved to avoid a cover but the rear wheel clipped either the cover or the hole. Its been in the shop for weeks....

What is wrong with those road workers?!
same thing happened to me but it was during the day. There was a manhole on the other side of the hill so you barely had any time to do anything. I swerved out of the way, thank goodness nobody was on the other side of the road.
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Old 05-14-2008, 03:41 PM
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I would have introduced him to your car, Chuck, and told him he was lucky you spared his bumper from damage.

Good deal you're safe. That would have been a real freak accident. You don't even feel anything when you hit something in those big vehicles.

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