Re: Most scared you've ever been?
I've had a few scary moments, and a several that are still classified to this day... lol
The scariest thing I am willing to talk about....
I was driving home from Huntington, WV in a pretty bad storm. This was in like 98~99, and I had a 94 Eagle Talon. I went across a bridge, and while on the bridge, my car started to hydroplane. Luckily, there were no other cars around me, because I started spinning, and I lost count of how many spins, but I believe it was 7. During the last spin, the front end clipped the guard rail on the right, which bounced me off back to the left. When my car started into the median, the front drivers tire caught a concrete drainage block thing, which popped the car up in the air, and spun it upside down. It landed on the roof, with my neck firmly planted on the ceiling... I remember this very vividly, because thats about the time everything seemed to go into slow motion. The car smacked the ground, the front windshield busted, then the top came out, and mud was pouring through, into my mouth and nostrils and I couldn't breath... All the while my car was still moving in the direction of the other two lanes.... The car came to a stop with the front end sticking out into oncoming traffic, just in time for me to see the semi plow the front end, which spun the car back into the ditch, the back end smacking the semi while it went by, the loud noise of the air brakes being slammed and tires burning... the car came to rest in the middle of the median, both doors so badly buckled I couldn't open them, so I busted out what was left of the back window and jumped out running because I was afraid that it was going to blow.
I ran up the highway in the pouring rain to this guy in a pickup truck that had stopped. He told me I was bleeding, which I didn't know. It was a small nick at the top of my ear that was bleeding like a stuck pig... That was ALL the injuries I had at that time! After standing there trying to settle my brain, the guy says "I think you need to go back down there", I turn around and there is at least twenty people surrounding my car! I ran back down, and people were trying to lift it because they thought I was trapped underneath!
I sat on the back of a doctors truck while he cleaned my ear up, then about 5 state trooper cars showed up, three EMT vans, and 3 fire trucks. The EMT guy was asking all kinds of questions to very I was ok, asked me what day of the week it was, and I told him I don't know what day it is normally, what makes him think I would know now?
One of the state troopers put me in the back of his car while they looked at my car, and that was the one and only time I have ever been in the back of a cruiser! Afterwards, he told me to climb in and get my registration out of the car... I proceeeded to climb in, and ended up getting my neck and arm cut up very badly, just in time for the TV van to pull in. I saw myself that night, and I looked like I had just came back from war, blood all down the side of my neck and face, muddy as hell, shirt ripped halfway off. That sucked.
The whole time the wreck was happening, I had Green Day in the CD player, and that song "Hope you had the time of your life" was playing. I thought I was going to die.
