Near Miss
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Events
I was on the bus today, coming home and we were sitting at a red light behind a small red car. This is a pretty busy intersection, so there are lots of cars going every which way. When our light turned green and the red car started to move forward, out of nowhere a silver Range Rover comes barreling in from stage left.
The driver had tried to run his yellow light and failed miserably, and not only was his light red by the time he got into the intersection, ours was green. As you can imagine he was going extremely fast because of his red light problem, or his mental problem we don’t know, and so sitting in the bus we heard a huge screech of his brakes. He managed to stop the SUV with less then six inches of room between him and the red cars driver door!
Due to that incident all traffic at the intersection ceased for about 20-30 seconds (you could clearly imagine both drivers barely catching their breathes). 30 seconds doesn’t sound like much, but it’s one of those “you had to be there” moments. Besides it was long enough for out light to turn back to red.
Unfortunately I can relate with what the red car driver must have felt as he heard the brakes. Four months ago I was in an accident on the highway where the car barely missed hitting my door window, and instead hit us on the right side just in front of the passenger door (our car had done a 180 degree turn due to ice).
