See Ya' Down The Road



 
Almost Accident




Well, there was an accident and we were Almost In The Accident. We were driving our 41 foot Dutch Star motorhome up I-85 just southwest of Atlanta. The highway was three lanes wide and we were in the right lane at 64 mph. The center lane was empty and the left lane had a concrete barrier just a few feet to the left.
 
A car in the left lane passed us and once about 30 feet in front of us the car hit an alligator (a truck tire reread). I heard a loud noise and saw the front of the car fly off and the car veered left and slammed head on into the barrier at about 70-75 mph. Then the car started sliding sideways in front of us and beside us. I had about 1/2 second to make a decision and I cut to the right going on the median and floor-boarded it. Of course it takes a motorhome a long time to speed up so I'm sure that didn't help. We were afraid the car would hit the side of our motorhome or the CR-V.
 
Somehow the car missed us and I looked in the side view mirror and about a dozen vehicles had locked their brakes and were sliding all over the interstate. I don't know how many crashed, but there had to be several involved in an accident.
 
The entire thing happened so fast I didn't have time to think - only react. Linda immediately call 911 and reported the accident(s) and a mile down the road we stopped on the side of the interstate. We had to stop and think about what happened. Right after we stopped there were 6 emergency vehicles heading down the other side of the interstate - 4 police cars and 2 EMS units, and I'm sure more emergency vehicles were coming from the other direction.
 
You never know when an accident will happen and we were lucky today.

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