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returning home after a picnic on Saturday I had a car behind me, was about to left turn into my neighborhood where there was a car at the stop sign waiting to turn left. Committed into the turn and suddenly speeding up the dip appears a truck (well over the 35 mph). I swerved left and then right. I think he must have swerved as well and we missed.
Wife says we will now ALWAYS come to the neighborhood road from the OTHER direction.
Damn! He was flying up over a blind hill into three vehicles!
Last edited by rcmatt; 29/03/21 03:17 PM.
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old Goldwings and a couple of Harleys
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Definitely a brown trouser job glad you are both safe.
Bruce
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1994 +8 (Maurice) tis no more
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And it had started raining just before that
Rodger
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Glad to hear you are both ok Rodger, that sounds VERY close.
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Seems to happen quite often. In the past 12 months I had an invisible M3W...
1) Two lanes appoaching a junction with traffic lights, both lanes full of traffic, red light: white van in L lane pulled out into my (R) lane as traffic lights in front of us turned green and I was accelerating past. Emergency brake. Clearly I was in his blind spot!
2) In traffic, queueing, on a road with a road junction to the left, with other cars queueing to exit right ie the opposite direction to me. Traffic paused to let a let a car out from the junction and then accelerate past... to find the next car queuing decided to try and T bone me... full boot, car stepped sideways enough for the other car to miss...
Of course usually the M3W is too visible. In Spain at a junction waiting to turn L onto a main road, a car on the main road braked and slowed down as it passed in front of me... only to be rear-ended by a faster car with less interest...
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With people crawling out of Lockdown, drinking heavily or taking drugs to numb what senses they on e had, it is noticeable the difference between the average daily commuter and the part time drive on drugs. Scary...
Glad you were quick and lucky.
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Driving standards have definitely dropped noticeably- you’re lucky to have made the turn - 3 thou or 3 miles is the same result
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Glad to hear all are ok. A situation like this is my biggest fear with the M3W - there’s not much protection in case of an accident. 
Scott
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