Nearly bingled the car

[Warlord]

alrighty, living up to my name again (speedy gonzales)

I was getting impatient behind a truck and 2 cars, so I pull out to pass.
the first car was dispatched of easy, the second car however decided he was goint to pull out right next to me.

so I have 3 options, hit the car and possibly roll, go in to the ditch and definatly write the car off, or boot it with 2 wheels on the gravel.
so I boost it, didn't see the hump, had 2 wheels off the ground on a 30 deg odd angle, right hand side up (this is very scary) and doing about 160km/h odd, got passed the truck, and it hits the speed cut.
so my advise is don't over take mitsushitys, when the drivers don't know how to drive.

apparently according to our freinds who were following us, we were very lucky.
I say it was driver skill and only a little luck.

still no damage to the car, nor to the occupants.

however the drivers of the other cars, had to pull over, and the driver of the first car was having a pannic attack (stupid woman, she didn't nearly crash).

so anyway, I think i did the right thing.

opinions

btw the road was long streight, conditions were perfect and no other trafic on the road, but I object to sitting at 80 to 90 km/h and not feeling safe to overtake cause the other drivers might pull out, cause they arn't sure weather they want to pass or not

[Kevlar RS]

Not good to hear mate. Good that you came out of it ok though of course.
Driver skill accounts for a lot. Glad you had enough in the kit not to let it get out of control. Mind you at 160+ k's per hour I'd be thinking a fair amount of luck would have come into the eqation. At the metres/second you were doing it wouldn't take much to have the outcome something we wouldn't want to read about.
I wouldn't bag the other lady out too much though. It was obviously close enough in her view (and the view of your friends) to cause some sort of traumatic reaction with her. She was probably thinking if you crashed then she would/may have crashed or worse yet maybe would have felt obliged to stop and see how you were.

but I object to sitting at 80 to 90 km/h and not feeling safe to overtake cause the other drivers might pull outKind of confused by how you have written this part though. Not knowing where you were etc it's hard to pass any judgement but impatience is one of the major factors in driver fatalities (and another cause is idiots that don't check mirrors before pulling out to overtake). For the 10 mins you save on a trip though, sometimes it is better to just sit back and go with the flow.
Maybe something to consider next time you get caught up in a similar situation.
Anyway, just my thoughts on what you presented. The best thing is you your friends and the RS are all ok.

[goq11k]

what if you had hit another oncoming car or the other car with the lady driver just for being IMPATIENT to quote your own words, grow up wait for a better chance and dont get impatient, good people like youself and the lady driver get killed for reasons like this, dont want to start a war or words, but i have had my own friends killed over this "impatience" thing on roads, sorry mate i can only think what may have happened not what did happen.

i lived 10 years in Tauranga and know of the car scene a little, and speeding is a huge part of it, in Australia the police have been hammering the saying "SPEED KILLS" into us for years, and you know what, its true. I myself do speed but not around other cars like that lady driver and certainly not with my mates in the car, i could not live with myself to know I killed a best mate due to getting impatient behind another car.

[Deaks]

Well put :wink:

Having been involved in an accident (motorbike) where an impatient driver overtook around 3 cars, and almost killed me, all i wanna say is just take it a bit easier.

[Joel|RSLC|]

you can't be too careful on the roads, eyes in the back of your head helps too, sounds like you were lucky

[Az]

option 4, swallow pride, brake to avoid the dangerous situation, have another go later.

there will always be fucgwits on the road, you cant help that. easier just to brake than keep pushing a bad situation.

I plan overtaking before execution, I know what the idiots are like and I give them space.

I do have a bad habit of executing overtaking moves with a little too much commitment, most people wait for the gap, pull out and then accelerate, I judge the gap, accelerate and then pull out, usually im doing 140+ before I get in the right lane, this means most traffic and or semi's are dispatched in 3-4seconds from when I pull out to when I pull in..
in this case i say speed=safe not speed=kills

in your case, I would have passed the offending fugwit at over 140kph, before he even realised the opportunity to overtake was there.. then its fun to watch in your mirror as they struggle to follow your lead..

In the last 5-6, Ive done close to a million ks, all over australia, driving everything from a near 400HP subaru liberty to a 1977 bedford bus. Im passionate about road ettiquite. I respect professional drivers cause Ive seen what they have to put up with.

you are lucky that your situation ended with a wake up, and not a funeral. its very very easy to be dead.

[Warlord]

alrighty, point taken about being patient.
but the peice of road is dead streight, a bit down hill so no road haze and there was nothing comming, I was very sure about this, other wise I woulldn't have gone.
but the fact of the matter is, the driver of the car that pulled out on me couldn't see past the truck.
and either didn't look to see me, or didn't expect me to be accelerating as quickly as I was, either way, a very scary incident