kaiser715
Doing hard time
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2006
- Location
- 7, Pocket, NC
For those times when you wish you had a pic...
Today, I wish I had a rear-facing dashcam.
Was going 70 on I-540, see "something" just off to my left side...look in my driver side rearview, then up to my center rearview, just in time to see a white SUV cutting behind me at a high rate of speed, perpendicular to my line of travel. Close, like filing my mirrors close. It's a wonder nobody got wrapped up with him, because there was a couple of cars following me, first maybe only 5 or 6 car lengths behind me (he crossed between us).
Looking in my pax mirror, could see he made it across all 4 travel lanes, across the grass, and appeared to run across the exit ramp at that interchange as we got out of sight. Looked like he stayed upright, the last I could see of him. Cars way back stopped to either help or gawk, nothing we could do at that point without going several miles to the next exit and turning around.
I'm still not sure where he came from....either he was going the same direction as me, veered off into the cables and managed to get turned 90 degress without loosing any velocity, or more what I think happened, he came from the other direction on 540, and either jumped the cables, or managed to precisely hit one of the offset openings in the cables. Whatever happened, there was only a small dust cloud. And he wasn't locking down on the brakes, either.
Today, I wish I had a rear-facing dashcam.
Was going 70 on I-540, see "something" just off to my left side...look in my driver side rearview, then up to my center rearview, just in time to see a white SUV cutting behind me at a high rate of speed, perpendicular to my line of travel. Close, like filing my mirrors close. It's a wonder nobody got wrapped up with him, because there was a couple of cars following me, first maybe only 5 or 6 car lengths behind me (he crossed between us).
Looking in my pax mirror, could see he made it across all 4 travel lanes, across the grass, and appeared to run across the exit ramp at that interchange as we got out of sight. Looked like he stayed upright, the last I could see of him. Cars way back stopped to either help or gawk, nothing we could do at that point without going several miles to the next exit and turning around.
I'm still not sure where he came from....either he was going the same direction as me, veered off into the cables and managed to get turned 90 degress without loosing any velocity, or more what I think happened, he came from the other direction on 540, and either jumped the cables, or managed to precisely hit one of the offset openings in the cables. Whatever happened, there was only a small dust cloud. And he wasn't locking down on the brakes, either.
