# Almost lost my life today. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893 "2008-12-28T00:26:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/21 "2008-12-28T12:50:09Z")
I am very glad you are ok! Not all SUV drivers are ranging bungholes. You are one of my favorite posters. Second only to Magnum PI and the amazing porn stash 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/22 "2008-12-28T13:23:08Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I was crossing a small, little-used side street. > She drove up to the corner, looked left, _but not straight ahead_, & then ran into me. > I had to scramble, got caught with the corner of her bumper. > > I feel a little better now, after a night’s sleep. I know, **Bos** , but it’s her cavalier attitude towards what happened which bothers me. It makes me think that if this happened again, she’d be just as likely to leave the scene as she was with you, man! But it’s your decision and I respect you for it. And you’re one of my faves as well. Glad you’re safe. Bill ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/23 "2008-12-28T13:33:56Z")
Apart from commiserating with you on your pretty damn ugly experience, can I attempt a hijack and see who else almost died recently? I drove a few hours to my brother’s place on Christmas day with one of my sons. He fell asleep, I turned off the radio so as not to disturb him and in turn I fell asleep. I awoke to find I was driving at 110 kph toward the concrete buttress at the side of a road bridge. I calmly (I don’t know how), swerved back into the proper driving line and then used the huge dose of almost-death-adrenalin to complete the trip. Even 4 days later I can “feel” how measured my response was. Very odd. A few weeks ago I was almost run down by an SUV driver who was either dialing or texting, looking down, as I was about to walk across a pedestrian crossing. Luckily I realised that she was oblivious to the outside world and I stopped as she sailed through the crossing as though neither I or it were there. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/24 "2008-12-28T16:17:43Z")
It was a new vehicle? I’m glad you’re okay, Bosda, but I’m really sorry you didn’t get off a good hard kick into one of the doors or quarter panels. Or both. That would have cost her several hundred clams in repair bills, as well as making the vehicle easier to identify for the cops. ---
**Author:** ![NadaHappyCamper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@NadaHappyCamper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NadaHappyCamper)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/25 "2008-12-28T16:39:19Z")
go ahead, call 10000 cops for all the good it will do. no body,no crime,and if you damage the suv,well thats what insurance is for. if the cops don’t find some reason to hassle you for interupting their donut break, and if they aren’t looking for a little fun, all they will do is say,“we have to see the crime being commited.” you can take that to the bank. next tyme get really injured, you know,broken bone or something. ``` better luck in the upcoming year. nadahappycamper ``` ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/26 "2008-12-28T16:52:55Z")
Yeah, you should have called the cops. Regardless of the nature of the accident, it was a hit-and-run which is a criminal offense. I would think the cops would take that seriously, at least I think they would where I live. ---
**Author:** ![NadaHappyCamper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@NadaHappyCamper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NadaHappyCamper)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/27 "2008-12-28T17:26:45Z")
maybe i should try to restate my point in a different latitude. if you do call the local minions of the law and they should ,thru, some miracle track down the malfactor, who the hell are they suppose to beleive? after all you walked into the vehicle thru your own negligence,it was only thru good driving skills that you weren’t killed, and instead of being more thankful you blurt out obsenities and threaten the poor driver soo much they decide it not safe to hang around for fear of what you might do to them. ``` embrace the new year, itwill bring many changes. nadahappycamper ``` ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/28 "2008-12-28T18:11:19Z")
> [@NadaHappyCamper](#): > > after all you walked into the vehicle thru your own negligence,it was only thru good driving skills that you weren’t killed, and instead of being more thankful you blurt out obsenities and threaten the poor driver soo much they decide it not safe to hang around for fear of what you might do to them. Jeepers, fella, glad I don’t live in your world! **Bosda** , do what you need to do to stay happy and healthy, and if that means don’t call the cops, don’t call them. It’s hard to know whether they could find the driver based on what you saw (but who knows – maybe she ran over someone else a few blocks away…), but she did commit a crime ( **nada** ’s comment about your purported “negligence” doesn’t make much sense to me, but then what do I know about the law?). > [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Apart from commiserating with you on your pretty damn ugly experience, can I attempt a hijack and see who else almost died recently? I wasn’t driving, nor was I (so far as I know) almost killed, but coming home from Christmas dinner, the car in front of us suddenly braked and swerved, so we did too to avoid an accident. Then I saw him – there was a man wandering on the freeway next to the center divider. No car anywhere nearby, and he seemed to be stepping out into the lanes of traffic. God only knows what was wrong with him. But I didn’t hear anything on the news about an accident so apparently the cops got to him before he got hit. Still, scared the heck out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/29 "2008-12-28T18:35:32Z")
The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, the woman jumped immediately out of the car and ran over to me to check if I was okay with a deathly white face (I was okay, just shaky and a bit bruised up). A woman near the store where I worked got T-boned and her car flipped over, and about fifteen people passing by rushed over. That woman was… gaaah, I could strangle her. ☹ I’m really glad you’re okay, **Bosda**. _offers hugs and chocolate_ ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/30 "2008-12-28T19:20:54Z")
**nadahappycamper** , your comments are truly odd. I hate to dignify you by even mentioning it, but it needed to be said. **Bosda** , glad you’re okay. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/31 "2008-12-28T19:53:56Z")
You aren’t suing, you are calling to report a crime - regardless of whether you were hurt, she hit you with her car and has a legal obligation to stay by the scene. The police may or may not follow up on it (probably won’t - but no skin off your back if they don’t except having to file the police report) but there will be a paper record. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/32 "2008-12-28T20:37:32Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I wear bifocals. > So, no. 😕 If you can’t read a license plate with your glasses, it’s time for new ones. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/33 "2008-12-28T21:17:03Z")
GGAAAAH! Almost happened again! Only this time, my fault. I damn near stepped in front of a moving semi! I’m staying home until further notice! This just ain’t my week! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/34 "2008-12-28T21:24:53Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > 😕 > > If you can’t read a license plate with your glasses, it’s time for new ones. If you’ve just been hit, you need reading glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/35 "2008-12-28T22:10:31Z")
Mr. Ujest’s best friend from High School was walking across the street in the pedestrian crossing, minding his own business and drinking a cup of coffee and a lady in her 30’s hit him at a crawling speed, he went up on the hood of the car, his coffee went flying, she hit her brakes and he rolled off. He has some latent hockey playing skills, so he took the whole thing pretty well. She drove off without stopping or anything. He was, to put it mildly, very annoyed and thankfully ok. I didn’t take the news overly well, but when I heard it was a Grand Am kinda car and knowing the size of our friend, I figure the hood of that car probably has a dent in it. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/36 "2008-12-28T22:31:24Z")
**Bosda** , I’m glad you’re okay, but you really need to do your part to get that lunatic off of the road; if not for you, then for her future potential victims. What scares me is that I almost hit someone in a crosswalk a year or so back. If I’m making a right turn, of course I’m looking left to see oncoming traffic. But I would rarely “check right” to see if any pedestrians are crossing right-to-left in front of me. That near-miss damned near scared me to death, and I now check “the other direction” as well before making a turn in any direction. ---
**Author:** ![Sonnenstrahl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Sonnenstrahl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonnenstrahl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/37 "2008-12-28T23:33:14Z")
I’m sorry to hear that! It must have been so frightening. And what a horrible person. I see drivers looking left but not right so often and it drives me mad; it’s such a clear expression of selfishness to only look out for someone who could hurt _you_. My father was recently hit in a parking lot by an 85-year-old woman in a van, who probably simply should not have been driving at her age. Unlike the upstanding citizen who hit you, she did stick around - from what my father said, she was as surprised as anyone, probably because she truly hadn’t seen or noticed him. The police came, they took everyone’s info, and my father took pictures of the bruises and cuts on his leg. He called the police a few times to follow up, but they never really told him anything. So we assume she was never charged. Not that my father wanted her head on a platter, as he really wasn’t injured, but from that experience, I doubt you’d ever get your driver off the road. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/38 "2008-12-28T23:49:57Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > GGAAAAH! > > Almost happened again! > > Only this time, my fault. I damn near stepped in front of a moving semi! > > I’m staying home until further notice! > > This just ain’t my week! Crap on toast, **Bosda**. You’re freaking me out. Get new glasses or work on your attention skills. Either way, BE CAREFUL! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/39 "2008-12-29T01:02:35Z")
My boyfriend’s brother was in a car accident last week - a woman wasn’t watching where she was driving, and she hit his car… and drove away. He had to follow her home to get her license plate and insurance info! He called the police but they basically said that since there was no injury there wasn’t much they could do, just call the insurance and get it straightened out. Um, is that not a hit-and-run? Is that not illegal? Maybe cops do have some better things to do but this is still a crime! Not sure what recourse he has, really, if he tried the cops and they didn’t want to do anything. Luckily nobody was hurt, but what if some injury shows up later, like in **vison** ’s post? But yeah, **Bosda**? Stop playing in traffic, ok? We don’t want you squished. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893/40 "2008-12-29T01:56:44Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > GGAAAAH! > > Almost happened again! > > Only this time, my fault. I damn near stepped in front of a moving semi! > > I’m staying home until further notice! > > This just ain’t my week! Ya know, it ain’t paranoia if they really are out to get you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-lost-my-life-today/478893.md?page=3)