wish i had a video camera

[lpkimmel]

ok so i live in raleigh, nc and i was coming back into town on I-40. right when it opens up into four lanes i come up behind a silver WRX, pretty new. i like subarus so i'm just looking at it coming up behind him not really anticipating anything. then he suddenly nails it so i drop it like it's hot into third and take off right after him. it was around 6 or 7 pm so traffic is moderate. we get up to around 120 without much traffic impedence but then it became time to take evasive action. both of us start cutting through traffic. it was sick. i was behind him this whole time by the way. then i finally pass him through a gap he didn't see. we both take the same exit and at the next stop light i find out he's an nc state student like me. we raced from a dig at that light. smashed him to about 80.

[scorpion1]

Nice story, however I advise you to be a little more cautious around any kind of traffic. Especially if the 5.0 is watching from somewhere you cant see, its no longer just a "racing" or "speeding" but wreckless driving and endangerment. its very risky no matter what level of traffic is around. Try to wait for openings and keep away from other cars, or better yet, take it to the track. Stay safe and enjoy your ride!

[lpkimmel]

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Originally Posted by scorpion1 Nice story, however I advise you to be a little more cautious around any kind of traffic. Especially if the 5.0 is watching from somewhere you cant see, its no longer just a "racing" or "speeding" but wreckless driving and endangerment. its very risky no matter what level of traffic is around. Try to wait for openings and keep away from other cars, or better yet, take it to the track. Stay safe and enjoy your ride!

yeah i know what you mean. this happened a little while ago when i first got a fast car so i've learned to take less risks since then. but it was just too good an opportunity to pass up lol.

[roachjuice]

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Originally Posted by lpkimmel ok so i live in raleigh, nc and i was coming back into town on I-40. right when it opens up into four lanes i come up behind a silver WRX, pretty new. i like subarus so i'm just looking at it coming up behind him not really anticipating anything. then he suddenly nails it so i drop it like it's hot into third and take off right after him. it was around 6 or 7 pm so traffic is moderate. we get up to around 120 without much traffic impedence but then it became time to take evasive action. both of us start cutting through traffic. it was sick. i was behind him this whole time by the way. then i finally pass him through a gap he didn't see. we both take the same exit and at the next stop light i find out he's an nc state student like me. we raced from a dig at that light. smashed him to about 80.

wow your the reason for srt4 insurance prices. thank you. fuccckin jackass.

[lpkimmel]

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Originally Posted by roachjuice wow your the reason for srt4 insurance prices. thank you. fuccckin jackass.

dude this is the STREET RACING section. as in--racing on the street. that means there's gonna be risky shit here. if you don't want to drive fast in your srt then why'd you get it? so why don't you just go hang out in another section and flame them.

[turbo minivan]

^BAAAHAHAHA!!! its true! "street racing is bad" (and weaving in and out of cars isnt my style), but who in here hasnt found a good race and taken advantage of it on the way home from work before?
i agree, if your gona flame, first realise what section your reading and what you should expect to read about. but to those posting storys, it dosnt help the situation to say stuff like, "i had 3 friends in the car and was weaving in and out at 130mph", and stuff like that. if you put that, you better expect to hear about it! its a 2 way street.

[roachjuice]

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Originally Posted by lpkimmel dude this is the STREET RACING section. as in--racing on the street. that means there's gonna be risky shit here. if you don't want to drive fast in your srt then why'd you get it? so why don't you just go hang out in another section and flame them.

first off ass hat i don't have an srt4. second i do street race. but i don't weave in and out of traffic like a fuccking ricer. get real. third your gonna hurt yourself and or someone else. reason for the "thanks for the srt4 insurance" comment. reason A.) i don't fuccking have one. so again. thank you and go fucck yourself. have a wonderful day.

[Ondonti]

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Originally Posted by lpkimmel dude this is the STREET RACING section. as in--racing on the street. that means there's gonna be risky shit here. if you don't want to drive fast in your srt then why'd you get it? so why don't you just go hang out in another section and flame them.

People like you have almost got me killed before doing that bullshit "see how fast I can drive for as long as possible" BS.

That isnt street racing. That is bullshit. You did that bullshit around me and you would have some paint on your car. You could pull over to chat and get the taste smacked out your mouth too.

I always find that its people who dont really have fast cars who do these sort of things. You wont find the guys with fast srt-4's doing that shit. Just kids who dont give a damn about anyone but themselves.

Here is a video with me, a fast car, and the street. Nobody dies. Nobody gets close to dying. The only "sick" thing is the car, not the danger level.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/T...g72_191891.htm

Notice when I get near another car, I slow down (and I wasn't going fast anyways) because you never know what other drivers are going to do or what they think you are doing.
Then we spend time on public streets that have no cars on them.

Ever heard of defensive driving? Its the only way to be safe because "offensive" driving assumes nobody on the road is going to behave stupidly.

[roachjuice]

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Originally Posted by Ondonti People like you have almost got me killed before doing that bullshit "see how fast I can drive for as long as possible" BS. That isnt street racing. That is bullshit. You did that bullshit around me and you would have some paint on your car. You could pull over to chat and get the taste smacked out your mouth too. I always find that its people who dont really have fast cars who do these sort of things. You wont find the guys with fast srt-4's doing that shit. Just kids who dont give a damn about anyone but themselves. Here is a video with me, a fast car, and the street. Nobody dies. Nobody gets close to dying. The only "sick" thing is the car, not the danger level. T67 turbo 3.0 SOHC 6g72 Duster burnouts + 0-120mph- Video Notice when I get near another car, I slow down (and I wasn't going fast anyways) because you never know what other drivers are going to do or what they think you are doing. Then we spend time on public streets that have no cars on them. Ever heard of defensive driving? Its the only way to be safe because "offensive" driving assumes nobody on the road is going to behave stupidly.

glad i'm not the only one that feels that way.

[zippitta]

+1 for traffic weaving = stupid teenage bs. Why put others at risk just because you want to see who is the biggest dumba$$ and doesnt know when to let out of the throttle. On the street, from a roll, a race is over in 1 gear, 99% of the time. If you have to run it more than that either you suck on the jump or your having traction issues. Traction issues at high speed is also dangerous, so how do you cure that? Tires.

Just a routine drive around the down is dangerous without jackasses like you putting other lives at risk. I doubt you ever think about how your actions can affect someone else. Remember in a car accident your not the only person that gets hurt.

Ill tell you a little about myself. I have bben in the Air Force for 5 years now and until a little more than 2 years ago I thought I would never find a good woman to settle down with. Well I did. Her name is Kim and I fell in love with her the first time I met her. We were a perfect match, very active, always doing something together, we skydived regularly, went to nascar races, bowled 4-5 times a week, went to every home hockey game in Pensacola during the season, always finding something new and exciting to do.

Well I was set to deploy the day before Christmas Eve last year and Kim and I wanted to go visit my family before I left. We were down there 2 days and we decieded to go to the mall to grab a bite to eat and to pick up some Christmas ornaments for the tree.

It had been years since I drove in that particular area and I missed the on ramp to the interstate to go back to my mom's. So I turned right onto a sideroad to turn around. At which time Kim said"You know you should always turn LEFT onto a side road, so you can make an easier and safer right turn back onto the main road. Yes, something as simple as that, could have prevented what happened.

There was a row of telephone polls at the stop sign that just barely obstructed my view of traffic from the right. I thought I had an opening, but I didnt see the truck behind the polls. Just a split second longer looking for oncoming traffic and I would have seen the truck.

The last thing I remembered hearing Kim scream was my name. After that I was being woken up out of the car adn when I looked over Kim was barely breathing I sat there screaming her name, telling her over and over that I loverd her, pleading with God to let her live. Everything else was a blurr. I didnt even remember going home I thought it was the weekend before comeing home form the races. I got away with a concussion and a small cut on my head. Kim wasnt as lucky. She was life flighted to Tampa General Hospital.

I wasnt able to find out anything about her because of the Damn Hippa law, she was hooked up to life support , but she was alive. I had to wait almost 12 hours befoer her parents made it down there to go back and see her. She was in a comma. Severe intracranial brain injury. Because no one knows anything about brain injuries the doctors couldnt tell us anything other than we had to wait and see what happened. The only thing the doctors said was she is young and she had a strong will to live.

I spent a month sleeping in the waiting room of the hospital, while Kim was in ICu fighting for her life, with 3 I.V.s a tube soming from her nose for food, an arterial line going to her heart, a trache tube hooked up to the respirator, a bolt coming out of her head to monitor her intracranial pressure, a tube coming out of her chest because they puntured a lung putting in the arterial line. Everyday the doctors woiuld come in and intentionally cause her pain to see if she would react. She was covered in bruises. The day I had to leave there to come back home because the military doesnt let you stay on leave for more than 31 days, they upgraded her status form full commatose to minimally concious.

It took another week before we could get her back home in to a nursing home. Try seeing the love of your life in a nursing facility, you will want to kill yourself. I spent 50-60 hours a week by her side, while maintaining 40- 60 hours a week at work, and 110 mile round trip fropm where I was staying to work.

It was another 5 months before she started improving. I went 6 months without even see her smile, or even acknowledge that she was still there.

For anyone who cares, Kim is doing much better, she still cant walk or talk or use her right arm, but she can mouth words, type with her left index finger, and she is all there. She is missing some memory of the last 2-3 years, but other than that the only other memory problem is some short term memory loss, but in anycase she still scores better than me on those memory tests...
And she is no longer in a facility, she moved back home where her mother and I take care of her. I work Graveyard shift and she works days.

As far as costs go, Kim lost her medicak insurance 3 months befiore the accident and was waiting for her new insurance to kick in on the 1st of the year. So far she has incurred almost a million dollars in medicals bills.

I do not tell this story for pitty, but hoping that it opens atleast one persons eyes. Like I said, routine driving is dangerous enough, why take the chances? If you want to go out and jump off a building, I dont care, just make sure the sidewalk below is clear of pedestrians that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time because of some jackass.

It is hard enough for me to deal with what happened even though I know it was just an accident. I dont think I could ever truly forgive myself for what I caused. I couldnt imagine what it would be like for something like that to happen because I was being a jackass and taking dumbass risks on the street. Remember its the split seconds that change everything.

Kim and I are still engaged and waiting to get married.

[turbo minivan]

^wow, an eye opener.