Close call

[LL - NY]

Did something similar many, many years ago. Two laner in Maine, roads damp
and
drying. Fully loaded 4KQ for a week of camping with the then GF. Car in
front of me
slows and starts to pull off to the right, no signal. I assessed they were
pulling off, as
they then put thier brake lights on. Pull out into the left lane (no
oncoming traffic, so it
appeared safe) and accelerated. JUST as I was passing the now stopped car
(halfway
off the road), it suddenly turns LEFT into my path (no signal, and
obviously, not look either). Horn, swerve (now close to 70) and 3 vicious
fishtails (at least I had the presence of mind to keep the power on or I
would've looped at 70!) and I then was able to smooth things out. We missed
by no more than 2 feet. Things were rather silent in the car for the next
few minutes while we both checked our collective shorts. I feel your
exhiliration (?) at your survival, and have learned not to trust anyone
anymore and anticipate some stupid manuvers. I've wondered how much quattro
helped there, since I was under power during the recovery.

LL - NY

On 2/17/06, John S. Lagnese <jlagnese at massed.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> While casually driving home today on I 95 just south of the Hampton tolls
> in
> NH I got a major scare. It was extremely windy, 65 mph gusts, I was
> speaking
> to my wife with the using my cell phone with the headset. I saw a tractor
> trailer about an inch from my car, a 92 Audi 200 Turbo Quattro. It was
> still
> moving into my lane, getting blown by a big gust. I yelled Holy F#$k, then
> I
> jerked the wheel about 120'.
> The Audi jumped into the other lane. I was sliding at a 45 ' angle at
> about
> 80 mph. I straightened the wheel. The car did a  couple of fishtails and
> snapped straight.
> I really would not have thought that the car could do that. I have never
> been so happy to be wrong.
> I'm still thinking I was lucky to be writing this now!
> BTW I bought a couple of lottery tickets considering that this must be my
> lucky day!
> John
> 87 Scirocco 16v
> 91 200TQ20V
>
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