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Perfectlap · 03-05-2007, 09:50 AM

I was working with some law enforcement guys and we had to make a very late night drive through downtown Newark,NJ to an FBI office. We went through a really really bad area along the way and we are flying when see a car going about 90 MPH heading towards us....IN REVERSE!!
Back in the days when Newark was the car theft/car jacking capital of the world...
one cop died this weekend in a hot pursuit after being ejected in a roll over, no seat belt I presume..

NickCats · 03-05-2007, 12:06 PM

I was on my way home from Sturgis, SD on the Harley 2 years ago. It was raining like crazy and I was in the middle of Minnesota on I-90. As I am traveling East I can see that a car traveling West lost control of the car, hit the median separating the two lane highway, flips over, and flies upside down across the two East lanes DIRECTLY behind me into the shoulder ! It happened so fast, and from my rear view mirror it looked like it was about 2 car lengths behind me ! If I had been going 2 seconds slower the car would have smashed into me UPSIDE DOWN ! Guess it just wasn't my time to go...

Nick

Boxter · 03-05-2007, 07:00 PM

I drive allot in my current position but here are just a few of the things I have seen in the last few years...

1) Cruising down the Merit Parkway at approx 75MPH in CT when I was passed by a coffee can exhaust owning Civic owner like I was standing still. He then weaves around another car in front of me and totally loses it spinning three times(once while still on the pavement and twice more on the grass) only to pull right back onto the roadway and drive away...I could not believe he didn't roll. It was like an episode of the "Craziest Police chases" caught on film.

2) Headed north over the Edison bridge here in NJ on the Rt 35 side and observed a woman fly by in her new Escalade(dealer tags on and all) applying makeup only to end up running into the guard rail along the fast lane for what seemed like at least 100'. All the while throwing sparks and mangling the entire driver's side of the truck...She never did stop but looked absolutely paralized when I passed her shortly thereafter.