Well, its around 2:30am and I am heading back to my house after getting off work. I'm driving on I-495 around DC. There is a gradual turn on I-495 after I-270 splits from it. So, I'm making my way around this turn when the 18-wheeler in front of me spins out of control and crashes into the guard rail and comes to rest blocking all 4 lanes. BTW, its kind of wet from the rain. I slow down and put on my hazards to see if the driver is ok. I get out of my car and see all the fuel from the truck gushing over the lanes of the highway.
I called the police and told them where we were and proceeded over to the truck driver to see if he was ok. Miraculously, the driver hops out with only a scratch on his hand. He's a little shaken, but ok physically. We talk for a couple of minutes and the police finally show up.
So, this is where it kind of shakes me up too.......
My black MSP is parked in the left lane. There is another vehicle parked diagonally right of my back bumper. The cop is diagonally left of that car. So that puts the police car about 20-25 feet behind my car. The cop comes over to us and asks the driver a question. We were there for about 10 seconds when I look and see 25000 lbs of runaway truck heading in our direction
(a second one spun out since he couldn't see around the corner). I yell "OH s***" and we all run in the opposite direction away from the cars. This was my biggest nightmare about to happen. The truck is sliding across all 4 lanes and ends up only hitting the cop car and comes to rest. I almost s*** in my pants when I saw that ******* beast of a truck coming at us sideways.....
My car is luckily safe from becoming a casualty. I turn to the cop and say that I'm taking off since I don't want to see that again. I mean, it was like watching something on "Real TV" except I got to see the real life version of it........
So I'm ok now, but right after seeing that 18-wheeler heading straight for us I thought it was gonna be over for my car, then me.....thank goodness everything was ok......
Sorry for the long story, but I had to get it off my chest....Thanks for reading if you made it this far.....
I called the police and told them where we were and proceeded over to the truck driver to see if he was ok. Miraculously, the driver hops out with only a scratch on his hand. He's a little shaken, but ok physically. We talk for a couple of minutes and the police finally show up.
So, this is where it kind of shakes me up too.......
My black MSP is parked in the left lane. There is another vehicle parked diagonally right of my back bumper. The cop is diagonally left of that car. So that puts the police car about 20-25 feet behind my car. The cop comes over to us and asks the driver a question. We were there for about 10 seconds when I look and see 25000 lbs of runaway truck heading in our direction
(a second one spun out since he couldn't see around the corner). I yell "OH s***" and we all run in the opposite direction away from the cars. This was my biggest nightmare about to happen. The truck is sliding across all 4 lanes and ends up only hitting the cop car and comes to rest. I almost s*** in my pants when I saw that ******* beast of a truck coming at us sideways.....My car is luckily safe from becoming a casualty. I turn to the cop and say that I'm taking off since I don't want to see that again. I mean, it was like watching something on "Real TV" except I got to see the real life version of it........
So I'm ok now, but right after seeing that 18-wheeler heading straight for us I thought it was gonna be over for my car, then me.....thank goodness everything was ok......
Sorry for the long story, but I had to get it off my chest....Thanks for reading if you made it this far.....
it poured, i about fell asleep in my car, damn they r comfortable, props to mazda... and glad ur ok 
