Car flipping over

Not on the highway, but on a backroad a few weeks back…

I drove on a small back road in the rural parts between Stockholm and Norrtälje in Sweden, one of the many twisty turny roads going through forrests and between farms all across Uppland. (If you are ever in Stockholm during summer, with access to a car and have time to spare, I can absolutely recommend an evening drive on the backroads)

Anyway, as I drove through the bright summer evening, I approached a field where a older man and a dog was watching out intently toward the field, my car was in electric mode so it was quiet, as I drove past I looked out on the sunset lit field, and saw a cat, it was a big cat, but a cat…

I didn’t think much about it but 15 sec later it hit me…

There is only one kind of cat that big in Sweden, a Lynx!

The cat I saw had the same color and everything!

Sadly there was no place to stop and turn around or park, and I didn’t have my camera with my awesome super telezoom (100-400mm) with me so I could only keep driving.

Lynx’s are very shy but they still live in the area, they are my favourite big cat animal, despite have a stupid looking tail.

Then two fridays ago, I was driving very late on another back road, I took it extra slow and careful since I had recently got a (deserved) speeding ticket, but still only saw a blur of the badger that decided to cross the road just infront of my car, busted my bumper but little else…

@grasshopper_mouse @asklemmy road rage bumper cars

I’ve seen giant monster truck wheels on everything from pickup trucks to Ford mustangs.

I’ve been in Florida where some old dude was just driving down the street right on his rim like it was normal.

A guy laying on top of a mattress that was on top of a tricycle

A BMW using it’s signal lights.

i was followed by what i assume was a police helicopter coming out of las vegas. it was the middle of the night, i was driving straight from ca to il in a very shitty 70s toyota. they had their giant spotlight on me but i never stopped, and no squad made any attempt to contact me. eventually they just peeled away and disappeared.

I saw two sports cars aggressively racing each other on the interstate, and then a few minutes later I saw one of the drivers was propelled through his windshield maybe 50 feet. I assumed that used to be a man, but I couldn’t make out the shape of his body from the mangled pile of flesh.

Semi truck lost an entire wheel and tire in front of me at night on the 405 freeway ~2006 driving in the Alameda area south of LA. The wheel and tire managed to ramp up and over the center K-rail divider and into an oncoming car at full speed. I was in the fast lane. I thought I was far enough away as I saw the entire thing unfolding from the moment the wheel came loose. The car that hit the wheel was like something out of Hollywood special effects. The wheel smashed the front in with tremendous force and sent the car airborne with the trunk coming up over the hood in an end over flip. It did this as it ran up the K-rail from the opposing side and was timed so that it was almost entirely above the height of the K-rail with the brightest beam of headlights illuminating through my side window like someone briefly shining a flashlight directly inside. It felt like slow motion and surreal with stuff flying everywhere. The only thing that registered during and immediately after was that the car was coming over that rail and into me. I was super shaken up for a minute or two. Enough to pull off the road and contemplate life for a minute. It wasn’t until the next day that I saw something had hit the hood of my car and left a small dent and a few scratches, but I painted cars at the time, so no big deal.

The guy that disabled me in 2014 made a u-turn on a hill, in a blind turn from an illegally double parked perspective, directly into a passing SUV with a bicycle just behind them. The passing SUV never reacted and with the turn of the road and SUV in front of me that I had just dropped behind in order to pass this double parked king-of-clowns too important for laws, I had no warning. I never imagined that “king-of-clowns” was an intellectual mastermind level in comparison to this Ace of Spades dumb enough to drive directly into a passing vehicle in a place where it is not even legal to make a left turn from a driveway. He got a DUI two days later, while I was in the ICU under critical watch, while driving his wife’s car.

Years ago, on a highway/motorway in England. A mini passed me at speed, and after I turned the next bend in the road, I found said mini upside down on the side of the road. Its occupants were either sitting down or wandering around confused. Various other cars stopped to help but I don’t recall if any were hurt. I was trying to help the confused wanderer.

Where I live it’s common to see dead deer on the side of the highway. One time though a large carcass was missing it’s head, just a bloody stump. I pictured folks commuting on their way to work and seeing a crazed hillbilly sawing of the head of this beast. Of course I don’t know how that’s how it played out but I like to think so.

Just remembered another. A truck directly in front of me was hauling a very large, very full dumpster. The kind where the door is on the end for easy access. The door was chained but swayed a tiny bit when it hit a bump and a rat dropped out and skidded along the highway. Poor guy

Was on the way home early and was coming up on an SUV that seemed hesitant at a major highway interchange between three highways at once….they stopped in their lane towards the middle of the road. Completely stopped. On a 65mph highway. I got over since they were in my lane and of course honked because wtf? Still blown away that someone would stop on a highway. They are lucky it was not rush hour quite yet.

We passed a semi that had gas spraying out of the gas tank. He forgot to put the cap back on.

Not sure how far he got before he figured it out.

I saw a little shitbox Sunfire 2-door with the box of a fullsize pickup strapped upside down over the car. He had a piece of lumber across the front seats and out the windows to hold up the sides of the box. The tailgate was strapped on top of this mess and he was bombing along at almost 100km/h.