Brake Dust
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Here's the scene: Having a great day with my family. Beautiful weather, wine-making at the in-laws, super meal, playing with the kids... The Viper ride to Marcus Dairy with my middle son was icing on the cake.
Granny driving along on i84 westbound, I noticed a Z06 (or whatever) Vette. He passes me at about 65 mph then proceeds to slow down behind some slow moving traffic (about 50 mph) in the right lane. So now he's right in front of me. As I pull out to pass them I see my exit is coming up so I try to merge back into the right lane. Who's there in the right lane behind a bit? Mr. Vette of course. I put my turn signal on but he aggressively closes the gap. I touched the gas and accelerated to pull up well in front of the group of cars that he was behind. (Those cars ended up taking the exit before the one I was getting off.)
So who do you think was behind me again? Yep, you guessed it. I was at 53 mph in the right lane at this point and he pulls up in the left lane. He gets on it and about 60 feet ahead of us makes what seems to be a 90 right hand turn directly in front of me. He crashes into the railing and spins 90 further so now he's to my right, facing us and heading backwards. Mr. Vette proceeds to fly over the triple cable guardrail with pieces of plastic flying everywhere. It looked like a frisbee deflected up into the air by the railing. He then disappeared down the embankment as I tried to keep it in sight while I steered clear of debris. I called 911 ASAP. I went back to make sure that EMS could find it since the car was not visible from the road and they had indeed arrived.
As much as it was an irresponsible and a stupid move, (and I would choke him if he didn't crash) I can only hope the driver and passenger were not seriously hurt.
My 11-year old has been traumatized by the experience as you can imagine and we both will not forget the image of the white car careening off the road for a long time.
Dear Viper members, I'm grateful to be able to post this message to you tonight.
I am able to because there's nothing for us to prove. This would have ended up differently if I felt I needed to prove that the 500++ hp under the hood has a little "pep". (Not to mention that there's no chance of banging gears with my kid in the car anyway.) So that's the moral of this story: Don't get sucked in and think before you react behind the wheel because Vipers have nothing to prove.
Thanks, stay safe and good night.
Granny driving along on i84 westbound, I noticed a Z06 (or whatever) Vette. He passes me at about 65 mph then proceeds to slow down behind some slow moving traffic (about 50 mph) in the right lane. So now he's right in front of me. As I pull out to pass them I see my exit is coming up so I try to merge back into the right lane. Who's there in the right lane behind a bit? Mr. Vette of course. I put my turn signal on but he aggressively closes the gap. I touched the gas and accelerated to pull up well in front of the group of cars that he was behind. (Those cars ended up taking the exit before the one I was getting off.)
So who do you think was behind me again? Yep, you guessed it. I was at 53 mph in the right lane at this point and he pulls up in the left lane. He gets on it and about 60 feet ahead of us makes what seems to be a 90 right hand turn directly in front of me. He crashes into the railing and spins 90 further so now he's to my right, facing us and heading backwards. Mr. Vette proceeds to fly over the triple cable guardrail with pieces of plastic flying everywhere. It looked like a frisbee deflected up into the air by the railing. He then disappeared down the embankment as I tried to keep it in sight while I steered clear of debris. I called 911 ASAP. I went back to make sure that EMS could find it since the car was not visible from the road and they had indeed arrived.
As much as it was an irresponsible and a stupid move, (and I would choke him if he didn't crash) I can only hope the driver and passenger were not seriously hurt.
My 11-year old has been traumatized by the experience as you can imagine and we both will not forget the image of the white car careening off the road for a long time.
Dear Viper members, I'm grateful to be able to post this message to you tonight.
I am able to because there's nothing for us to prove. This would have ended up differently if I felt I needed to prove that the 500++ hp under the hood has a little "pep". (Not to mention that there's no chance of banging gears with my kid in the car anyway.) So that's the moral of this story: Don't get sucked in and think before you react behind the wheel because Vipers have nothing to prove.
Thanks, stay safe and good night.
