Thats a horrible wreck. Car served it purpose and I am glad you made out of it safe and sound. Good luck with car shopping.

 

Holy f*ck man. Ey ur very lucky. its good to see ur ok man.

 

Have to be the most ruthless accident i have seen on here u must really have something important to do in life because from the looks of it being a sardine was the least of your worries

 

Granted I haven't been driving as long as the vast majority of you guys, but that doesn't quite sound sensible at all if you ask me...

 

I'm sorry but is having a rule for tailgaters necessary? Pointless to try to teach others who are driving recklessly a lesson & be the traffic police. Just ignore them or move over...they'll eventually get what's coming to them.

Adamlee, sorry to hear what happened & hope you recover. I'm not gonna debate whether or not you were in the wrong for them to brake check you, but I just hope everyone out there remembers to drive safe and defensively.

 

I have been driving since 1978 with a license and in rural upstate N.Y I started driving at 12.

I have never had an accident as a result of this practice and as a rule I rarely get to the final phase, they generally get off my a*s.


I firmly believe having a contingency for possible scenarios is critical.

I don't know about you but I protect my safety and if someone is tailgating (so close I cannot see all of their hood) that is severely unsafe at freeway speeds, I want them off my a*s.


I am not being a teacher, or the traffic police, I am saying get off my a*s.

When this happens I am generally going the flow of traffic or above, not blocking the PASSING LANE (another peeve) nor in any way a point of slowing in a lane designed for free flow of traffic (car pool or passing).

If I am in the passing or car pool lane, going the speed I want to go (for example 70 in a 65) and someone is coming up behind me, I move over long before they are near me.

My post said what I do, what do you do?

 

...agreed.

Also agree it's unsafe for someone to tailgate. There is a thin line between trying to avoid an unsafe scenario vs. provoking the person tailgating. Your course of action just sounded like intimidation, which to me makes an unsafe condition even more unsafe.

I personally ignore them...as in I don't speed up or slow down or brake check...just keep driving the way I'm driving. If they're really persistent, I'll move over, no big deal to me; I'll let them "win" and feel a sense of achievement. I do however adjust my driving as to give myself more of a buffer zone so that if I did have to make a sudden action due to traffic ahead, the person behind me will have more of an opportunity to make corrective action in the event an instance does occur.

 

Both are stupid things to do, how about just getting out of their way and quit worrying about them and just pay attention to your own driving

 

I disagree, thanks for the personal attack.

 

Freeway driving is a team sport. It's a shame the growing American superiority attitude ruins it.

 

100% These are the things that one should do instead of speeding away or slowing. Bot those things just provoke the person behind even more.

 

It wasnt a personal attack, but what you said to do just makes the situation worse. The thing you need to do is focus on your driving more than the person behind you. You need to be able to give yourself a larger buffer in front of you (without slowing to a crawl to make things worse) in case you need to react to something that would allow the idiot behind you to react. The very best thing to do if it bothers you so much is to just get out of the way of that person.

 

I did not tell anyone what to do, I said what I do.

I did not say I slow to a crawl nor speed away at 100MPH, these are both things you decided I said. In fact I said I accelerate at a reasonable pace & decelerate a small amount.

As far as letting them go, here in Phoenix, seemingly EVERYONE (almost) does this, if you kept getting out of their way you would never stop changing lanes.

 

any plans on doing a mid muffler delete? jk glad your ok ive been down that road b4

 

and you said and i quote

Then go to tell us what you do. I simply stated that i didnt think that was the smartest or safest thing to do (maybe i shouldnt have said stupid not implying you were, just that what you did wasnt the best way to deal with it)

 

OMFG...is everyone alright? It's looks as though the car went into a trash compactor.

 

holy... Glad that you're okay, sorry about the car

 

holy shi** glad your alright man, god that was a sexy ass car tho.

 

holy fawk!

 

Best of wishes man, hope everything will work out for you.

 

Wow...What a blessing!

That is one of the worst single car accident pics I have seen in a while... God has something else for you to do!

Praying you find exactly what you are looking for!

Rick / Sith

 

simple GLAD YOU ARE OK cars come and go but you still have your life thats what counts

 

Wow..dunno what to say but I wish you a speedy recovery and good health after something like that. Good luck with the car search too.

 

one reason why you're alive? God loves you.
i'm glad you're alright now man. best of luck.

 

THANK GOD YOUR alive BRO!!!!!!!

get the 6MT TSX, its a great car

 

Sorry that you had to go through that experience. Glad you got out of it alive and hope you have a speedy recovery.

 

More proof of the strength of the passenger "cage" (for lack of a better term) in our Acura's. Glade you'll be OK.

 

How the hell do you even drive with your car as low as it is in your avi..my gawd man...

 

wow bro thats crazy, im glad to hear ur ok

 

omg....sorry to hear but glad to see you made it out alive!



Thought I would have another white saber with a j35 friend here...

 

glad you are ok, and as said before cars and repaired/fixed



sometimes much better to just rearend someone then have as seen happen, and let the framerails take the impact directly and airbag go off (would not have in this case though , with needing a module and such), vs rolling the car and such and getting multiple impacts
but lowered cars do suck at times though for rearending someone, cause the bumpers kinda like to go underneth the car in front (and if a truck or suv, might go a little far up the hood which would be no good either) and hit the headlights instead

 

holy crap that's crazy... yeah the most important thing is you're still alive... and yeah i'd go w/ the tsx 6mt

 

holy shit man
glad u came out of that one ok. and gl with the new car and everything

 

Yeah man.....I was looking forward to the j35 twins rolling together seems I have a guy interested in buying the j35 already.

Picked up the new ride today. '06 Nighthawk Black Pearl TSX 6MT. Met up with Phee at the dealer, he seemed to approve

 

Good luck with the new ride.

 

pics...

 

great to hear you're ok.

when im by myself, if somebody break checks me, im diving head first into that MF'er, plain and simple.

 

100%

 

I would have probably only hit the Guy at maybe 10mph after we came to a stop, but the issue is that that road had just been repaved earlier that week and I was reacting with the thought this very familiar road and my car would behave together as they always had before. The shoulder is large enough for a truck, and I had driven that road for the past 8 years, the fresh oils in the asphalt and loose debris is where the road changed from something I was very comfortable and confident driving on, into something unpredictable that I couldn't compensate for fast enough. Regardless, saying you'd do one thing and actually being in a situation are entirely different. When you have less than 3 seconds to evaluate, react and handle a situation, things can change. I'm just thankful we have such safe cars and that it kept me safe enough to get out of the car and be lifted to a hospital.

I'm glad I get to stay in the acurazine community with the TSX, which is awesome! (both community and car :P)

 

good, we can't go losing our thread police!