Almost got into a nice wreck
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Almost got into a nice wreck
First things first, the Ranger is ok!
Almost got into a wreck tonight. Went with two friends to see the Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. We saw it at the movie theatre at the mall, which just so happened to be having a fireworks display and a Blake Shelton concert (country music). So of course, the fireworks end at 10 and everyone starts leaving, the movie ends about 10:05, so we get completely stuck in traffic. The parking lots are totally gridlocked.
Me and one of my friends are in my Ranger, and my other friend is in his Chrysler Sebring. He backs out and goes across the parking lot and I jump the curb and berm in front of me out onto one of the main roads and about 10 minutes later am on the highway. My Sebring driving friend somehow ends up passing me in the right lane (mind you traffic is just creeping along, if at all). Well some kids in the movie decide to play rice burner and drift from one of the streets onto the highway, which is stopped and the intersection clear. Right as they get down to the street and start to slide, the cop waves us all on and we start to move out. They get broadsided by a Chevy 3500, totally tears their car apart. I'm the second car behind the Chevy and slam my brakes on. The Chevy had a bull bar and screwed the car up really bad. The driver and rear driver-side passenger were taken to the hospital, the other two were ok best I could tell. The people in the Chevy were of course ok. Good testament to (dare I say) Chevy and even moreso to the frame mounted bull bars, those things are nice.
Of those of us who ran up to help right after it happened, we learned the guy driving had has his license for all of six days, it was his friend's car, and he still had his restrictions (in Texas for the first six months you can't have more than one non-family member in the vehicle). I'm sure he's gonna hear a great deal from the cops once he's fine in the hospital.
Anyways, interesting night. I now see why they have that disclaimer at the end of the movie, which 20 minutes earlier I had been making fun of...
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Zach
Almost got into a wreck tonight. Went with two friends to see the Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. We saw it at the movie theatre at the mall, which just so happened to be having a fireworks display and a Blake Shelton concert (country music). So of course, the fireworks end at 10 and everyone starts leaving, the movie ends about 10:05, so we get completely stuck in traffic. The parking lots are totally gridlocked.
Me and one of my friends are in my Ranger, and my other friend is in his Chrysler Sebring. He backs out and goes across the parking lot and I jump the curb and berm in front of me out onto one of the main roads and about 10 minutes later am on the highway. My Sebring driving friend somehow ends up passing me in the right lane (mind you traffic is just creeping along, if at all). Well some kids in the movie decide to play rice burner and drift from one of the streets onto the highway, which is stopped and the intersection clear. Right as they get down to the street and start to slide, the cop waves us all on and we start to move out. They get broadsided by a Chevy 3500, totally tears their car apart. I'm the second car behind the Chevy and slam my brakes on. The Chevy had a bull bar and screwed the car up really bad. The driver and rear driver-side passenger were taken to the hospital, the other two were ok best I could tell. The people in the Chevy were of course ok. Good testament to (dare I say) Chevy and even moreso to the frame mounted bull bars, those things are nice.
Of those of us who ran up to help right after it happened, we learned the guy driving had has his license for all of six days, it was his friend's car, and he still had his restrictions (in Texas for the first six months you can't have more than one non-family member in the vehicle). I'm sure he's gonna hear a great deal from the cops once he's fine in the hospital.
Anyways, interesting night. I now see why they have that disclaimer at the end of the movie, which 20 minutes earlier I had been making fun of...
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Zach
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Glad to hear u and ur ranger are ok. But what movie theater did you go see that movie in? The parks mall? I saw FF3 there too. And what street did that wreck happen on?
BTW: I think we have the same tires.
BTW: I think we have the same tires.
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Originally Posted by RangerPilot
No...Firewheel 18 at the Firewheel Town Center way over in Garland. It happened on state Highway 78 near where the George Bush Turnpike (Hwy 190) crosses it.
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No...Firewheel 18 at the Firewheel Town Center way over in Garland. It happened on state Highway 78 near where the George Bush Turnpike (Hwy 190) crosses it.
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"Oh ok. Yeah thats a bad spot. I hear about ALOT of wrecks over there. Anywho...."
What do you expect from a "George Bush Turnpike"
No...Firewheel 18 at the Firewheel Town Center way over in Garland. It happened on state Highway 78 near where the George Bush Turnpike (Hwy 190) crosses it.
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Zach
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"Oh ok. Yeah thats a bad spot. I hear about ALOT of wrecks over there. Anywho...."
What do you expect from a "George Bush Turnpike"
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Hey hey easy there...we live in the South and like it lol. It's dedicated to the older one anyways.
If it didn't have the absolute most ridiculous road layout I've ever seen (I'll try and get a picture of it sometime), it'd be alright actually, as the two roads are both good people movers, but the construction has totally messed it all up in that area.
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If it didn't have the absolute most ridiculous road layout I've ever seen (I'll try and get a picture of it sometime), it'd be alright actually, as the two roads are both good people movers, but the construction has totally messed it all up in that area.
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