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08-05-2006, 11:20 AM
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| Newbie  Join Date: Jul 2006
Bike: 2006 SV650 (Blue)
Location: Spring, TX
Posts: 3
|  Almost Rearended On Freeway
Last night, coming home from work at about 11PM. I was in the exit lane going about 65mph. I had been in this lane for several hundred yards, a vehicle well ahead of me and nobody behind me. All of the sudden, I hear screeching tires. I look in the mirror and see headlights coming at me fast and very close. I was thinking 'prepare for impact', they were that close. Then I decided to give my bike (SV650) all the throttle it had. Amazingly, I accelerated out of harm's way. I think they missed me by inches. When I got to the stop light, after taking my exit, I was considering dropping the kickstand and confronting those idiots. Well, they didn't give me the chance, they were going very slow when they approached the intersection and took the u-turn lane. As they went by, they were all looking at me (a carload of kids) with a stunned look on their face's. I think the incident scared the cr@p out of them. Looking back at the incident, I believe that they had been traveling at a very high rate of speed, may have been drinking, and decided to take the exit at the last minute. I thank God that I was in a low enough gear to quickly accelerate away from them and that I had the room in front of me to do so. |
