2 days old and almost wrecked
 

OK so I bought my Z on Tuesday and it is a very big deal to me. As per my other threads I am new to driving a manual so I have only been driving to the local school that isjust around the corner from my house. No more than 2 miles and through a neighborhood. To get into the big parking lot where I have been practicing shifting and all that you go through a 4 way light. speed limit all ways is 25. Im sitting at the light and watch a guy slow and then stop , then my light turns green. I always wait a moment or two just incase of any morons to begin with, so I do that and then slowly start to shift and then start to go. From around the bend some Beeyatch in a old minivan on the phone with passengers is approaching fast about 40, and I notice her but again my light is now at leat 15 second old. I begin to roll and start going and have to stop because she just went right through as if her light was green. Never looked over, never hesitated just kept going as if there was no big deal.

I was so lost I looked up at my light to make sure it didnt turn red, and it was still green and the other guy was still sitting there in crossing traffic at his red light (should have been hers too) shaking his head and looking at me. Assuming I was either less fortunate or better at shifting I would have been tboned and probably seriously hurt if not killed and bye bye dream car and a whole lot more. I was so flustered I just parked when I got into the school and sat there for 10 minutes playing out in my head what could have happened.

What is wrong with people? Anybody else have any close calls?

hate when that happens.

I hear ya man :) I don't own a Z, but I'm still within' the "family" of Nissans. Morons like that are every where, and unfortunately...common sense, isn't so common. Idiots. This is terrible to say, but when I hear "old, beat up minivan," I think of extremely obese women. Bet you she was fat and retarded huh?

Good luck learning to drive that MT. If you learn to drive on your Z, you'll be able to drive just about ANYTHING (MT). It took me almost a complete year to drive the car consistently, and correctly. It has some odd little kinks to it. Annoying, but a damn fun car! Have fun!!!

Women drive for ****. Nothing new here. You got lucky. Some dumb bitch killed a guy I knew just like that. He was on a motorcycle and he was already in motion as the light had been green a long time when her dumb *** drove into him with an SUV.

I hear you. I am also sorry about your friend, I had 3 buddies from highschool pass away on bikes. So sad, we just graduated 5 years ago, and now they are gone.

It could have very easily went that way had I been about 4 car lengths further up. I was and still am so mad at how stupid she was! Why would somebody just simply run a redlight like its no big deal? let alone on a residential/school area with 25 mph speed limits?

Im still pretty shook up about it that it could have ended very badly so easily. Some people should be taken behind a shed and beat or shot I tell you.

Unfortunately, I hit an old lady who ran a red light. Although my Z is repaired 'like new' since it was only cosmetic damage, I feel like I love it a little less because of the accident.

Good luck learning manual on the Z like I did.

Glad you didn't get smashed.

I'll quote the first thing that my dad said to me when he took me out on my first drive.
First: Always remember you're driving a deadly weapon.
Second: Drive like everyone else on the road is a complete idiot.

It's when I forgot one of those two that I have gotten in trouble.

I'm personally sick-and-tired of seeing people constantly talking on their cellphones. It's a frickin' deadly addiction. MOST cellphone conversations are inane B.S. that doesn't even need to be said.

Keep your eyes open dude.

This story scares the poo out of me, considering I'm also learning MT on my Z that I just bought. I'm getting the hang of it, but if a crazy situation happened I don't think I would be able to react fast enough yet to avoid disaster.

If some bitch runs a redlight and slams into you it doesn't matter what your reaction time is.

So far I have one friend dead, another with a totaled car, both from bitches running redlights, and just the other day watched a bitch just roll straight through a red-light yapping on her cell-phone. They aren't smart enough to talk and drive at the same time.

Had a very close call on a motorcycle once. I was 22 years old and was about to head out after I got the green. Some older guy in a Ford Explorer (who was next to me) cut in front of me on purpose. At first I was pissed but when I saw another SUV fly through the intersection I realized what he did. I chatted with him for a bit and learned his son was killed on a motorcycle at an intersection about 10 years prior. I still ride but I have NEVER forgotten that incident each and every time I'm at a light. He saved my life that day no doubt...

I still visit him once in a while but he's in his 80's now so it's not so easy. I was lucky and sounds like you were too. It's just crazy how idiots don't pay attention (like women on cell phones) but some of us 'gentleman' (not me) are stupid enough to street race. Think about it.

Set an example and be safe out there. Do it for you and your family...

Sadly Vaughnabe its one of those things that is out of your control. I mean like I said, one way had a red light light and my way had the green light for about 15 seconds. Does that mean nawhen you rlight is green you sit there through the cycle and wait until nobody is around? What are you supposed do you know? When the light originally turned green she wasnt even there and I had given it a few seconds to check both ways and then started to go.

I didnt do anything wrong, and when the light is green your supposed to go. IT was just sheer stupidity that could have seriously hurt or killed somebody.

Glad to hear your story had a happy ending in that you were not t-boned or injured in any way. Your story underscores that you can do everything correctly and still wind up injured or dead. Keeping your head on a swivel and always anticipating what some jack-wagon might do helps.

Always assume that everyone else on the road will do the stupidest things you can't even imagine. I was T-boned at an intersection on my motorcycle several years ago by a woman too busy doing her makup to notice that her light was red. It never changes.

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OP, I had the EXACT SAME THING happen to me about two years ago. I'm still rattled about it every time I think about it. In my situation, the lady was actually stopped (dead stop) for about 10 seconds at the red before she decided to floor it through while I was making a left on an advanced green. I had to slam on the breaks or else I would have been t-boned. We just have to count our lucky stars bro. I still try to fathom what went through her head....no luck.

I actually saw a dude on a bike get laid out a couple days ago, ironically by a young guy showing off in a vette. Dude was busy trying to get a Camaro driver's attention and blew through a light. Guy on the bike wa lucky, just launched over the car. Bike got destroyed though....and the vette just kept going :shakes head:

I guess at this point all you can do is just be thankful nothing hapened. Still scary though to know you can being absolutely nothing wrong and still be in danger. Stuff like this is why I have close to no faith in most of the public. A lot seem to simply be stupid. Plain as that.

I think the machismo and anger towards women in this thread is getting a little out of control. Sure, there are bad female drivers out there, but there are equally boneheaded male drivers as well, who are texting or on cell phones, yada yada. My old neighbor nearly killed a guy on a motorcycle with his SUV. Everyone has an anecdote but just because you know a crazy female driver doesn't mean they all are.

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I have a neighbor who drives a 745il and he is borderline retarted, I think. We lve in a very old neighborhood with extemely narrow streeet and this genius has almost taken me out three times due to his driving at excessive speed. It happened this morning again, so I am going to go have a chat tonight. i am bringing my two pomeranians as back up.

Crappy driving is evenly distributed across gender lines.

I watched a few minutes of this but I had to stop. It is too much knowing these folks live and drive in my country.

Good luck with your jack-hole tonight.

OP I had the same thing happen to me in my Z near the office where I work. I pulled out of a 7-11, pulled up to a light. When it turned green, I looked both ways and started out. Before I got all the way into the intersection, some dude in a PT Cruiser almost clipped me while running the light. He was on his phone and had the nerve to give ME the stink-eye after nearly t-boning me when I had the right of way.

I have come to notice that my Z is invisible. I'm almost side swipe everytime I take the Z out, its like maybe its to low and they dont see you next to them and just come on over. You need to drive aggressively.

Thanks, Mt Tam. In-person confrontation is not my strong suit and it makes me nervous. I need to do it, though, as this guy is oblivious/inconsiderate/mentally deficient/dangerous.

:eek::eek::eek: Excessive force!!! Those dogs will destroy that guy's ankles!!!

You have that right. Check it out:

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yah, similar thing happend to me about a week or so ago when some hellaflushatoilet MR2 wanted to race me and i just slowed down to deny his invite. intersection ahead for us had a green light but then some dumbF just blew a redlight and went right through the intersection at 45+. if i would've responded to the ricor MR2, he wouldve been t-boned.

i had to really slow down to make sure the light wasn't broken or something when i approached the intersection. :icon17:

mr.onzedge- your dogs appear as happy as you were when you got the supersports! :D hahaha.

How dare you go when you have a green light! Jerk

Onzedge I have the same problem on the street to get to our coldisack (I have never spelled that before lol) cars park on both sides so it is a little tight, and then people just drive in the middle of the road to the point where you have to pull over and let them go. If you don't you would either hit them or a parked car. Let alone if they went the speed limit and stayed on their side we would both fit. Bit that is just toooo much to ask.

Did he call you "chicken", McFly?

lol right? I should have known.

I hate people who drive whilst holding their phones for calls or texting. In California, I have never seen so many people on their phones or texting. Literally, it feels like every car you look into has someone holding their phones to their ears or they are looking down constantly which makes it obvious they are texting. Coincidentally, these are also the people who are weaving in and out of their lanes, running red lights, speeding, and otherwise not paying attention to the fact that they are piloting thousands of pounds of metal at high rates of speed.


Op: glad to hear you didn't get hit, that would have been truly aweful.

I'm am not at all suprised by how many idiots there are out there, but it is unsettling how many times those idiots have put innocent people in this forum alone in danger, I would hate to know how many times it happens everyday.
Its so strange, in some of your guys cases and mine its not as if they were trying to beat a yellow and it jist turned red. I mean to have people sitting at the red light, the other traffic starting to go and they still blow through it?

Watch out for 50yr old women
 

Menapausal women are just very prone to cause or at the least not prevent accidents. I spoke to the owner of a body shop who did work on my daily driver who told me its very common . Its true. Ive noticed they are so wacked at times they are often the cuse of many accidents.

:icon18: hahaha. after the intersection (after me saving his car and his life) he sped off like over 80 in a 35mph zone... :icon14:

i had to :facepalm:

Thanks for the kind words. Phones and driving are horrible here in nova as well. Silly folks man.

Also not being judgemental or harsh, but I'm a big proponent of thinning of the herd. Natures way of eliminating these idiots we see everyday.

Here's the problem. Nature can't weed these folks out because our government, in all its wisdom, supports them and they breed. Free food, free healthcare, free (and tax-free) money and free all-kinds of other benefits keeps them healthy, non-productive and fertile.

Overe here its illegal to drive holding a phone. bluetooth only

It is illegal in California also and I see at least 10 people each day texting or talking behind the wheel.

Same here in MD, although bluetooth phone convos are just as bad. The issue isn't that someone's holding a plastic receiver, it's that they're so wrapped up in a conversation that they're ignoring the road. It's just too difficult to tell if someone's on the phone when they use a hands free device.