About a year ago I was commuting home and it was one of the rare nights I wasn't flying like a mad man over the twisty narrow mountain road that is my commute. It was a good drive home, good tunes on the XM, really nice weather, and the car I was following, a late model Honda Accord was going just fast enough, but not crazy like most of us idiots on that road. We had just come down the north side where the road straightens out again when I noticed the Honda was drifting into the oncoming lane and there was a Ford F150 coming at him. It was like slow motion and seemed like minutes even though it was only seconds. In my head, I was saying, "their gonna hit, their gonna hit!" I was all ready on my brakes and moving to the right side of the road, but there are rock cliffs going straight up from the edge of the road and no shoulder.
The Honda driver had fallen asleep, but woke up right before it was a head on collision. Each driver ****** their vehicles to the right, but to late and they hit; driver fender to driver fender. The Honda stopped pretty much straight ahead, but the Ford spun and hit the rock wall becoming airborne in reverse. His truck was about 5' in the air and headed right at me. It would have struck my driver side A piller and me at about chest height. I was as far over as I could get. The truck hit the ground right in front of me and fortunately for me, spun the opposite direction and went around me. At that time the rear axle broke away from the truck and one leaf spring pack hit my bumper and then went bouncing along under my Jeep. Hit the front diff, the transmission and the body under the rear passenger seat before sliding out and embedding in the rock wall next to me. The bumper had a hole in it and there were big scrapes in the diff housing and ****** case. The Ford stopped about 150' behind me. Amazingly, no one was seriously injured. There are still marks in the pavement where the accident happened.
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