Thursday, April 24, 2008

A Close Encounter

My wife and I took the RX-8 for a drive to walk Cape Cod canal. On the way there was an older Prelude cruising along and hanging with us. I pass him in the left lane. Just after that we come over the hill and I see no less than 50 yards ahead a large object in my lane. I'm passed the Lude but I need to get ahead further so I drop it in 3rd, make my way into the right lane.

At the same time I notice that in the right lane is a 3 foot long piece of bent exhaust piping or such and something smaller to the left of it.

In a split second I aimed straight for the bent metal and cut through the debris. No lie, this all happened within 4-5 seconds. Mary was like, "Holy shit!" I could not believe how well the car handled.

After I past the mess, I quickly looked into rear view, the Lude hit the pipe head on and it went under his car. He took an exit not long after that. Crazy!

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