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I decided to go out to get some food last night, and on my way home, as I'm pulling out of a gas station onto a pretty major 4 lane road, a white honda accord comes flying past me on the shoulder, almost clipping the front of my car and continuing down the road swerving back and forth across both lanes shoulder to shoulder.
I pull out to follow him and he's still swerving badly, nearly missing a couple other cars before bouncing off the guard rail on one side. He continues driving for another 1/4 mile or so before stopping on the white dotted line literally in the middle of the 2 northbound lanes (southbound lanes are separated by a median divider guardrail). I pull off to the shoulder and immediately am almost hit by another car that just barely squeezes between us.
Realizing I'm in a dangerous spot myself, I pull up a hundred feet or so so I'm not directly parallel to this guy's car and try to figure out what the hell is going on. By this time another car has stopped in the southbound lanes and I decide I should see if I can help, so I make the first u turn I can and park my car on the shoulder of the southbound side as well.
When I pull up I see the driver of the car that almost hit me wandering around in the road and the guy in the other car that stopped yelling "stay in your car!" At first I thought he was talking to me, as if he was warning me that the guy was dangerous, so I just sat there trying to figure out what was going on for a second when another car locks up the brakes and just barely misses hitting the car in the middle of the road (it was in a terrible spot, just over the crest of a hill straddling both lanes with a 55 mph speed limit).
At this point I decide I have to do something, realizing that if I just sat there and did nothing eventually I would have a front row seat to a horrifying accident. So I get out of my car and approach the guy, who is now sitting on the divider guard rail in the middle of the road. He's completely out of it, and I don't mean drunk. If I had to guess I'd say dope. I'm like, "you almost hit me what are you doing?" And he's just like "idk?". So I'm asking him if he can move his car as another car locks up the brakes in another near collision when I notice there is another person sitting in the car and hear a child crying.
At this point I knew I had to try to get the car out of the road so I yell to the other guy who stopped his car to get out and keep an eye on the guy sitting on the guard rail and try to get in the car. There is a woman in the passenger seat with a small child in the back seat. The doors are locked. I eventually get the woman to roll down the window and I reach in and unlock the door and get in. I try to explain to the woman that I'm moving the car out of the road and everyone is gonna be ok. Whatever the guy is on she's obviously on too, completely incoherent, just babbling things like "what's wrong with him?" and "what am I doing here?"
The kid (who I'd guess was about 4) is losing it crying "please help me I'm scared!" I try to calm both of them them down as I move the car reassuring them I'm here to help (car is a manual trans btw, luckily I learned how to drive on a manual trans and have owned primarily stick shift cars my entire life). As I'm trying to move the car to a safe spot on the shoulder, the car almost gets rear ended AGAIN. I park the car, put the flashers on, tell the woman to stay put and go back across the road to check on the guy, who's still sitting on the guard rail now with the other guy who stopped to help. We wait for traffic to die down enough to cross the road safely and help the guy stagger over to the shoulder but keep him away from his car (I was worried about him getting in some kind of fight with his gf/wife/baby momma).
Me and the other guy who stopped agree there's no way either of these people are driving anywhere safely and call 911. Cops show up, the guy doesn't try to fight or run or anything, was cooperative and sits down on the ground. Cops tell us we can leave and thanks for stopping.
CLIFFS: Almost got hit by some high as fuck dope fiends swerving all over the road. They almost hit other cars, hit guard rail, park car in the middle of street. Guy gets out wandering in road leaving a woman and terrified child in the car, which almost gets hit numerous times before I manage to get the car and guy out of the road and call the cops.
I pull out to follow him and he's still swerving badly, nearly missing a couple other cars before bouncing off the guard rail on one side. He continues driving for another 1/4 mile or so before stopping on the white dotted line literally in the middle of the 2 northbound lanes (southbound lanes are separated by a median divider guardrail). I pull off to the shoulder and immediately am almost hit by another car that just barely squeezes between us.
Realizing I'm in a dangerous spot myself, I pull up a hundred feet or so so I'm not directly parallel to this guy's car and try to figure out what the hell is going on. By this time another car has stopped in the southbound lanes and I decide I should see if I can help, so I make the first u turn I can and park my car on the shoulder of the southbound side as well.
When I pull up I see the driver of the car that almost hit me wandering around in the road and the guy in the other car that stopped yelling "stay in your car!" At first I thought he was talking to me, as if he was warning me that the guy was dangerous, so I just sat there trying to figure out what was going on for a second when another car locks up the brakes and just barely misses hitting the car in the middle of the road (it was in a terrible spot, just over the crest of a hill straddling both lanes with a 55 mph speed limit).
At this point I decide I have to do something, realizing that if I just sat there and did nothing eventually I would have a front row seat to a horrifying accident. So I get out of my car and approach the guy, who is now sitting on the divider guard rail in the middle of the road. He's completely out of it, and I don't mean drunk. If I had to guess I'd say dope. I'm like, "you almost hit me what are you doing?" And he's just like "idk?". So I'm asking him if he can move his car as another car locks up the brakes in another near collision when I notice there is another person sitting in the car and hear a child crying.
At this point I knew I had to try to get the car out of the road so I yell to the other guy who stopped his car to get out and keep an eye on the guy sitting on the guard rail and try to get in the car. There is a woman in the passenger seat with a small child in the back seat. The doors are locked. I eventually get the woman to roll down the window and I reach in and unlock the door and get in. I try to explain to the woman that I'm moving the car out of the road and everyone is gonna be ok. Whatever the guy is on she's obviously on too, completely incoherent, just babbling things like "what's wrong with him?" and "what am I doing here?"
The kid (who I'd guess was about 4) is losing it crying "please help me I'm scared!" I try to calm both of them them down as I move the car reassuring them I'm here to help (car is a manual trans btw, luckily I learned how to drive on a manual trans and have owned primarily stick shift cars my entire life). As I'm trying to move the car to a safe spot on the shoulder, the car almost gets rear ended AGAIN. I park the car, put the flashers on, tell the woman to stay put and go back across the road to check on the guy, who's still sitting on the guard rail now with the other guy who stopped to help. We wait for traffic to die down enough to cross the road safely and help the guy stagger over to the shoulder but keep him away from his car (I was worried about him getting in some kind of fight with his gf/wife/baby momma).
Me and the other guy who stopped agree there's no way either of these people are driving anywhere safely and call 911. Cops show up, the guy doesn't try to fight or run or anything, was cooperative and sits down on the ground. Cops tell us we can leave and thanks for stopping.
CLIFFS: Almost got hit by some high as fuck dope fiends swerving all over the road. They almost hit other cars, hit guard rail, park car in the middle of street. Guy gets out wandering in road leaving a woman and terrified child in the car, which almost gets hit numerous times before I manage to get the car and guy out of the road and call the cops.
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