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Scariest roads you have driven on

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I had a dream I was dirving up a canyon road and the slope became basically completely vertical. My car could no longer drive up and I started to slide down backwards losing control.

Then I woke up. The most dangerous roads I've driven on we're probably canyon roads where the width is barely enough for two vehicles. Usually when two vehicles are going in both directions one pulls over to let the others pass.

I've been the passenger in a vehicle that flipped off a canyon road before. It was the end of the hill and about a five foot drop. The car flipped and landed upside down then turned over to its side (imagine doing a 270). This is probably where my fear comes from
 
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I had a dream I was dirving up a canyon road and the slope became basically completely vertical. My car could no longer drive up and I started to slide down backwards losing control.

Then I woke up. The most dangerous roads I've driven on we're probably canyon roads where the width is barely enough for two vehicles. Usually when two vehicles are going in both directions one pulls over to let the others pass.

I've been the passenger in a vehicle that flipped off a canyon road before. It was the end of the hill and about a five foot drop. The car flipped and landed upside down then turned over to its side (imagine doing a 270). This is probably where my fear comes from
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There's streets that feel like that in San Francisco, especially in a manual transmission car when you have to stop on them for a red light or something
 
I used to go camping in yosemite and we would go to the outer mountain ranges for day trips. Theres this one windy road with a 600 foot drop on one side and its maybe 15 feet wide for the two lanes. Anyways while driving down it I had the bright idea to shift into nuetral and coast down (while already going 45). Unfortunately I went too far, chirped reverse and lost all power and electricity. I had to brake an explorer with just footpower before the next turn came up.
 
I know a great fishing spot by my hometown but the only way to get to it is to take this really sketchy prairie backroad down to the river which is barely wide enough for 1 car with 30-40ft drops off of one of the shoulders. Probably that.
 
it wasn't so much the road that was scary, but the chance of wildlife jumping into the road.

I was driving in northern ontario west and there were some seriously winding roads and because i'm half retarted i set out at 4 am just when the risks are at their highest of an animal strike. I nearly plugged a moose that would have killed me for sure. I missed the fucker because i kept my foot into the gas and the bugger went right behind me. I think if i slowed at all i would have had a collision with it.
 


I didn't watch the video myself, but I've driven on this road many, many times in high school.


And no, nothing scary ever happened. The scariest thing i saw was a group of kids from Elizabeth who were there for the same reasons we were, only they were from the hood and had switchblades.
 
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Near the cali/Oregon border
about 6 years ago, I was with
a car load of friends on a road
trip & we wound up on some
small, two lane highway in
what was basically a white out.
The snow was so dense, I
could only see the back of the
car's brake lights in front of me
once I got within 15 feet or so.
I could only see the white lights
from the oncoming, opposing
traffic when they were zooming
past me... Which included mostly
diesel trucks, zooming 4 feet
away from my car/ear.

I thought for sure I'd rear end
someone or I'd slide into the
other lane from all the snow.

It was the first time I've ever
seen snow. I've seen some dirty
old snow resting on the ground.
But it was the first time I ever
saw it snowing. I didn't have
chains on my tires either.

Lasted a good 15 miles or so.
Me & my friends sang along to
neutral milk hotel songs really
loudly in order to try and curb
the anxiety of potential death.
 
the road itself wasn't scary, but I've driven over a long bridge (15 min @ 60 mph typically) during a tropical storm. thought I was gonna end up in the water.
 
I once drove down the main street of San Francisco. I had my doors locked, but there was really nothing else to stop the gays from getting into the car if they had been motivated.

Edit: Holy crap, on the first page and this post was already made.
 
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Anytime you are on a remote highway at night and it is snowing hard, it is scary. There is a lack of street lighting so all you have is your headlights illuminating all the snow that is coming down directly in front of you. Very disorienting. I've been on some mountain side roads in fog and driven on narrow streets in the UK with a large car, and none of that compares to being on a highway with a blizzard in your face at night.
 
Back home, we used to rate roads/obstacles on a pucker scale of 1-10. Where pucker is how bad your butthole clinches as your driving.

I hated going down because I couldn't see what was happening over the hood of the jeep... Therefore

Coming down this road gave me a max 10 rating. Terrifying

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In Afghanistan. Going up a mountain with just enough room for the Humvee to fit. We scraped the whole passenger side up this mountain to deliver ammunition to the ANA. The driver would be looking at a 300 foot drop out of his window. When it would rain or snow a different road in the area would be slippery and you'd slide towards the drop. It was scary as fuck. Especially as the Gunner.

Edit: Pucker Rating 10/10 for sure
 
I'd never rode a motorbike before in my life and some guys I met in India convinced me to come out riding with them on a couple of days. On the second day we drove from Manali up into the mountains to the Rhotang Pass - one of the highest motorable roads in the world. What with having to negotiate potholes like small craters, having to dodge cows, horses, dogs and all manner of other creatures and trying not to get run over the edge of some ridiculous sheer drops by maniac drivers coming round blind bends it was a fucking hair raising experience to say the least. Great buzz but scary as fuck at times.
 
Ice road in march. Not doing that again
 
A road here in bc that's a back road really, just dirt. And it's on the side of a mountain, single lane, one side is the mountain of course and the other side is . . . Serious fukkin drop off. And there's no rails or anything to prevent you from failing to your death.

But meh. I'm a pretty calm person n didn't bother me all that much. Everybody else was freaking tho lol
 
Tbh there's a few roads in the province that fukkin suck lol
 
Route Michigan through Ramadi Iraq. I almost died on that road at least 3 times, not to mention that strip of road has had at least over 100 deaths in a 2 year period. I saw plenty of them (friend and foe).
But yeah, I got to drive a beat military Humvee with bad power steering and bad brakes with night vision that I could barely see out of, all while dodging pot holes on a road that regularly had IEDs on it. They should put that in a friggin video game.
 
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