What is the closest you have come to killing someone (or yourself) while driving unde

[5-HT2]

Because this question applies to ALL drugs, and is not directly related to their effects (well, except on judgement), I am moving it to Drug Culture. That way, more people will get to read these cautionary tales.

As for my own experience, I've never damaged my car or anybody else's while driving under the influence of marijuana or (meth)amphetamine, the only two drugs on which I am willing to drive (though now that I've quit stimulants, that list has been reduced to marijuana). In my younger, more foolish days there were two instances when I drove while coming up on psychedelics, once on mushrooms and once on acid. Though I didn't crash into anything, those were the only lessons I needed to show me that I should not try to drive after ingesting psychedliecs, even if I think I have enough time to get where I am going before I start to come up.

 

[blazebud]

how bout my boy got sent of a bridge cause his dumbass friend took a hit a dust off while driving they went of a bridge doin 35 car was so low it popped up off the curb like an ollie did a bunch a flips and landed 30 below into a parking lot both were dead on site the cops thought till they found my boy sittin there in amazment and his so-called friend up the street ditchin his trees

 

[dxmtussin]

well lets see, one time i drank a half bottle of tequlia and a few beers, and decided to go to the store for some cigarettes, so i get there alright get ma stogies and head off. well i start fuckin with ma radio for a bit too long doing about 90 when i look up and find myself about 2 inches away from the guardrail. That was close one. another time i was high as fuck and jus went out to buy some firecrackers. im leaving the stand and head off in the wrong direction. i jus tweaked my car that day so i decided to test it out. I hit about 95 wondering why cars are in my lane and swerving to miss me until this one car barley missed me, and to my luck it was fucking Bexar County Sheriff. He busted a yooie like in the movies and starts coming after me. I pull over right next to a sign that says "One Way->" I'm like "Oh shit, it's over"
He tells me to step out and to my surprise I see a dead rabbit that I hit from pulling over. Well with my high ass, I ask the cop,"Do you want that rabbit, cuz if not I'll take it home with me, they taste like chicken" Luckily he found it funny and I came up with the best bullshit story in the world for why I was going the wrong way, he said he could get for like 4 counts of attempted murder and what not, but instead he lets me go without even a warning.

But to this day I have not wrecked or hurt anybody else with my dumbass driving or even gotten a ticket while under the influence(knock on wood) I guess I'm luckier than most though

 

[HighwayChild]

Someone should invent a breathalyser for tiredness - it's bloody dangerous and just about everyone seems to have a story about how they nearly crashed while tired.

Apart from nearly falling asleep myself a few times on the highway, last year I was a passenger in a car that was nearly head-on'd by a tired driver - both cars doing 100kph. The old guy at the wheel fell asleep, drifted right across in front of us in the opposite lane, then crashed into a ditch on our side of the road. Scared the shit out of us!

Amazingly - the old guy and his wife were completely unhurt, even though their car was fubar.

HC

 

[ChillsH2o]

I've had many brushes with disaster when driving....

One time, when I had developed a substantial Ambien tolerance (If I COULD fall asleep, I'd wake up again in a few hours when the drugs wore off), I had woken up at about 4 in the morning and kept taking more ambien to try to get back to sleep. Around 5:30 I said "fuck it" and went to my car to smoke some herb to try to help tip the scales anf get me to sleep. I was very wierd off the ambien at that point, but wasn't sleepy at all (I had probably taken at least 30mg around then). I couldn't smoke in my parked car or room so I had to go for a ride. I drove around the empty streets smoking, and was starting to feel a little sleepy.

The morning traffic was just starting, people going to work and going out on walks. I started to zone out at one point, and snapped back to reality just as I saw an old lady dive into a snowbank on the side of the road to avoid me. I swerved hard and spun out, did a 180. I was too freaked out to drive by the lady again so I made it a 360 and booked. That scared the shit out of me, that if that old lady hadn't jumped into snow, she'd be dead and I might not have even realized it.

I drove straight home, and forced myself to keep thinking about what had just happened so I wouldn't forget... when I woke up afterward, I had a hard time believing that it had happened. In fact, I had forgotten that I had even went to my car that morning, it wasn't until I went to my car again and saw the mileage (I had just hit 112,000 miles the day before, and now I had 70 more miles that I must've drove in an ambien-induced state that I only remember because I almost killed someone).

I think the scariest part is that I could've hit that lady, killed her, kept driving, and not remembered that it even happened in the morning....... I don't drive on ambien anymore....hell no...

 

[sugafist]

I'm not even going to describe my different moments of me & my gf and friends almost death. I'm just happy & very thankful to be here because there have been moments. But I will say that sleep depervation is the major problem.
Especially since me & my friends like to travel to out-of-state parties, which mean that the drive home is always the worst experience, people are extremely tired, exhausted, and lacking complete consentration(sp?)
I'll say just to be thankful to have avoided disasterious events from happening

 

[Introspective_Johnny]

Well, the first time I had done crystal meth, after I was already pretty much past the comedown, I drove about twenty miles on the highway and just as I was about to turn onto an intersection, I had a huge pain in my chest....felt like a bunch of needles or something....and I grabbed my chest and partially hunched over, thus causing an accident that totalled three cars and broke some ladies arm who was sitting in the car I directly hit. My co-worker almost had his leg crushed from the dash too.

 

[*kell*]

hmmm.....about a week ago i did 3 bags of dope, was real fucked up, going about 30 near houses and i felt like i was gunna yack... so me thinking perfectly clearly i decide to open the door and try to yack out the door while im going... but while i was struggling to open the door i forgot to hold the wheel and i swerved into a parked car and bashed it good.... the shitty part is i puked on myself anyway.... then i bounced and i got away with it too. lesson being, always puke on yourself cuz its better then dieing.

Hahaha, exact same thing happened to a friend a few weeks ago except he already knew to not even TRY to open the door, he just accepted his fate & vomited all over himself. A few firends were lucky enough to be in the car with him, so word has spread I havnet seen him yet but I cant wait to laught at/with him alot.

Um I smashed up my boss' car while I was on xannax once, I blamed it on a deer. To this day no-0ne (well now BL) knows the truth. It's weird how you truely think you're capable.