A BMW using it’s signal lights.

Semi truck lost an entire wheel and tire in front of me at night on the 405 freeway ~2006 driving in the Alameda area south of LA. The wheel and tire managed to ramp up and over the center K-rail divider and into an oncoming car at full speed. I was in the fast lane. I thought I was far enough away as I saw the entire thing unfolding from the moment the wheel came loose. The car that hit the wheel was like something out of Hollywood special effects. The wheel smashed the front in with tremendous force and sent the car airborne with the trunk coming up over the hood in an end over flip. It did this as it ran up the K-rail from the opposing side and was timed so that it was almost entirely above the height of the K-rail with the brightest beam of headlights illuminating through my side window like someone briefly shining a flashlight directly inside. It felt like slow motion and surreal with stuff flying everywhere. The only thing that registered during and immediately after was that the car was coming over that rail and into me. I was super shaken up for a minute or two. Enough to pull off the road and contemplate life for a minute. It wasn’t until the next day that I saw something had hit the hood of my car and left a small dent and a few scratches, but I painted cars at the time, so no big deal.

The guy that disabled me in 2014 made a u-turn on a hill, in a blind turn from an illegally double parked perspective, directly into a passing SUV with a bicycle just behind them. The passing SUV never reacted and with the turn of the road and SUV in front of me that I had just dropped behind in order to pass this double parked king-of-clowns too important for laws, I had no warning. I never imagined that “king-of-clowns” was an intellectual mastermind level in comparison to this Ace of Spades dumb enough to drive directly into a passing vehicle in a place where it is not even legal to make a left turn from a driveway. He got a DUI two days later, while I was in the ICU under critical watch, while driving his wife’s car.

I was driving, my friend was in the passenger seat. It was night, and to my left the terrain was kind of generally sloping downward and away - so a fair view if there was anything to see, but it was night and not a populous location so nothing to see. Except, what must have been a low - and I mean low - meteor flew into the atmosphere in the same direction we were driving (on my left), lighting up the tops of the trees as it flew by in a giant fireball and it quickly became a smaller point of light and fizzled away. The streak in the sky must have lasted a good 2 full seconds and we were dumbstruck looking at each other after like Did that just really happen? .

One of the coolest things I’ve seen to date.

I’ve been in Florida where some old dude was just driving down the street right on his rim like it was normal.

Where I live it’s common to see dead deer on the side of the highway. One time though a large carcass was missing it’s head, just a bloody stump. I pictured folks commuting on their way to work and seeing a crazed hillbilly sawing of the head of this beast. Of course I don’t know how that’s how it played out but I like to think so.

Just remembered another. A truck directly in front of me was hauling a very large, very full dumpster. The kind where the door is on the end for easy access. The door was chained but swayed a tiny bit when it hit a bump and a rat dropped out and skidded along the highway. Poor guy

One time I got stuck behind a huge semi-truck full of dead cows for 45 minutes. It smelled atrocious. The stench was so strong that it gave me a headache and changed my mood. The smell of death and decay is quite overwhelming when it is that powerful.

I once got passed by two speeding DeLoreans. I ended up catching up to them when we all hit a traffic jam.

Years ago my friend and I were driving in NE Mississippi at about 2 am to visit another friend. Out of nowhere this kid - maybe 12, but doubtful if that - with no shirt on just sprinted across the road.

We both looked at each other and said, “Did you see that?”

We both had. No idea why he was there at that time but I hope he was okay.

I saw a little shitbox Sunfire 2-door with the box of a fullsize pickup strapped upside down over the car. He had a piece of lumber across the front seats and out the windows to hold up the sides of the box. The tailgate was strapped on top of this mess and he was bombing along at almost 100km/h.

Late one night, zooming home on my motorcycle on a toll road in California after working late on the job, sun had fully set.

There was a 15ft ladder diagonal on the road across one and a half lanes. I was in the half lane it wasn’t, simply zoomed past. I later called CHP about it, guess it got taken care of, but i doubt I was fast enough to prevent an accident.

I never forget that when it’s dark and the urge to crank it kicks in.

Driving to Texas. Half way there, at night, not many cars on the road, I seen glow on the left side of the road. Slowly I notice it’s a fire. As I get closer I noticed it was a pickup truck fully engulfed.

I ended up just driving without stopping because: I had somewhere I needed to be and I was exhausted Anyone that was in that truck was already dead

I was driving from Bakersfield to LA and pulled off the highway to get some gas. It was one of those exit ramps that goes down lower than the highway. I’m sitting at the light waiting to turn left and go under the highway, when a car comes flying off the highway upside down. It is airborne and goes right over top of my car. It hits the ground, slides until it hits the other side of the road and somehow rolls back onto its wheels. It then tries to take off but just crashes into fence and stops. A few moments later a parade of police cars came hauling ass down the exit ramp. I just drove straight back onto the highway and stopped at the next gas station.

A guy laying on top of a mattress that was on top of a tricycle

Saw a big transport truck zip by the opposite way on fire. Driver didn’t seem bothered. Found out later on the news he literally didn’t know he was on fire until he started getting honked at and saw all the smoke.

We passed a semi that had gas spraying out of the gas tank. He forgot to put the cap back on.

Not sure how far he got before he figured it out.