Close Call Stories

I’m not sure if this has been a thread topic before but I’m sure there are stories to tell.

This happened to me last night. I was on my way home from checking on my Sister’s dogs / house. It was just before actually being night, past dusk at this point to try and describe the amount of light out. Roughly 8:30 pm. I’m going approximately 60 mph on a road that has a wide physical / dirt median. I start to see something odd and then quickly realize it’s a dark colored SUV headed right at me, without any lights on! I swerve into the other lane, there wasn’t any traffic around me to worry about thankfully. I get to the next light a moment later and do a u-turn. I see other cars having to pass this SUV. At the next light / a previous light, I see the SUV getting onto the correct side of the road. I get behind the SUV and flash my high beams multiple times trying to get the driver to turn on their lights. The person pulls off the road so I do the same and park behind them. I decide to get out and go talk to the person. It turns out to be an old Native American woman who clearly shouldn’t be driving anymore. I ended up yelling at the old lady for driving on the wrong side of the road without her lights on and nearly causing what would have been a serious accident. She could have killed other people, not just herself. When I left she still hadn’t turned on her lights.

I’ve been wanting to put a couple dash cameras in my Acadia and I think it’s time. That was a pretty scary close call last night for me. A head on collision at 60 mph plus that lady was going probably 30. I’d at least be in the hospital and she would likely be dead.