What was your most stressful driving experience?

I drive for a living so although I've never (thankfully) had a loved one pass from a collision, I'm expected to drive in the worst conditions while being rushed by impatient customers and other drivers and I know for a fact that there have been collisions and deaths on the same roads I drive.

I just take my time. Big improvement from when I was a new driver and a tailgater made me so nervous that turned super fast and flew off a small hill into the grass. 😅

I'm sorry for your loss and good job being safe yourself.

In a driving rain about 30 years ago my wipers couldn't keep up. Had to pull over for a few minutes. That's it.


But your experience was something else to read... glad you and your other passengers made it there and back safely.

80mph in the outside lane on a motorway when I came upon a localised ice patch. Cars had skidded off the road in all directions and then the car in front of me braked !!! I think a little bit of poo came out. Lol 😆

Instinctively I braked but didn't lock the rear wheels. We slid for a second but in a straight line. Car in front slid to the middle lane and I quickly took my foot off the brake and coasted past it and through to clear road.

All happened in about 5 seconds but it was a very long 5 seconds !!!

A drive down I95 out of Boston on a Sunday night in winter during an "ice storm". I passed several wrecks. Arriving at the hotel in CT the reception guy couldn't believe I had made it. I was driving at walking pace.

On Australia's Pacific Highway. I already was stressed from having to remember to drive on the "wrong" side of the road. But we hit "the arse end of a typhoon" as the bartender at the motel when we finally stopped described it, which had blown a couple of caravans--campers to us Yanks-- into wrecks, blocking lanes on the modern multi-lane freeway and forced us off onto the old two-lane highway, where I now have to really focus on which side of the road to be on, with sheer cliffs dropping off into the ocean on the side of my lane, twisting turns, and gale force winds. At the first opportunity I hopped back on the freeway, no matter if was backed up, and found the nearest motel and bar.

Runner-up: Sicily whenever a shirt-tail Sicilian relative sat shotgun and gave me instructions. Whether it was coming to a fork in the highway and her saying, stop, let me think!; or being stopped by the Carabinieri, her getting into an argument with the officer in machine-gun, loud Sicilian, grabbing the registration papers out of his hand, and saying "Go"; or managing to get us lost down a narrow alley, telling me to make a U-turn, my accidentally hitting and knocking loose a drain pipe and her saying "never mind, they will fix it".

This was about 15 years ago. I was heading East on I40 in my 18 wheeler and just East of Littlerock about 10pm I could see a bunch of shiny stuff in the median in the distance. When I approached it I realized they were all kinds of vehicles piled up in the median. I quickly let off the gas and popped it outa gear and coasted to a slow down. Turns out it was thick black ice. I was lucky that the road was flat and straight. Scared the hell outa me. I parked it at a truckstop a little further down the road.

Having to stop in traffinc at night during a snow atorm and sitting there for eight hours till traffic could move again.

Driving on a highway of black ice was also my most frightening experience. Being rear-ended when I could clearly see the approaching car coming at me at high speed with nothing I could do to avoid getting slammed happened twice. That was a truly exceptionally awful experience.

Driving in white out conditions at night

Bridge in Florida keys