January 19, 2010
Tell us your scariest driving experience, get a free travel mug
Everyone’s had an experience behind the wheel that’s sent their heart pounding, blood pumping and adrenaline soaring. From now until January 31, 2010, we’d like to give you an OnStar travel mug (while supplies last) for describing the details of your close call. Share your scariest driving experience story with others in our OnStar Connections forum.
Here’s an example of what one forum member had to say:
mj2289
Not sure that it’s the scariest, but it’s one that will always be with me. I was pulling a trailer home from Kentucky with a newly acquired thoroughbred brood mare at the ripe old age of 21. My dad was half awake, half asleep in the passengers seat and noticed a pack of dogs on the side of the highway . . . Read the rest in the forum.
And if you don’t have a scary driving story you’d like to share with us, feel free to post a response to one of the other forum topics. We’ll contact you by email and make arrangements to ship your OnStar travel mug (while supplies last).
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My scariest experience was in Sept of 2008. I was driving a Malibu at the time, with my 2 yr old son in the back seat. I was exiting off the freeway, approximately 5-10 mins from home. Traffic was backing up and I began to slow down. The person in front of me stopped quickly, and I was able to as well. The person behind me did not (she was in a SUV), she hit me from behind, which in turn pushed my car into the truck ahead of me. The truck was then pushed into the van in front of him. I was sandwiched, and the airbags went off. My door was unable to be opened, so I had to climb out the passenger side door to get out. I quickly grabbed my son out of the backseat.
I wish we had OnStar at that time, but we do now. Luckily there were many people to help us out until help arrived (my cell phone battery had died).
We were also fortunate to only sustain a few bumps and bruises, as I know it could have been much worse.
I was offroading in my H3 truck, in a very rural area. There were several other vehicles with me, and one ended up getting stuck pretty good – and I did not have a tow strap. None of our Verizon phones had service in this location, but fortunately, the Onstar hands-free calling did, and we were able to contact a good friend with a rock-crawler and tow straps to come out and unstick my friend in his Nissan Xterra. I love the hands-free!!!
About a week ago, my children and I were coming home late one evening. It was dark and not alot of traffic on the road at that hour. I was going South on a major US 4 lane hwy. The North bound and South bound traffic on this highway is separated by concrete barriers. I am driving along and I see an oncoming car whose headlights look oddly close to my side but disappears after topping a hill. Less than a minute later, I reach the top of this hill and this car is coming right at me and my kids going northbound on the southbound side of the highway. I had to swerve to miss him/her and they just keep right on going. I immediately pulled over and hit the Onstar emergency button and was promptly connected to the proper authorities to report this person. The operator that handled the call was fantastic!!! Thank you Onstar…I will be a loyal customer for life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m actually thankful to say I’ve never had a scary driving experience. I’ve needed to use OnStar for being diverted off a highway because of an accident and that was great!
My scariest experience was about 6 months ago while driving home from Alabama, it was pouring down rain and I came around a corner and hydroplaned it was not a pretty sight. I was in heavy traffic and oncoming traffic I tried to steer toward the median to aviod a hitting any other vehicles, thank goodness after sliding about 100 feet backwards in the median finally came to a stop and to everyones amazement no one was hit and did not have any damage to the vehicle…. That is how much truck earned her name “Miracle”
We were in a town called Deer Creek, MN and out of nowhere a wolf appeared in the middle of the street. It stood there staring at us and would not move. We locked the doors and closed the sunroof. After about 10 minutes, he finally went on his way. That was my scariest experience in my Pontiac Grand Prix! Everything worked out and we were not attacked by the wolf but had we been, knowing that we had OnStar there to save us helped us get through that situation.
My wife and I have friends about 100 miles South of where we live in Morgantown, W.Va., in a remote part of the state with only about 10 residences in the community. Usually, we visit about one or twice a month – as our goddaughter lives there with her grandmother. Mostly, whenever we visit, we travel down on the freeway, and come across the main town on a U.S. route, and then the last 5 miles or so, by local road.
This one occasion, we decided, as we have plenty of time to get home – and OnStar to get us out of trouble if ever we got lost – to take a backroads route home, over the mountains. We hadn’t travelled perhaps 15 miles, when, on this straight stretch of road with good visibility, came across a car which had emerged from a junction on our left – about 500 yards ahead, and turning towards us. It quickly picked up speed, but remained on our side of the road – the driver looking down, not expecting to meet anyone on this quiet road. I said to myself, “he’ll pull over, give him a little time,” but he didn’t seem to budge. finally, with about 50 feet left, I sound my horn, flashed my headlights and started to brake – he missed us by about 10 feet, and kept driving. My wife and I were shaken up, and I brought the car to a complete halt. I hit the trusty OnStar button, hearing the familiar sound as it connected, and got a really nice operator the other end – she gave us the news that turn-by-turn navigation was unavailable in that area, but she would be happy to talk us through getting back to “civilization” until it was available once more. There hasn’t been a day after that that I haven’t been glad that I continue to have the service – even though we don’t use it as much as we did when we first got the car – it’s a real lifesaver – just for peace of mind! Thank you.
Had a friend who lost control of a Citation on a dirt road, I was in the front passenger seat. We hit a tree and shoved the front tire on my side back 18 inches. I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt (young and dumb), and received only a bruise on my knee.
well, not really scary, but I was at my ranch, in Beeville Tx, in the middle of summer this past year. As I got there, I parked my truck and decided to put a windsheild cover to keep the sun out, well, as I put it on, I knew I accidentally hit the mirror, but didn’t know if I had pushed any of the buttons on it. well, I got out, and proceeded to walk into my house, and within 10 minutes, 2 local officers and one State Trooper showed up, in the middle of nowhere…I apologized to the officers and they replied that is what there were here for, and went on about their way…I was amazed in their lightning fast response…just for that I would like to thank onstar.
I was traveling down the interstate when I barrel came flying at me out of nowhere and I had to swerve to avoid it. Thank God everything was alright, but had something gone wrong it is comforting to know that Onstar would have been there to assist me.
I got rear ended on I-10 on my way to work when the guy decided to try and drive off. Luckily I had already given the OnStar operator the description of the other car. They passed the info to the police and luckily he ended up breaking down on the next exit.
My daughter, Melissa and I were out doing errands on a Saturday afternoon. We were on a busy street in a fast pace area of town. We heard the accident before we saw it! But ahead of us was a bad accident! I immediatly push the red onstar button & got a person right away. I explained what had just happened, but wasn’t sure of the side street name. Onstar was able to get my location and figure out which side street we had passed. Then Onstar called the local police (on 3-way) and got help for the people in the accident quickly!! She then thanked us for being such good samaritans!! Thank You Onstar!!!!!
My scariest was down here on I-4. I was about 100 yards behind a car that was passing someone. They misjudged the distance, and were turned around. they slid from the left all the way to the right, then proceeded to come back through traffic, and over the embankment flipping three times in the process.Fortunately we were all able to stop . It was the first and hopefully the last time I have used On-star to report an accident.