January 19, 2010 by OnStar Admin
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).
Because of overwhelming response we have given away our last travel mug, but you can continue to ask questions and tell us about your experiences in the forums. Watch for more giveaways in the future. We will contact you by email and make arrangements if you have already earned an OnStar travel mug.
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Tags: Automatic Crash Response
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.
This happened a number of years ago,I had just bought a Buick Rendezvous and that day I was in a funeral procession, the river was up almost on the highway and just when I looked down to find out our speed which was about thirty to forty miles a hour (we were still in town and the speed limit was 40 miles per hour) someone up ahead slowed down to look at the high water and I rear ended the car in front which hit the car ahead.My airbags came on and almost immediately a woman from ONSTAR asked me if I was hurt,I replied No the airbags took all the shock but the carr in front took a hard hit and the people needed medical attention that was when the trunk of the car I rear ended flew up and I could see a fire starting from shorted out brake lights,I jumped out of my car saying more to myself than anyone.. My God the trunk of the car is starting to burn. The woman on ONSTAR heard my words as I ran forward and grabbed the shorted out wires which were just above the gas tank and somehow without burning myself except for a few small blisters I jerked the out and put out the fire then I yelled at the people in the car get out now your trunk was burning and it could start up again, six people came out of the car,one of them was on oxygen with a tank, of course onlookers from the near by houses were milling around and I had to run them off in case of a gasoline fire or explosion,within minutes a fire truck with foam from a small city six miles away arrived and proceeded to spray down the trunk as a precaution,thanks to the ONSTAR woman who heard me say the trunk of the car ahead was on fire and she immediately called for a ambulance and the foam fire truck, they had already left with the injured people,none of who,thank god, were injured seriously,everything was under control before the police arrived and later explaining the accident,I remarked if it wasn’t for ONSTAR and if that fire got out of control with all the passengers inside one with a oxygen tank and the fire directly over the gas tank our town would have been on CNN if the gas tank went and the oxygen tank followed at least twent y or more people would have been burned alive in a funeral procession no less….to say ONSTAR saved the day is a understatement and the woman from ONSTAR who heard me cry out to myself ,My God the wires in the trunk have shorted out and they’re flaming deserves a citation for exceptional work as she picked up my words after I was nearly out of my car (and I was by no means talking to her) heading for the source and she reacted in what can only be described as heroric…Thank You…PS… traded off the Buick after the accident,it was made in mexico and bought me a SRX caddy with ONSTAR and telephone service besides XM radio,my sister was looking to buy a new car soon after my accident and since she is widowed and often drives a long distance to see her boy who is a captain in the police force of the city he works at I warned her if she didn’t get ONSTAR and the telephone service I would give her so much hell her life would be miserable…Footnote she had both in the Pontiac Montana she bought and she loves it so much she tells everyone she knows who in the market for a new car that “ONSTAR” and their telephone service is the very best investment anyone can make because you don’t have to take your eyes off the road to call and talk to someone and in case of a accident to yourself or a accident you witness you can call it in and have the necessary rescue vehicles on the spot within minutes….Said to much ..Post was to long but just telling it like it is….Live Long ..Live Happy…
My accident happened last feb of 09. I was sitting at a red light trying to turn left onto a 5 lane road. It had been misting rain and the roads were wet. A guy in a paper thin honda passport to my right was trying to turn into the complex I was coming out of. A 76 ford truck was coming to my left. The honda starts going and his tires start spinning. I thought”You are never going to make it” Well the ford hits his passenger rear side to which I said” I told you stupid you wouldnt make it” I raised my hand to push the red emergency button when in slow motion he started heading toward me. I then thought” Well just cause I called you stupid is no reason to come hitting me!”I also thought” I had a nose job 2 months ago and if you mess up my new nose Im going to beat the crap out of you! Well he slammed into me ramming me into the air and slamming back down on the ground. The car called outfor help before I knew it. I had some whip lash and back aches from tightening up waiting for him to hit me. And for those that would say well you had a cell phone. Yes I did which was broken in 3 pieces when he hit me. Alot of good that did me. Onstar got help for us all and called my family to come get me. NO cell phone will do that! Thank you onstar we will always keep a vehicle with it and keep it activated!
Once I was driving, as I was going around a bend a car side swiped me and push me across the median to the other side of the road into a fence post and a speed limit sign. I had damage to the front passenger side of my 2007 Chevrolet Silverado, and my friend was scared.