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Near Collision
While driving to work in the right lane of two in my direction, a driver in the left lane two car lengths ahead of me slowed down abruptly to turn left onto a side street. The driver of a SUV behind it was following too closely to stop in time; so, he jerked his vehicle over into my lane. Unfortunately, my car occupied the space he was headed into and I had to brake, swerve off the road and over a curb to avoid the collision. My vehicle came to rest with the front half in somebody's front yard. I had slowed down enough that going over the curb didn't cause any damage and there wasn't anything else in my path.
Fortunately, the driver of the SUV pulled over on the next side street and waited for me to get back on the road and to pull up next to him. That action and the fact that the first words out of his twenty-something year old mouth were to ask if I was OK saved him a lot of grief. If I would have had to chase him down, he would have gotten more than just a defensive driving lecture.
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