I saw two sports cars aggressively racing each other on the interstate, and then a few minutes later I saw one of the drivers was propelled through his windshield maybe 50 feet. I assumed that used to be a man, but I couldn’t make out the shape of his body from the mangled pile of flesh.

Usual one first: back in 2010 we rented a car from NC to NJ last minute to catch a friends wedding. Rental agency gave me an odd kick when I declined the insurance and I got one of those chilling epiphanies where something seemed wrong. Anyway, we’re coming back from NJ going 80 on the freeway in middle of nowhere Virginia and my friend was driving, me in the passenger seat. Guardrails on both sides of the road in a forest. 5 pointer comes casually walking into our lane, my buddy saw it too late. Honestly a good thing, he only had enough reaction time to jostle the steering wheel slightly to the left, not even brake. We dodged that bucker by inches. Car insurance be damned, it would have probably ended me.

More bizarre ones:

• The handlebar on my motorcycle broke off, and I went down quick on a freshly plowed road, 18 wheeler behind me was barely able to stop in time. He helped me up and then chucked my bike into a snowball like it was nothing.
• Saw a semi get blown over by a gust of wind on 81 in western VA
• not a freeway, but I was turning left from this mountain backroad as a semi turned right onto the road I was on. The shoulder on that side had a drop off and the guy misjudged the turn. I got to see the whole cab lift into the air right beside me in my peripheral, freaked me the fuck out and I barreled to the right shoulder quick. When all was done and it seemed safe enough, I got out and checked on the guys then called highway patrol. The driver and his buddy were a bit in shock from the whole situation but otherwise OK.

I once got passed by two speeding DeLoreans. I ended up catching up to them when we all hit a traffic jam.

I was driving, my friend was in the passenger seat. It was night, and to my left the terrain was kind of generally sloping downward and away - so a fair view if there was anything to see, but it was night and not a populous location so nothing to see. Except, what must have been a low - and I mean low - meteor flew into the atmosphere in the same direction we were driving (on my left), lighting up the tops of the trees as it flew by in a giant fireball and it quickly became a smaller point of light and fizzled away. The streak in the sky must have lasted a good 2 full seconds and we were dumbstruck looking at each other after like Did that just really happen? .

One of the coolest things I’ve seen to date.

We passed a semi that had gas spraying out of the gas tank. He forgot to put the cap back on.

Not sure how far he got before he figured it out.

I saw a little shitbox Sunfire 2-door with the box of a fullsize pickup strapped upside down over the car. He had a piece of lumber across the front seats and out the windows to hold up the sides of the box. The tailgate was strapped on top of this mess and he was bombing along at almost 100km/h.

Where I live it’s common to see dead deer on the side of the highway. One time though a large carcass was missing it’s head, just a bloody stump. I pictured folks commuting on their way to work and seeing a crazed hillbilly sawing of the head of this beast. Of course I don’t know how that’s how it played out but I like to think so.

Just remembered another. A truck directly in front of me was hauling a very large, very full dumpster. The kind where the door is on the end for easy access. The door was chained but swayed a tiny bit when it hit a bump and a rat dropped out and skidded along the highway. Poor guy

One time I got stuck behind a huge semi-truck full of dead cows for 45 minutes. It smelled atrocious. The stench was so strong that it gave me a headache and changed my mood. The smell of death and decay is quite overwhelming when it is that powerful.

Years ago my friend and I were driving in NE Mississippi at about 2 am to visit another friend. Out of nowhere this kid - maybe 12, but doubtful if that - with no shirt on just sprinted across the road.

We both looked at each other and said, “Did you see that?”

We both had. No idea why he was there at that time but I hope he was okay.

About half the cab of a big rig hanging over the lane I was driving in.

880 North in California, early 2000’s around 2AM. South of Oakland driving in the fast lane, it was foggy and I was going a bit to fast. Then I started noticing a whole bunch of weird stuff all at once; 20+ cars pulled over on the shoulder with a cop car in front of them, small rocks? all over the road that rapidly became chunks of concrete a few inches in on a side, a whole ass sideways car — at this point I’m slowing and pulling out of the fast lane, as I finish the lane change I look back ahead just in time to see the cab of the big rig dangling over the fast lane from the other side of the freeway. It just appears out of the fog, I’m not sure my car would have cleared it if I had still been in the left lane. It had punched right through the concrete median (the rocks all over the freeway were debris from the collision). The southbound side of 880 is higher there, so it was at least 4-6 feet above the ground on my side.

Bonus: A different big rig with a 25 foot aluminum ladder stuck on one of the trailers feet. It was shooting a roster tail of white sparks another 15 feet, skipping around and making quite a bit of noise. Got a good look as I passed and it had clearly been hooked for a while, it was ground down a few inches where it was making contact.

Car flipping over

Late one night, zooming home on my motorcycle on a toll road in California after working late on the job, sun had fully set.

There was a 15ft ladder diagonal on the road across one and a half lanes. I was in the half lane it wasn’t, simply zoomed past. I later called CHP about it, guess it got taken care of, but i doubt I was fast enough to prevent an accident.

I never forget that when it’s dark and the urge to crank it kicks in.

A crack head bent at the waist, her shirts were down and her ass was prolapsing in and out. One of the most horrid things I’ve ever seen.

Jeeze… You all have such crazy stories…

Boobs… I’ve seen boobs. No more than once.

The remains of two people all over the interior of their convertible. It happened literally seconds ahead of me and I had to pass within a foot of it on the driver’s side.

The image hasn’t left my mind in over 20 years.