Falling asleep while driving

[TurboJake]

You and your car fared a lot better than my brother. Who sheared the cars steering wheel with his face.
You can stick magnets to his left cheek and forehead now. I usually do it when we're out hunting and he passes out. Helps him pick up the radio stations in his head.

He was half a mile from home.. And I take falling asleep at the wheel very seriously ever since that incident.

[joshh]

I have no idea how people fall asleep at the wheel. I've done 12-14 hour driving days and still not fallen asleep.

[mcruz121]

atleast now you have an excuse to get rid of those horrible zender side panels, aka testarossa kit..

Haha trust me I've been wanting to take them off but the PO used some whack stuff that left the paint underneath looking like shit

[Rennsport]

Once you go tumbling ass over head in a ford explorer you will never fall asleep at the wheel ever again...

[TimKninja]

Ive done it before.
Im a driver at work, Ill usually stop and get some potato chips. always keeps me awake having something to munch on.

Scary, when you wonder...Hey I don't remember going over the bridge.

its been proven to be worse then drunk driving.

[ohthejosh]

Ive done it before.
Im a driver at work, Ill usually stop and get some potato chips. always keeps me awake having something to munch on.

Scary, when you wonder...Hey I don't remember going over the bridge.

its been proven to be worse then drunk driving.

It is worse, like something close to 10 times worse. I have had nights where i dont remember the drive at all, remember getting in the car and then im in my bed?!? all bad.

[gooseadrian]

this happened to me going 55 in an astro van with a traler. and i have to say god dam that scared the fuck out of me. got off the freeway and got a four pack of red bulls. never again will i stay up for 20 hours the drive another 15.

[F34R]

Nice wheel gap lol

[Northern]

I spent last christmas with my GF's family, who live in an extremely rural community where there is a 45 minute drive to go anywhere of importance.

After a nice lunch we were on the way back to her parents' place in her dad's truck on one of the back roads near their home. She was driving, doing ~100kph on a long straight stretch when we start to drift across into the oncoming lane. I look over, assuming she was on her phone, to see her passed right out leaning on the driver side window. I panic and yell her name, she wakes up and jerks the wheel to the right and then the left, causing us to fishtail and then spin around ~220 degrees to the left on the shoulder of the road.

I'd never been so sure I was going to die in my life, haha


Also, two years ago, my uncle wrecked his old subaru legacy when his sleeping self decided to jump it off an offramp and roll it a few times.

[Deltron Dirty30]

Since everyones sharing their lil story...

Personally I've never driven anywhere far but when my dad had a house in Ohio, he would drive there from NY and back like nothing. He usually drinks sugar free redbull and keeps the car very cold. Anyway one time we about half hour away from our destination (in Ohio) and it's about 3 in the morning.

I'm half asleep and my brother is just in the back knocked out. I feel the rumble strip and I quickly wake up and my see my dad dozing off for a quick second. I got sooooo fucking scared, needless to say I was wide awake for the rest of the trip. I was afraid he was going to do it again and hit a deer or something.

[MonkeyMadness]

I killed a really nice 66 squireback out side of Pendelton Marine Base back in
1996 falling a sleep at the wheel... pretty scary when I woke up still in motion...

[iidesu]

well, luckily nobody was hurt, was he?

[drumad]

I never remember the drive into work. Ever.

I fell asleep once for about 10 miles on I81. Straight stretch, knocked out about 9pm coming home from Pa. I roughly know the distance because I remembered the last exit I passed had a chick fil a and I was pissed they were closed in Sundays.

I flipped the fuck out and was wide awake the rest of my trip.

Driving from blacksburg to richmond going 81N, I completely fell asleep for a good second and missed the exist for 64E. Had no idea why the fuck I ended up at JMU.

[slammin.e28]

Driving from blacksburg to richmond going 81N, I completely fell asleep for a good second and missed the exist for 64E. Had no idea why the fuck I ended up at JMU.

Is it bad if I lol'd? That would totally suck.

My friend got lost coming back from a Steelers game in Pittsburgh. We all noticed he wasn't at school Monday morning. He rolled in Tuesday and told the story. He'd missed an exit in PA and rolled over into western Ohio. His dad was with him, but asleep (this was when we were 17). He just kept going, and they had to get a hotel for the night in Ohio.

[drumad]

Is it bad if I lol'd? That would totally suck.

My friend got lost coming back from a Steelers game in Pittsburgh. We all noticed he wasn't at school Monday morning. He rolled in Tuesday and told the story. He'd missed an exit in PA and rolled over into western Ohio. His dad was with him, but asleep (this was when we were 17). He just kept going, and they had to get a hotel for the night in Ohio.

I laughed at myself. Super self face palm. I saw purple road signs for JMU radio and was just confused as all hell.

Another one going from Blacksburg back home to Chesapeake, I had to drive back for surgery on my fractured hand but I had a test that day from 7 to 9 pm. By the time I got in the area it was about 1am. I drifted asleep, ended up in the grassy median going about 20 mph. Luckily I hit nothing, I did the whole tweak and wake up hard motion.

I drove home going 45 mph with my eyes wide open as if I've been shot with 1000 mg of caffeine.