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This happened outside my house one day. The cable pole stopped him from going any farther. It was my cable pole. He was tired from third shift. Real young kid, I heard a weird pop sound from outside. Next thing I know this boy is selling out his little red car totally dazed. He was ok. Nobody was hurt. Luckily.
I worked a 38 hour shift once and decided to drive 4.5 hours home once when I was much younger.
About 2 hours into the trip I blinked and I had driven another 1.5 hours. It literally happened that fast. I knew I was tired but felt like I was ok and had certainly been more tired driving before. Literally went from felling alright but tired to driving unconscious for an hour and a half.
Yes, the highway was very straight and yes, I pulled over to have a nap.
It was not my finest hour, and I was very drunk. Passed out briefly right after I turned, and luckily there was a wide median. I woke up when I hit a crosswalk sign and pulled off and kept going and made it home, and was so lucky I didn’t hurt anyone. I quit drinking for a few years right then.
This was about 60 years ago. I was around 10 and mom fell asleep while driving. My younger brother was asleep on the back seat and I was sleeping on the floor. When I woke up the car was upside down in the median of an interstate. Mom was the only one injured and she just had a nosebleed. We spent the night in a cheap motel but I was really shook up and didn’t sleep much. Our car was brought to us and we drove the last two hours home because it had hardly any damage. A weird night for sure.
My friend fell asleep at the wheel last year and got her license taken away. Luckily she wasnt hurt, before anything bad could happen people started calling 911 about a ‘reckless driver swerving’
Didn’t crash bur when I was young I pulled an all nighter with some friends. Movies, video games, music etc. I got called for work at 6 am. So I left around 5:15. I was on the center lane on the freeway. Hardly any cars. I blinked and I swear I saw myself from the back seat. One second later I woke up in the exit lane. I crossed 4 lanes without knowing it. I pulled over and looked for a parking lot and slept.
Wild. I was on a university field trip in the late 90s and not wearing a seatbelt. I woke up as the van was flipping, and I remember something, a book, I think, fall onto the ceiling of the van. The next time I woke up, I was outside of the vehicle, and my professor was asking me how I got there which I remember thinking was a silly question because I had no idea how I had gotten there.
I fell asleep and drove off a ledge in the middle of the night. I barely missed a telephone pole, trees, and was stopped by a barb wired fence. I’m alive but totaled my car.
I have fallen asleep several times driving, only once did it end in an accident. Head on collision with a full size truck vs the tiny Chevy Sprint 3 cylinder I was driving. I woke up right before impact & really only saw the front of the trucks grill. Oddly enough it was my old algebra teacher from high school.
It wasn’t scary until the car came to a stop on the opposite side of the road. The entire front end of the vehicle was obliterated. The engine was in the car running hard and pieces were coming off of it. Both vehicles were completely totaled & needed wreckers to haul them away. Neither him nor I were seriously hurt, just minor cuts & bruises.
Before anyone gives me grief about falling asleep several times, it was because of a medication I was taking that was making me very drowsy. I didn’t realize that was it until months later. On top of that I was working an extra 15 hrs every week.
I was extremely lucky I never ended up taking a life.
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This happened outside my house one day. The cable pole stopped him from going any farther. It was my cable pole. He was tired from third shift. Real young kid, I heard a weird pop sound from outside. Next thing I know this boy is selling out his little red car totally dazed. He was ok. Nobody was hurt. Luckily.
No accident but:
I worked a 38 hour shift once and decided to drive 4.5 hours home once when I was much younger.
About 2 hours into the trip I blinked and I had driven another 1.5 hours. It literally happened that fast. I knew I was tired but felt like I was ok and had certainly been more tired driving before. Literally went from felling alright but tired to driving unconscious for an hour and a half.
Yes, the highway was very straight and yes, I pulled over to have a nap.
I almost did this so many times in my early 20s. Fascinated by the topic.
Don’t remember i was out!
It was not my finest hour, and I was very drunk. Passed out briefly right after I turned, and luckily there was a wide median. I woke up when I hit a crosswalk sign and pulled off and kept going and made it home, and was so lucky I didn’t hurt anyone. I quit drinking for a few years right then.
This was about 60 years ago. I was around 10 and mom fell asleep while driving. My younger brother was asleep on the back seat and I was sleeping on the floor. When I woke up the car was upside down in the median of an interstate. Mom was the only one injured and she just had a nosebleed. We spent the night in a cheap motel but I was really shook up and didn’t sleep much. Our car was brought to us and we drove the last two hours home because it had hardly any damage. A weird night for sure.
My friend fell asleep at the wheel last year and got her license taken away. Luckily she wasnt hurt, before anything bad could happen people started calling 911 about a ‘reckless driver swerving’
Didn’t crash bur when I was young I pulled an all nighter with some friends. Movies, video games, music etc. I got called for work at 6 am. So I left around 5:15. I was on the center lane on the freeway. Hardly any cars. I blinked and I swear I saw myself from the back seat. One second later I woke up in the exit lane. I crossed 4 lanes without knowing it. I pulled over and looked for a parking lot and slept.
Wild. I was on a university field trip in the late 90s and not wearing a seatbelt. I woke up as the van was flipping, and I remember something, a book, I think, fall onto the ceiling of the van. The next time I woke up, I was outside of the vehicle, and my professor was asking me how I got there which I remember thinking was a silly question because I had no idea how I had gotten there.
Exhausting
I fell asleep and drove off a ledge in the middle of the night. I barely missed a telephone pole, trees, and was stopped by a barb wired fence. I’m alive but totaled my car.
I have fallen asleep several times driving, only once did it end in an accident. Head on collision with a full size truck vs the tiny Chevy Sprint 3 cylinder I was driving. I woke up right before impact & really only saw the front of the trucks grill. Oddly enough it was my old algebra teacher from high school.
It wasn’t scary until the car came to a stop on the opposite side of the road. The entire front end of the vehicle was obliterated. The engine was in the car running hard and pieces were coming off of it. Both vehicles were completely totaled & needed wreckers to haul them away. Neither him nor I were seriously hurt, just minor cuts & bruises.
Before anyone gives me grief about falling asleep several times, it was because of a medication I was taking that was making me very drowsy. I didn’t realize that was it until months later. On top of that I was working an extra 15 hrs every week.
I was extremely lucky I never ended up taking a life.