Ever fallen asleep at the wheel?

[mercurial]

I must have dozed off a few times while driving home yesterday
Thankfully, they were short bursts of about a second. Never had that happen to me before. I must be really tired. Ever happened to you?

 

[poffle]

Nope thank god. One of the most dangerous things that can happen. dont drive when u tired!

 

[Velenoso]

Happened to me once. Quite a long time ago. It was late at night and luckily the highway was quiet. I slowly drifted and scraped the wall on the side of the highway.

 

[Mila]

A few times. The cat eyes and gravel woke me up.

 

[Surv0]

Ive had the feeling that i may fall asleep, eyes close etc.. but remain in control and prevent it from effecting me negatively...

Ive never passed out, and have never had an accident.

 

[LazyLion]

Ja, when I had to drive to Potch early in the morning a few years back... was very scary... just could not stay awake.

 

[CrzWaco]

those few seconds drifting in and out of sleep and aircon and open window plus redbull did not help when you driving long road and really tired and its 3am in the morning, not cool luckly road not busy that time of the morning.

 

[pjjdp]

Jip,

I went to JHB from Estcourt in a L300 bakkie. Came back the same day fully loaded. About 11 that night between Villiers and Warden, on N3, I fell asleep. Luckily my wife was with me and she sensed this and woke me up.

Nearly rammed a truck from behind.

 

[Voicy]

I do loads of traveling for our work. Some months between 3500-5000kms. It's a TERRIBLE feeling and scared the crap out of me. It's happened to me on 3 occasions now and the one girl in our office has already rolled our 4x4 after falling asleep at the wheel.

Trust me on this one, do NOT kid yourself by thinking you'll be fine by opening a window. Pull over and either sleep for 20mins or so, or walk around for a bit. Its NOT worth taking the risk.

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

Never fallen asleep behind the wheel.

I have blacked out before due to driving under the influence back when I was a brainless cretin back in the day. Was driving home from Claremont to Pinelands and the next thing I remember I was driving in Obs. Scared the crap out of me.

 

[Ou grote]

I fell asleep on a train from Bellville to Brackenfell, think I dozed off just after Stikland station. (this was supposed to be a 15 min train ride.)
I woke up in Wellington (about 50 min away I think) as the train was starting up for the return to Cape Town.

 

[Solidus]

I used to dose off for short bursts on the N2 right by the airport cause I used to drive to Stellenbosch everyday, man it was pretty scary and in broad daylight as well

 

[Surv0]

I fell asleep on a train from Bellville to Brackenfell, think I dozed off just after Stikland station. (this was supposed to be a 15 min train ride.)
I woke up in Wellington (about 50 min away I think) as the train was starting up for the return to Cape Town.

geez and u didnt get raped, robbed and beaten?

 

[AvatarS]

Brief seconds of not being completely... there. When I'm overtired. Thankfully it happens only on familiar roads I could drive in my sleep. But those moments are still scary when I come out of it. Actually, I'm a lot more alert after.

 

[Keeper]

Happened to me once before, when me and Farlig.Optreden was driving home from somewhere late at night - Was also only short bursts of a second or so but when it happened the 3rd time we decided enough is enough and he started making trumpet/saxophone sounds and stuff to make me laugh, to stay awake. It was hilarious but it worked!

I can recommended to just start telling jokes or making weird sounds because he probably saved our lives that night.

Thanks buddy, I will never forget it.

 

[mercurial]

I can recommended to just start telling jokes or making weird sounds because he probably saved our lives that night.

Thanks buddy, I will never forget it.

Anything that gets your blood pumping will keep you awake.

Good friend of yours. Sounds like he's a keeper.

 

[Ou grote]

geez and u didnt get raped, robbed and beaten?

Nah, it was in 1992.

 

[Nocturnity]

Think it's time to sell the bike with people like you on the roads...

 

[shadow_man]

geez and u didnt get raped, robbed and beaten?

That line is not an issue till you hit a big center like Bellville. Travelled the STB to CPT line lots - helluva safe till you hit Bellville and CPT.

J

 

[Bondizzo]

Happened 9 years ago I was 14 at the time, on the way back to RSA from Zambia my mom fell asleep quickly woke up and lost control of the car did a 360 but remained on the raod, luckily there were no other cars on the road at the time, 2 hours later she fell asleep again, lost control and we ended up in the bushes, the backside of the car hit a tree, one of the back pasenger windows broke and I got cut from the glass, luckily no one was seriously hurt and the car wasnt written off.