My scariest moment was last years christmas road trip to gold coast queensland from sydney(australia).
My dad was driving at 120km/hr (about 75mph) on the Pacific Highway (Route 1). There were about 9 cars following my car because we were the car in front leading the way. About 650 km into the trip there was this straight stretch of road that goes for 1km+. Anyways a truck was coming towards my car in the oppsoite direction and then out of no where this purple car overtakes the semi trailer truck from behind, crosses into my lane heading straight for my car.

The car somehow overtook the truck and cut in front of the truck back into his lane at the very last second missing my car by inches. We were lucky that my dad was alert and slammed on the brakes when he saw the car coming (120km/h down to 80km/h in a second or 2). At that moment when the car was in my lane, i was thinking 2 cars heading for each other in the same lane with cars behind my car= Head on crash+10plus car pile up+semi trailer truck crashing through car pile up like dominos = Death.

Funny thing was, from that moment on, everyone in the car stayed awake for the remaining 400km of the trip.

For those of you not from Austraila, heres a pic of the exact road i was reffering to
http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/lassen/highway-a1.jpg
and this could of happened but much worse-
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/holiday-alert-after-road-deaths/2007/04/03/1175366215230.html



That was the scariest moment ever in my life. What about yours? Share your experiences!