Had a close call last summer...
Was getting off an exit that banks right, then left, and continues straight. It was warm out, day time. The exit ramp was made out of concrete, and rated at 30 MPH, I was doing 40 MPH. The exit is 1 lane, concrete barier on the left, mile markers on the right, with a grasy plain about 10 feet deep off the right, which then rose like a hill after 15 feet.
Anyone who knows the Viper's handling, knows that 40 in a 30 zone is peanuts...except for that day. As I was going off the exit, I completed the right bank, but as I started into the left bank, the front end started to drift out. I tried to correct slowly, but the front end drifted off the concrete road, onto the blacktop shoulder. As soon as I hit the shoulder, the front end grabbed the gound QUICK, and spun the back end of the car around to the right, at the same time shooting the front end BACK onto the concrete section, out of harms way. The car did a complete 180, and I slid off the road SIDEWAYS and BACKWARDS, between 2 mile markers, and rolled about 10 feet up the hill. I jumped out of the car, and immediatly called for help on my phone. While I was waitng for someone to pick up the other end, I started to walk around in a daze and thought the car was totaled. But to my surprise...there wasnt any damage! I hung up, checked everything out, and hopped back in, cranked it over, and took off. went to a parking lot to gather myself, and check over the car again. Aside from a 1x1 scuff in the bottom driver corner of the bumper...there was NOTHING. A good wash job, and it was good as new. Put it on the dealers alignment machine, nothing had shifted. Good deal.
I went back to the scene the next day, come to find out the concrete was polished as smooth as glass! NO WONDER IT HAPPENED! you could literally see a reflection in it. Also, I discovered I missed a milemarker with the back bumber, by SIX INCHES.
Scariest part bar non was the split second I was facing the concrete wall... My heart STOPPED.