[JAR0023]

Had this almost happen to me last fall on I-40 between Nashville and Memphis. Many of the exits are just a simple overpass with a straight shot on or off at both ends of the bridge. I was W/B in the right lane easing up on an 18-wheeler. I checked my mirrors and started sliding over to the left lane. Just as I cleared enough of the truck to see ahead I saw a silver car headed straight at me. I jerked back to the right and looked in my mirror to see cars scattering everywhere. Might have been a foot between our two cars as it passed.

I called 911 and let them know about the fool on the roadway. Then called a buddy, as I had to tell someone. I was cool until I started relating the story to my buddy, then all of the adrenelin hit. I've driven 40k + miles a year for work for the last upteen years. Never had an at fault accident, never been in a major accident. This one shook me a bit. If I had been looking at the phone or radio I could easily have been a dead man.

All I can figure is the driver made it to the leading edge of the bridge and turned left instead of going across the bridge then turning left.

J