I took the company's "new" HHR on a 400 mile drive yesterday. I was headed north on I-75 in Ohio at the 174 mile marker, passing a car in the passing lane. A little red car heading south drove into the median and was aimed right at me. There is a cable barrier between the lanes there and he hit the barrier about 10 feet from me. By the time he hit the barrier I could hardly see the car for all the mud and sod he was throwing up. It looked like the cable was going to stretch and let him hit me. It looked like I could have reached out and touched the car as i whizzed past. If the cable hadn't been there he would have hit my driver's door at about a 45 degree angle. When the mud and crap hit me it was so loud that my first impression was that he
had hit me. It happened so fast I don't think I even took my foot of the throttle. I looked in my mirror long enough to see the red car go back into the southbound lanes and get hit by a something. I saw it just as it erupted into a shower of parts. Apparently the cable acted like a rubber band. I called 911 and told them about it and asked if I should go to the next exit and turn around and go back. She got my phone number and told me to stop and check my car and only go back if it was damaged. I didn't see any damage, took a photo of the mud, and went on my way. Apparently I got off without a scratch, but god it was close. There was nothing about it on the traffic report web site yet this morning. I'm going back past there this morning. This happened very near where the two college girls were killed when hit head on a couple of weeks ago.
