We drove down that way on Wednesday night. At one point traffic slowed way down. I started braking pretty hard, and the guy behind me took about 1 second too long to notice. When he started braking, he was pushing the pedal through the floor. He started to move left (I think to go around me on the shoulder if he had to) and went too far left while braking too hard. I heard his tires start to screech, and suddenly he was completely sideways behind me. Then he was completely sideways facing the other way, in the lane to our right (where the car that was there JUST missed getting creamed). Then he was back in the lane behind me, in the middle of a full 360, and finally ended up going backwards into the median. This all started while we were doing about 85 mph.



Fortunately, he didn't hit anyone, or anything, and went into the center median at a pretty low speed. He sustained zero damage, and the gap in traffic behind us was so large that he wasn't really in much danger of getting hit. So if you were driving I-25 S/B to Colorado Springs on Wednesday night around 8:30 pm and in a Pontiac Grand Am/Prix, I'm glad you made it out of that maneuver okay. Lucky timing as well since a few hundred feet later and there was a guard rail on both sides. I watched the whole thing in my mirror, but my wife was freaking out and was too scared to look back.

Oh yeah, and the guy behind the guy that spun out, and had to have seen the whole thing, rode my ass the ENTIRE time through the stop and go traffic jam we were all slowing for. Didn't he just see what happened to the other when he was following too close and didn't leave himself enough room?