Whew! Had a really close call today... saved by the X!

[Last5oh]

We were driving home today - wife and daughter with me - heading northbound out of Toronto on Hwy 404 going about 110kph in the center of 3 lanes. At one point it came time to move over to the rightmost lane to exit onto Hwy 407. I had about 2 car lengths between me and the car ahead, the lane to my right appeared clear. I signaled the lane change and turned my head to check the blindspot which was clear.

Out of the corner of my eye, everything in my lane TURNED RED! As if in slow motion I saw all the brakelights of the Camry ahead of me flash red, same with the car ahead of it... by now there was less then 1 car length between me and the Camry!!!!

By reflex I jerked the wheel to the right and stomped on the gas!... to my amazement the X seemed to side-step into the right lane - within inches of the Toyota's bumper - and continue forward as before just as my wife blurts-out some unprintable words!!!!!

All I could say was WOW!... had we been in our Explorer - as we had been in the past 6 years - there was NO WAY that maneuver would have worked, we would have clipped the Camry for sure and risked a roll-over.

Now I don't usually have these close-calls - I don't drive around as if looking for trouble - but I just learned (the hard way) today that when the unexpected happens its really nice to be in the X5!

DRIVE CAREFULLY EVERYONE!