Dax Shepards Harrowing Teen Car Roll Experience

Dax Shepard revealed he nearly died during his senior year in high school when his buddy drove him from Toledo to Detroit in a Ford Probe.

'It was like late at night, and I had to work super early in the morning. So I go, "Hey, I'm gonna sleep in the back. Are you good to drive?"' the 51-year-old Armchair Expert co-host recalled on his podcast Monday.

'[He said] "Yeah, I'm totally fine." He had the cruise control on 85.'

Shepard's friend was not, in fact, fine and wound up falling asleep behind the wheel.

'And then I just heard gravel hitting the side of the car. And I immediately looked up and he was completely slumped over,' the Idiocracy alum remembered.

'I started to [try] to grab the wheel and there was a moment where I just knew it was too far gone. Like, we had gone completely sideways. I laid back down and then we just launched in the air and we started rolling right down the highway.'

At that moment, Shepard was terrified they'd careen into the many pine trees lining that particular interstate in Michigan 'and that's gonna be that.'

'I definitely had this moment where I was like, "Oh wow, I'm going to die in a second." And the feeling was shockingly comforting like that,' the Ted Segers Brew co-founder recalled.

'I remember I went from like complete fear, "S*** the car is out of control. Oh my god, we're going to roll. F***, we're rolling. Oh, right. We're going to roll into a tree. I'm going to die."'

Shepard's friend was not, in fact, fine and wound up falling asleep behind the wheel: I just heard gravel hitting the side of the car. And I immediately looked up and he was completely slumped over' (pictured in 1992)