What a day! Bad accident on the way to get TT
My family and I were exciting to go back to camping. We were going to go camping next week with boy scout group. After few months of searching for a camper, we found one 3 hours away. Last Saturday, I...
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50 years of driving in upstate NY with 31 of them being on the road eight to ten hours a day for work taught me one thing. Ain't squat you gonna do on black ice. Most winters I made it through unscathed ,but there was more than one that bit me.
Let off the gas ease on the gas tweak the wheel hold it still,none of that matters.
Any minute change in the equilibrium of your vehicle is all it takes to start spinning.
Experience definitely helps,but sure isn't a cure all!
Yep.
I got caught in freezing rain once, with studded snow tires I was crawling along steadily at 20 mph, on the Blue Grass Parkway in central KY. A semi with chains passed me. The pressure wave off the truck was enough to throw me into a low-speed spin. I wound up in the median, not stuck because of the ice, but buried to the axles in mud.
Sat there a few minutes and the salt truck came by. Shortly after that everyone was moving well. Except I was stuck (along with about 50 other people in a 10 mile stretch). Wrecker came along, pulled me out, I went on my way BEHIND the salt truck.
