truck swerved with hard braking
Ok, here is the story. I was driving on the interstate it must have been approaching an uphill. Truck in the right lane moving slow. Another truck moving up on me in the left lane. So I hit the gas to...
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camp-n-family wrote:
Curious if there was a crown in the road. You mention you were mid pass, so between lanes. If there was any rise in the pavement between lanes or grooves where the tires track and you hit the brakes hard on one it could cause the wheels to pull to one side.
This very well could be. I believe that I was still changing lanes when I hit the brakes. As soon as I cleared the 18 wheeler enough to see that the left lane was blocked I braked. Someone else sent me a private message saying the same thing, that the swerve while braking could have been caused by a groove in the road.
I really don't know but it seem logical that I may have also started to move back to the right lane as I was braking. That would be the reflexive reaction.
Seems the moral of the story is BE MORE CAREFUL. When passing an 18 wheeler don't assume that the left lane is clear, because there is a blind spot where there could be a slow vehicle in the left lane. Then being in the middle of changing lanes while starting a hard brake is that much worse.
