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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 730885" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>All this talk of bridges and ice reminds me of other car incidents that could have been very bad...but weren't. While I was in law school I lived just outside of town and drove this curvy route into town. There was one area that was a hill. On the left side was a bluff face and on the right side was a drop-off and then a bridge at the bottom over a creek that was a good 30 feet below. I knew it was really slick one morning, but had to get to a final exam, so I gingerly drove over the roads and did fine until I got halfway down that hill and the rear of my car started skidding toward the drop-off and creek. I know you're supposed to steer in the direction of the skid, but there was no shoulder and steering right would just put me over the hill, so I did the only thing I could think of, which was steer left and tap the brakes. It worked like a charm! It was just like you see on TV. The car did a 180 and went off the road on the other side, with the passenger side against the bluff. I was never so happy to run off the road in my life. It was the only safe place to be. I walked to a house that let me use the phone and the professor did let me take the final later. I impressed the tow-truck driver. lol </p><p></p><p>Jabber and I had a car/ice/bridge incident too. Going to get our son, who'd killed the battery on his vehicle one really cold, icy night. Our GPS told us to go a certain way and there was a bridge with a really super steep hill on the back side of it. We got across the bridge and started up the hill and slid backwards...toward the bridge...no control at all. I just kept saying, "Please hit the bridge. Please hit the bridge." which we did. Scraped the heck out of the car, but that's a small price to pay for not dropping 20 feet into the drink. </p><p></p><p>Have I mentioned, I hate ice?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 730885, member: 17309"] All this talk of bridges and ice reminds me of other car incidents that could have been very bad...but weren't. While I was in law school I lived just outside of town and drove this curvy route into town. There was one area that was a hill. On the left side was a bluff face and on the right side was a drop-off and then a bridge at the bottom over a creek that was a good 30 feet below. I knew it was really slick one morning, but had to get to a final exam, so I gingerly drove over the roads and did fine until I got halfway down that hill and the rear of my car started skidding toward the drop-off and creek. I know you're supposed to steer in the direction of the skid, but there was no shoulder and steering right would just put me over the hill, so I did the only thing I could think of, which was steer left and tap the brakes. It worked like a charm! It was just like you see on TV. The car did a 180 and went off the road on the other side, with the passenger side against the bluff. I was never so happy to run off the road in my life. It was the only safe place to be. I walked to a house that let me use the phone and the professor did let me take the final later. I impressed the tow-truck driver. lol Jabber and I had a car/ice/bridge incident too. Going to get our son, who'd killed the battery on his vehicle one really cold, icy night. Our GPS told us to go a certain way and there was a bridge with a really super steep hill on the back side of it. We got across the bridge and started up the hill and slid backwards...toward the bridge...no control at all. I just kept saying, "Please hit the bridge. Please hit the bridge." which we did. Scraped the heck out of the car, but that's a small price to pay for not dropping 20 feet into the drink. Have I mentioned, I hate ice? [/QUOTE]
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