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Wow! Please Drive Carefully


Jangler

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People kill me, especially here in the south, driving as normal when it's snowy and icy. They think, "oh I've got 4x4, I can still drive..."

4x4's don't brake any better than any other car you morons... and they slide just the same too.

That's some horrible poo, you just never know... I've tried to press that in my kids head now that he's driving... you have to pay 100% attention 100% of the time... one tiny slip is all it takes.

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I did a slow 180 in South Dakota one time on the highway, wasnt fun at all. Right back wheel lost traction had it almost straight and was heading for the medium. Tried to give it a little gas as I wasnt going fast in the first place to straighten it up and and instead of straightening up it veered to the right. First thing I saw was a tree and bank. Nothing I could do but hold on. Lucky the truck kept turning and it was some soft snow slid off the road and landed softly in the snow with the tree a good 5 feet behind me. I was facing the traffic after that. Shaken but not hurt.

Worst thing you can do when Hyrdroplaning is touch the brakes.

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this is why I drive 45 on interstates in those conditions despite morons flying by going 80

this. being from Florida/North Carolina whenever it starts snowing I am very cautious. Yet people are still passing me on winding two way roads going 15 miles over the speed limit.

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I won't drive in weather like that. Luckily, I live in San Diego where we don't get weather like that. We do have California drivers though and some bad road conditions. I've never seen anything that bad, but I've had bad crashes occur near me on the freeway a few times. The two that stick out in my mind: 1)On the 215 I had a sports car in front on me merge into a delivery truck, both spinning out and coming inches from my passenger side window. 2) On the 5 during rain I had 5-6 cars pile up in front of me with no time to stop, I narrowly made it through a gap and had to pull over before I died of a heart attack.

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I grew up in snow so driving in it doesn't bother me in the least. Anyone who does it on a regular basis understands that you can feel how your car is handling the conditions. People who aren't used to it, however, either need to just stay home or take it really easy. It's the over confident and under experienced that get killed more often than not.

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I grew up in snow so driving in it doesn't bother me in the least. Anyone who does it on a regular basis understands that you can feel how your car is handling the conditions. People who aren't used to it, however, either need to just stay home or take it really easy. It's the over confident and under experienced that get killed more often than not.

You almost sound over confident yourself. I don't care how experienced of a driver you are all it takes is one moment for all that "feel" to go to poo and for something unexpected to happen.

Every driver needs to take it easy when it is raining, snowing, or just during regular driving.

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