this happened to me once and I just thought of it today. I was driving down a hill (not a very steep one, but a noticeable one) and at the bottom I saw a car slip on some ice and rotate, then right itself a little, but it was going back and forth, and then before I knew it I was on that same patch of ice and my car spun out of control, went really fast and slammed into the other car, which had started to pull over. in part I think my car spun out of control because I tried to shift to the left to avoid the car ahead of me, which was slowed down and pulling to the right.
could this have been avoided? is it better, for example, to brake quickly than to try to go straight through something? should you never try to turn? at that point if I didn't try to turn I would have run into him, unless I guess the other alternative would have been to brake hard and try to come to a stop while on the ice.
I still drive by that spot and am not sure I'd know what to do if it happened again.
2007-02-25
11:50:24
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