This morning i went to work like usuall but today there was ice on the road grr! I went around a corner not too fast because i knew there might be ice on the road but i still skided and crashed into a metal bollard and but a big dent in the front of my car. The front lights and backlights have been ripped out and i had to get a new tyre. I now want a car with all the new abs,traction control and power steering stuff in the futre!
i took a picture of what it looked like at the time which ill put up when i get time.
Anyone else been in a accident involving ice or other situations?
Two years ago January I skidded on ice. Like you I was being mindful of my speed but to no avail. In my case I side-swiped another car and did a small amount of damage. Fortunately the accident was minor, no one was hurt and my insurance company covered the damages without increasing my rates. I never even bothered with a claim on the minor damage to my car as it was not long for the world anyway.
The accident happened right next to the municipal center of the town I was driving through including the police department and public works department. A cop came out to assist and seconds later the salt trucks came out to salt the road I had just slipped on.
Oooh, now you’ve done it. That was my wife. She was at the movies and - go ahead BMW drivers, flame me - some scumbag with his/her BMW bumped her while she was parked. Well our car did have a little bumper damage but it was preexisting. The scumbag BMW driver must have thought they’d get in trouble for bumping her car so the scumbag called the police and somehow convinced the officer to issue my wife, who was in the theater at the time and unable to defend herself, a ticket for careless driving, an infraction which carries points. Even assuming my wife were the guilty party, points for bumping some scumbag’s BMW in a parking lot at 1/2 mile per hour and doing no damage to the scumbag’s BMW? Yes, that’s right, our insurance company never received a claim for damages on the scumbag’s BMW.
Anyway, my wife plead down to “obstructing traffic” which carries no points but with a doubled fine and court costs laid us out nearly $300.
Please note that I have nothing against scumbags as a group and mean no offense to anyone who is a scumbag through no fault of their own.
Oh, my bad. Sorry to push that button. I don’t think I had ever heard how that insane situation ended. On the other hand, I think you broke a record here. You used the word scumbag eight times in one post!
woo im glad youre alright. I hit some ice once too. My mom was in the passenger side. We went off the road into a corn field and got so close to hitting a phone pole on my mom’s side.
Its sucked how helpless i felt while we were sliding. Worste of all, I coulda lost my mom. That woulda been a pointless ending to such a great lady.
How fast do you think you were going when you started to slide? That’s the problem with ice, sometimes you just can’t do anything to change the course of your car. The trick is to see if before you get there, if possible, or be prepared for it to be around the corner. Sounds like you were prepared somewhat, but not enough for how slippery that ice was.
I never really understood the whole “black ice” thing. To me, black ice was always the stealthy ice that you couldn’t see, mostly at night. It’s not black, just whatever color the road is.
The slipperyest (how do you spell that?) ice I can remember driving on was the wet, freezing rain kind. My house was the second house from the end of our street, a T intersection with a stop sign. It was slightly downhill to the stop. We spent the morning listing to cars slide down the hill. It was one of those days when you stay home from work because it’s too dangerous to try to drive there.
I got in my car, my driving school car, to go teach a lesson with a guy who wanted to drive in snow & ice. I got halfway around the block, slid through a stop sign at about 1 mph using all the skills I had, and finished the block to return to the house. I cancelled the lesson. Sorry dude, today’s just a little too good for driving in slippery conditions!
Ah, those were the days. Here’s what the house and the car looked like:
That was my last winter in NY. This morning I rode to work and it was about 55 degrees F, the perfect temperature for a uni-commute. Beautiful!
Back to your ice and accident, traction control and ABS would probably not have had much affect on your situation today. But they’re still great to have for those situations when they work!
Morning after a slight snowfall on the way home from work, the person I get a ride with decided to see how far he could slide his car in the drive way.
He put the car in fourth gear and then he pulled the hand break.
Road was quite slick and he skidded for a while, started to bring the car under control but not before he hit the curve in the driveway.
The car ended sliding over the embankment and down the slight incline into the alders.
Fortunaly I decided to walk home that day.
Later on that week, I was looking out the window at a large drift forming in the road. I see a van come speeding down the road with its music blaring.
When the van hit the snow drift, all I seen was a large POOF of snow get thrown up in the air and nothing could be seen for a few moments. After the snow cleared, I saw the van nestled on its side in the snow filled ditch.
It looked like the van wasn’t damaged, but the owner was not very pleased.
I offered him the chance to use my cell phone to call a tow truck, but he said that he wasn’t going to pay for a blasted tow truck to come pull him out when the road should have been cleared.
I guess he ended up waiting for his friend to come try and pull out the van. In the end they had to get a tow truck.
Alot of interesting stuff happens during the winter.
My best mate got hit by a car full f jy-riders last night. Luckily just cosmetic damage…And even luckier, one of the joyriders left their bail papers in the car after they legged it so the police just went to his house and waited for him to come home. Nice to see the criminal masterminds of Macclesfield are keeping busy.
It’s getting pretty crazy here in Grand Rapids, MI. A few days ago we had an 84 car pile up. One person died, and two are in the hospital. I just drove home from a friends house, and i could barely see anything. It was snowing soo hard. I stuck my head out the window to see when I was merging onto the highway (that was moving at a steady 35 mph tops.) Thankfully no accidents for me…yet. I’m only 16, I’ve got lots of time left to crash cars.
Grand Rapids – cool! I grew up as a little one in Ionia and just drove thru GR the a couple weeks ago to visit my 100 YEAR OLD aunt in Ionia.
The expressway/interstate traffic around GR is scary-fast. Insanely fast, even. The expressway through downtown is tres narrow, and make me feel like i’m driving a slot car.
I heard about that crash briefly on the radio, but no details. Was it caused by white-out conditions? Amazing only one person was killed.
It sounds like one of those situations where, if you really thought about it, you might realize it’s better to be late to work, or whatever, than to risk the weather at the moment.
But that happens all the time. What we get in Northern CA is fog problems. Lots of fog in the winter, and high speed roads like Interstate 5 that go straight-and-boring through the low-lying central valley. I think the huge pileups occur when everyone is zooming along in a “manageable” amount of fog, when it suddenly goes to zero-visibility fog. Then it’s just as dangerous to pull over as it is to try to keep going, because you’re likely to get rear-ended. Ouch.
I heard about that crash briefly on the radio, but no details. Was it caused by white-out conditions? Amazing only one person was killed. I guess that’s one of the “nice” things about snow and ice, if the people are going slow to begin with (if), everything tends to happen in slow motion. But I guess you wouldn’t be able to pull in 84 cars if everyone was going nice and slow…
It sounds like one of those situations where, if you really thought about it, you might realize it’s better to be late to work, or whatever, than to risk the weather at the moment.
But that happens all the time. What we get in Northern CA is fog problems. Lots of fog in the winter, and high speed roads like Interstate 5 that go straight-and-boring through the low-lying central valley. I think the huge pileups occur when everyone is zooming along in a “manageable” amount of fog, when it suddenly goes to zero-visibility fog. Then it’s just as dangerous to pull over as it is to try to keep going, because you’re likely to get rear-ended. Ouch.
100 years…wow, thats something thats a bit difficult to fathom.
Yeah, the traffic around here can get a little crazy, but i havent done much urban driving in any other cities, so I havent had much to compare it to.
