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Post by Pete on Jan 14, 2024 19:08:02 GMT
Went to a store this a.m. & on my way I had to go thru a roundabout. Going around a curve at about 25 MPH my Jeep lost its traction on a patch of light snow & started sliding toward a big pile of snow & ice along the berm. From the road being plowed earlier.
Took my foot off the gas, tapped the brake once & turned the steering wheel a little to the left, the direction I'd been turning, & got traction back & away I went. It was a near miss & but luckily it was a miss.
You could say it was my decades of winter driving experience & my excellent driving skills that saved me...or not.  |
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Post by Hank on Jan 14, 2024 19:10:21 GMT
Would your prior vehicle have responded as quickly? Is a ?
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Post by Pete on Jan 14, 2024 19:26:02 GMT
Henry, hmm, can't say for sure. If I recall rightly my former vehicle required manual engagement, with a dashboard button to push for 4-wheel drive.
Mostly the roads were OK so with that vehicle I may have thought 4-wheel drive wasn't needed. So...
My Jeep though has automatic 4-wheel drive. It engages automatically when needed. Works like all-wheel drive, disengaging power to a spinning tire & transfers it to one with traction. But as far as I could tell no tire was spinning the whole Jeep was sliding sideways.
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Post by Hank on Jan 14, 2024 19:30:39 GMT
Three roundys ( had not added to dictionary so auto corrected !) were added in my City Last construction season. (2 of those to aid in issues at one of the two interstate junctions, it has truck stop at that one very close to it.
Not the problem, I felt there should be more.
It was approved with one entry, exit. And many truckers,possible not English as a first language, couldn't read arrows properly, many errors, more than one involving death in a private conveyance.
So with the west bound freeway round a bout they added a second entrance to the truck stop.
The exit and entrance for that direction of the freeway are side by side for a few 100')
Bringing it to five.
Up to three more have been under discussion.
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Post by Pete on Jan 14, 2024 19:51:09 GMT
Henry, the area where our roundabout is was once a cloverleaf. Which included a bridge. All that was torn down last summer & replaced with the roundabout. In regard to mistakes made: I've seen a few of those. Most often drivers failing to yield to oncoming traffic. And one time I saw a driver going around in the wrong direction.  |
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Post by Hank on Jan 14, 2024 22:59:38 GMT
The problems were before the round a bouts. I don't I had ever seen a exit and entrance side by side before the one there.
Next town there have been wrong way drivers, and it's I suppose over a year old now.
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Post by Pete on Jan 14, 2024 23:14:02 GMT
Henry, true, there's always been sketchy drivers.
There have been deadly crashes here at times when drivers have entered the 4-lane highway using an exit. Despite the Wrong Way signs.
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Post by dave2 on Jan 15, 2024 4:26:31 GMT
And I might add, at least in my area, a high percentage of "wrong way" drivers have been found to be "bombed" or intoxicated if you wish to be polite.
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Post by Pete on Jan 15, 2024 13:22:22 GMT
Dave, I often watch crime shows like Cops & see drunk drivers being stopped.
When the driver is asked how much they've had to drink, they almost always reply with, "Two beers." When it's obvious with them slurring their words & staggering around it was much more than that. Unless those beers were pitcher-sized.
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