We hit a bump on the road driving on the highway through the mountains, led to us hydroplaning and the driver losing control of the vehicle. Slammed the driver's side into the guard rail. Guard rail helped us regain control of the vehicle if it hadn't been there would have easily spun and been hit by a rig. Or if it had happened earlier we would have gone off the mountain or into oncoming traffic.

Happy friday.

10/7/2011 12:39:04 PM

Bump led to hydroplaning?
Does not compute.
Oversteer maybe.

10/7/2011 12:41:13 PM

I've always suspected that hydroplaning is just something that girls make up as an excuse when they wreck their car.

10/7/2011 12:41:40 PM

No, it was pouring rain with 50-100 feet of visibility. We definitely hydroplaned

10/7/2011 12:43:20 PM

^^ I'm ashamed to admit, but I've properly hydroplaned a car before. It can happen. Going about 85 in the rain as a dumbass 16 year old... I realized that the car no longer responded to the steering inputs. I turned the wheel over a quarter of a turn and nothing happened. Then the highway started to curve to the left as an exit ramp broke off to the right. I went right down the middle through the grass. Passed one of those huge twin I-Beam highway signs about 3' from my passenger's door. Never made that mistake again thankfully.

[Edited on October 7, 2011 at 12:46 PM. Reason : l]

10/7/2011 12:44:21 PM

hydroplaning is a lot easier to do in a light pickup truck (ford ranger) with no weight on the back end.

10/7/2011 12:46:04 PM

Defying the laws of friction ITT.

10/7/2011 12:53:28 PM

Big deal. My head is peeling from last week's light sunburn.

10/7/2011 12:55:08 PM

ps, I never said the bump directly caused us to hydroplane, it led to us hydroplaning. There is a difference.

10/7/2011 12:55:47 PM

Try rolling on some bald super swampers in MT mountains in the pouring rain and get back to me.

10/7/2011 2:14:17 PM

I was driving on 440 back high school in my bitchin' 89 camaro during a light rain. My car turn 90 degrees and went sideways down the road for about 30 yards before turning 90 degrees back to normal like nothing had happened.

Later I realized that the shop had put my tires on backwards and they channeled water directly to the center of the tread.

10/7/2011 3:09:24 PM

I hope you didnt go back to that shop

10/7/2011 3:11:35 PM

I did not.

10/7/2011 3:12:03 PM

Quote :

"Later I realized that the shop had put my tires on backwards and they channeled water directly to the center of the tread."

10/7/2011 3:20:01 PM

bet the driver was a fucktard and hit the brakes. that's usually when shit gets real

10/7/2011 7:31:23 PM

This is just like sailing
The caddie's hydroplaning

10/7/2011 7:36:57 PM

When i was 17 i totaled my 92 dodge daytona. I "backed it into a tree". I think the front tires got traction on the highway and the rears hydroplaned. (being a 17 year old idiot I slammed on the brakes) Result was a car where i could sit in the drivers seat and touch where the tail lights should have been. I climbed out the window unscathed.

10/8/2011 12:02:32 AM

I hydroplaned on I-40 east during a thunder storm one time. Since no damage was done to any vehicles, or people, it was pretty fun.

10/8/2011 12:24:04 AM