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To: jjotto
Living my entire life here in Michigan, I'm very familiar with those driving conditions. That SUV was flying and only God guided it between the fire truck and the cars off to the side.......

I'm lucky in that I only had one winter driving accident. It was late February about 40 years ago and I was heading home from a local ski resort about 2:00 a.m. in my MG. I was on an expressway, It was drizzling rain and I knew it was kind of slippery so I was only doing about 30 MPH. About a mile ahead I saw lots of flashing lights and knew what had happened so I immediately took my foot off the accelerator pedal and started to slowly guide my car off the highway and onto the snow covered shoulder. Didn't matter how cautions I was, my car slid sideways off the road and slid right up a guard rail with my front wheels hanging over it.......

That "kind of slippery" was the worst black ice I've ever witnessed, it was almost as if a zamboni had gone thru there and smoothed it out.

The tow trucks were busy that night.

9 posted on 02/12/2019 7:40:26 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: Hot Tabasco

We once spun off the road when I let my foot off the gas on an icy overpass... wrong thing to do in a front wheel drive car. Luckily we didn’t hit anything.


11 posted on 02/12/2019 7:56:37 AM PST by fireman15
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