Someone posted this elsewhere. The 4x4 is not always the answer. Drivers don't help.
www.nwcn.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer...4
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Definitely a time for leaving your car, staying in your house with your feet up!
Although the video doesn't show it clearly. I am guessing that the road must be on a slope the way the car just slides down it sideways.
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Ouch!
I had an old fiesta Mk2 years ago an had to drive it down a hill in the snow. I thought it was too dangerious and gave up.
I stopped and put the front wheels in to the kerb, applied the handbrake and put it in gear.
Got out and looked as it slowly slipped down the road.
Managed to stop it by putting it in to a pile of snow.
I try not to drive in the snow now but as I travel for my job I sometimes get caught out - don't like it though - too many variables!
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In the late 90's when I was living in Austin I woke one morning to find that we'd had freezing rain overnight followed by about an inch of snow. US 183 was like an ice-rink and vehicles had slid off into the storm ditch every half mile or so. Despite these rather obvious visual clues, there were still some folks driving at speeds well above what was safe. A few days later the local news channel reported that there had been over 800 accidents that day.
About a year later I had to drive to Houston to get a last-minute business visa at the Indian Embassy. On the outskirts of Houston it started snowing. Here, people were stopping on the freeway to get out and look at the stuff!
Kevin...
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I hit ice as bad as this in America once. It was up in the mountains though and only a few cars about. I had no control over the car at all.
Click link below...
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Wonder why these drivers even bothered venturing out...:-)
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If driving was so hard, how did they manage to get out of the house and across the street/along the pavement to the car?
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This clip was first posted on this board on 18 January under the title: "4x4 and Ice in the US."
{Threads now merged - DD}
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People with 4x4s often seem to forget that they offer no advantage at all for stopping, only for going. I'm trained in off road driving from a previous job that involved visiting remote sites up on the hills. One of the things the instructor said, that has stuck with me, was "If there's not enough grip to make a 2wd car go, there's not enough grip to make a 4WD car stop".
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Exactly! All cars have 4 wheel braking so the 4x4 has no advantage unless its tyres are grippier.
Another problem I had along similar lines was driving my car on settling snow on top of frost that was just getting thick enough to lose grip and I had to slow down to about 20 mph to avoid slithering about. An artic driver behind was tailgating very angrily because he didn't realise his heavier vehicle with hotter tyres was biting through the slippery layer and gripping properly. Half an hour later, when the snow was thicker, he'd have been losing groip too and crawling along even slower --- or jacknifed!
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