I recently moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin. People at work have been teasing me (in a good natured way) about the Camaro, saying I'm gonna put it in the ditch when the roads get icy....but I had one worse than that the other day. I could have easily been killed & become another statistic 
We had our first big snow - 7 inches - and i was driving here in town. The side roads were all snow covered...but i noticed that the highway was more clear. I decided to take the highway home thinking it would be easier than the other roads. So I'm driving along on highway 41 - its 2 lanes each direction with a grassy median that dips in the middle just like an Interstate. I forgot how fast i was going, probably 50 or 55. All of a sudden with no warning, after crossing an overpass, I lost control. I wasn't doing anything like changing lanes or braking - just steady driving. And the back end just went out like that. I did a 360...a couple cars behind me hit their brakes and stayed back..
But thats not all. When i finished the turn I must have caught the edge of the road - which had snow - and I was somehow propelled diagonally across the median! I could NOT stop! I was surprised that the dip in the grass or a rock or something didn't stop the car but I shot across and into the southbound lanes. A car travelling southbound must have been alert and he got out of my way....when i came back onto the pavement I STILL could not stop though I may have been going a little slower...and i was headed ACROSS both lanes. On the outside there was an embankment, a grassy hill leading down to the exit ramp and i was headed right for the hill. I desperately tried turning the wheel, and I did ANOTHER 360 and ended up on the embankment where some soft grass stopped the Camaro when the wheels dug into it as I slid sideways. I stopped with the car on the hill, facing the road. Then everyone else continued on....
A guy with a pickup stopped and he had a tow rope that he hooked up to the frame and tried to pull me out of the deep rut but it broke his tow rope.... So we decided that it would be easy for the Camaro to slide backwards down the hill toward the exit ramp where it took some wheel spin to get back onto pavement.
So I went from the the right lane of the northbound clear across to beyond the right lane of the southbound, spinning wildly out of control several times in the process.....and after all of this there isn't a scratch on the Camaro.
Had there been more traffic...or a truck......I would have had a head on crash or caused a multi car/truck jacknife/head on mess....in which case I'd probably be dead right now.
I think that when i passed over the overpass it had probably froze...I dont know if any other car would have been any better? If that had happened in an SUV I would have done multiple rollovers. Damn its scary when you have no control and not a damn thing you can do about it!!!!!
winter sucks.
We had our first big snow - 7 inches - and i was driving here in town. The side roads were all snow covered...but i noticed that the highway was more clear. I decided to take the highway home thinking it would be easier than the other roads. So I'm driving along on highway 41 - its 2 lanes each direction with a grassy median that dips in the middle just like an Interstate. I forgot how fast i was going, probably 50 or 55. All of a sudden with no warning, after crossing an overpass, I lost control. I wasn't doing anything like changing lanes or braking - just steady driving. And the back end just went out like that. I did a 360...a couple cars behind me hit their brakes and stayed back..
But thats not all. When i finished the turn I must have caught the edge of the road - which had snow - and I was somehow propelled diagonally across the median! I could NOT stop! I was surprised that the dip in the grass or a rock or something didn't stop the car but I shot across and into the southbound lanes. A car travelling southbound must have been alert and he got out of my way....when i came back onto the pavement I STILL could not stop though I may have been going a little slower...and i was headed ACROSS both lanes. On the outside there was an embankment, a grassy hill leading down to the exit ramp and i was headed right for the hill. I desperately tried turning the wheel, and I did ANOTHER 360 and ended up on the embankment where some soft grass stopped the Camaro when the wheels dug into it as I slid sideways. I stopped with the car on the hill, facing the road. Then everyone else continued on....
A guy with a pickup stopped and he had a tow rope that he hooked up to the frame and tried to pull me out of the deep rut but it broke his tow rope.... So we decided that it would be easy for the Camaro to slide backwards down the hill toward the exit ramp where it took some wheel spin to get back onto pavement.
So I went from the the right lane of the northbound clear across to beyond the right lane of the southbound, spinning wildly out of control several times in the process.....and after all of this there isn't a scratch on the Camaro.
Had there been more traffic...or a truck......I would have had a head on crash or caused a multi car/truck jacknife/head on mess....in which case I'd probably be dead right now.
I think that when i passed over the overpass it had probably froze...I dont know if any other car would have been any better? If that had happened in an SUV I would have done multiple rollovers. Damn its scary when you have no control and not a damn thing you can do about it!!!!!
winter sucks.
I love it.
)
Comment