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Old 02-26-2010, 10:03 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ChillyBear View Post
We were going the same speed. I had never been on that ramp. My parents were a couple minutes behind me and said that a camero and a minivan had slid off in front of them lol. Idk what was up with that road, it wasn't even icy. It could have been because it was being resurfaced so it was rough.
We used to get times like this in HBG, PA, when they were redoing highway roads. They'd leave them choppy, and the lines always were cut in *mostly* the same direction as travel, which means that your car has a tendency to follow the lines, not where you tell it to go.

I've seen plenty of drivers swerve, near miss, wipe out, etc... because they don't understand that it's easier to keep control of your vehicle if you lower your speed to, say, 55 MPH instead of 75.

Even at 55, it's a bit hairy at times.
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