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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Reminds me the day I was driving (the Argentinian way) a Nissan XTerra, and had to detour from a piece of tread that went loose of some truck tyre. Did such at a higher speed, and didn't seem even close to lose control. So I take the so-called moose test always with a grain of salt.
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But how fast?
In the parts of Mexico I've been in the regular speed limits are around 60kph with maximum limits of around 80. And with the way the roads are laid out, going even at those speeds can feel quite fast. But here, not too far from where I live, there's a highway with a speed limit of 80mph (130kph) and most people go faster than that, usually around 90mph (145kph).
It's been my observation that bigger vehicles, especially SUV's, are the ones that end up flipped over on the side of the road. One dry summer day a SUV flipped over on a 55mph (90kph) highway in front of me from trying to avoid a deer. I'm not sure what model the SUV was, but it was similar to an Xterra.
When ice and snow are on the road things get even worse. One day during an ice storm on a straight, flat highway I counted 12 vehicles flipped over off the side of the road besides a semi truck. All 12 were pickups or SUV's.