NEVER KNEW THIS BEFORE... hummm

[ADF-CaptCC]

NEVER KNEW THIS  BEFORE...
I wonder how many people know about  this?

  A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago and totaled her
car.  A resident of Oakville, Ontario she was traveling between Oakville and Hamilton. [ like Perth to Dwellingup ]

It was raining, though not excessively, when her car suddenly began to
hydro-plane  and literally flew through the air. She was not seriously
injured but very stunned at the sudden occurrence.
When she explained to the highway patrolman what had happened he told her something that every driver should know -

NEVER DRIVE IN THE  RAIN WITH YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON.

She had thought she was being cautious by setting the cruise control
and
maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain.

 But the highway  patrolman told her that if the cruise control is on and
your car begins to hydro-plane  when your tires lose contact with the
pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed, and you
takeoff like an airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly what
had occurred.

 The patrolman said this warning should be listed, on the driver's
seat sun-visor -
NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR  ICY, [ dont think Icy is muck a concern here ]
along with the  airbag warning. We tell our teenagers to set the cruise control and drive at a safe speed - but we don't tell them to use
the cruise control only when the pavement is  dry.

The only person the accident victim found, who knew this (besides the
patrolman), was a man who had had a similar accident, totaled his car and sustained severe injuries.

If you send this to a group of people and only one of them doesn't know about
this, then it was all worth it.
  You might have  saved a life.

 NOTE: Some vehicles when the windshield wipers are on, you cannot set
the cruise control. So You Might Want To Have A Look...EH...

The Toyota Sienna Limited XLE is one of them.

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Oh Yeah ... Good BaBy ...

[Merv]

yea...even without cruise control me and my brother in law hydro-planed right into a nice cluster of trees... most likely if the car wasn't and older car and not steel i might be dead atm... i think the way to stop killing younger people would be for the car companies to stop making platic cars that crunch when you hit something going 20km/h....hehehe

just to note it was a old holden HQ Ute with huge steel bullbar on front. we hit the tree at about 60-80km/h and the bullbar was inbedded in the engine... since it was a older model car the cab was still intact except for the steering wheel which was bend by my Brother in law as we hit...lol... something i never want to do again... those seatbelt injurys really hurt.

[ADF-ChooB]

BS~~ u read tooo much chain mails~~~

[Prevail]

i dont like cruise control anyway

[ADF-Nobbie]

My misses gets upset with cruise control. I ask her to reach over and keep the accellerator at constand speed. She feels a little unsafe doing this, at 120K's on the back of a bike - go figure

[ADF-Deano]

My misses gets upset with cruise control. I ask her to reach over and keep the accellerator at constand speed. She feels a little unsafe doing this, at 120K's on the back of a bike - go figure

I hear ya nobbies..... whine......whine.....whine.....

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[ADF-Medic]

I would to being on the back of this with Nobbies.

This is the real pic of Nobbies bike

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[ADF-CaptCC]

I see it's in your Colour Medic i can live with that but..... But a suzuki hahaha

was that , wheelie wheels or training wheels ???

[ADF-Nobbie]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Just like mine......
reminds me of a song. Medic and I live in a pink submarine

[ADF-Medic]

Yeh im the cabin boy  [smilie=61.gif]  [smilie=19.gif]

[TarAnd77]

lol