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> >> Drive carefully.
> >>
> >> I wonder how many people know about this?
> >> A 36-year-old female had an accident several weeks ago
> >> and totalled her car. A resident of Wollongong, NSW, she was
> >> travelling between Wollongong & Sydney. It was raining, though not
> >>excessively, when her car suddenly began to hydroplane and
> >> literally flew through the air.
> >>
> >> She was not seriously injured but very stunned at the sudden
> >>occurrence!
> >> When she explained to the policeman 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 policeman told her that if the cruise control is on and
> >>your car begins to hydroplane -- when your tyres lose contact with the
> >>pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and you take
> >>off like an airplane. She told the policeman that was exactly what had
> >>occurred.
> >> The policeman estimated her car was actually travelling through the
>
> >>air at 10 to 15 kms per hour faster than the speed set on the cruise
> >>control.
> >> The policeman 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, along with the airbag warning. We tell our teenagers to set the
> >>cruise control and drive a safe speed - but we don't tell them to use the
> >>cruise control only when the road is dry.
> >>
> >> The only person the accident victim found, who knew
> >> this (besides the policeman), was a man who had had a similar
> >> accident, totalled his car and sustained severe injuries. If you
> >> send this to 15 people and only one of them doesn't know about
> >> this, then it was all worth it. You might have saved a life
> >>
> >> I wonder how many people know about this?
> >> A 36-year-old female had an accident several weeks ago
> >> and totalled her car. A resident of Wollongong, NSW, she was
> >> travelling between Wollongong & Sydney. It was raining, though not
> >>excessively, when her car suddenly began to hydroplane and
> >> literally flew through the air.
> >>
> >> She was not seriously injured but very stunned at the sudden
> >>occurrence!
> >> When she explained to the policeman 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 policeman told her that if the cruise control is on and
> >>your car begins to hydroplane -- when your tyres lose contact with the
> >>pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and you take
> >>off like an airplane. She told the policeman that was exactly what had
> >>occurred.
> >> The policeman estimated her car was actually travelling through the
>
> >>air at 10 to 15 kms per hour faster than the speed set on the cruise
> >>control.
> >> The policeman 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, along with the airbag warning. We tell our teenagers to set the
> >>cruise control and drive a safe speed - but we don't tell them to use the
> >>cruise control only when the road is dry.
> >>
> >> The only person the accident victim found, who knew
> >> this (besides the policeman), was a man who had had a similar
> >> accident, totalled his car and sustained severe injuries. If you
> >> send this to 15 people and only one of them doesn't know about
> >> this, then it was all worth it. You might have saved a life
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