Driving to work today and had to come off a back road (down hill with a left hand bend in it) that kind of acts like a slip road onto the busy ring road.
CLICKY
Anyway, came over the brow of the hill, turned left slightly to come round the bend and lost traction on all 4 wheels!
Started sliding down the hill on the wrong side of the road towards the busy ring road at an angle of about 75-80 degrees to the direction my car was pointing.
Went to brown alert and my LEET computer game racing skills took over subconsciously.
Opposite lock, 2nd gear, managed to pull the front end of the car to point down the hill and got traction and moved over to the correct side of the road.
Emergency averted
It was only after rescuing the situation that I was able to think about it. My reactions took over involuntarily
Kinda cool.Funny though, the first thing I thought (apart from the fact of how lucky I was that no one was coming up the road) was that I was lucky not to have to pay out my car insurance excess.
Must have only been going 10-15mph though. Made me realise how much winter tyres would help. Only thing is that I don't see the point in spending hundreds on winter tyres for a period that might last a couple of weeks every 15 years.
