candsw's Blog

I have been getting alot of interesting emails. This one was true and I thought I would pass it along to you. Be cautious when it is wet or icy out. Read the following -

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 Kilgore, Texas she was traveling between Gladewater Kilgore. 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 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 when your car begins to hydro-plane and your tires lose contact with the pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed making you take off 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, 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 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.


NOTE: Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna Limited XLE) will not allow
You to set the cruise control when the windshield wipers are on.

This morning they were talking about doubling the fines for a certain neighborhood, because so many people were detouring due to construction. They increased visibility and still there are people speeding. It made me think about my own neighborhood. I used to think that is was just the teens that will do 40-50 in a 25 through our neighborhood and its not. It is like a freeway around here between 3-5. I do not even let my kids out then. I am scared that they are going to get hit. Then this morning the bus came barreling down the hill so fast on the wet road that I thought for sure a child would be hit while standing there waiting to catch the bus for summer school.

People please slow down in neighborhoods.

Does anyone else out there want to tell our fellow drivers in a nice way to scoot over?
Road Rage is not what I have, but I do get upset when people do a few things on the road. LIke:

1) They put on their brakes when entering the highway and they have two whole lanes to enter. (like 55-270)

2) When I am trying to merge onto the highway and you won't scoot over to the other 2-3 lanes that are wide open.

3) Please don't slow down when a cop is ticketing someone on the side of the road. He does not have "Spidey Senses" and he doesn't have "Gadget Arms" so he is not going to pull you over, just do the speed limit and no one will get hurt.

ok off the soap box. Do you have anything that irrattates you on the road ways?