I can't believe that's real!

 

Haha, I like how people jump from their cars ..like those movies where the actor jumps out right before the car goes off a cliff... but there's no cliff. But I live in hilly WV, so I can feel their pain.

 

Ahhhhh WTH looks like the S-type front end held up good though lol

 

How not to drive in the snow with a Jaguar - Classic and the snow is just around the corner again, more bad driving movies coming up as city spending (gritting) is cut back.!!

 

I headed to Mardi Gras from Chicago in my 1991 Alfa Romeo Spider in a lake-effect snowstorm. After going 30 miles in two hours, we packed it in for the night at a highway hotel. The next morning, I kicked a sheet of ice off my car and headed out. The snow line was a good 500 miles from home (that's one helluva lake effect). Along the way, I saw a good dozen or so SUV's in the ditches, included a suburban on its roof in the median. Yes, I would say many SUV drivers think that their 4wd will save them from icy conditions (not).

I did eventually end up in the ditch myself, after hitting a patch of untreated pavement. (I guess Johnny overslept and missed his shift.) What was worse was the tow truck almost ended up in the ditch with me, as a good layer of ice was underneath the snow. What a mess!

There's a great video of black ice on a steep Portland, OR street if you can find it...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6_ghixVN78

 

I love the people who jumped out. ??? wasnt me. why would they

 

I can drive a formula one in the snow with slicks as long as it's 20 below zero.

Any temp above that, get the truck out and watch out for morons.

 

Reminds me of the time I was heading for a band job. Had an old Chevy Van loaded with equipment, and I mean loaded. Enough room left for two occupants. Any way, the roads here in Nebraska can get icey in the winter and I came upon a lady who had slid off the road and into the trees. Now, she obviously knew the roads were slick. As I rounded the curve she had slid off of, there she was, standing in the middle of the road waving her arms. I still don't know for sure, how I missed her. I remember it seeming like slow motion, feathering the brakes (no abs), and seeing her through the windshield, sliding sideways, still facing her and ending up on the other side of her still with windshield facing her. (180 deg.) Didn't have time to help her, but after telling her to get the hell off the road, told her to get back in her car and called a wrecker for her on my cell. I assume she ended up, OK, but she literally scared the hell out of me.
Like the people who jumped out of their car, makes you wonder what they are thinking, doesn't it?

 

No app for the situation on their iphones, and no time for responses from twitter.

The Darwin Awards have been oversubsribed lately.

 

It's actually possible to leave a parking spot from a standing stop going uphill in freezing rain if it's cold enough:

1. spin tires to melt ice
2. smoke cigarettes while waiting for melted water to freeze to tire and ice
3. drive out of parking spot - you have one shot at this

 

That video is hilarious...

It reminds me of the time in the late 90s when it DUMPed at Big Bear and I was driving out on the back way, we had Jeep Cherokees ditching into the side of the roads into trees, cars everywhere, up the snowbanks and no one had a clue how to drive in the snow. And it was DUMPING the white stuff!

I followed some old couple in a Citroen and I think we both made it out untouched. We both had chains on that afternoon, obviously the others didn't... hell of a scary drive but I tell you what, whomever was in that Citroen knew how to drive and I just followed them out. I was in the "old" Taurus before it went Ninja Turtle style, imo, that was a great sedan to drive.

This was before youtube and digital cameras etc.