[GeoStL] PLEASE READ
- From: "Bernie" <happykraut@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:50:43 -0500
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Subject: NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON.
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 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.
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.
NOTE:
Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna Limited XLE) will not allow you to set
the cruise control when the windshield wipers are on.
I checked it out on Snopes. It is true. Bernie
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