Genuinely a little scared on the roads today!

Hxc

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Jeesus, just came back from one of the most tiring and scary drives I've done as yet.... Was on the A47 (duel carriageway) on the way home and dear lord, the heavens opened, literally the heaviest rain I've ever seen in this country. Combined with spray from other cars I had about 20m absolute max visibility! Crawling along trying to keep distance from people in front.

Pulled out into the outside lane in order to get a clear view of what was ahead (plus the car in front was doing literally 15mph, other cars were going past), and as I accelerated past it I must've hit some standing water and some wind as the car just began to drift over toward the left. Must've come seriously close to hitting the other car before I regained grip.

100% focus needed... oh such fun is the weather here.... anyone else have any other scary driving moments?
 
Had the same thing a few months back picking my Grandparents up from Gatwick. Was all fine till we hit the M25, had about 15M visibility and so much spray and standing water.
 
Sone said:
i had a similar thing in NC a few years back. Had to just pull over and sit there till it was over.
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Was considering it myself, layby was full of cars doing just that...no more room hah. By the next one I was out of the worst of it.
 
yup still today is my scariest, it sounds tame but if you experience it it would scare you poopless, was driving down a twisty A road near andover with the windows open, some wind gusted in and pulled a plastic bag that was underneath my chair up and onto my face, I was turning a corner and there was an oncoming car in the other lane, genuinely terrifying! apart from that driving at 50mph on an A road after the snow (when it was all melting) went onto an off ramp that hadnt been fully gritted and the car just hit the ice and slid sideways up the off ramp. scary
 
Rich1988 said:
yup still today is my scariest, it sounds tame but if you experience it it would scare you poopless, was driving down a twisty A road near andover with the windows open, some wind gusted in and pulled a plastic bag that was underneath my chair up and onto my face, I was turning a corner and there was an oncoming car in the other lane, genuinely terrifying! apart from that driving at 50mph on an A road after the snow (when it was all melting) went onto an off ramp that hadnt been fully gritted and the car just hit the ice and slid sideways up the off ramp. scary
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Sorry that carrier bag incident is so funny, can just imagine it in the next final destination film.
 
Hxc said:
Jeesus, just came back from one of the most tiring and scary drives I've done as yet.... Was on the A47 (duel carriageway) on the way home and dear lord, the heavens opened, literally the heaviest rain I've ever seen in this country. Combined with spray from other cars I had about 20m absolute max visibility! Crawling along trying to keep distance from people in front.

Pulled out into the outside lane in order to get a clear view of what was ahead (plus the car in front was doing literally 15mph, other cars were going past), and as I accelerated past it I must've hit some standing water and some wind as the car just began to drift over toward the left. Must've come seriously close to hitting the other car before I regained grip.

100% focus needed... oh such fun is the weather here.... anyone else have any other scary driving moments?
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We hit what I'm guessing is the same storm on the A140 coming back from a sprint at Woodbridge whilst still on the R888s. :eek:
 
kaiowas said:
We hit what I'm guessing is the same storm on the A140 coming back from a sprint at Woodbridge whilst still on the R888s. :eek:
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Standing water can be genuinely scary. 70mph + huge puddle + half worn legal eagle F1s = brown pant moment!

I can imagine the R888's are pretty bad. I guess they're ok on normal wet roads though?
 
I had this on Saturday, although probably not as scary for me as it would be for you in a Mini! :eek: I felt like I was driving a speed boat rather than a Rover with massive bow waves either side, and in some cases being blown over the car by wind :eek:
 
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kaiowas said:
We hit what I'm guessing is the same storm on the A140 coming back from a sprint at Woodbridge whilst still on the R888s. :eek:
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Eeeech! That can't of been nice!

Had all the carpets out today as somewhere on the passenger side is letting in a fair amount of water over big puddles. What joy :(

Looovely weather now, windows down all the time though... even on the dual carriageways :)
 
When i went to the nurburgring in june 2007, me and some mates in other cars entered france. All was well, cruising along the motorway, windows down steady 80mph, my nephew who was my passenger looked out my drivers window with a total shock look to his face. When i looked over i saw this big mega black skyline, i've never seen the sky so black in mid summer in my whole life. About 20 mins later, rain started to fall heavily, very very heavily! I've never been so scared in all my life it was horrible. The car is naturally very twitchy in the wet being a powerful RWD car with no Traction control, and because i removed the AC prior to the trip, the windows were steaming up with the blowers on full, wipers on full speed, but i still couldn't see **** I never want to go through that ever again.

What made it worse was i was the last car in convoy and behind everyone else by about 3/4 of a mile, plus i didn't know where the hell i was going (dodgy satnav) and the ******* were not slowing down either because they didn't want to lose the person in front of them, they were all doing 60-70mph and i was forced to drive faster than that to catch up. Overtaking lorries which makes you totally blind for that 10 seconds was very scary. Add to this, i'm in france where they drive like nutters, I really felt like i was preparing for death, if someone would have crashed in front of me, it would have been a total wipeout on all accounts and the same if i crashed. Last thing you want is a lorry plouging into you at 60mph. Never again! I'll never forget that day. The worst hour of my life!

When i got back to the uk, i read that June was one of the wettest months on record in Britain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_floods All i know is it bloody chucked it down in france, and i was in the worst places of all, on the french motorway with french drivers trying to catch a bunch of performance cars!
 
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I had my first proper downpour on the M6 a couple of weeks back, thankfully the weight of the Ti and the newish tyres managed to keep it gripping down but losing all visibilty was **** scary!

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