-Sh1fty- wrote:
I was in the car in Switzerland on a really dark snowy morning on the way to drop my sister off at school then me at the train station. So we had been telling my dad that we needed new snow tires for a while, he said we'd get them later. Anyway, so the street had about 4-6 inches of snow on it. We weren't driving very fast but at a very slight curb in the road our car suddenly spun out of control on a 60+ km/h road against oncoming traffic. (We were only going like 40km/h because of the snow.)
So we almost got T-boned by a car. My mom was screaming her head off as soon as the car started spinning just freezing and screaming "OMG OMG OMG!" I froze too waiting to get hit. I was on the passenger side of the car and would have been hit. Luckily the oncoming car swerved just in time and missed us.
I guess that's about it...
I had a similar experience once too.
A few centimeters of completely fresh snow on the road, with snow tires and only 50km/h in a slight curve that you can take with 120km/h when dry.
We did a complete 180° turn, completely silent because of the snow, no traffic early in the morning and nobody saying a word. I still wonder why we didn't go straight out of the curve, down the slope and rolled over.
On another snow incident, my friend went too fast into a curve on a fully snow-covered road, we were sliding outwards and only at the last moment before getting off of the road and down the hill one of the four tires got grip again on a tiny snow-free patch of tarmac.
The very same friend once decided to eat his chocolate pudding out of a glass bowl with a spoon while driving and we went off of the tarmac with the front tire stuck in a hole in the gravel, almost not getting back up.