I just got in a wreak. I hit this huge lake in the middle of the road, and had to break, so I hydroplaned right into the car in front of me. So basically, hydroplanes count as your fault, so my insurance is paying for it, which means I probably won't be driving anymore. No collision on my car though. It stinks too, because I was just starting to have a life outside the Internet, which I hate.

Don't hit things.

hydroplane? Those racing boat things?

This topic made no sense to me.

That sucks man. I've been in 2 accidents, on one I was rearended, and the other, I was in my old High School parking lot, leaving school to go home, and a girl (who was next to my car, leaning in another car to speak to a friend) decided to stop talking to her friend as I was passing, and started to run to either her car, or meet with another friend on the other side of the lot, but I was right next to them, she hit my car instead. I'll just leave that at that unless someone asks for the rest of the story, but long story short, I got off scott-free (or so the saying goes).

And TheJK... HydroPlaning is what happens when there is water on the road, and your tire(s) start riding ontop of the water instead of on the actual concrete, thus resulting in a loss of traction/control, leading to a number of possible results. Or so is how it's always been explained to me.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroplaning_%28road_vehicle%29 for further information.

I think he means a void in the road that filled with water. Thus causing him to hydroplane.

Maybe he misspelled "lake."

[QUOTE=Michael MacFarlane]Maybe he misspelled "puddle"[/QUOTE]

Fixed.

You'd think hydroplaning or no, that you come to a stop from 15mph. But no.

A. Hydroplaning is nigh-impossible at 15mph.
B. Braking is one of the things you aren't supposed to do when hydroplaning.
C. You should be paying more attention to what you're doing.

All in all, its definately your fault :p

Maybe it was ice?

Or oil?

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]A. Hydroplaning is nigh-impossible at 15mph.

It is if you're stupid.

[/quote]

See above.



Yeah, well they look like they were accelerating, but then the brak lights came on. It was really hard to tell the distance and by time I could I was in this huge puddle. But yeah it was my fault. But it's not a gross negligence kind of thing.

Your correction is wrong.

15mph is too slow for hydroplaning, unless your tires are REALLY REALLY REALLY worn, as in it's-probably-illegal-for-you-to-be-driving-with-tires-this-bald worn. Or the roads was literally flooded, in which case driving would be impossible. The grooves in tires are to prevent hydroplaning. #massassi said so.

I suppose if you drove through a "lake" it's possible that would offset the benefit of hydroplaning, in which case it's still your fault for driving through it and still expecting to be able to stop on a dime.

I don't know what it is. I just know it slipped way farther than i would have expected in wet weather. But with the stupid drought around here, I'm not much of a bad weather driver.

And it was a ~2-3 inch deep puddle covering the road.

That sucks.

Just pay for the damages.

Be quiet.

Road was wet, your brakes locked, car slid, making the brakes near useless. The real culprit was not leaving enough space between your car and the car in front of you.

Hydroplaning typically occurs at thirty-five miles per hour and faster.

Yes, this is the only factoid I remember from driver's ed.

But it's pretty common sense you're not supposed to brake or steer while hydroplaning. If you must stop in the shortest distance possible, then pump the brakes. Ideally, you would let up on the brakes just as you sense a loss of friction, then repeat until stopped.

I've hydroplaned before on the freeway, and the best thing to do is take your foot off the gas and let the car slow itself down until the tires regain contact.

I bet hydroplaning would be solved with...THE TWEEL.

Yeah man, I'm not surprised there was a puddle like that the way Tulsa got pounded....of course poor little Bartlesville exists in a kind of super-jesus protection that hasn't gotten barely any rain this summer...but of course then I come to Stillwater for college and it rains really hard on my first day of class while I'm outside walking.

Anyway, I've done this before too. Since it just rained and it didn't rain for very long (if i remember correctly) it might have been real nasty gross water, which is extra slippery sometimes...also, whenever it rains, keep a really good distance between you and other cars. When i first started driving I was going 45 mph coming up on an in tersection and it had just rained a little bit...the road was wet but not pooling or anything. The light turned yellow and I pressed the brake pedal like for a normal stop (maybe a bit harder since it was a surprise yellow light) and I just slid straight through the intersection, I still wasn't stopped by the middle of the intersection so I threw it back in gear and kept going. My mother was in the car and even she said it surprised her that we slid, and so far. Moral of the story: if it's wet ALWAYS be really careful about braking distances. I usually tap the brakes a little every once in a while just to get a feel for the slipperyness of the road in that area, if no one is around....