AndyW
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just on way home from bein with some good friends today, coming home on the m25 its torrential rain so stickin to bout 60-70 as really was quite hard to see...but i felt safe at that speed, no traffic at 1am.
anyways rain lets off so i boot a little more only doin bout 70-80 n as im goin theres this whopping fuckin puddle..my front right wheel caught it and spun the back out...only kinda third of the way but enuf to scare the fuck outta me lucky enuf i slammed on bit of opposite lock n pulled thru it...
then hit more torrential rain...so cruisin bout 60 n i see summat in the road so i dodge it and its a piece of mangled metal bout the size of an a4 piece of paper stickin in the air, bout 200 yards up the road i have to swerve quickly as again another sheet of mangled metal was in the road this time it was bout 3ft tall n 2 ft or so wide  n cos rain was beatin down so hard n the metal was dark didnt see it till really late!
 so tonights drive scared the fuk outta me
[Edited on 23-06-2004 by AndyW]
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bree
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u ok?
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AndyW
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yup im fine  im on ere aint i lol...tho i did see a merc that had skidded off the road in the rain..was like a tropical storm
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bree
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we have loads of tropical storms here ......scarey
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bree
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we have loads of tropical storms here ......scarey
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bree
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we have loads of tropical storms here ......scarey
[Edited on 23-06-2004 by brianna]
[Edited on 23-06-2004 by brianna]
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Jason
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i think i read that 3rd time round..
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AndyW
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 they that scary that you had to emphasis it y posting it three times!!
yea i know ive spent a little while out in usa
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bree
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lol i tried 2 delete all but 1 i dunno what happened lol soooo sorry
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AndyW
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pffffffffffft!!!!
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Paul_J
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hehe - I remember coming back from southend once at 2-3am in the morning... it was that weekend where it was bloody windy as hell ... and on the way there the cars were being pulled all over the place...
on the way back it was windy + raining...
doing about 80-90 ish and feeling your car being pulled around by winds, and then hitting water and aquaplaning was interesting to say the least.
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AndyW
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yea scary shit...ive been driving two years now so consider myself quite wise with weather as i drive a hell of a lot of miles!
but that was an eye opener tonight!
anyways..bed time 
latas dudes + dudettes!
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the_legend_of_yrag
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think the mangled metal may have been off a car somewhere??
Coming from southend on sunday morning about 3.30 am driving in the outside lane, feeling abit tired coz of the boring driving i actually thought i saw a man walking in the outside lane dodged to miss him but he wernt there!!
Got off the motorway onto normal roads and was fine...
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leeshez
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This has happened to me not nice at all my car aqua planed accros the road to a ditch I hope your ok now ?
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AndyW
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yer im fine...did exactly the same journey today to pick family up from heathrow...except today it was pure traffic! lucky to go over 30mph
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Marc
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I picked my bro up from manchester last month and it was pouring down ( as it does in manchester lol ) and i ended up driving at 50-60mph. Still get the fleet cars flying past you though!
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Matt H
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i thought it was best not to break when aquaplaning ??
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Matt H
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*i meant brake
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AndyW
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quote:
Originally posted by matt h
i thought it was best not to break when aquaplaning ??
i didnt break mate
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