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So, this past Thursday I was driving my car to Sterry to pick up some friends. Nothing too unusual, except it was raining a little bit. So, I took the turn off of Bishop Street to get onto Hopkins, and suddenly, as I was turning left at a stop light, I literally felt a thud, and felt my car stop working from underneath me.
The next thing I felt was this huge shove, like someone was pushing me, and my car started spinning in a circle. I could my car sliding off the road. My car was COMPLETELY off the road, as I slid into a person's front yard...about to actually hit their house.
Scared out of my mind, I slammed on the breaks harder than I thought possible. After my car had spun around two times, I finally my car stop. I came within about 2 feet of hitting the side of someone's house.
I was so scared, I didn't know what to do. My car was still running, and I checked to make sure there had not been any damage to the house, or the people's front yard. There wasn't, so I reversed and drove away.
The weirdest thing was: my car felt fine after that.
So, I took the car in Monday morning after telling my parents what had happened.
The car place told me they had test drove my car and could find ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with it.
I think what had happened was that my car had gotten too slippery between the road and my tires, and hydro-planed.
Needless to say, I was scared shitless. It still kind of hits me from time to time that I could totally have died.
Talk about a wake-up call.
The next thing I felt was this huge shove, like someone was pushing me, and my car started spinning in a circle. I could my car sliding off the road. My car was COMPLETELY off the road, as I slid into a person's front yard...about to actually hit their house.
Scared out of my mind, I slammed on the breaks harder than I thought possible. After my car had spun around two times, I finally my car stop. I came within about 2 feet of hitting the side of someone's house.
I was so scared, I didn't know what to do. My car was still running, and I checked to make sure there had not been any damage to the house, or the people's front yard. There wasn't, so I reversed and drove away.
The weirdest thing was: my car felt fine after that.
So, I took the car in Monday morning after telling my parents what had happened.
The car place told me they had test drove my car and could find ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with it.
I think what had happened was that my car had gotten too slippery between the road and my tires, and hydro-planed.
Needless to say, I was scared shitless. It still kind of hits me from time to time that I could totally have died.
Talk about a wake-up call.