Posted by Steve@Advance on December 10, 2021 at 17:39:12 from (99.190.215.237):
In Reply to: Slippery! posted by Ultradog MN on December 10, 2021 at 13:35:35:
I've posted this story before, but here goes again...
Probably happened in the mid 80's, I was driving a 1-ton Dodge conversion van with a box bed on back, a mobile repair shop inside.
Going home one evening just about dark. The weather had been a strange day, probably in the 80's earlier, but the temp dropped rapidly to the low 20's in a matter of hours.
Coming up on a curve on a country road, probably running 50-55, there in the ditch is a car, just happened, and must have been 5-6 people standing there looking at it.
I slowed a little trying to decide if I should stop. About that time I felt the steering go limp! And here I come!
I still don't know if it was ice or spilled fuel, but there had been no rain, and I don't think the ground could have cooled that quickly, but whatever it was, it was slick and I was now sideways, past the point of no return, sliding in the gravel, heading straight for the group of people about to be crushed!
I'm frantically screaming and waving for them to run, of course they can't hear me, they make no effort, just stand there!
The crash probably would not have hurt me, but there would have been multiple fatalities from the group getting crushed in between.
I still don't know how it happened, I have to believe it was divine intervention! I'd been in the ditch before, so I know the feeling of 'this is happening and there is nothing that can be done to stop it'!
But somehow, some way, I caught just enough traction to come back up on the road! It was like I was pushed back up by the hand of an angel!
After it was over, I was so shaken, it felt like waking from a nightmare! Had to ask myself if this just really happened. I didn't stop, just drove on very cautiously, never seeing or feeling any more ice.
I still wonder if those people even knew just how close they came!
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