Stolen car, patrol vehicle overturn following Johnston County chase :: WRAL.com
If you read the article, guess who happened to be driving from Garner down Hwy 70 on my way to Pine Level for Lily's softball game at 1pm on Saturday? If you read the article, yes, that was me in paragraph 4 and at 1:50 of the video.
All, I can say is that Luke's bumper is the bomb! The stolen vehicle PIT'ed me in the rear passenger bumper wing on the 70 bypass off-ramp, causing the 80 to do a full 360 into a small patch of grass where I let it stay for 1.5 hours until a HP officer came to take my info. Then drove away, both of us unharmed.
As sudden as it happened, and as it was happening, the 80 never felt out of control, top heavy, or like it might tip over and roll. I just felt a sudden push on the rear of the truck, and a continuous push until we were spinning.
I remembered a video where a guy was showing people the best way to recover from hydroplaning, in which he let the steering wheel slip through his hands during the skid, and let the momentum and the vehicle steering correct itself. Sounds counter productive from usual practice of steering into a skid, but in each case he showed the car automatically straightened itself out. My hands were steady on the wheel, but allowing the wheel to turn freely. No thumbs were injured!
Glad the 80 kept us safe!
In case anyone else is wondering about the other episode. Labor Day weekend Heather had someone rear end her, in which an Izuzu Rodeo wrapped itself around the bumper, with nothing but scratches on our end.
If you read the article, guess who happened to be driving from Garner down Hwy 70 on my way to Pine Level for Lily's softball game at 1pm on Saturday? If you read the article, yes, that was me in paragraph 4 and at 1:50 of the video.
All, I can say is that Luke's bumper is the bomb! The stolen vehicle PIT'ed me in the rear passenger bumper wing on the 70 bypass off-ramp, causing the 80 to do a full 360 into a small patch of grass where I let it stay for 1.5 hours until a HP officer came to take my info. Then drove away, both of us unharmed.
As sudden as it happened, and as it was happening, the 80 never felt out of control, top heavy, or like it might tip over and roll. I just felt a sudden push on the rear of the truck, and a continuous push until we were spinning.
I remembered a video where a guy was showing people the best way to recover from hydroplaning, in which he let the steering wheel slip through his hands during the skid, and let the momentum and the vehicle steering correct itself. Sounds counter productive from usual practice of steering into a skid, but in each case he showed the car automatically straightened itself out. My hands were steady on the wheel, but allowing the wheel to turn freely. No thumbs were injured!
Glad the 80 kept us safe!
In case anyone else is wondering about the other episode. Labor Day weekend Heather had someone rear end her, in which an Izuzu Rodeo wrapped itself around the bumper, with nothing but scratches on our end.
