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Bad News,Good News . Bad news is that Mrs B&D wrote the car off while flying down a bare dry road , topped a hillside and looped the car on unexpected snow drifts . If there had been no page wire fence there would have been litttle to no damage .
The good news is that the vehicle missed the 6X6 sign post, by less than a foot distance . Probably would have been fatal if hit on the driver’s door .
 
Driving a car. A front wheel drive car. I had one. It was the most treacherous vehicle I ever had. It would go. But stopping and/or controlling in slippery conditions, it was just treacherous. Never again.
 

Bruce County Road 23 . Between the 2nd Concession and Bruce County Road 15.
Why she took that poorly maintained narrow cow path instead of bare dry highway 21 is beyond me . She has been told dozen of times to stay off that road . She probably took it just to prove me wrong. There is zero difference in distance to her destination in Kincardine .
I never liked FWD . With RWD lifting the throttle will straighten the vehicle .
 
Don't rub it in too hard - Mrs. B&D is in charge of the cooking.

I'm glad she was not hurt. They sell cars on every corner.
 
Glad to hear your wife was not injured. A bit of comforting from here husband could be time well spent......:)
 
Who's gonna fix the fence,said the guy who constantly has to do that when somebody runs off the road?
 
> I thought Texan's were the drivers that couldn't drive on ice/snow.

Well, it's true that Texans have problems driving on icy roads. (Or any other kind for that matter.) But surprisingly here in the Rust Belt drivers can't drive on ice, either. They're so used to driving on heavily salted roads that they don't know what to do when they actually encounter ice. They also have a hard time driving in bright sunlight, since the sun comes out so rarely here.
 
You have a bit more snow there than we do halfway between Kincardine and
Goderich. Looks like we are going to miss nearly all of the big storm heading here
from Colorado......and that's just fine!
Hope the Missus can get some new wheels soon.
Ben
 
You're right. It's human nature to let off the gas because learning RWD, that's the 'go to' action. FWD you need to pour it on. Had a '66 Saab two cycle and always let it freewheel. Engine compression will cause that in a FWD unless it's in neutral . Freewheel doesn't exist any more.
 
(quoted from post at 07:46:37 01/19/19) > I thought Texan's were the drivers that couldn't drive on ice/snow.

Well, it's true that Texans have problems driving on icy roads. (Or any other kind for that matter.) But surprisingly here in the Rust Belt drivers can't drive on ice, either.
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Really I guess you must think northerners are better drivers on dry roads than Texans!
 
. Actually it was the youngest son’s vehicle that she had borrowed . At least it wasn’t her truck that is also in the image.
Going out to Mcgee’s Next week to look at vehicles .
 
(quoted from post at 03:11:49 01/19/19) Glad to hear your wife was not injured. A bit of comforting from here husband could be time well spent......:)
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I could tell you some stories about her but I would rather not scare the ytmag community.
 
Glad she came out ok. Lost a friend from work, who was about 35 at the time, had a hot-dog car and liked to exercise it.....hill in nearby town could
be "jumped" if you got going fast enough.....problem was just over the hill the road made an S and a cross country utility pole (18" diameter roughly)
was directly in line with where the road WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. He wasn't as lucky. Sad Sad.
 
> Really I guess you must think northerners are better drivers on dry roads than Texans!

Uh, no. Having spent three years in Texas and almost thirty in Michigan, it's my opinion drivers in both states are terrible under all conditions. I also spent three years in southern California, and found the drivers there to be courteous and predictable. As for driving on ice, Colorado drivers do pretty good. (I spent the first 22 years of my life in CO.)
 
(quoted from post at 10:32:19 01/19/19) You're right. It's human nature to let off the gas because learning RWD, that's the 'go to' action. FWD you need to pour it on. Had a '66 Saab two cycle and always let it freewheel. Engine compression will cause that in a FWD unless it's in neutral . Freewheel doesn't exist any more.
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Part of the problem is that the vehicles using the road are mostly trucks and they had squashed out a wide set of wheel tracks .
Mrs B&D was driving a narrow track vehicle and had one set of wheels in full depth snow , the other side in the cleared tracks. Pulled the vehicle sideways and it was all over.
 
Scary. Glad she turned out OK. Sometimes that stuff just happens. I've pulled Marilyn out of the ditch three times through our married years. No damage any of those times though one time the seat belt made her a little sore. Last year the snow almost sucked me into a deep ditch but the good lord pushed the car back on the road at the last split second. It's the only reason I can come up with for not going in and yes I was going too fast. Marilyn was in the passenger seat hyperventilating and I just held on to the steering wheel.
 
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