ThanksAJ in Car Accident
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Just learned that @thanksajdotcom was in a car accident last evening. I don't have the details because he's not on Facebook post accident. The word is that he is okay but he lost control in the snow (Upstate NY), hit a power line pole and took out the power for a neighbourhood.
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OUCH!
Hope he is okay.
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Yikes! Go big or go home.
Hope all is well...
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Oh wow. Hope he's ok.
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haven't heard an update yet
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Sending good thoughts to AJ.
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hope hes ok. sending our positive thoughts @scottalanmiller please update us as soon as you hear something.
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Calling for an update if possible.
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He's been posting on FB, no mention of accident, so he must be OK.
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@Rob-Dunn I would skip mentioning the accident where I took out everyone's power too...
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@Rob-Dunn said:
He's been posting on FB, no mention of accident, so he must be OK.
Worried until I saw that, which is strange I've publicly insulted him many times on here and SW, but I'd hate for anything to happen to him... in principle.
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What happened:
Was passing a car when the road merged, he sped up and forced me onto the shoulder, snow grabbed my tires and I basically went square into a utility pole, completely breaking through the pole. Knocked out power to a few houses in the area (it's a pretty scarcely populated stretch), and totaled the truck. I was okay, but if you saw the vehicle, you'd understand why the fact I was alive, much less unhurt was a miracle. Stepped out of the car to live electrical lines not even ten feet above my head! Also something of a miracle I wasn't electrocuted...
But I'm okay...thankfully. Too much life left to live not to be!
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@tonyshowoff said:
@Rob-Dunn said:
He's been posting on FB, no mention of accident, so he must be OK.
Worried until I saw that, which is strange I've publicly insulted him many times on here and SW, but I'd hate for anything to happen to him... in principle.
Thank you?
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Glad that you are alive - sorry about the truck.
This is one of those things though that I hear two sides on when leaving a vehicle when it has struck a utility pole.
Live wires kill. I don't think anyone will question that - think we have all seen plenty of proof of that. But it reminds me of this PSA from Pugent Sound Electric:
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And seriously -
Glad you are alive. Just adds to your badass-dom in that you can say you walked away from taken out a power pole.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@tonyshowoff said:
@Rob-Dunn said:
He's been posting on FB, no mention of accident, so he must be OK.
Worried until I saw that, which is strange I've publicly insulted him many times on here and SW, but I'd hate for anything to happen to him... in principle.
Thank you?
Sshh! I'm glad you're back
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4x4 is a beautiful thing
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@IRJ said:
4x4 is a beautiful thing
Not in snow, that's how accidents happen. If you want to keep moving regardless of the danger and risk an accident, then 4x4. If you want to stop moving when it is too unsafe to drive but avoid getting in accidents, the secret of the snow bound club is that rear wheel drive is the safest.
Rear wheel drive cars naturally want to go straight (and get stuck.) Front and all wheel drive like to keep moving but lose control when slowing down. So they "feel" safe because they don't get stuck, but they are much more dangerous because they have less control
Same reason why race cars are all rear wheel drive. At those speeds you might as well be on ice and front or all wheel drive are just impossible to control under those conditions.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
4x4 is a beautiful thing
Not in snow, that's how accidents happen. If you want to keep moving regardless of the danger and risk an accident, then 4x4. If you want to stop moving when it is too unsafe to drive but avoid getting in accidents, the secret of the snow bound club is that rear wheel drive is the safest.
Rear wheel drive cars naturally want to go straight (and get stuck.) Front and all wheel drive like to keep moving but lose control when slowing down. So they "feel" safe because they don't get stuck, but they are much more dangerous because they have less control
Same reason why race cars are all rear wheel drive. At those speeds you might as well be on ice and front or all wheel drive are just impossible to control under those conditions.
That makes sense, but I was thinking traction.
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@IRJ said:
That makes sense, but I was thinking traction.
Traction is what kills people
Front wheel drive using traction to cause the car to spin and all wheel drive losing traction from the wheels pulling against each other. On snow, at speed, all wheel drive actually has the least traction.
