Didn't make it very clear from my first post. The damage to the wheel was light scuffing, so it's not like I almost wrote the car off. It was very very wet on the roads and I was on cold tyres.

I was pulling away and I wasn't doing more than 20mph as I was aware it was very wet and I'd had a pervious incident on that roundabout a few months prior (again in the wet, which was me being stupid). Which thinking about means I will more than likely have been in 2nd and not 3rd like I said above

I did find what was at fault. The shit road conditions where to blame, and the woeful drainage on that roundabout.

 

Must be the road signs fault for letting you do 30mph!

 

Whats the Exige like in the wet Mark?

 

If your implying that I was going too fast I hardly think that up to 20 mph is too fast especially on that roundabout even in those conditions. Speed was not a factor in my case, the shit road surface was. You know that sometimes road accidents are caused by poor road surfaces and NOT bad driving.

 

im implying that if you go round it once and come off, reduce your speed. If you have reduced your speed and still come off you havnt slowed down enough.

I admit poor road surface is a nightmare and catches people out but next time i came to the same piece ofd road id slow down. That is same as driving in the wet or with cold tyre. Even more the next after that if i came off again.

You have proved surely if the car cannot grip, 20mph IS to fast for that section of road with its type of surface, in the particular conditions you experienced. I cant see it any other way!!

 

[QUOTE=russellhq,May 27 2008, 01:12 PM] But I bet you were not fully open all the way.

 

I think I now understand your comments. Your thinking I've had two incidents on the same part of the same roundabout. Not at all. One was going one way (my fault as I was going too fast), the other was in the opposite direction (where I hit the kerb). Sorry that was my poor wording.

Now that I know both sides of this roundabout (and in fact the whole damned thing is breaking up and nice and smooth) I treat it with kid gloves in the wet regardless of which direction I'm going

 

I think I have it now--your car was the irrepresible force moving in a straight line, unable to deviate & the roundabout in the wet was the immovable object. Therefore that makes your passenger a Mr V. Tec & you must be passive rear wheel steer.

Nurse I need my medication.

 

Oh, oh, oh; sarcasm doesn't work when written, doesn't it?

Well that far king learned me the hard way.

Guess I'll just go and kill myself.



























































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