Not the type of flying I want to be doing!!
By Humbug25
@Humbug25 (12540)
September 7, 2010 4:24am CST
Yesterday it rained here in the UK quite alot. I live in the South West and we had some torrential downpours causing small streams to run across the roads. I have a small car and was so worried about aquaplaning as there was so much surface water. I had a boyfriend who once aquaplaned in his mini as he sped up through a deep large puddle. It wouldn't have been so bad but the water gushed under his car, turned it over and he dropped off a 20 foot cliff landing on the roof. He was lucky to come out with just a broken arm and a broken friendship from his passenger who escaped unharmed.
Have you ever aquaplaned? Do you ever worry about aquaplaning?
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@hexeduser22 (7418)
• Philippines
7 Sep 10
I'm not really familiar with the term aquaplaining but I can quite imagine what happened to your boyfriend. I guess if the situation is that bad then I guess I wouldn't dare try my luck.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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7 Sep 10
Hi there hexeduser22
What aquaplaning is basically when you drive through water and it is forced upwards to the underneath of your car covering the bottom of it and it vertually lifts you and makes you slide around almost as if you are on ice and you cannot get any contact with the road enabling you to brake and stop.
Thanks for your response
and I have explained it ok 
and I have explained it ok 1 person likes this
Thanks dawny
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
9 Sep 10
No I never did. I was reading your description on someone else's response
I thought well if that's what aquaplaning is, forget it LOL
first of all I don't drive and I don't swim 
so definitely not something I will do until I am good at both the above first 
so definitely not something I will do until I am good at both the above first 1 person likes this
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
8 Sep 10
Apparently Aquaplaning occurs when driving through surface water on the road that the tyres cannot expel quickly enough or cope with,whether it be due to worn down tread leaving the tyre surfaces nearly slick,or going too fast..I've hit flood water at speed many times before but not lost control..I don't know if it's because I've mostly owned superminis or front wheel drive cars that would have the engine weight over the driving wheels,good tyre tread condition, or Just Luck that's carried me through so far..I passed my test in an original Mini,and have a fondness for them,but have never owned one..Glad to hear the guy survived the crash..when a car hydroplanes,it's literally surfing on the surface,and until the car's weight can get the tyre back on to the road and able to grip again,there's nothing you as the Driver can do unless something else is in the way and stops you..and when You're driving a car,that's pretty much always a bad thing..
@Humbug25 (12540)
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11 Sep 10
Hi there ShepherdSpy
I too have a fondness for mini and have owned an original one in the past. Unfotunately having three children it is not a practical car to have, I don't mean unfortunately having three children but unfortunately a mini is not a suitable family car haha
Thanks for your response
Thanks for your response 
Thanks for responding 
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
7 Sep 10
hi hambug I was born and raised in South Dakota where the winters are very v ery cold with glare ice on the roads.talk about aquaplaneing
it happens there a lot. once we were just barely crawling along as the road was really covered in glare ice . our car had good chains on so we were not sliding much but we had to stop when fours cars aquaplaned into each other causing major tie up on a major road, not a freeway not back then., luckily where I live now in California
no glare ice but some drive like its the Indiana 500 speedway in the rain on our freeways with the resulting stupid accidents of course.But in the last year we have no on rain at all so no aquaplaning at all.lol.
no glare ice but some drive like its the Indiana 500 speedway in the rain on our freeways with the resulting stupid accidents of course.But in the last year we have no on rain at all so no aquaplaning at all.lol.1 person likes this
@Humbug25 (12540)
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7 Sep 10
Hi ya Hatley
I don't think that aquaplaning is a common cause of accidents in this country but I dare say it does cause some. It does rain a lot in the UK and recent years we have had some flooding problems in some areas. It is just so scarey to be in a car when it starts aquaplaning and you have no control over it at all, just have to wait until the car comes to a stop.
Thanks for your response
