bad roads, nearly crashed, impressed myself with my driving

[benbeck1984]

Going down a country road at 60 (ok maybe 62-63ish) at night in my celica, when suddenly out of nowhere, with no signposts I come to a t-junction. theres a wall of hedges in front of me, and mounted banks at either side. slam on the brakes and the car skids, twist the wheel to the left and just about make it round the corner (even got the back end out), only trouble is ive oversteered and now i'm facing the bank on the nearside of the road having come round the corner, so i throw the wheel back the other way (all the time the car is still skidding (wish i'd bothered with the traction control model)) and finally manage to straighten up. Had anything been coming I'm sure my car would have been a bit of a mashup.
I'm pretty sure this wasn't my bad driving, but actually the road signage and layout, even my girlfriend admitted that the junction came out of nowhere.
Anyway, just wanted to rant about the abismal signage.

[gad-westy]

I did something similar a few years ago but sadly didn't get away with it. At night, I didn't spot a rounabout approaching (chevrons had been knocked down) and went straight over the top of it backwards and bent the chassis of the car I was driving thus writing it off. The sign thing peed me off but honestly it was my fault for not driving to what I could see. Sounds similar in your case but hey, you live and learn and at least you lived to fight another day. Never trust road signs!

[UpTheIron]

benbeck1984 said:

I'm pretty sure this wasn't my bad driving

Too fast for the conditions - it was dark, you couldn't see the road ahead...

...not saying I haven't been in the same position, but having (or nearly having, luckily) a single vehicle accident on a poorly signed or dangerous road can only be driver error.

Edited by UpTheIron on Sunday 8th April 19:01

[Don]

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