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Slip and slide
By adamg on Tue, 02/17/2015 - 8:03am
Even on roads that look black, it's still slippery out there. Patty Neal inched past a spun-out car on the Jamaicaway between Bynner and Huntington around 7 a.m.
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Oscar Meyer Wienermobile also crashed
a couple days ago in Pennsylvania.
http://www.wcvb.com/news/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-crashes-in-pennsylvani...
The odd thing being wieners are better suited to slippery conditions than dry.
We're working our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we’re gliding down the highway
When in fact we’re slip slidin’ away
Cosmic
In the present position of the planets
It's impossible for me to say
Just when I'll find my course again
With these boulders in my way
I should be rolling down the skyway
On my cosmic wheels
Instead of stumbling down this highway
On my boots of steel
I should be rolling down the skyway
On my cosmic wheels
The Jamaicaway is scary
The Jamaicaway is scary enough when road conditions are ideal.
J-way is a speedway. People
J-way is a speedway. People drive way too fast. I'm not saying that's what this driver did, but it's not out of the question
I've thought a lot about it,
I've thought a lot about it, and I really have no idea how the J Way could be made safer without sacrificing a lane on each side (to widen the road) or just straight up banning cars from it and making it a bicycle only route. And I'm saying this as a driver!
One lane sounds good....
... along with a reduced speed (so as to allow one to better appreciate the scenery). ;-}
I'm not personally familiar
I'm not personally familiar with the Jamaicaway so maybe this is downhill and would explain it but I have to wonder how fast this person was going for a spinout to cause a sedan to end up that high on a snowbank.
Not necessarily that fast...
The Jamaicaway is another river-road, like Storrow/Soldiers Field, Nonantum, Mem Drive, Alewife Brook, etc. The lanes are a little too narrow, the roads are very curvy, there are overhanging trees and the cold air over the Muddy River leaves black ice on the road. So you can be driving at 25mph and hit black ice and slide. Unless you're practiced with ice-driving, you can easily end up spinning.
Fortunately, they went into a snowbank and not into the river.
I'm very familiar with the J Way
and there is probably a 90% chance that this person was doing what usually causes accidents on this road (even in the best weather) which is, driving way too fast for the road conditions. It has always been narrow, and it has always been windy.
Just curious, what point could a driver end up in the Muddy River off of the J Way? Even in summer, I think it would take some serious effort to dunk your car.