>From: "Pearl Fernane" <pearlyshellz@...>
>Reply-To: "Pearl Fernane" <pearlyshellz@ cox.net>
>To: "Joy Morris" <joymomgram@...>
>Subject: Fw: please read!
>Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:26:49 -0700
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jackie Ellis
>To: 'Carol' ; 'Gina' ; 'Mary' ; 'Pat & Sharon' ; 'Paul' ; 'Pearlyshellz' ;
>'Susan'
>Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:30 PM
>Subject: FW: please read!
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>This came from an Insurance Broker!!
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>A 36-year old female had an accident several weeks ago and totaled her
>car. A resident of Kilgore, Texas, she was traveling between Gladewater
>& Kilgore.
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>It was raining, though not excessively, when her car suddenly began to
>hydroplane and literally flew through the air. She was not seriously
>injured but very stunned at the sudden occurrence.
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>When she explained to the highway patrolman what had happened, he told
>her something that every driver should know - NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN
>WITH YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She had thought she was being cautious by
>setting the cruise control and maintaining a safe consistent speed in
>the rain. But the highway patrolman told her that if the cruise control
>is on and your car begins to hydroplane - when your tires loose contact
>with the pavement your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and
>you take off like an airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly
>what had occurred.
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>We all know you have little or no control over a car when it begins to
>hydroplane. You are at the mercy of the Good Lord. The highway patrol
>estimated her car was actually traveling through the air at 10 to 15
>miles per hour faster than the speed set on the cruise control.
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>The patrolman said this warning should be listed on the driver's seat
>sun-visor - NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY
>- along with the airbag warning. We tell our teenagers to set the cruise
>control and drive a safe speed - but we don't tell them to use the
>cruise control only when the pavement is dry.
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>The only person the accident victim found, who knew this (besides the
>patrolman), was a man who had had a similar accident, totaled his car
>and sustained severe injuries.
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>If you send this to 15 people and only one of them doesn't know about
>this, then it was all worth it. You might have saved a life.

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