CRUISE CONTROL

NEVER KNEW THIS BEFORE.

I wonder how many people know about this?

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 and Kilgore. 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!

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 lose 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.