Slippery roads, be careful
 

Saw some Mazda 3 spin out behind me coming off the Lionsgate southbound today. During rush hour, it's single lane south. Traffic is going slow over the bridge so when it changed back to 2 lanes on Georgia st, I changed into the fast lane and I needed to make the turn onto Pender. The Mazda 3 behind me did the same but for whatever reason, he lost control of the car and spun around a few times. Speed was not a factor because it was rush hour, he must've had some bald tires or hit an oily patch. The stupid thing was that I saw him start to lose it on the first bend so I figure he would slow down

Be careful out there.

Saw like four accidents today... from one day of rain... people seriously need to learn how to drive!

Lol, Lower Mainland drivers are hopeless.

weird thing is, i found that it's kinda slippery today too!

Usually I drive pretty fast with my underpower Benz and the driving dynamic is really smooth and turn in's are great... but today, the road's are slick !

I think it's from all the oil fumes that accumulate on the street over the week .... so the rain kinda wash it and the street turns into a slick ring !

The first bit of rain after long periods of sunshine are always the scariest!

today I saw 2 accidents in the same interscation (different time period)
Rear Ending & Left Turning...

Slippery Road indeed

Im too cheap to buy new tires.

lol.. not surprising, Goodyear RSA tires FTL.

dL

The roads saw 2 accidents happen on Clarke Road hill in Port Moody. In the same area second one the truck screwed up the center barrier and closed the road...

saw a tercel ran into someones fence on knight this afternoon

On 33rd between Victoria and Nanaimo, there was a white car on the sidewalk with two cop cars attending the scene at 5am. :S

Saw an Asian girl in a White Nissan/Infinity SUV, making a left turn onto No.3 Road from sea island way(?) hit the center median and proceed to slip left and right for about 2 seconds, clipping the left median and then finally stabilizing. I passed her later and she looked pretty cute :) gotta be more careful though

Was driving a friend home after ultimate today. 41st heading east to Cartier... intersection of 41st and Granville, beige Corolla stopped very late on Granville north curb lane, was going to turn onto 41st. I nearly honked at him, as I was in the curb lane and it was green (my right of way) but decided not to, as he stopped anyhow. Turned into Cartier heading south, the Corolla's following. Not even a block in and I hear squealing tires behind me.

I check in my rearview and I see the Corolla WEAVING CRAZILY from side to side - eating up the ENTIRE STREET. He/she was also very close to my rear bumper, as I could barely see the headlights in the rear view and that's quite close (about 5 feet or closer). I honk my horn and floor the gas, trying to get away from the crazy person. Scared the crap out of me and my passenger... adrenalin was racing! Quite surprised the Corolla did not clip the parked cars on the roadside.

Geez... I slowed down just enough on 43rd to do a quick left-right-left check, not stopping, and roll through to 45th, accelerating as fast as I can to ~60km/h to gain distance from the crazy driver. Luckily he turned right and I turned left on 45th.

Scary. :( I don't know if he/she was drunk, lost control of the car because of slipperiness or fighting the passenger or something, but that was my driving encounter of the day. :(

DRIFTTTTOOOOO!!!!!

It's not mainly bad drivers... Light rain after a dry spell is always bad on the roads coz oil seeps out of the asphalt and stays on the surface.

Heavy rain washes this off, but when it's light, it basically coats the roads with a film of oil/grease.

traction control on.

Rush hour? how fast could he have been going!?!?!

usually this happens in late august/early september when it rains for the first time after like 3 months

but i remember the last time it rained was just a month ago...so i dunno how there can be so many dried up oil patches that got slippery again.

I was driving on Boundary just off the highway up the hill, I felt my tires spinning and my traction control turned on lol... sigh... I was like "GREAT!!!"

I rear-ended someone yesterday. It sucked.

it was weird for me too today. was driving like any other day, however today when making a left turn, front right tire lost traction when accelerating.

It is especially slipperly today I found to. People need to keep their distances.... Had a few close calls with people and lights turning red.

Damn i was purposely revving up my new exhaust and couldn't get any spin, VG30 = gutless?

am I the only one that like wet roads? traction control off for me

awd ftmfw!! no slippage :haha: