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More Helpful Advice? Is there any compelling reason for you to drive like a complete fool during a downpour? I think not! So here is another post to try and help some of you GOOD citizens when heavy rain and flash flooding comes to your area. I can't speak for every 911 center or every police department. From a dispatcher point of view: slow down when the heavy rain starts. The oil on the surface of the road will begin to rise and you could easily hydroplane. I know, I know, where YOU are going is so very important, but you need to slow down. Last night a driver driving at a speed that was too fast for road conditions hydroplaned and slid into another car causing a serious accident. I had to send 2 of my troopers to an AVOIDABLE accident in a torrential downpour. Not cool!. During that time 2 more accidents occur because of the same stupidity. Maybe people don't know about hydroplaning. I learned about the basics in high school driver's ed class. Slow the fuck down!!!!! Another aspect of heavy rain is standing water on roadways or just straight up flooding. If you should encounter either of these issues that you feel makes a road impassable, call 911!. If you call the police dept that covers that area, they are going to do the same thing, call the 911 center to report the road problem. Most police departments do not have the time or resources to close roads due to acts of nature. However, the municipality where the road or roads exist do have the time and resources to divert traffic. Call the 911 center and give the exact location of the flooding and they will notify the township/borough or the state authority that handles those road issues. The police only handle road issues when there is a crash that causes a closure. At a time when calls start coming in about vehicles that slid off the road due to hydroplaning, now people are calling the police for flooding, CALL 911! In Pennsylvania we use the motto: Turn around, don't drown. You will only be able to do this if you slow down during heavy rain. For those idiots that crash because you were driving to fast for road conditions, I hope the police officers that show up to your crash cite you for driving too fast for the road conditions! |
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i know a few LEO and agree with you, i can't emphasize enough about defensive driving in bad weather...people are driving too fast in the rain, and also driving too close...no headlights...
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very well said
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I'm still not understanding why the need to drive 75 and 80 mph on a roadway that clearly has standing water? How does one not know the basics of driving? No wonder car insurance keeps going up.
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