Hydroplaning
Remember the time you were driving along the highway in the late afternoon in the summer when a thunderstorm suddenly drops buckets of rain out of the sky. The windshield wipers have a difficult time removing all of the water from the windshield. Before you can slow down, you feel your car move like it is on ice and you no longer have complete control of the steering. This is the scary feeling of hydroplaning.
Most vehicles that hydroplane will recover and the driver moves on down the road. A few vehicles do not and the results can be disastrous on a busy highway. Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle’s tires ride up on the water and the tires are lifted from the pavement. At that point, the driver of the vehicle has no control steering the car. The car will continue in the direction it was headed. During rainfall events, vehicles may hydroplane on roadways that do not have adequate stormwater drainage. A few of the factors that prevent adequate stormwater drainage and can lead to hydroplaning are:
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Our engineer is licensed professional engineer, licensed professional surveyor, a professional hydrologist and is certified as an accident reconstructionist. If you think you have an accident which may involve hydroplaning, contact us today to begin investigation how the accident occurred.