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I understand how unpredictable black ice can be, hit a patch and did a slo-mo 360 in the middle of a major road, no one else on the road at that moment but if all her airbags deployed....... The vehicle was traveling too fast for the conditions, airbags don't deploy with a small bump or two.Welp I could get preachy about driving too fast where black ice may exist but I won't........
Even when you know though, it happens. When we still lived up on the mountain, I was headed home through Tijeras Canyon late one afternoon. It was snowing pretty hard so nobody was traveling at high speeds, but the temperatures were high enough that the road surface was just wet and we weren't just creeping along either. Then we got to the bridge at Dead Man's Curve where the five cars in front of me hit the black ice and all started sliding and spinning. I was far enough back to get slowed down and just watched those cars sliding and weaving and spinning completely around like it had been choreographed. Miraculously none hit each other or anything else. Amazing to watch. But if I wasn't behind them aways, I probably would have been one of them.
I asked her about that, she said she was keeping up with the flow of traffic. I chalk it up to lesson (hopefully) learned.
There is that too. She probably will never again do winter driving without considering the possibility. I know I think about it constantly when driving in winter conditions.
