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To: William H Huebl who wrote (5899)	12/5/2002 6:56:48 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34894

I received this today from a friend, and wanted to pass it on. I never thought about it before, but will now. I had a wreck a couple of weeks ago and totaled our Lincoln Town Car. I hydroplaned on Hwy 35 between Gladewater & Kilgore. I was not hurt, just emotionally rattled! I know the Lord was with me. I learned a lesson I'd like to pass on to you. You may know this already-but the highway patrolman told me that you should never drive in them rain with your cruise control on. He said if you did and hydroplaned (which I did) that when your tires were off the road your car would accelerate to a high rate of speed (which it did). You don't have much, if any control when you hydroplane, but you are totally in the hands of God when the car accelerates. I took off like I was in an airplane. I'm so thankful I made it through that ordeal. Please pass the word around about not using cruise control when the pavement is wet or icy. The highway patrolman said this should be on the sun-visor with the warning about air-bags. The only person I've found out who knew this (besides the patrolman) was a man who had a similar accident and totaled his car. This has made me wonder if this is not why so many of our young people are dying in accidents.