Controlling a skidding car

Most car crashes involve an element of skidding, so it seems sensible to know how to deal with skids.

Practicing skidding on a skid pan at a skid control course is great fun and worthwhile. However, a skid pan only allows you to experience one type of road condition whereas an even better traing set up is a hydraulically altered skid car which can switch from aquaplaning to black ice, understeering or oversteering at the instructors will.

The skid car really is a fantastic way to learn and practice skid control technique safely.

 

Finding a skid pan to practice driving on is a simple matter of looking in your local telephone directory (or search the web of course) for the phrases skid pan, advanced driving or skid control courses.