Your Oregon vehicle starts to skid on a slick road. What's the recovery procedure?
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A.
Brake hard to stop the slide.
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B.
Pull the emergency brake.
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C.
Steer in the direction you want to go. Correct
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D.
Steer opposite to the direction the vehicle is sliding.
The answer is "Steer in the direction you want to go."
Skids happen when tires lose grip, usually from driving too fast for conditions. Recovery means staying off the brakes (until the vehicle slows they aren't effective and may worsen the skid) and steering in the direction you want the vehicle to go. As it straightens out, turn the wheel back the other way to avoid swinging into a new skid, correcting left and right until control returns. Sending the wheel opposite the slide, as D prescribes, inverts the handbook's rule: aim toward the intended path, not away from where the vehicle is heading.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Brake hard to stop the slide.
The manual says to stay off the brakes during a skid; until the vehicle slows, the brakes will not be effective. This answer treats hard braking as the recovery, but the manual instructs the driver to stay off the brakes during a skid.
B. Pull the emergency brake.
The manual prescribes steering, not the parking brake; locking the rear wheels in a skid will usually make things worse. This answer substitutes the parking brake for the manual's steering procedure, which the skid section does not endorse.
D. Steer opposite to the direction the vehicle is sliding.
The manual says to steer in the direction you want the vehicle to go, not opposite the slide. This answer inverts the steering rule; the manual directs you to steer toward your intended path, not opposite the slide.
This question tests your knowledge of Adverse Conditions in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Skidding," p.79..
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