I had a crazy spin incident once due to ice(?) on a ramp that was unbelieveable. For those of you familiar with Boston and what the central artery elevated roadway was like before they finished the $14B "
Big Dig" project, this was on the ramp that wound down from I-93 S, around the old Boston Garden, and onto Storrow Drive.
I was driving my girlfriend home one snowy night to Beacon Hill. Coming down the ramp I hit one of the then all-too-common potholes/bumps and my tiny
new Honda CRX started spinning. All I remember was my brain saying "both feet in", my mouth saying "
Holy spit" and watching the rotating images of the green-painted rusty steel all around us on that narrow curving ramp, while I tried madly to direct us away from anything solid. Oh, and my passenger
screaming the whole time at the top of her lungs, like in a cartoon or bad horror film! 1,080 degrees later (3x360) we magically ended up on the right side of the split to the Storrow underpass, rolling forwards,
still upright, and with only a 1/2" scrape on the plastic rear bumper.
Considering that the length of the car was fully half the width of the ramp, I still suspect a distortion of space-time was the only way we could have made it through this without major damage. Maybe they were running some experiment at the nearby
Museum of Science ?