Car strikes house on Route 33 at Angling Road

Someone pulled in front of me on my way to work this morning..... They have a house on the corner of angling rd and 33. their driveway is on angling rd and has a secondary exit onto 33. Instead of pulling out onto angling rd from her driveway, she pulled out onto rt 33 cutting me off, and I started braking, the wet road not helping, she then made an immediate left onto angling rd without using a signal, blocking the only egress i had to avoid an accident. Long story short, she cut me off twice in 5 seconds. She was ticketed for a few things. The car that hit the house (mine) narrowly avoided a gas line and a power pole. I feel this could have been alot worse if i was not paying close attention, i was able to keep some semblance of control after striking her vehicle and avoid the poles, gas lines, and only struck the house a glancing blow. Was buckled and the airbag deployed(without cutting me...thanks hyundai!) so i escaped with minor injuries. First accident in 20 years of driving.
On a side not, when i was 19 my dad took me to a wet empty parking lot, and told me i need to learn how to regain control of an out of control vehicle. At the time i thought it was an excuse for my dad to do donuts. Turning into the slide, and controlling a drifting vehicle served me well today. It may have saved a house, it for sure saved me from the pole.

Pic of my busted up car http://i59.tinypic.com/103ssom.jpg

Glad no one was hurt Chris.

Did you check your shorts afterwards?

Surprisingly it all happened so fast you dont have time to poo yourself. Its over almost before it began. Normally a pale individual, i was quite bright red from my blood pressure being up a bit, but i have been through some pretty crazy stuff in life. Even scarier than a 55 mph accident. So overall i feel i handled it well. I feel bad for the lady that caused it, she was crying and a good bit older than me. She was unhurt physically, but really shook up.

Hi, Chris. Yeah, I can relate to your "drifting" training.
Back in '65, a classmate (Hi, John) and I worked evenings at the cafeteria servicing Sylvania. We spent countless hours practicing such driving conditions (snow, ice & wet pavement) in the Batavia Downs parking lot, on the northwest side of Park Road.
In 50+ years of driving, it's saved my butt more than once. Knowing what your car can & can't do is crucial info, should you ever need it.

It probably should be a component of obtaing a driver's license, but, that'll never happen.
Glad you are safe.

Obtaing ?
I guess that's my new contraction for OBTAINING.
;)

WOW!
It seems that the 'website gremlins' are running amok, here on thebatavian.
Cases in point:
My comment, listed as Comment #2, (should have) been Comment #5 (as a Reply to #1).
Then, my comment, listed as Comment #3, should have been Comment #6 (as a Reply to what should've been #5).

Now, I'm wondering whether I really did misspell obtaining. Probably did, though.
Lord only know where THIS comment will show up. Maybe not even in this post.
Oh well!

Well I know the lady in that house and as I can remember she is a really safe driver. Being a professional driver myself for over 20 years and have hundreds of thousands of miles under my belt. I see a couple things wrong, Being you stated you had 5 seconds to see this all between both moves that she apparently made, says you must of been speeding especially if the conditions weren't right.

I know that stretch of road well that's why the police sit up at the grid all the time. Not taking sides but it seems to me that if you had 5 seconds to stop you could of avoided the situation. how in the world could you be braking and not only hit her car but go off the road and travel at least 40 yards and hit the house if you had time to see the car and weren't speeding. just saying

armchair quarterbacking much?

Apparently, not as safe this morning as usual then.

Brian, regardless of all your driving miles and knowledge, explain why SHE was ticketed.

Ed, I see what you mean, I should have been commet #11, but ended up #9. Look at the time difference?????

"Being a professional driver myself for over 20 years and have hundreds of thousands of miles under my belt."

Then you should know the V&T Law states, when entering a road, street, or highway from a private driveway you are to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic.

NFN, but your hundreds of thousands of miles and 20 years as a professional driver under YOUR belt has nothing to do with either of these two drivers and what the woman did, who was ticketed by the way.

Seems Ed Hartgrove needs a third button. Thumbs up,thumbs down, and everything is a conspiracy against me.

Two thumbs up on your moves to avoid horrible results, Chris.

No need for more buttons, Barb.
And, not concerned about thumbs up/down. We all get 'em, eh, Barb?
Just pointing out obvious glitches (to those that pay attention to detail, anyways) in the system.
As for the "conspiricy against me" barb, Barb, that never entered my thought. When you make a Reply to an indicated comment, and the website directs it at a completely different one, I see that as a flaw (again, obvious to those that pay attention to detail).
Perhaps the website was created by CGI Federal.

Ed good question on the ticket

So drifting was what saved the day? The driveway is a horseshoe driveway and has been since I can remember. Yes she was ticketed , 1 ticket not several. So that is a fact.
She also pulled out on to rt33 heading east as she usually does every morning on the way to work. But it is kind of hard to comprehend I guess that another drive that was taught so well on drifting ? Could say they had around 5 seconds but not only went into the oncoming traffic lane but hit her in the driver side door and continued on several yard across a lawn and hit a house.

just seems like what happened to the shoulder of the road? I mean if you had the time to react to the left why not to the right? Car can be replaced people can't. Not saying it was or wasn't her fault maybe she did pullout but it seems kind of funny that she should of been hit in the rear end not the driver side door.

Well when she made her turn out of her driveway infront of me, i immediately started breaking and going towards the shoulder, she blocked half the shoulder with her less than accurate turn, i was breaking the whole time. As to why the vehicles continued so far from the impact point...everything was wet! Then after denying me the shoulder, i made the decision to not smash into the rear of her and try to go around, when she made an immediate, un-signaled left onto angling road.
What im trying to understand is why if your horseshoe driveway has an exit on angling road, and you need to go down angling road, why would you pull onto 33 and make a 180 degree turn back onto angling road.
All i know is she was shook up, it was an accident. My first ever. She was ticketed, i was not. There were some witnesses in the surrounding homes from what the officer said.
She is probably a super nice lady, she seemed very grandmotherly and i felt super bad that i could not do more to avoid a collision.
I think the main cause of the accident was Lack of visibility because of the rain/mist even with a red car and lights on. Then the rain mist continued to cause more trouble when it made everything slick, Nerfing the effectiveness of braking.

Ok i just used the stopping distance calculator on the NHTSA website. Given the conditions it calculated my distance to stop from the 55 mph i was traveling as 274.5111548556431 Feet in wet conditions with average tires. She pulled out somewhere between 50 and 75 feet infront of me. Leaving me a few hundred feet short.... If conditions had not been wet, 137.25557742782155. 137 feet if it was dry. probably could have pulled that off, but it was wet. Lowering the friction coefficient of tires and road significantly.