SAFETY

This is a copy of a letter I sent to The Montreal Gazette.  Ed

     Following the bus crash near Plattsburgh, I feel the necessity to write this letter. As a driver of more than three million miles experience I feel that all driver's should know what to do in case of a blown tire.
     When a tire deflates it tends to fold under the wheel and reverses with each turn. It tends to throw the vehicle one side and then the other. If  the car pulls right there is a tendency to want to pull left. Such a move can be fatal, which is what I suspect happened to the bus. Passengers said the bus veered right and then all the way to the left. The answer is to steer straight ahead. Hold the wheel firmly, ease off the accelerator and brake gently when you have control.
       A driver may go fourty years without ever blowing a tire but the half dozen or so times it happened to me at high speed this method always worked.   Ed Brown
3166 LaSalle
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