got in my first accident

[nismo2491]

Well guys it finally happened. Got in my first accident tonight. I was headed south on 301 right between wawa and the weigh stations between bowie and upper marlboro. I was driving my close friends 3000gt (sl 5spd daily driver). He had been drinking and believe it or not I hadn't had a single drink all night. Anyways I had cruise set at 55 (speed limit) and the car started to hydroplane, instinctivly I tapped the clutch just enough to turn cruise off and started to countersteer as the ass end was sliding out, the car didn't respond to any inputs as I was in a complete 4 wheel hydroplane. There was no recovery possible. The car spun once in the road, then skidded into the grass median, it spun a second time in the median then as we were finishing the third complete spin, it had started to make its way up the other side of the median (kinda v-shaped median) and the corner of the rear bumper hit the guardrail for oncoming traffic. That caused the front end to come around and also smack the guardrail in the corner of the front bumper. The car then came down to the center of the median and came to rest. I was able to get the car out of the median and after a quick stop to pull the fender off the tire I took it straight to my old work and parked it under the canopy to survey the damage. Its actually fairly minimal which was surprising because it felt like we hit fairly hard. The rear bumper is cracked and broke the factory tip off the exhaust. It also broke a couple of the mounting screws for the tailight fascia pushing that up a bit. The left front fender has a soccer size dent that starts right where the factory parking light is and proceeds onto the front bumper as well. There is also a slight chunk missing out of the wheel. I've got some camera phone pics and will take some better pics w/ a digital camera in the next couple days. I'll try to upload the camera phone stuff tomorrow and then the other ones will shortly follow. Anyways of course all that matters is that none of us were hurt and there wasn't anybody else involved so the moral of the story is sometimes even trained drivers can't recover, and also even the speed limit is sometimes too fast for the conditions.
KEvin