BRISTOL, Va. (WVVA) – With heavy rain ongoing and more on the way due to the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred, it is significant to know these valuable suggestions for driving in the rain.
Michelle Earl, the communications supervisor at VDOT in Bristol, VA, states that the speed restrict is designed for optimum weather conditions situations. We will not be dealing with these kinds of situations as a result of the relaxation of the evening and into tomorrow morning.
Earl endorses turning off cruise command when driving in large rain. On leading of that, make guaranteed you are preserving your distance from the motor vehicles in front of you as it will take added time to appear to a complete cease when touring on moist pavement.
If you start off to hydroplane, make guaranteed to very first continue to be calm and gradual down by pumping carefully on your brakes. Stay away from slamming on your brakes!
It is also crucial to know the circumstances ahead of you strike the street.
Earl says, “It is pretty imperative that motorists know the ailments in advance of they leave. You can look at 511 to see what the situations are on the main highways in Virginia. When you are traveling on the secondary highways it can be just important to not journey via standing water. Which is just something to really get heed of. You only do not know what is actually beneath the drinking water and it would just be a perilous move to make out there”
For the remainder of the day, VDOT crews will be checking routes and placing up barricades in which there is any standing drinking water. If you do appear throughout a flooded roadway in Virginia without the need of a barricade, you can report it by contacting 1(800)FOR-Road.
