If it occurs at all wheels the vehicle becomes, in effect, an uncontrolled sled.

I can't believe people think this is funny or that some of you are even actually arguing the physics of hydroplaning.

Water hazards may HIDE other hazards.

Moreover, the potential for hydroplaning had little to do with this scenario. The greater risk of losing control occurs when a sudden and uneven distribution of torque occurs on ANY of the wheels. In fact, I'd say it was a pretty damned dangerous thing to do at high speed near anyone, let alone children.

Car rolled in puddle crash.

A car lost control and rolled over after hitting a puddle in Redbourn.

The accident happened at about 5.30am yesterday (Monday) in St Albans Road.

The vehicle hit the puddle and lost control, causing it to veer off the road ...

Policeman died after he lost control of his car

A POLICEMAN died after he lost control of his car in poor weather conditions and crashed down an embankment on a Cornish road, an inquest heard.

Pc Kevin Sparks, 45, a diversity officer, who lived in Plymouth, was pronounced dead at the scene on the A38.

Eyewitnesses told how Pc Sparks had hit a puddle of standing water before the car began to swerve out of control before flipping over and shooting down the embankment.

Doiron v. City of Riverside

...high school student, passenger in a 1967 volkswagen Bug, was traveling on a main roadway in Riverside at approximately 10:00 p.m. Vehicle hit puddle of water and lost control leaving the roadway and the rear of the volkswagen hit a palm tree.

Kingston teen’s motor vehicle homicide trial postponed

Erin Leith, 18, is charged with misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide and speeding stemming from an accident in May 2006 that killed Victoria Wightman, 16, of Hingham, and seriously injured two others.

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Leith lost control of her Oldsmobile Cutlass on Route 106 in Plympton about 11 a.m. on May 16, 2006, after driving through a large puddle.

The vehicle swerved into the path of a minivan driven by Mary Hall of Halifax.

Originally posted by noonebutme
He could have also had a stroke while driving. Or been hit by a meteorite, or an earthquake could have occured, or lightning hit his vehicle, or one of the children had a heart attack, or an axle snap, or he could have been shot, etc etc etc.