posted on Feb, 1 2010 @ 06:35 PM
reply to post by Doc Holiday
If you turn the key, switching the engine off then you also lose electrical systems and power steering. I think you would also lock the steering wheel
too if you turned the wheel ten degrees to the left or right - at least that is what would happen if I did that in my VW.
At high speed that will be a fatal action.
I read several years ago of a young man while trying to impress his friends turned his engine off while travelling at high speed down a hill and the
end result was the car locked up and I believe most of them died.
The correct action as mentioned in the video is to push the gear into neutral and then carefully manoeuvre the vehicle to the side of the road, using
the brakes to halt the vehicle.
Once done get out, vomit by the side of the road and optionally beat the body work while venting highly colourful expletives and then wait for the
emergency services to arrive.
[edit on 1-2-2010 by SmokeJaguar67]