[seatlyled]

same kind of thing happens all the time here in spain - I have a Jeep Ckre. laredo - and seems the watering systems the town puts in waters the roads more than the plants, + a lot of traffic - many diesil cars shooting exhaust @ the ground + almost, never ever rains + roundabouts @ 90% of all intersections = very bad. And scooters and motorcycles are huge here. Sometimes I even manage to swing back out on my jeep - and rarly - motos in front of me lose it, bail - and ya almost end up turning fools into roadkill who were going way to fast with unpresidented over-confidence- weaving in&out between cars - hit one of these spots - and bail - 80% of the time without a helmet. But it's just a part of driving - it what seperates the good drivers from the bad. I was a ski instructor up at greek peak in upstate NY growing up - you get real used to crappy conditions driving in and out of a ski resort 6 days a week for 10 years - but people down here go through their entire lives without seeing a flake of snow - so they have no clue what to do their car starts sliding out from under them - front or rear wheel drive wouldn't matter to them - they just freezeup till its over.
Ed. - in a front wheel drive car you auctually want to give it a **moderate** ammount of gas - so the front tires pull the rear back behind you - and I'd say 95% of people's 1'st reaction is to slam on the brakes - making the car continue in the same direction or exacerbating the problem - sideways off the road - or into the car in the outside lane.