with only 30 sheets of copy paper, 2 rubber bands and unlimited duct tape, HELP!
Somewhere in your purse, there is a little flat piece of paper that has a mesh diagram on it. It's maybe 1 by 1. When you buy your purse, the clerk is supposed to run it across a deactivator which literally causes a break in the mesh. (It's VERY flimsy.) Once broken, the alarms are no longer triggered by it. Sometimes the clerks don't deactivate it, or they don't do it properly, which amounts to the same thing. You'll set off the alarms going out and coming in. When the one clerk deactivated it, that should have been the end of it, but perhaps you have something metallic in your purse that bridges the broken mesh, re-activating it while it's touching. You'll need to find that little 1 x 1 decal sheet and get rid of it entirely. Mine was buried deep in a hidden recess in my wallet and took forever to find. And clerks are usually completely worthless for being any help at all. They make Paris Hilton look like a certified brain trust from the Smithsonian, in comparison.
Under wet driving conditions the stopping ability of vehicles equipped with studded tires is actually reduced. Tire studs reduce the full contact between a tire’s rubber compound and the pavement. Research on studded tires consistently shows that vehicles equipped with studded tires require a longer stopping distance on wet or dry pavement than do vehicles equipped with standard tires.
From your description, you hydroplaned. Your tires actually floated on top of the thin coating of water and lost all contact with the pavement. Studded or worn tires can contribute to the condition, but not cause it. A vehicle can hydroplane at very low speeds if conditions are right. A little oil on the road surface as happens during light rains or at the beginning of a storm can half the traction of the tires. The cause for the accident was operating at too fast a speed for the conditions. A front wheel drive vehicle is harder to control in a skid than a rear wheel drive because your power is in the same axle as your steering. The engine's torque can actually reduce your traction more. Hitting the brakes at the same time as the engine slowing (took foot off gas to hit the brake) can actually cause a minor skid to become a major spin, which can quickly result in a roll over. Anti lock brakes only work while braking in a straight line, so the instant the car went even slightly sideways, they no longer operated properly and the brakes probably locked. This aggravated the skid even more.
