Ouch. Glad you didn't hit the (dumb) kid. He should have known better.
I have a few to add.
About a year and a half ago my buddy and I were out clubbing in my car. I got plastered so I let him drive home. It was snowing and my rear tires were probably about 3/32 of tread. He decides to set cruise, at 70, in 4" of snow, on the freeway. I am asleep so I don't know hes doing it. I wake up to, "****! ****! ****! ****!" I can feel the ABS in the passenger floorboards and he is doing his best to try to keep the car going straight. I opened my eyes and looked out the passenger window to see where we were going. I was all groggy from being asleep. I looked forward and noticed we were sliding right for a concrete divider. I remember thinking, "Please don't let the airbags go off. The front tires bounced off of the embankment (we were going north and the south lanes were banked for the curve, we actually slid INTO the turn) the car spun around and drug the tail against the divider. You can still see the teal paint from my `tour on the divider.
I was racing in my 2 month old Focus. Lost control, skidded over a 6" curb into a HUGE landscaping boulder. Again I was praying that the bags wouldn't pop. I hit, heard the crunch pass through the body. When I realised that the bags were ok, and the car was still running, I slammed it into reverse and drove all of two houses to my friend's house. I guess thats what I get for racing through a 90 degree curve, in a neighborhood.
