You can still turn a wheel with the power steering off. If the engine is switched off, you also lose your vaccuum assisted brakes. But you can STILL use them, you just need to literally put your back in to it. A person of average strength could have controlled the car for the short time it would take to guide your car and stand on the brakes. Most modern cars also disregard the throttle input if you even touch the brakes. I know Volvos and European Fords do. So all you'd have to do in this instance.... is press the brakes. If you were to shift it in to Neutral, you would NOT blow the engine as the engines are fitted with fuel/spark cut rev limiters. This would also give you power steering and vaccuum assisted braking. Either way, not doing ANYTHING and PHONING someone is the most ridiculous of ANY other option. Even slowly griding your car against the central reservation would be a less retarded thing to do. I've had a throttle stick WIDE open on a supercharged 700kg 200bhp hatchback once. If I'd had dipped the clutch, it would have smashed the supercharger in 30 seconds (G-Lader) So I stood on the brakes (single piston sliding caliper useless things) and that WORKED, when they started to get hot and I was near an exit, I turned off the engine and brought the car to a stop. All this was done in a panic, in the dark and rain, with other traffic around me at 70mph. I'd also only been driving for 2 years at the time. Anybody like this guy who killed himself and his poor family should be taken off the road. It's terrifying to think that someone as brain dead as that could be behind me. And this isn't an elitist rant, this should be OBVIOUS information to ANYone who thinks they should be on the road with other people in a dangerous machine. tl;dr http://www.sniffpetrol.com/[^]

Holy crap I'd even CIRCLED my stupidty in RED I really can't believe this :laugh: I miss C# ;P

No 'Try' in VB6 :( (I know this is .NET section sorry) Not only do you get 60 points, but you have my full permission to insult my stupidity. :doh: I can't believe I didn't see I'd written "on err" instead of "on error"... Sometimes if you look at something too hard and too long you can't see the obvious, and all it takes is a fresh pair of eyes. Cheers!

http://www.prodman.com/whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.PNG :((