Traveling to work on the motorway I reach my exit to connect to another motorway, a lazy sweeping left hand bend going up hill.
The roads are clear, plenty of grip thus far, dry too.
I'm doing around 60mph around this bend having just past 70 limit signs. Car in front is crawling so I merge smoothly to the outside lane, still going round the bend.
As I get level with the slower car all hell breaks loose. My back end stepped out to the right and in big fashion. I just managed to catch the slide and correct it but the back end then swung over to the left.
Again I corrected but she swung right again. At this point I collected my thoughts and pushed the accelerator to the floor. That did it, all sorted.
My two passengers were speechless with fear.
I'm just glad that I didn't panic and hit the brakes like I've seen others do!
Got awfully close to the car I was overtaking, but didn't hit. Not sure what they would make of the situation!
Seems someone behind me wasn't so lucky. 30 minutes later, as I recalled the story to a workmate, they told me they had heard on the radio that an accident had just been reported at that exact spot and has closed the road.
I drove on a couple of side roads this morning on the way to work which had really bad black ice. The rear of my 106 stepped out at one stage but I was only going slow so it was more fun than fear 
