Plus one for the question on which tyres you were running.
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Blimey.
No matter how well you think you feel, get to your GP for an MOT ASAP
Your chassis is the only important one now.
If it needs a bit of realignmentā¦now is the time to find out.
Hate to sayā¦had that been my Mk1ā¦well. 
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Thank you all for your kind words. Iād bought the car a few months before landing a job with a 60mile a day round commute. Iām going to hold off on a replacement 5 for now (canāt seem to find a like for like for less than 6.5/7k), Iāve sourced a low milage 2017 mazda 2 GT sport that Iāll hopefully be able to collect next weekend. Mazda have a customer for life after how well the car protected me.
The tyres on the car are from the previous owner, they where all in good shape, plenty of tread and being run at 29-30 PSI (my gauge/pump isnt the most accurate). I had checked this during a thorough clean a day or two before the accident.
Rears where Avon zv7ās (few years old with ~15k on them) and fronts where goodyears (less than a year old with ~6k on them). Unfortunately the receipt doesnāt say what goodyears and I cant remember but they where ~115 each fitted.
Iāve just had the headspace to look at the dashcam, around half-1/3rd of the right hand lane on the right side had standing water about a metre long, which explains why the car suddenly veered to the left. A bit or research shows a similar accident occurs there often, with the local council lobbying the highways people to fix it (theyāve admitted theres a problem but havenāt done anything to fix it). If thereās one thing I miss about living in the Netherlands, its the quality of their roads and ability to deal with water.
Think Iāll be taking the back roads on my way home in the future!
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Sometimes, and itā's happend to me twice over 46 years and circa 1.38 million miles clocked, you become a passenger as much as a passenger and there is nowhere to go and nowt left to do in the last nano seconds. Thinking on a leisurely 60 mphā¦itās almost 90 feet in 1 second. Not a lot.
On a much higher plane, and far narrower envelopes, that is what staggers me about F1 driversā¦and even they know one day they will be āa passengerā.
the reason it suddenly veered was you tired to reduce speed when you see standing water the best advice is just put the clutch in and coast through it any application of the brakes will cause the vehicle to veer suddenly to the side with traction
im glad you are ok i dont think my mk1 would have offered me the same level of protection yours did
i was told that when approching standing water to simply take my feet of the peddles and just steer.
was i told wrong then?
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All in the āLap of the Godāsā mate to be honest.
What will work for one person may not work for another.
Skid pan training is helpful and indeed a bit of fun.
Depth of standing water, camber of road, surface adhesion, coefficient of friction, tyres and speed are the issue. 
Edit- Just try and remember all the advice on here when travelling at 60mph, perhaps in the dark, vehicles left, right, behind and in front and having a major bowel movement! 
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Thats what I did, I may not have explained it well in my original post. I had clocked the extra water in advance, stopped Accelerating, gently broke and kept my feet off all the pedels before coming into contact with the water.
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if you leave the clutch engaged then you effectily have one set of wheels slowing you down and as the tires aquaplane you will get and inbalance that can cause a spin putting the clutch in means all the wheels a neutral so alot less likely to induce a spin
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Makes sense, especially with an LSD, although not sure how much it would have exasperated the issue with the engine āidlingā
Might have been just enoughā¦only a wee smidgeā¦ of engine braking in the rears going on just to tip the delicate balance, but with years of snow & ice driving, decades actually in things like Marinas, Cortinasā¦ad yesā¦dreaded Capris ( actuallly very good in snow and ice)ā¦I usually dipped the clutch to allow the tyres just one job to do.
Seems to have worked.
We will never be sure about the OPās incidentā¦we were not thereā¦and each RTA has itās unique fingerprint.
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i did an hour of skidpan training about 25 years ago now.
iām thinking it might be time for a refresher.
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Thatās what we learned in advance driving.
Came in handy during winters in the Alps.
Wow that sounds horrific , glad your ok , sorry for the old gal
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