I believe that everyone should get to know how their car handles in slippery conditions. If your car decides to fishtail you should know how to handle the situation properly without panic.

I think not only are people going to fast and following to close, they are also braking way to much unnecessarily.

When you brake you can end up putting your car into a slide. It’s like running down a sidewalk and then stopping suddenly, you end up sliding.

Take the same example, but instead add on 5,000 lbs of weight and brake, what happens? You slide…….

When you need your car to slow down, take your foot of the accelerator first. If your car still does not slow down after you have taken your foot off the accelerator, try taking it out of Overdrive.

I find allot of people in snow and icy weather driving in Overdrive. Why ??
In overdrive you are in a higher gear.

I also think allot of people need to read their car’s owners manual, and know how there car runs. There are allot of people out there that don’t even know that if you are doing 100/km. you can actually gear down an automatic car safetly and use it’s engine as an engine brake to slow down your car instead of hitting the brakes all the time.

People need to remember every time you hit the brake unnecessarily you cause a chain reaction behind you and you also delay traffic and cause people to become even more frustrated which causes even more problems.

Another problem that I have noticed all the time on our major hi-way’s is people forgetting what lane they are supposed to be in.

I have seen people enter onto the hi-way and head straight over to the centre lane and stay there as if it was a cruising lane. This is a passing lane NOT a cruising lane.

I think if everyone just paid attention to their surroundings and obliged by the laws and rules of our roads and hi-ways, it would be a much better drive for everyone with less accidents.