If You Don’t Need to Drive, Stay Home – RCMP
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Prince George, B.C. – If you don’t have winter tires, then don’t drive your car.
That’s the message this morning from the Prince George RCMP following the first snowfall of the year.
“We’ve obviously had a considerable amount of sticky snow which has made for slippery conditions in parts of the Prince George area and certainly the highways,” says Corporal Craig Douglass.
“We’re still getting some snowfall so we are urging anybody if they don’t need to travel to stay home and if they do to please ensure that you have the appropriate winter tires on as well as you leave early and drive slower.”
He says snow is to blame for two crashes already – one overnight involving a tractor trailer unit and another minor collision on First Avenue this morning.
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And avoid the tire shops. They’ll be packed with people who left changing over to the last minute….
If everyone stayed home with a skiff of snow like this, this country would never have been built. Good grief. If this much snow makes you even question whether you can drive or not please sell your car and buy a bus pass.
interceptor, I haven’t heard yet this morning, are schools open today? ;-)
Lmao – by the list of late running busses on the radio this morning perhaps they should be. How dare we try to follow a normal schedule under conditions as extreme as this! ;-)
Man, the number of idiots out there this morning was astounding! People white knuckling it down the Hart while hogging the left lane and doing 50. Someone needs to design a car that won’t start until the person attempting to drive it passes an IQ test.
Hey axman white knuckling at 50 seems to me to be the PRUDENT thing to do for the conditions today. Driving the left lane no. Its the hotdogs that feel they are invincable that cause the trouble. After a few days of snow when people get used to driving again then it should be differant. This is about my 50th year driving and i for one have seen enough of the hotdogs.
90% of the people driving need to get to work or school. Staying home because of an inch of snow is a joke.
Awesome weather forecasting. All sources said something different and none of them were correct.
Posted on Monday, October 26, 2015 @ 11:22 AM by big dog with a score of 8
Hey axman white knuckling at 50 seems to me to be the PRUDENT thing to do for the conditions today.
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White knuckling to the point where the driver is oblivious to their surroundings is never prudent. If someone was this scared in this mornings conditions they have absolutely no business being behind the wheel.
First of October, time to put on the winter tires!!!
El nino, the blob. It’s still northern BC. It’s gonna snow.
The problem with a warmer winter is, it is going to be a heavy wet snow. Meaning the roads slick up fast.
Drive safe. good tires and 4×4. You have it, use them.
Is there some special rule that if you drive a truck with a goat on it you don’t need to see where you are going ? Maybe Northland should give a free snowbrush with every purchase of a goat truck.
The highway west was pretty bad this morning. A pickup rolled off the road near the top of Cluculz hill. I later met an ambulance heading that way. There was another tow truck picking up another pickup further west. In about three million miles of professional driving, today was the first time I have ever pulled off the road for weather.
I was right down to 40 KpH at times and I was loaded and spinning my wheels. Even on lowbeam, I couldn’t see safely there for awhile. That’s why I stopped.
Give more, you probably had piles of idiots flying by you totally lost in space too.
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