Slick Season Means Adjustments to Driving Speed
Prince George, B.C.- Winter conditions can arrive on area roads anytime now, and when mixed with a heavy foot on the gas pedal can have deadly results.
Driving too fast for road conditions is a factor in most speed related crashes and you are being called upon to make the needed adjustments to your driving habits this winter.
According to stats, speed related crashes which result in someone being hurt, or killed, more than double between November and January in the North Central region, with 45 such crashes in each of those months compared to similar periods in other times of the year.
Stopping distances are greatly increased when roads are wet or icy.
During ideal conditions, a vehicle travelling 60kmh needs about 40metres to come to a full stop. and one travelling at 100kmph needs 90 metres.
When roads are wet or slippery, that 60 kmh vehicle will need 55 metres to come to a full stop, and the one travelling at 100kmph will need just over 130metres.
Throughout November, police across B.C. will be looking for drivers travelling at unsafe speeds.
Comments
Oh, there’s been a few that have found that out already!
Same thing every year takes most people at least a month to relearn how to drive in winter conditions then at best maybe only 60% or so are decent to good at it the rest spend the winter cursing highways and everyone else except themselves
Half the people on our roads shouldn’t be behind the wheel regardless of which season we’re in.
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