Shopping Essentials: What’s in our bag: Winter road trips
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Calgary police Sgt. Colin Foster has been driving to emergency calls for more than three decades. So, you might imagine his surprise when a fellow motorist zipped by on a slippery and snow-covered stretch one cold winter day.
“The big thing is to drive to the conditions, just because the speed limit is 110 km/h doesn’t mean it’s safe to do those speeds,” Foster said. “If it means 80 is as fast as you can go, then that’s it. Drive to your ability and the weather.”Article content . If you have good tread depth, it will assist you in stopping in a shorter distance, help you navigate corners and give you better grip.
Wiseman, who moved to Canada eight years ago had his own learning curve with winter driving given he came from the south coast of the U.K. where they get snow maybe once every eight to 10 years. Wiseman says statistics show most crashes happen either because drivers are going too fast or not keeping a good space around their vehicle.He recommends, under ideal conditions, keeping a distance of about three seconds between themselves and other motorists, That number is at least double when Mother Nature is being particularly frosty.Article content
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