Winter Driving

I read an interesting article in the paper the other day about winter drivers that I totally agreed with. Winter driving is not the same as summer driving when the roads are clear, clean and dry. People are either overly cautious, driving way too slow and causing accidents themselves, or overly careless, driving way too fast, and .. well, you know what happens.

"I'm guessing accidents would be cut in half if inexperienced and insecure winter drivers parked for the season. Alternately, these drivers could become roadworthy with a winter driving course. Winter driving requires extra skills - skid recovery, traction control and emergency manoeuvres. Not every driver is up to the task"
Adrienne Beattie, Metro News

I couldn't agree more. Why don't they make a winter driving course mandatory before you can get behind the wheel of a car in the snowy season? They have different classes on your drivers license, why not just add Winter Driver to that as well? Getting your learners and your license is much harder to do now-a-days then it was when I was at that stage. If we've identified that younger, or first time drivers need a bit more time when it comes to taking over the wheel, why don't we apply that to drivers in the winter time? I think that it would save a lot of frustration and accidents.

Think about it.