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Winter 2010/2011 in Poland, is it going to be bad? [114]
I was born in 1953 , and as a child living on the north east coast of Yorkshire i can remember having snow drifts coming up to the top of the front door , and helicopters taking supplies to small villages cut off by road....
You don,t get winters like that any more in the UK...
Now it seems that half an inch of snow is enough to cause a disaster , each year we have a new generation of drivers that just don,t know how to drive on snow...
Winter tyres are all very well , but they don,t help much if you don,t have a clue how to drive on slippery surfaces.... I am fortunate that i have spent quite a few years on the race track where power sliding into corners teaches you all you need to know about skid control . and i have quite a lot of experiance of driving off road too on tricky surfaces , a bit of snow for me is good fun....
And don,t think having a 4 x 4 will get you out of trouble if you can,t drive... a 4 x 4 is bigger and heavier than a normal car , and if you get into a skid with one it will slide faster and further than a normal car , and probably won,t stop untill you hit something...!
I used to think that learning skid control should be part of the driving test , but i suspect it would just encourage young drivers to drive like rally drivers on public roads...