Maine State Police share some Wintertime Driving Ideas

HOULTON, Maine (WAGM) -Each individual 12 months, innumerable motor vehicle accidents manifest because of to inexperience or not getting organized for the street conditions. Newssouce 8′s Corey Bouchard spoke to the Maine Point out Police about some tips for winter driving

LT.Brian Harris – Maine Point out Law enforcement ” Even though we all stay in maine and most of us have been right here our overall life, it always take 1, 2 or 3 storms to remind us of those people driving conditions and as we transition from the wonderful drive pavement of summer and drop to the snow lined roadways we deal with this time of year”

LT. Brian Harris is the LT for the Maine State Law enforcement in Houlton. He claims that motorists should really be aware that highway situations, like the weather conditions in maine, can change in an instantaneous.

” You could be going from a dry paved street thats genuinely superior and then hit a quarter mile extend of sheer terror as the snow is coming throughout the highway. not only does it hamper the capacity to generate on the highway but visibility as well, you could go from close to best visibility to just about zero in the blink of an eye”

LT Harris states that the vital to winter driving is to gradual down, and not be in a rush to get the place youre likely.

”Always in the winter time no matter of what the working day appears to be like, give oneself that excess time mainly because you dont know when youre gonna arrive across an accident, a bad strech of highway, some poor visibility issues, maybe a snow squall coming through a specific spot as you leave your house and journey to a diverse city.”

Plow trucks, Lt Harris provides, pose yet another challange for motorists who may possibly be in a hurry.

” Just mainly because a plow truck is a slower relocating car and is going slower than the normal move of targeted visitors, doesnt circumvent the normal website traffic rules that you have to adhere to as a motorist. For case in point, you arrive up by a plow truck on a hill, clearly in any other scenario would you pass a automobile on that hill, almost certainly not. then it is a excellent probability that you should really keep guiding that plow truck and hold out for a greater opprotunity”

In the wake of the motorists in virginia that were stranded on the interstate for more than 12 hours, LT Harris claims you should generally be well prepared and keep an emergency kit in your motor vehicle that has food stuff, warm clothes, and blankets.in circumstance you do become stranded and emergency personell are not capable to get to you suitable absent, Corey Bouchard, Newssource 8

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