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[acruxksa]

On the drive back from Palmer Sunday I counted 6 cars in the ditch and saw another 2 on Brayton drive. I also saw 2 people slide through intersections. typical winter in Anchorage. The most common accident I see is people braking while trying to turn and sliding into someone else or the ditch. These aren't high speed accidents, but they can definitely be high $$$. Two years ago a lady in a ford pickup slid into my wife and kids while they were stopped at a stop sign. She pushed her suburban off the road and into the ditch. Drivers side front bumper of her truck hit just forward of the drivers side door of my wifes suburban. Nice $4000 dent. For some reason people hit the brakes, lose traction and just slide. No attempt to let off on the brakes and regain steering, just dumbfounded looks on their faces as they keep sliding right at you. Crazy. FYI, even ABS has a hard time on glare ice, it tries, but when there is no traction to be had, there isn't much it can do. It's better than nothing, but barely. People just don't anticipate turns or stops and slow down early enough. I get in the habit of watching the pedestrian crossing lights (the flashing red don't walk light) because this give me an extra 5 or 6 seconds notice before a yellow light this extra time helps keep you from running red lights or sliding through intersections when it's extremely slippery out.

The siped MT's are workig very well for me although, I'm finding the traction control system to be a bit of a buzz kill. Kind of takes some of the fun out of fresh snow. I still can manage to break it loose, but it is a lot more work than my other rigs.