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Why, why, why do people insist on tailgating when there is snow on the road?
There have been times when Route 57 is snowy and I don't feel safe going much more than 25 mph, it's so snowy. Throw in the fact that I no longer have the minivan I had for 14 years (from 2002 to 2016) and I now have a 2002 Saturn Vue (nice compact SUV and stick-shift) and need to get used to how it handles.
On top of that it's a bit hilly around here. Once I was going around a curve on Eastern Road at Route 585 and had to slow down for some deer that were crossing. There was a bit of snow on the road, too.
I was more worried about the yahoo that just about rear-ended my van than I was about hitting the deer. I tend to slow down in that area because you're going downhill and around a curve, and I see deer there a LOT.
They'll even tailgate you in near-blizzard conditions. About a year ago I was driving through a snow squall on I-76. There were still people wanting to pass, and I was going no more than 10 mph!
I go as fast as I can safely go. Once I was headed to church, out near Medina, and Chippewa Road is notoriously crappy when it snows--and there's the fact that it's hilly and curvy. I was going about 25 mph and some idjit decided that wasn't fast enough and passed. When I pulled into the parking lot, a friend of mine said she saw that (she and her husband wound up behind me) and thought that driver was absolutely nuts.
There have been times when Route 57 is snowy and I don't feel safe going much more than 25 mph, it's so snowy. Throw in the fact that I no longer have the minivan I had for 14 years (from 2002 to 2016) and I now have a 2002 Saturn Vue (nice compact SUV and stick-shift) and need to get used to how it handles.
On top of that it's a bit hilly around here. Once I was going around a curve on Eastern Road at Route 585 and had to slow down for some deer that were crossing. There was a bit of snow on the road, too.
I was more worried about the yahoo that just about rear-ended my van than I was about hitting the deer. I tend to slow down in that area because you're going downhill and around a curve, and I see deer there a LOT.
They'll even tailgate you in near-blizzard conditions. About a year ago I was driving through a snow squall on I-76. There were still people wanting to pass, and I was going no more than 10 mph!
I go as fast as I can safely go. Once I was headed to church, out near Medina, and Chippewa Road is notoriously crappy when it snows--and there's the fact that it's hilly and curvy. I was going about 25 mph and some idjit decided that wasn't fast enough and passed. When I pulled into the parking lot, a friend of mine said she saw that (she and her husband wound up behind me) and thought that driver was absolutely nuts.
But seriously, I can understand going slow if conditions are bad--blowing snow, ice, and you can't see very well. I get that. What drives me up the wall, are the idiots who chug along at 5mph on a perfectly clean road 
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