It's a judgement call by the officer on the scene. has nothing to do
with front rear wheel drive especially since a rwd equipped with snows
will handle better than an equally equipped FWD in most cases
If you choose to drive on snow and you have snow tires or chains, then
you are officially operating your vehicle with proper safety equipment
for conditions, if someone gets into you who is not equipped, it is
generally automatically considered their fault because the vehicle was
not properly equiped. In some western states, not only will they call it
the other guys fault, but they''ll write him a big fat ticket to go with
it for not having proper safety equipment. A person is supposed to have
enough sense to refrain from \operating their vehicle in adverse
conditions unless properly equipped. Some states block the roads and
won't let you go if you don't have them. others just expect you to use
your brain.Driving on snow without snow tires or chains is about as safe
as driving in the rain with bald tires and no wipers. ( something that
will also get you cited if you get in a wreck )
------------Robert
Zoltan Finks wrote:
Great info. I am very interested in what you wrote about the assigning of
fault in the case of crashing into or with someone in snow or ice. I have
never heard that fault may be assigned based on the type of tires one has.
Does this mean that someone with a rear drive car would get blamed over
someone with a front drive car? And would someone with four wheel drive win
in court over someone with front drive?
In other words, does this law (is it really a law, or is it an insurance
company guideline, or what is it?) apply to anything other than tires?
Thanks
Brian
83 240D
Robert wrote:
and in most cases, if you get tangled up with another car in the
snow, and the other guy doesn't have real snow tires ( all seasons don't
count ) it generally automatically becomes the other guys fault ( it's
called not having proper safety equipment for conditions ).
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