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SilverEX15 04-29-2019 08:38 AM

Wet Roads are Dangerous Roads
 
Everyone knows that driving on wet roads is more dangerous than driving on dry roads, and a report confirms this. It's worse than I suspected, though. The risk of a fatal crash increases by 34% when the roads are wet. Be careful out there. You may be driving near me. :)

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf...MS-D-18-0001.1

fujisawa 04-29-2019 09:10 AM

Yeah for sure. Same with snowy roads, much less safe if also wet vs dry. Nighttime + rain is my least favorite: sometime around 35 I began to realize my eyes are no longer 16 years old LOL. I actively plan to try and avoid nighttime driving when I can (not an issue on daily train commute, so this just means when traveling which also adds unfamiliar roads...(

SilverEX15 04-29-2019 09:12 AM


Originally Posted by fujisawa (Post 1427743)
Yeah for sure. Same with snowy roads, much less safe if also wet vs dry. Nighttime + rain is my least favorite: sometime around 35 I began to realize my eyes are no longer 16 years old LOL. I actively plan to try and avoid nighttime driving when I can (not an issue on daily train commute, so this just means when traveling which also adds unfamiliar roads...(

Years ago, we were driving to NH on a rainy Friday night. Traffic was packed together on a two-lane Interstate going over 70 MPH. It was ridiculous. Any collision would have involved dozens of cars.


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