So after a meeting in New Jersey, I drove home in a rental car. The car in question was a Crown Victoria.
The car would have been fine on a nice easy dry drive. However, on this night it was snowing from Hartford all the way to Marlborough. This wasn’t normal snow. No, this was wet and slippery stuff. Not much on the ground but effective nonetheless.
The purpose of this blog is not the snow, but the way that people drive in it. I was shocked that people were trying to pretend that there was no snow or that the conditions were fine.
In one two mile stretch, there were three accidents, spinouts, etc. The conditions were so poor that a police cruiser was following me for a couple of miles to stay in my tracks. Of course I fishtailed on hills and curves. I forgot how much I hated rear wheel drive.
The people who drove fast, I can forgive. The highway departments I cannot. They did a terrible job at cleaning the roads or preparing the roads for the snow.
In the end, we got home about 6.5 hours later. Unfortunately, it was a stressful and terrifying trip… because I wasn’t confident in the car nor the others around me.
