Winter Road Conditions Mandate Slowing Down

It may seem obvious.  It may seem an unnecessary public service caution to express.  Especially for us northern Michiganders.  But for whatever the reason, once winter returns the local news is ripe with car crashes occurring in our area, most often because a driver was driving too fast for conditions.  The posted speed limit is for optimum road driving conditions.  It is not the lawful and prudent speed in less than optimum conditions.  Winter road conditions mandate slowing down.  This is commonly known and referred to as "the basic speed law" which we are all taught in driver's education.

Authored by L. Page Graves