Tips For Snow/Poor Weather Driving

Here's a few tips to help you out, whatever car you drive this Winter:

• Make sure your tyres are correctly inflated (or very slightly less than recommended), this should give you maximum grip in adverse conditions
• Try to move off in second when the engine is warm - this will avoid the car scrabbling for grip on a slippery surface
• Make sure to keep a warm jacket, a mobile phone (charged and usable), some biscuits and of course a spare tyre in the car
• If you have a rear wheel drive car, it is imperative that you move to higher gears as soon as possible
• Other road users are suffering the same slippery conditions - be more polite and aware of their driving
  
• Remember, even what looks like snow could be black ice - so take care
• Don't speed - even on a road that has been gritted and cleared. You must might hit that one rogue piece of ice/snow left
• Make sure that you car is an a good condition before you leave the house - it should of course have a full MOT but check the lights, oil, fuel, windscreen wiper fluid, tyres and wipers before setting off

Overall I'd just ask you all to take care on our roads - we're all responsible for each other here and no-one wants to be drifting (oh dear) into an accident do they?