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People Forget Winter Driving Skills - USA - Study Shows
Researchers Say November Is Most DangerousDES MOINES,Iowa,USA -KCCI 8 Des Moines -Nov 16, 2006: -- Researchers said that driving during snowstorms can be even more dangerous than drunken driving... NewsChannel 8 talked with the Iowa State University professors who poured through driving data... Researchers said they have proof that Iowans forget their winter driving skills every summer... "They just don't understand the risks of driving during the winter," said ISU researcher Tom Maze, who reviewed a decade's worth of snowstorms and crashes. Truckers went through having to reacclimate themselves to winter driving last Friday when it snowed... Using a formula, researchers found November snows are the most dangerous. Research shows that as winter wears on, people tend to driversafer... Overall, they said drivers are 13 times more likely to be in a crash during a snowstorm than they are any other day...
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