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Show MOTOR RflASDS Get Stuck-Not Stuck-Not Struck By Jeanne Smith, Dodge Safety Consultant USE CARE and caution when you stop your car along the highway during winter or else you'll invite a rear-end collision. This warning conies from the Institute for Safer Living which suggests sug-gests "risk getting stuck instead of struck!" Many motorists, mo-torists, who must stop to change a tire, clean windshields wind-shields or ad- LA just a tire Miss Smith chain, are reluctant to pull off the road, say Institute officials. They fear getting stuck in banked snow or soft shoulders. What they forget, when they stop in traffic lanes, is that visibility is now at its worst and slippery road surfaces sur-faces make it nearly impossible impos-sible for oncoming traffic to make emergency stops or quick shifts in direction. If you must stop, the Institute's Insti-tute's safety advice is wait until you can pull entirely off the road, out of the line of traffic. Then be sure to use only the right hand door for getting in and out of your car and, at night, always leave your headlights head-lights on! |