Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:
Why does the city insist on creating traffic problem over someone that slides into the ditch . On the QE2 if there�s no reported injuries, you sit in your car and wait for a cop to come along and take you someplace warm. Then you�ll wait until either traffic or weather allows for a safe tow out of the ditch. Last night they started towing cars at around 9pm, some of those had been in the ditch for 12 hours.
Maybe one reason is that a car in the ditch attracts other cars.
Coming to work this morning on the highway, one car went into the center ditch from my side, and then another one went in on the other side a few minutes after that, maybe 50-100 meters apart.
Some people panic when they see a car in the ditch, others just rubberneck, stare or take their eyes of the road and either slow down traffic or cause rear-end accidents.
...and we've had the "winter tire law" for 2 years now.