{"id":26100,"date":"2012-02-06T06:43:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/winter-driving-mistakes.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T23:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:20:55","slug":"winter-driving-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/winter-driving-mistakes.html","title":{"rendered":"Winter driving mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>None of these are exotic or weird.  The toughest one, for me, is not restricting my movements through what I wear while driving on very cold mornings. <\/p>\n<p>The roads were pretty icy this morning, and even with AWD I felt the car slip a few times on Monaco.  Driving more slowly, driving more smoothly, and deciding whether it&#39;s necessary for you to drive at all are all essential parts of winter driving. (via <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"102356721871221463140\">George Wiman<\/a><\/span>)  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.wheels.topscms.com%2Fimages%2Ff9%2Fa9%2F4cfcb7a84940a878a1bc093294e4.jpeg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.wheels.ca\/winterdriving\/article\/802229'>8 common winter driving mistakes | Wheels.ca<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEach time we experience a snowfall in the GTA, the media is rife with stories of wayward motorists and truckers crashing and careening off each other and any immovable object in their path.<br \/>\nAs the sa&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of these are exotic or weird. The toughest one, for me, is not restricting my movements through what I wear while driving on very cold mornings. The roads were pretty icy this morning, and even with AWD I felt the car slip a few times on Monaco. Driving more slowly, driving more smoothly, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/winter-driving-mistakes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter driving mistakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,26,749],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-travel","category-weather-and-seasons","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25068,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/distracted-driving-is-distracted-driving.html","url_meta":{"origin":26100,"position":0},"title":"Distracted Driving is Distracted Driving","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 10:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"I find it fascinating that in 2002, the US NHTSA blamed 66% of the 43,000 fatal car crashes on \u201cPlaying with the radio or CD.\u201d While the radio seems a minimal interference these days, I can easily imagine (cough) someone being distracted replacing a CD (or fumbling for a different\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27485,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/dont-text-while-driving-or-yknow-flying.html","url_meta":{"origin":26100,"position":1},"title":"Don&#39;t text while driving. 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