Murderers might actually get punished...

[ellyssian]

A deadly accident on a nearby road may create a new law: that drivers *must* clear ice off their car before driving it.

I have personally chased down a police car and yelled and screamed at him to clear his roof. I did this while the guy from the glass place was replacing the window on the Taurus. patrixa was driving, and Deb - pregnant with Justin at the time - was sitting in the passenger seat. Some ice slid off the roof of a van on route 2 in Arlington/Lexington/Waltham MA area. The only reason my mom didn't crash was because she didn't believe the window was really broken.

It didn't break through, but in this accident, it only took an 8" piece of ice to crash through the window (looked like it peeled back some of the metal as well), kill a woman, and injure her son. The 18 wheeler - like the van in the incident in MA - did not stop.

If you can't clear your car of snow or ice, don't drive it. It's that simple.

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[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

*applauds*

And I don't give a crap if it does make someone late to work. It drives me nuts to see a car going down the road with a 6" patch cleared in the front windshield and a 6" patch in the back adn the rest of the car looks like a moving snowball.

[silme.livejournal.com]

I know a man in Colorado who was stopped by the police for not fully cleaning his windows. It may not be law, but the cops will stop you there. (I know it's law that you must drive with headlights on when it's snowing.) Of course, in Boulder, it's the law that you must clear your sidewalks by noon the day following a snowstorm.

People who don't clear the entire vehicle of snow and ice are just asking to cause an accident. :(

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how people can drive without cleaning off the whole vehicle. It drives me nuts to have snow on my car -- which is often a pain since we don't put our cars in the garage as it is given over to His workshop.

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

Well, I certainly knew it damaged the window. Deb & I watched in horror as we saw the piece fly at us, praying it would go over the top of the car. With steady traffic on either side of us, no evasive action was possible. I slowed down. We both flinched as the huge piece hit the windshield and cracked it into a million piece maze thru which we could not see.

Thankfully, no glass broke off. With blinkers on, we opened both side windows and Deb became the navigator; my vision outside was limited to the left and rear. She could see ahead (because she could poke her head out) as well as to her right and rear. Following her directions, we got off the highway and drove the less than 5 miles to the auto glass repair shop. One was in our neighborhood, so we knew where to go. The van from which the ice flew never noticed what mayhem it caused.

Since then, our car tops have always been cleared of snow. It's not hard to do. I have a "rubber" floor cleaning broom just for that purpose, but an ordinary broom works, too.

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

Isn't it now the law in Mass? I could be wrong, but I know they will at least pull you over and give you either a warning or a ticket.. been ther done that, I got a warning. It should be the law everywhere if you ask me.