Car hits very slick patch ice

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And remember, there's never a fee unless we get money for you. Attorney Michael Rosenzweig covers common causes of winter driving accidents in the videos below. We see a tremendous increase in the number of car accidents and motorcycle accidents once the cold weather hits and there's a couple reasons for that. Snow and ice on the road make the roads slick and make people have accidents that's pretty self-explanatory.

However, once the weather gets below freezing, what you have is the water which normally drains and runs across the road or the pools, freezes. And now when you're driving, even if it's not snowing, you may have a big slick ice patch right in the middle of the road. What also happens with these, and they're called isolated ice patches, as soon as the weather gets back up toward the thaw point and it goes above freezing.

The ice patch turns to slush or water, cars drive through it, and then the it's called tracking. The cars track and splash the puddle to the point where what is a three foot wide puddle is now 12 feet wide and across the lane. And even worse cars ride through and the tires track it down the road and you suddenly have a foot long by 12 or 15 foot wide ice patch once the weather goes below freezing again.

Very very dangerous! We've handled hundreds of cases where a homeowner discharges their water from their storm drains or from a spring, right onto the side of the road, and oftentimes it spills onto the road and then what happens is the cars track it it grows it freezes.

Then you have this huge ice pond right in front of somebody's property. It causes car accidents, even if it's a one-car accident they're very meritorious cases because the homeowner knows that he's discharging his water out onto a public road. You know those spots around town where water runs across the road and it starts to freeze as soon as it gets cold.

There's spots that are caused by failure to maintain the road and failure of the homeowners adjacent to take care of their water. Some people refer to isolated ice patches as black ice. Just remember to follow these steps, which can help you potentially get out of a skid:. Remove your foot from the gas pedal first. When you lose control of your car, your first instinct is going to be to brake. Do not hit your brakes if you start to slide on ice.

If you push down on your brakes, it will make the sliding worse — especially with anti-lock brake systems. If the rear of your vehicle is sliding to the right, then turn the steering wheel to the right, and vice versa. If your front wheels begin to slide, take your foot off the accelerator and allow the vehicle to slow.

When correcting the first slide, if the vehicle starts to skid in the other direction, follow the same steering advice until your car is headed straight and through the slide. To avoid skidding on ice, one tip reigns true: slow down.

If you do lose control of your vehicle as it is sliding on ice, try not to panic. Just remember the steps above.