Skidding control
Sir,—We will soon have icecovered roads and streets with the skidding problems for drivers that this creates. It will not be any use for us to be told that we lack the ability to control our vehicles in skidding situations when there is no place where we can' receive competent instruction in skid control or practise it. Certainly many drivers know what action to take but without practice -the knowledge is about as useful in a skid as a drowning non-swimmer trying to recall what he has learnt about swimming. What is required is a skid pan where drivers can receive competent instruction in their own vehicles until the control of skids becomes an almost instinctive reaction. A skidding vehicle gives one no time to think of corrective action. Certainly a skid pan would cost money but its use would greatly contribute to road safety. — Yours, etc, M. MCDONALD. May 16, 1981. .
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