A warning from C.A.A.
Posted Jan 16, 2012 01:03:26 PM.
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A warning from the Canadian Automobile Association: don’t be lulled into a false sense of security simply because it has been a pretty-much snow-free winter in Southern Ontario.
The C.A.A.’s Jeff Walker tells 570 News only about one-third of Ontario drivers surveyed have a winter driving kit in their vehicle, “when we’re talking about Manitoba or Saskatchewan the numbers are in the 50% to 55% range of people that have these kits in their car. I think it’s really a matter of feeling a sense of ‘well, the weather is not too bad, we can get through it’.”
Walker says it doesn’t take much to find yourself in quick trouble if you’re unprepared when a major storm kicks up, “and all the sudden it can be a very serious problem for people; they can go off the road, if they happen to not be on a major highway, somebody might not find them off the side of the road for a little while. It’s really important that people have these basic things on hand during the winter.”
Walker says a winter survival kit should contain a number of items, the most important of which are a blanket, a bag of sand, and a small shovel.
