Its only a bit of snow

[Niall]

I think your missing the point a bit. Yes, i could slam my brakes on and happily control a slide to a stop. problem is though as you should be aware, stopping distances are greatly increased with bad weather. So on a quite road with no one about, you can slam your brakes on and slide to a stop? Great. What happens when your driving down a wet residential road at say 20 and a kid runs out from behind a car in front of you? You slam the brakes on and slide to a halt or do you hit the kid? The difference could be in the tyres you have on the car! Problem is, we have wet slippy weather for probably 1/3 of the year. Yes you could say that you drive to the conditions and any good driver will but no matter how good you are, you can always be put into an emergency situation where you might not be able to stop in time regardless of driving to the conditions or not.

Its all about reducing the risk. Getting up in the morning is a risk to an extent and we always take risks in every aspect of life but the more you can reduce those, the safer you and others will be!