On the other side of a fun filled season of snowball fights and making snowmen, the arrival of winter and lumpy snows also raises high safety concerns for the roads and those in cars. While the massive snow clumps settling every day on the roads is a pressing concern for multiple stakeholders, you, as vehicle owners, are liable to clean the snow off the roof of your cars to maximize safety for yourself and everyone around you.
Hence, it’s your job to steal some time off your morning routine to scrape and clean your vehicles before you take them on the road. You need to make sure to clear off snow covers and ice from your car’s roof, hood, windshields, side windows and headlights to have your view clear and accessible to your sight. There’s no other way to ensure a safe, smooth and trouble-free drive and journey.
And if you don’t do so, believe us when we say that you’re going to put yourselves in trouble big time. How and Why? That is what we’ll be telling you in this blog, so keep reading.
Reasons You Must Clean The Snow Off The Roof Of Your Car
Your typical scraper, brush and your house broom are more than enough. According to a survey, 39.5% of participants said drivers must carry ice-scrapers with them in winters for road safety.It’s not an arduous task at all. But, since you need might more reasons, here you go:
To Maximize Safety
Ensuring safety for yourself and others with regards to your car is your duty. If your car’s windshield, rear glass and side windows are covered with snow and are blocking your view, you’re are bound to run into accidents, hitting your vehicle into a tree or another car coming from the other side and worse, driving over a pedestrian.Apart from personal damage and injury, your carelessness is going to cost innocent lives and damage to their property.
We hope you can estimate the legal and moral consequences from here forth.
To Obey the Law
There’s no denial of the fact that obeying the law is mandatory, or you’re doomed otherwise. There are plenty of state laws prohibiting drivers from taking their cars on the roads until they clean the snow off their cars’ roofs. A hard break or rough acceleration can shake your car and slide all the snow down your windshield or splash it all over another vehicle, passing on the remaining share of trouble to others. The law takes you and others in concern. It’s your turn to do the same.
To Save Expenses
To have your car and other’s vehicles damaged and incurring the resulting expenses just because you couldn’t care less for clearing snow off your car is insane. And the same goes for bodily injuries. It’s going to rob you of a lot of your wealth and grace. So, a stitch in time saves nine, as they say. So, you better spend a little time and effort to clean those snowy roofs or be ready to pay for other’s and your losses for God knows how long.
The Bottom Line
We can’t emphasize enough how important it is to clean the snow off the roof of your car, its front and rear glass, hood, side windows and headlights. We urge you not to take this lightly and ensure your car is clear of snow before it hits the road or a highway to prevent accidents and losses of all kinds. Doing otherwise may subject you to extensive lawsuits. Better be safe than sorry.
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