Quite a few Dutch motorists find driving in bad weather scary. A significant proportion even leave the car when the weather conditions seem too bad to go on the road.
A representative study commissioned by insurer Allianz Direct shows that four out of ten motorists do not feel comfortable driving when it snows, storms or rains hard. A quarter leave the car in those weather conditions. In icy conditions and slippery conditions, more than a third are afraid to get into the car.
What is striking is that despite the fear of driving slippery on the road, only 38 percent of people have winter tires, of which 93 percent actually use them. This means that more than 35 percent of cars run on winter tires. Three quarters of the respondents who do not have winter tires indicate that they do not consider this necessary.
Do you want to be well prepared on the road with winter weather? Then be sure to check out AutoWeek’s winter tips. Here we explain, for example, the usefulness of winter tires, but also how you can conveniently de-ice your car, how you can open frozen doors and how you can drive as safely as possible in slippery conditions.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl