True. Fortunately the sort of road conditions there (snow on top of solid sheets ice) are rare here, in most parts of the UK. After that video, I let it play on to this one. That people are trying to go about their daily business in those conditions is crazy... but inevitable, I suppose, if that's where you live, and that's the sort of road conditions that happen...
I've known those conditions three times in the last decade (split over two winters IIRC) so I guess it's fairly rare, but while it's inevitable that people still need to go about their daily business if it lasts more than a day or two, it's not inevitable that they have to take unequipped vehicles onto the roads and I think they should be ashamed of doing so.
The first time it happened, I was unprepared and had left our car in a place where it was cut off from treated roads until the thaw, by steep slopes, junctions and sharp bends. So we walked miles to town to buy food or get to its train station to travel further, using yaktrax (or something like it) and a staff - various non-essential tasks got postponed, but we all got through without damage. And yet, there were nobbers sliding their cars into snowbanks (I helped push a couple out to safer locations down the hill) and someone even moved the "road closed" signs off the 1 in 4 direct road into town and had a go, with predictable damage to nearby buildings. It's stupid, a danger to anyone walking or cycling but I don't think anyone got hurt (I guess people can run faster than most sliding cars on small roads as they rarely go fast). I hope the motorists who caused damaged with unprepared vehicles were charged in full for their damage and got points/fines for careless/reckless driving!
