This past week has been what most weather forecasters would consider to be par for the course now that we are into the winter months.
Snow - several feet deep, ice, frost, freezing rain, downpours, sleet and heavy fog are the expected outcomes when our half of the planet faces away from the sun!! Adults should have come to expect challenging weather AND DRIVING conditions once the calendar rolls around to November - and furthermore, they have no reason to doubt that this same climate and elements will dog us for 3 to six months.
Yet, turn on the television or refer to any other media and you will see drivers making the ridiculous choice of attempting to travel in absolutely abominable if not impossible conditions.
Several days ago a news story continued to play every half hour about a ONE HUNDRED CAR PILE UP in a western state - even after troopers and other state officials all but begged drivers to stay off the roads due to the fact that driving conditions were hopeless.
Yet, hundreds of people set out anyway - risking their own lives and that of their loved ones - to reach an arbitrary destination for an arbitrary reason. Just because the calendar said that the holiday was over and work and school awaited - people chose to take to their vehicles on rural and state highways - and then endure the frightening experience of having no control of their vehicle as it slid everywhichway into other drivers.
No job or classroom is worth the cost of an irreversible injury or death. Make safe choices when it comes to traveling in inclement weather.
Greg Baumgartner is a Houston personal injury attorney and the founder of the Baumgartner law firm, which is dedicated to helping personal injury victims seek civil justice. If you would like to speak with a Texas truck accident lawyer call the Baumgartner firm.
