OUR VIEW: Winter drivers need to be extra cautious

With ice and snow packed on the streets and sidewalks, students should take more caution in their winter driving. As difficult as it is to walk on un-shoveled sidewalks, driving can prove to be just as problematic. Many cars are not equipped with winter essentials, and could put students and their property in danger.

Students should allocate more time getting to campus and various places in the valley. Roads, although plowed and salted, can still be dangerous to the best of drivers. Most importantly, drivers need to be considerate to their fellow vehicle users. Speeding when the weather presents hazardous roadways, can cause larger problems than just being late to class.

As scary as your professor is when your wet shoes squeak as you sneak into class 15 minutes late because of the previous night’s storm, taking time to be safe on the roads is worth the extra scowls and glances from classmates.

For many of us, the soon-to-be freedom from campus, class and examinations, proves to be quite the distraction. But staying focused on the road hazards our beloved below-zero temperature creates is a must. The freezing temperatures create problems on the road and in parking lots, causing many vehicles to slide into one and other.

While we survive these last couple weeks of school, try to put aside the distractions of getting to class on time, not going to class until January or what it would be like to live in a place where freezing temperatures and frostbite are merely myths, and take the winter hazards into consideration.