Last Year in February, on Carnival Sunday, there was hardened snow in the middle of the road. A car coming in the opposite direction decided to make a U-turn in front of us. He lost control on the snow in the middle of the road and skidded into us, writing off both cars. It is my good fortune that I drive slowly - and none more so than on that day. Had I been going ten miles an hour faster, there would probably have been no survivors. My ten year old son would have lost his entire family in an afternoon. The thought still gives me the creeps. As it was we (my partner Ina and fourteen year old daughter) were all just shaken up a bit. On German roads that weekend over 300 people were not so lucky. You can be lucky, you can drive carefully, or you can simply have the good sense not to drive at all - as you wisely decided Gary. On two occasions since then I have declined to drive to work in conditions which I regarded as too dangerous.
Happy New Year Gary!