Picture this: You’re driving down a Maine road when you come up behind a snow- and ice-covered vehicle.

You continue to drive like it’s still summer, when all of a sudden a huge amount of snow and ice comes flying off that vehicle onto your windshield. It shatters, causing you to veer left or right (let’s say right), sending you into the wing wall, staving up the rest of your vehicle.

You want to be compensated because it’s the other driver’s fault. What, you don’t know how to drive in a Maine winter?

Here’s a thought: You see a snow-covered vehicle, assume the snow is ice and it’s going to fly off at some point. Give yourself time to react — at least five car lengths. The longer the vehicle in front of you, the more ice that may land on you.

One inch of ice on a 53-foot trailer can weigh a ton. If that slides off, are you going to blame the driver for not cleaning it off? I think not.

Doug Mills

Waldoboro

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