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Now the winter is here and dark nights are upon us before 5pm, please, please, please remember to take care. Driving in the winter can be dangerous on all types of roads, especially when the weather is extreme. Please read my simple safe driving tips.

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While we change our clothes every winter season, many of use choose not to change the tyres of our vehicle. It may not seem a huge concern to us Brits, British weather isn't as bad as elsewhere in Europe, but one startling statistic courtesy of the Department of Transport Road Accident Statistics is that the number of accidents caused by wet road conditions increases in winter by 267%.

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