WAUSAU (WAOW) — It’s been a hectic winter for first responders across valuable Wisconsin. Wednesday morning alone, State Patrol stated they spoke back to about 15 runoffs inside the Marathon County vicinity.
Calls for slide-ins and other crashes were regular this wintry weather season, but it’s now not just nation patrol that’s been occupied. After crashes are wiped clean up and automobiles are pulled out of ditches, drivers head in to vehicle repair stores.
“It’s plenty busier than we had been previous to the snow falling,” stated Andy Grundman, the store supervisor at Pat’s Body Shop in Wausau.
“People sliding into every different, people lower back up into their neighbor’s car due to the fact they can’t see out of the again window,” he said are some of the most not unusual reasons humans come to the shop right now. “The iciness weather gets the nice folks all in Wisconsin.”
Grundman said making sure your automobile is tuned up earlier than you start using permit you to keep away from troubles down the road. Checking your car’s fluids to ensure they’re geared up for wintry weather is a superb place to start.
“Everyone manifestly knows you need to have precise tires in the winter time, however also making sure your suspension is covered up so that you cross down the street directly,” he stated.
State Patrol said the great issue you may do to avoid crashes and slide-ins is to make certain you slow down and leave masses of room among you and the automobile in front of you.
