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Driving in Latvia, -25 celcius, 1.5 meters snowfall, main road (closest they have to freeway/motorway not cleared ... it's 2 narrowish lanes each way with no ce

Driving in Latvia, -25 celcius, 1.5 meters snowfall, main road (closest they have to freeway/motorway not cleared ... it's 2 narrowish lanes each way with no center divider).... visibility extremely poor due to continuing snow fall.... Everyone continues driving like it's +25 celcius and sunny. This means 110km/h (90km/h speed limit in the dry 70km/h in the snow) bumper to bumper (or is that fender to fender?). Never been so petrified driving in my life. Somehow it all worked out but I can imagine one false move and we would have been looking at a 100 car plus pile up.

ptaipale 11y ago
That can be scary but there are scarier places in traffic. Latvia does have a traffic-related death rate (per number of motor vehicles) that is twice as big (24.8) as neighbouring Estonia (11.8), or the United States (12.9), which are about on the same level, or over five times as high as Finland (4.4) somewhat further to the north. On the other hand it's less than half of that in Russia (53.4), and one-fifth of that in India (130.1). In Ethiopia, the death rate is 200 times as big (4984). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...