As I said yesterday, driving in Saskatoon in the winter sucks. Especially right at the beginning of winter. It turns out that it is not just in Saskatoon that driving on snow proves too difficult for some.
Unfortunately elsewhere in Saskatchewan there were a couple of fatal accidents this weekend. One of them actually hits really close to home. :(
From CBC:Two vans collided in a blinding snowstorm near Yorkton Monday afternoon, killing two men and a woman.According to the RCMP, the crash occurred on Highway 16 near Springside. The names haven't been released.
A man driving the larger of the two vans was killed. A man and a female in the other vehicle also died.
This is the one that really hits close to home, and I am quite worried about. I grew up in Yorkton, and spent the better part of my young life there (until I was 15 or 16, with a few earlier years spent elsewhere). I haven't heard anything from anyone in Yorkton yet, so I'm sure I don't know who was killed in this accident. I hate hearing about accidents in Yorkton, and there seems to be a lot of fatal winter-time accidents every year.
A couple of years ago, a few kids were coming back from the Asessippi ski resort in Manitoba and were killed when they hit black ice. It's scary driving in that part of the province in winter. It's a damn shame the province won't do anything about it, too many people are killed or hurt every year. Something needs to be done.
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