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Throughout the cold months, injuries and accidents are commonplace from ice and snow coming off vehicles. A driver in New Hampshire was charged earlier this month with vehicular assault, among other charges, after a piece of ice came off his box truck and injured another driver.
A handful of states have laws requiring drivers to clear snow and ice off their entire vehicles before getting on the road.
Even in states without such a law, police can issue citations for offenses such as driving with an unsecured load.
For those of us in northern states, the start of winter often means carving out some extra time in the mornings to scrape off the car windows. And while being able to see out of your car is an important part of that morning routine, unless you’re already doing it, it’s time that you start brushing the snow and ice off your roof and rest of your vehicle, too.

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Earlier this December, in New Hampshire, ice flew off the roof of a moving box truck and smashed the window of a following car, seriously injuring the driver. The driver of the box truck has been charged with vehicular assault, reckless conduct, and negligent driving, the Londonderry Police Department wrote on Facebook. In New Hampshire, it’s mandated by law to clear ice and snow from the roof of a vehicle, and a fine can result whether or not a driver causes harm to another driver.
This is the case in at least five other states, including Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, but even in states where the law doesn’t explicitly say that snow and ice need to be cleared off your entire vehicle, police officers have enforced such a rule. In Massachusetts, a state that doesn’t have a law about clearing off your vehicle, officers can cite drivers with driving with an unsecured load if they don’t scrape the snow and ice off their vehicle’s roof, according to MassLive. In other states such as Ohio, even when there isn’t such a law, if snow or ice comes off a vehicle and causes an injury or accident the driver can be liable.
Barring a negative outcome, drivers who fail to clear the snow and ice off their vehicles can be given a small fine, regardless of the laws in place. But as is the case with the driver in New Hampshire, if other drivers are injured, the outcomes for a driver can be much worse.
Ice and snow going through windshields is a fairly common occurrence in snowy states. Last winter in Michigan, ice came off a truck and smashed through the windshield of a school bus, injuring the bus driver and one student, according to WXYZ Detroit. In early 2019 in Wisconsin, a chunk of ice came off the roof of a truck and went through the windshield of a Buick sedan, causing minor injuries to the driver—and left a couple inches of snow under the rear windshield, according to Fox6. In both cases, it’s unclear whether the driver of the vehicle where the ice chunks came from was charged.
Regardless, it’s unlikely that any of drivers who had ice come off their vehicles anticipated that happening—so next time snow blankets your car, carve out a little extra time to make sure your roof, hood, and any other area is clear.
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New Forza and Gran Turismo games were teased during last year’s E3 gaming showcase, but the next generation of racing games has officially begun with Forza Horizon 5. The latest installation of the open world racing franchise boasts absurd graphics, massive scale, and, most important, a concrete release date.The game is set in Mexico, and the focus is on environmental diversity. Gameplay briefly shown during Micorsoft’s E3 presentation showed vast deserts, thick jungles, and an active volcano that the developers claim is the highest point of a Horizon game to date, but those are just the extremes of a map described during the presentation as the largest and most diverse in series history.
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The gameplay trailer shows new features, including a new exploration-first campaign mode and an expanded arcade gameplay option that introduces new, Mario Kart–like mini games. The footage also focuses in on the immense detail of the world, from uniquely-crafted rocks to a recreation of a real Mexican sky captured in 12K resolution. This new level of graphical intensity is a unique strength, made possible by a powerful new generation of consoles that released last year.Although Mexico offers a more temperate climate than England, the setting of Forza Horizon 4, that game’s signature seasonal cycle feature will continue over to Horizon 5. Dynamic seasons will reset weekly, and the studio promises that “no two seasons will ever be the same.” Forza Horizon 5 is a console exclusive on both Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. It debuts on November 9.

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Imagine a game show where everyone is obsessed with cars. Where arguments about the trivial are elevated above important issues. Where there are no winners or losers—or at least where winning or losing doesn’t matter. That’s Window Shop with Car and Driver. Every week, the WS crew tries to help you escape reality in favor of a goofier plane of existence. Don’t get too excited, though; this show has all the production values of a recorded Zoom call.So what’s on the menu today? Host Tony Quiroga set the challenge: Find a car (or cars) that you lusted after as a freshly minted driver. The usual gang of misfits weighed in.Contributor John Pearley Huffman looked back to his halcyon teenage years and dreamt of owning a genuine, Penske-built, Mark Donohue–driven race car. Quiroga cruelly nixed that, so Pearley presented the late-70s Porsche 911 Turbo (930) as an alternative.Contributor Jonathon Ramsey brought up that other icon of the ’70s, the Lamborghini Countach. The youngest and most practical of the shoppers, Joey Capparella, went hardcore norm-core with a 2006 Acura RSX Type-S. Deputy testing director K.C. Colwell undermined Pearley’s choice by presenting a brilliant 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo (993). And Quiroga, going full nut burger, picked a 1991 Lotus Esprit Turbo and then had the audacity to claim that GM electronics made it reliable.Tune in now to watch these frenemies compete in our ridiculous little game show.

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