Preparing Winter Safety Kits for Your Car (Part 1)

Keeping in theme with our recent focus on driving safety for the wintertime, here and in an upcoming second part of this blog, we will detail how you can put together a comprehensive winter driving safety kit for all of your family’s vehicles. By keeping these kits in each one of your family’s cars, you can ensure that you (and other drivers in your family) have access to the resources you (or they) may need if your vehicle breaks down, becomes stuck and/or you (or they) need to wait for help during the winter months.

Tools for Potential Car Problems

First and foremost, it will be important to have a few essential tools in your winter safety kit. These tools will be extremely useful when it comes to:

• Getting your vehicle out of snow
• Removing ice from your vehicle
• Getting your vehicle running again if it’s broken down (and the problems are catastrophic)
• Warning other drivers that your vehicle is broken down.

Specifically, some of the tools that will be essential to keep in your winter safety kit include the following:

• Ice and snow removal tools, such as ice scrapers, snow brushes, de-icer fluids and a bag of sand or kitty litter (which can provide some traction if your car is stuck in the snow)
• Tools to get your car running, such as jumper cables, a screwdriver, a hammer, duct tape, etc.
• Items to warn other drivers that your vehicle is broken down, such as flares, reflectors and mini cones (All of these can be especially important when you are stuck on the side of the road at night in areas that lack overhead lighting).

Look for the second part of this blog for more details regarding the items that are essential to keep in winter safety kits for your cars.

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