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When the road is covered with snow or ice, when it snows on top of that, reducing speed seems like a universal solution to reduce risks. Increasing the distance between cars and a more predictable driving pace would help even more. Sometimes, however, some drivers have too much faith in their cars, especially if they have the impression that they own an SUV, which would have some privilege in winter conditions. A recent situation on Dacia boulevard in Chisinau, in the direction of the airport, shows how easily an SUV can be destabilized.
It’s a Nissan Qashqai, an SUV that mostly only had front-wheel drive versions. Respectively, the advantage of an all-wheel drive, which stabilizes the driving trajectory, no longer exists here, and the higher center of gravity can rather amplify the destabilization.
The Nissan goes at a speed that is apparently too high for the conditions it is going through, but the big problem is that at one point it brakes suddenly, transferring all the downforce to the front axle. The rear suspension thus remains light and, having a torsion bar construction and a reduced articulation, it quickly loses its grip, after which it never manages to regain it.
Thus, the destabilized car hit the road barrier with its back. No one appears to have been injured, but the whole situation can serve as a winter driving safety lesson.