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Originally Posted by Perfectlap
My guess is that nearly all were on all season tires.
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My guess is that they were all crappy drivers with no clue about how to drive in icy conditions, and even winter tires aren't going to help most of them.
Winter tires are a relatively new thing, and we all got by just fine on all-seasons for decades before they came along. I have no doubt they have better grip under the right conditions, but are they necessary? Not at all, and I'm not about to buy (and store) a second set of wheels for the slight advantage they may give.
I have the Michelin all season tires on my car, and they have worked well in dry, wet, and snowy conditions. Great tires. The only problem I'm having is that they are now about 5 years 40k km old and they have gotten quite hard, even though there is lots of tread left. They really went over the cliff in the last year but before that they were excellent. I could still get another season out of them if I wanted to, just need to go a little lighter on the throttle coming out of corners.