Beware Of Icy Roads

Snow and ice are not as unusual in South Carolina as they are in some states that have an ever-increasing population of alligators and retirees. Your grandparents might speak fondly of frosty mornings in their childhood, when they put on their heavy coats and boots and trod carefully toward the henhouse to collect eggs, and the hens that greeted them there had fluffed up their feathers to stay warm. The fact that South Carolina gets less severe winter weather than many parts of the United States makes it a more pleasant place to live. When we get substantial amounts of snow, it is a novelty. No one is as excited to get a snow day from school as kids who sometimes don’t need to wear jackets to school during the first week back from winter break. On the other hand, places like Massachusetts and Michigan, that get piles of snow every winter, also always have snow plows and salt trucks ready on standby from Thanksgiving until Easter, while South Carolina is less well equipped to deal with icy roads. It will take a while before the effects of Winter Storm Fern melt and the roads in South Carolina go back to their usual condition. During this time, everyone who travels by car will be at heightened risk of collision. If you got injured in a car accident on an icy road in South Carolina, contact a Columbia car accident lawyer.

Truck Crashes Into Telephone Pole in Greer

In January 2026, Winter Storm Fern dumped snow and ice on more than a dozen states, many of them so far south that they rarely get substantial amounts of snow. By the most recent estimates, more than a million households lost electricity during the storm. Some of those electrical outages are because of wind and snow damaging power lines. If a motor vehicle crashes into an electrical pole, this can also knock out power. A social media post from Greer, South Carolina, posted by the local electric company, showed a truck crashed into an electric pole in front of a physical therapy clinic, with a warning to avoid driving on the icy roads.

Power outages make it even more difficult and dangerous to drive on icy roads. It is even harder to see where there is ice on the road, and when traffic lights are not functional, it increases the risk of collisions at intersections. When you approach an intersection where the traffic lights are not working, you should treat it as a four-way stop, as if the traffic lights were stop signs. Of course, four-way stops are notoriously accident prone, even in fair weather, so driving near non-functional traffic lights in icy weather is still risky.

Let Us Help You Today

The personal injury lawyers at the Stanley Law Group can help you get justice after a collision involving icy roads and power outages.  Contact The Stanley Law Group in Columbia, South Carolina or call (803)799-4700 for a free initial consultation.

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