{"id":3,"date":"2010-02-17T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/alaska-mulls-making-snow-tires-mandatory.html"},"modified":"2010-02-17T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:29:00","slug":"alaska-mulls-making-snow-tires-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/alaska-mulls-making-snow-tires-mandatory.html","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Mulls Making Snow Tires Mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"Better tires? Sounds like a great idea, right. Well not if they put the new tires on only the front. See http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com<\/a> All tire manufacturers agree that it is extremely dangerous to have newer tires on the front of a vehicle than on the back.

Alaska lawmakers are weighing whether to require state residents to install winter tires on their vehicles from mid-December to mid-March.
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The bill also permits the use of studded tires, as well as name-brand tires that the Alaska Department of Public Safety deems acceptable.

The Alaska Legislature\u2019s transportation committee had a hearing on the tire bill Tuesday, when a proposal to bar the use of cell phones by drivers was also discussed.

At the hearing tire company officials said that most winter accidents and deaths in the far northern United States and Europe are caused by problems with turning. We wonder why they didn’t raise the issue they all agree about with respect to assuring that if only two tires are replaced, they must go on the back. This rule would apply even more so for snow tires. Remember, the natural inclination would be to put the snow tires on the front of a front wheel drive car.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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