BikerGran
Growing old disgracefully
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Yes she used chains because it was illegal not to!She presumably drove slowly, carefully and skilfully then, and maybe she used snow chains when things got tricky.
But it does remain a well-documented fact that, on snow, summer tyres take substantially further to stop with than winter tyres (regardless of driving skill). This is an interesting illustration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elP_34ltdWI
That's why it's illegal to drive on summer tyres in many European countries during the winter months.