brianna hollis reports. brianna: though many may brush winter driving tips off as common sense, serious accidents happen every winter. a driving simulator at ntc shows when they're dry. >> so here we stop, 100 feet approximately before the squad car. brianna: versus when they're wet. >> you can see on the icy road how much further i have traveled down, almost hitting the curb on -- i've traveled down. brianna: it's not just stopping in the snow that's a problem. >> if i accelerate too suddenly, will start to loose control of the vehicle, as you saw right there. brianna: driving around obstacles also becomes trickier. pretty easy to navigate around him. a little different now because it's slippery. oh, and it's as easy as that. when roads are slick, things happen fast and it can be difficult to react in time. got slippery, and even as i'm trying to avoid it, i'm not always going toward where i'm steering, and breaking isn't going to help. that's just making me slide more. so experts say, no matter how much dri