What I Learned About Jessica's Law

Yesterday, I saw a post on Facebook about Jessica's Law . I had never heard of it, so I looked it up. Back in 1999, twenty-year-old Jessica Smith was killed on Route 202 in Peterborough, New Hampshire when a sheet of ice slid off a tractor-trailer, hit a box truck, and that truck ended up hitting her car. Because of that tragedy, New Hampshire passed a law in 2002 requiring drivers to clear snow and ice off their vehicles before getting on the road.

Why This Matters Close to Home

If you think this would never happen here, it already has. A few winters ago, my husband was driving between Reo and Owensboro when he witnessed the same thing. He saw ice go airborne from a large truck and smash into the windshield of the car behind it. He was first on th

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