Woodbury Drivers Handle Snow Just Fine

Maybe folks have simply learned how to drive in the snow.

Between 6 a.m. and mid-afternoon Tuesday, March 5, there were only five crashes in Woodbury, none with major injuries or significant damage to the vehicles involved.

“Which for this kind of storm is not bad,” according to Woodbury Police spokeswoman Michelle Okada.

She’s not exaggerating.

More than 30 crashes were reported in Woodbury by mid-morning on Nov. 12, 2012, when the city saw its first major snowfall of the season.

The Dec. 9, 2012, storm, which dumped almost a foot of snow on Woodbury, saw several incidents on the roads, and it was the “same story” 11 days later, when there were a dozen crashes in the city by 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 20.

As recently as Jan. 27 there was another round of incidents during a snowstorm, with three people being hospitalized following a crash on Radio Drive.

Okada reported that Woodbury traffic officer Scott Melander said a storm like Tuesday’s is typically worse in terms of crashes. But the Public Works Department’s plows did well clearing streets and the city wasn’t anticipating further snow-related incidents.

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