“Road salt wouldn’t have made a bit of difference. There was just a tiny bit of snow on the road that made it slick but melted off by itself in a few minutes after the snow quit.”
Maybe you know more than me about this situation, but I’ve driven on snow and I’ve driven on ice - that certainly looked to be ice to me.
Yes, driving in snow and driving on ice are two different things. Sometimes the line when it crosses over from one to the other is hard to detect.
We had a winter storm come through last week in the Twin Cities that resulted in 855 crashes and 610 spin outs. According to this article, that’s four times more than the usual amount of accidents with a storm. http://kstp.com/article/stories/S3671063.shtml?cat=3
People need to slow down, even if it is ‘just’ snow.