Sorry to hear about your incident! Hope youre both okay.
This topic has been discussed a fair bit on here, Tony is right. Fear not, There are ways to make the car better in the snow and ice;
1) winter tyres
2) snow socks n chains
3) tyre sprays
Unfortunately, RWD is inherently unpredictable on snow and icentre.
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