Where did gp say anything about a car in front of theirs?
I grew up driving in Buffalo, NY, and if that doesn't evoke visions of black-ice covered frozen tundra roads, it should. One thing I know from having learned here is, a deer can jump out of the brush at any time. You don't want to hit a deer. Even if you have comprehensive insurance there is a very real risk of bodily harm to yourself, deer are large and probably more likely to survive than most small animals, if you don't have a hunting knife or a gun, you might even be waiting for police or animal control to come and put the thing out of its misery, if you weren't going fast enough to kill it.
The same is true about small animals - they can jump out at any time. But on snow-covered roads, they are more dangerous to you if you try to avoid hitting them than if you just keep going. Especially don't swerve. You might be driving too fast if you can't safely come to a stop when an animal jumps out in front of you, or you might just have bad luck and timing.
Anyway, if you had to stop (or thought you had to stop) and got rear-ended, there is unfortunately not much you can do about the guy that was driving too close behind you.
I grew up driving in Buffalo, NY, and if that doesn't evoke visions of black-ice covered frozen tundra roads, it should. One thing I know from having learned here is, a deer can jump out of the brush at any time. You don't want to hit a deer. Even if you have comprehensive insurance there is a very real risk of bodily harm to yourself, deer are large and probably more likely to survive than most small animals, if you don't have a hunting knife or a gun, you might even be waiting for police or animal control to come and put the thing out of its misery, if you weren't going fast enough to kill it.
The same is true about small animals - they can jump out at any time. But on snow-covered roads, they are more dangerous to you if you try to avoid hitting them than if you just keep going. Especially don't swerve. You might be driving too fast if you can't safely come to a stop when an animal jumps out in front of you, or you might just have bad luck and timing.
Anyway, if you had to stop (or thought you had to stop) and got rear-ended, there is unfortunately not much you can do about the guy that was driving too close behind you.