Nothing I love more up here in the northeast than seeing an SUV off the road plowed into a tree trunk because some asshat thought driving an SUV gave them license to speed their ass off in bad weather. No matter if you have front, rear, four, or ninety-wheel drive, when you step on your brakes--unless you have antilock or traction control--you are now sitting in a two-ton sliding chunk of metal.
It's not any different here, every time it snows there's always a disproportionate number of SUVs in the ditches. People think they're invincible in them.