Store emergency kit in your car to get out of trouble

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Photo: David Derong/Iowa State Daily

Having an emergency kit in your car may come in handy when you’re stranded on the side of the road. 

Katherine Klingseis

You’re driving on a long gravel road and it begins to lightly snow – producing a picturesque winter scene. However, the light snow soon becomes heavier and the wind starts gusting. Before you know it, you are forced to pull over to the side of the road.

Your cellphone is dead, your car is going to run out of gas in less than a half hour, you only have an extra hooded sweatshirt in your backseat and you have no light or heat source. You’re in trouble.

Having an emergency kit in your car would help you get out of this trouble. Here are some items that should be in your emergency kit.