I bet if I posted in a driving forum that one should drive according to the conditions instead of trying the drive normally in bad conditions, I'd get a lot of disagreements.
Slowing down in traffic and getting honked at by your fellow drivers seems to be a fate worse than purgatory so one would rather run a cyclist over and simply state you didn't see him.
Here's an article where a driver jumped a curb and killed a pedestrian over a bottle of water at his feet.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...nced-1.4412121