Iceland’s Northern Lights: Beautiful Sight, Risky Drives

The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, appear in the sky over Bifrost, Western Iceland, on March 1, 2017. Rene Rossignaud/AP
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AKUREYRI—Police in Iceland have a warning for visitors: Beware of our roads in the winter.

Spending a clear winter night under an Arctic sky lit up by spectacular streaks of color from the Northern Lights is an often-cited “bucket-list” experience among the reasons more people are visiting Iceland, especially its northern region.