Snowing Driving!

diable

Driving on snow is easy wait until it melts turns to ice then has a dusting of snow on top then it becomes entertaining.

My Uncle has one of these which is much more fun ;p

Rolandtheroadie

My favorites NOT the person doing 25 mph, but the one directly behind them, also doing 25mph (because of the conditions) but right up the car in fronts !!!.
What I do is brake sharply, if abs doesnt kick in try and wheelspin. Still no joy? Overtake them all then continue on my merry way at a speed more suited to the ROAD conditions and not what the fields have lying in them.

Wig

DKLS wrote: »

:eek: You brake mid corner!!!!! I learnt not to do that when owning a mid engined car.

The car park of the local beauty spot was like a sheet of ice early yesterday morning, drifting at 15mph sheer bliss, until the blue humpbacks arrived to walk around the lake.

If you read it again, it is a sarcastic post commenting on the driving skills of the average road user.

Another one that gets to me is people who upon hearing or seeing a flashing blue light behind them, don't know what to do so what do they do?

They stop immediately and usually this results in stopping an inappropriate position slowing down the progress of the blue light vehicle and sometimes putting the blue light vehicle and other oncoming vehicles into a dangerous position. I saw one the other day, they had pulled over and stopped right on the corner of a sharp bend!

I had someone do this to me, I was close behind their bumper because it was heavy slow moving traffic, ambulance came up behind, the ambulance couldn't overtake us becuase we were just after a roundabout and there was a central island. The car in front of me just stopped, when I remonstrated they moved forward just a couple of inches /feet (even though plenty of now open road in front (as other road users had sensibly moved on) Still not moved enough forward for me to overtake this car, I wound down the window and shouted "move forward" only to get the reply "you're supposed to stop" after a couple of minutes of loud siren behind us not getting anywhere she finally moved forward enough for me to overtake, I got out of there as fast as I could and stopped shortly in a suitable position.

This situation is not helped by the alleged "public information commercial" you see on TV with female ambulance driver talking to the camera trying to explain to people what to do when a blue light is behind you. Unfortunatly in that advert they don't actually explain what you should try to do. She just ends up saying "please try to help us, there's always something you can do" Until they actually educate people what sort of things can help it's not going to work. Then again, if people on the road don't have the quick situation analysis logical thinking process now, it's unlikely they will ever have that ability.

Zanzibar

There is actually a fair bit of confusion here - combined with the maybe 50% of the public who have limited abilities in an unusual situation.

The issue I see mentioned (not your situation) is at traffic lights with emergency services behind - if its red what do you do? you may get a ticket if you go through, its up to you if you want to move, but you can still get a ticket.

Recently driving about, police van from a fair way back came along, I pulled across, nice amount of road space for all but the flat bed truck ahead - about 30+ feet long - just kept going at 20 miles an hour blocking the road. No intention of deviating or slowing. When they could the van pulled along side and had words.

Ive seen it from inside a patrol car - in a Volvo T5 marked car with full lights, clear visibility and punters don't pull over till very late.

It should be taught in the test so people know what to do. I'd say the natural instinct is indeed to brake for the uninitiated, as you saw, and panic a bit.

If you ever watch the Police Camera Action type programs you can see the reactions - I'd say half of punters will know what to do the other half have no real idea.

Tygermoth

I have the best 'blue lighter' story.

Minding me own business walking to work. Bloke in a Merc decided to get out the way of the Ambulance by mounting the pavement and knocking me over.

Was just a light tap.... When asked what he thought he was playing at his response was 'you have to get out the way’! What, by knocking over pedestrians?

Idiot.

freakyogre

Snow isn't a problem here, but ice is. It keeps raining and then freezing which makes it quite interesting.

Yesterday I just drove slower and I noticed that pretty much everyone else did the same. When I got to work, which happens to be at the bottom of a hill (not very steep, but was covered in ice) and turned, I felt my steering go. I was fine and got into the car park, but someone else wasn't so lucky and clipped their car.

Today was pretty much the same, spotted a car in a ditch on my way to work (the roads are quite windy, so think someone took the bend too fast). When I arrived at work I drive down the road as normal and started sliding. Managed to stop but decided not to attempt getting into the car park and parked in another offices car park and walked up. Someone else didn't manage to stop in time and their car ended up going through a fence on to a building site. I think someone else had trouble with their car too as later in the morning an RAC van arrived, drove into the car park and went sliding straight into another car...oops.

Luckily the ice had melted enough for me to get out again.

I always slow down when the weather is bad and leave much bigger gaps (I leave big gaps anyway after having my car written off a few years ago when someone went up my a*se) as I don't know what condition the roads are in. When I drove out the end of my road yesterday, it looked like there was just water on the road, but it was ice. Hit that at the wrong speed and you're just asking for trouble. I was late for work by 10 minutes yesterday, but I really wasn't bothered, i'd rather get there in one piece.

I used to live in Yorkshire and do miss the thick fluffy snow though!