Sheppley Crossing + Fog = No Lights?

anotherbaldrick

You should have said a few not most. The main reason was with the rolling fog, the road was clear one minute and then the fog descended like a waterfall. They have altered the embankments since. However with this one at Sheppey (not Sheppley) reports are that the road was foggy from some distance before the bridge, the area is very marshy. The bridge is quite steeply elevated for the shipping to pass under . My bet is the traffic approaching the bridge was going slowly and on reaching the bridge found the deck clear and speeded up only to reach the downslope and suddenly drop back into the fog bank .

londonTiger

Crabman wrote: »

Hardly anyone on motorways bothers to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front.

On the M5 today there was a collision involving seven vehicles. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often given that at peak times, most vehicles in lane three maintain a distance of less than one car length...

I shudder when I see cars tailing each other so close. It hardly ever leads to accidents because motorways are managed well and there's a non stop flow of traffic. But all it takes is one breakdown to create tailbacks destroying 100+ vehicles.

There was that famous video of the collision involving so many cars, you could see the pile up from 100m away. It was caught on video and cars were still driving full force into the pile up.

Strider590

londonTiger wrote: »

There was that famous video of the collision involving so many cars, you could see the pile up from 100m away. It was caught on video and cars were still driving full force into the pile up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7cyQAE-L9A

???

Daz2009

Basically it boils down to most people being bad drivers doesn't it.

Dongleboy

Back to the "no lights" - with the amount of cars now fitted with automatic lights, is it entirely possible that people were expecting their automatic lights to come on because there was poor visibility? Visibility can be down to 50m but there can be plenty of daylight coming through the fog, thus the auto lights don't come on and the driver should realise they need to actually find the bloody switch and turn them on themselves.

~Chameleon~

Hintza wrote: »

My biggest problem with rear fogs is when they arte on both sides (and switched on) they can be so bright you just don't notice when the brakes go on and you lose a good few yards before you realise the car in front is slowing.

In slow moving traffic rear fog lights are very tiring to drive behind.

Possibly why my car has a single rear fog lamp to differentiate between that and the brake lights. I also have a tailgate brake light, as do many modern cars.

vikingaero

Decently designed cars have the rear fog light (one or two) as low down as possible and in a separate cluster from the main position/braking lights.

Ultrasonic

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I also have a tailgate brake light, as do many modern cars.

Aren't all modern cars legally required to? I thought that was part of the excuse for the weird design of the back of Honda Civics, with the mini-spoiler part way up the rear window.

Lum

And people wonder why nobody bothers reporting things to the police.

No help and all you get out of it is a 7 day producer, and then a load of hassle if you can't manage it in 7 days (DVLA have had my licence for almost 3 weeks now)

Strider590

Daz2009 wrote: »

Basically it boils down to most people being bad drivers doesn't it.

Boils down to what i've said many times......

90% of the UK population are stupid.