window wiper stopped due to snow

forgotmyname

Always 1 too many..

Spicy_McHaggis

forgotmyname wrote: »

Always 1 too many..

So you've not been to any that were a direct result of snow on the roof.

JustinR1979

londonTiger wrote: »

my gues is it was the dtraw that broke the camels back and messed up the gears on the wiper motor.

Took the rears out too?

facade

Just clear the snow off your roof, as we have established you are supposed to, or accept that in the unlikely event that it comes off in one lump onto the car behind, who's wipers fuse like the OP's and then the driver panics and crashes that it would be your fault.

(Plus you would have the satisfaction of knowing that you were responsible for the high profile accident that started a Police campaign to enforce yet another regulation more zealously )

forgotmyname

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

So you've not been to any that were a direct result of snow on the roof.

Its hard to tell when a vehicle is upside down in a ditch. But from comments made by police at the scene, More than a small handful were negligent in clearing snow from the vehicle.

Altarf

agrinnall wrote: »

I don't know whether anyone has actually been prosecuted, but you might want to consider the risk before deciding to drive without clearing the roof.

http://metro.co.uk/2010/12/08/drivers-face-60-fine-for-driving-with-snow-on-car-roof-602159/

That article is utter tosh.

If you are supposed to clear the snow off your roof as it is dangerous, how are all the lorry drivers supposed to do that?

You know, the lorries, particularity those with tilt covers where any water pools in the dips, freezes to ice, and then comes shooting off the side in big lumps at the first roundabout.

facade

Altarf wrote: »

That article is utter tosh.

If you are supposed to clear the snow off your roof as it is dangerous, how are all the lorry drivers supposed to do that?

You know, the lorries, particularity those with tilt covers where any water pools in the dips, freezes to ice, and then comes shooting off the side in big lumps at the first roundabout.

In some States in the US they have to, or face fines.

It must be quite a feat pushing snow off the roof standing on a 12 foot ladder :cool:

Altarf

facade wrote: »

In some States in the US they have to, or face fines.

But this was a story about the UK, and I have never seen a truck driver do anything about the snow and ice on top of their truck.

Many years ago I used to live near one of the major ports. On cold and icy mornings the locals knew to stay back from trucks at one roundabout as it was the first ones the trucks met coming out of the port.

The tourists off the ferry (in a hurry) didn't, but as the ice cascaded off the top of tops of the trailers soon found out why everyone else was.