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Originally Posted by VMax1000
Sounds like an expensive lesson in 'how to drive according to conditions'
Glad you got it sorted but hope you learned something as well
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Mmm, If I might give my 'tuppence worth', conditions up here in Scotland have been very variable, with snow, ice and warm wet conditions, all within a few hours.
As an example, at 10pm last night it was 5 degrees, by 7am there had been a sharp frost, and the roads and pavements were sheet ice.
I'm used to icy conditions on the mountains, but this morning was as bad as I've seen, a Transit van slid sideways at a junction when it was only going at walking pace, shortly afterwards an ambulance had a 'moment' even though it was going fairly slowly.
Due to 'cutbacks; gritting seems to have been cut way back, there has been no gritting of local side roads (which are fairly hilly)at all this winter.
Of course we should all drive 'to the conditions', the point I'm trying to make is that sometimes those conditions do change very quickly, all it takes is one blocked drain and a patch of ice can form, and once you hit that, you're just a passenger. (This happened to me, I was doing 15mph on a straight road and rain had landed on ice, the car just broke away from me, slid backwards into a lampost, and I ended up facing the correct way, 6 feet away from an 18 wheel lorry which had managed to stop in time, my drivers seat needed to be valeted though)
Glad you were ok, and the car is fixed, lets support each other here, sometimes despite our best efforts **** happens, and it's easy to be critical from afar, we do not live in a perfect world......
