Driving in snow

[Simon]

I'm in Wales at the moment. Snowed overnight and roads fine this morning as there are loads of gritters out.

Mountain roads seem more of a challenge when snow is on the hills

Berkshire council take note !

 

[BigglesPiP]

The roads are wonderful in the Lakes, we had some more snow last night, but once I got out the driveway it was just tarmac all the way.

 

[Lord-Jaffa]

Here is my first go at making a video!

ps. ignore the chortling mate behind the cam

Amazing :/

 

[Lord-Jaffa]

This might be a ridiculously silly question and I could look like a right loleggface but...

Say you go in an empty car park on an icy night and do some handbrake turns and doughnuts, is that ilegal?

My friend was saying it wasn't, but I'm pretty sure it would be as it's not your property

Im quite sure that if you get seen by the police then it would probably be points for dangerous driving

 

[snowdog]

Then make sure you don't get seen .

 

[Carl]

CRANK UP THAT HANDY!!!

 

[fonzee]

deary me.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Why do people try and get out?! How stupid are they? They almost got run over by their own cars FFS

 

[fonzee]

well it wasn't looking good for the bloke before it went out of shot

hate to think where it ended up...

 

[Howard]

People really are seriously, totally thick beyond belief

 

[Luseac]

Why the hell do they get out of the car? Almost got ran over by his own car :s

 

[iaind]

You've got to wonder what was going through their heads that led them to simultaneously decide they'd be much better on their asses inches from an out of control car, than inside a big metal box with seatbelts about to crash at 5mph

 

[Westyfield2]

deary me.

Keeping the wheels locked and getting out the car.

How stupid can one human be?

 

[fonzee]

they've probably reproduced n all....

 

[Berger]

Drove from Wigan down to Portsmouth and back on Tuesday....

Been all around the country as per usual with work, mostly in the NW where there is plenty of snow. FWD drive van with normal road tires so nothing special but a clue about how to drive helps!

No problems, just the morons who have no idea how to drive that are causing issues either going too slowly (10mph on a gritted road for example) or too quickly.

I propose a "snow license" and only people who have one are allowed out on the roads!

 

[benneh]

Wow at the fester vid. Imagine trying to get out while the car is spinning 'over' you. What a complete tit. Darwin award in the making.

 

[Blackhawk47]

deary me.

Daaaaaaaaamn !



Do we know what happened to it?

EDIT: @ Hxc, hows your Mini doing in the snow?

 

[miniyazz]

same thing happened to me yesterday. me and the missus was coming back from the odeon after seeing avatar and some tool was sitting behind me in his suzuki 4x4 flashing his lights and sitting on my bumper despite the fact it had started snowing again and on that stretch of road there was 3 (no joke) cars in ditches. one of them i personally see go off on the way to the cinema. i ended up pulling over and letting him past. suffice to say about five minutes up the road i see said 4x4 in a ditch also.

 

[Sugar Free]

Hey,

Does anyone recommend using all season tyres on their car? Something like Vredestein Quatracs. Granted we only get a week or two of snowy/icy weather a year but would these tyres degrade dry performance enough to make it not worth the effort for general driving?

 

[PiKe]

What does ABS do if it realises you're speeding up while trying to stop? Not that they had ABS..

No different because ABS doesn't know if you're slowing down or not, it just releases the brake on the (locked) wheel then reapplies it.