Snow and Retardedly slow driving (doing my head in)

In London there were people doing 15mph and less on wet roads - the snow had melted it was just wet. Booting it only just got the TC light going - so not exactly super icey. It's so frustrating - clearly I'm not going to overtake in London, but getting stuck behind ****s that haven't got the nounce to drive in this sort of weather really riles me. I don't tailgate or start gesticulating as there's no point, but it does turn a 20min journey into a 40 min journey which is a bore.
 
Would be interesting to see which roads you have been travelling on, as yesterday the A470 had the outside lane half covered in snow heading north and south from abercynon to at least pentrebach, where i turn off, The A470 being one of the main roads in south wales...
My estate in Caerphilly is still a sheet of ice, bar the main road running through it, i can understand people being cautious, they want to get where they are going safely.
 
TS7 said:
I'd rather have people drive at a pace they are comfortable with. That's the thing with ice / black ice, you can't really see it. While you may think the road is perfectly clear, there's a likelihood it's not.
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Many years ago I was traveling up the M6 in winter, thinking it was clear and I'd had no problems all the way up even though it was very cold. I was probably doing about 70-80mph and I hit a patch of ice. The car twitched one way and started to slide, I ended up doing a 180 and stopped parked up on the hard shoulder facing the wrong way down the motorway! Luckily the road was empty, I managed to partially control the skid and there were no barriers at the side of the road, only a bank which my rear end touched slightly causing no damage. It could have ended up a lot worse as I was only in an old Escort with pretty much no crash protection.

I've learned my lesson about how the roads can change just like that and if there is a chance of ice I slow right down now.
 
Street said:
Many years ago I was traveling up the M6 in winter, thinking it was clear and I'd had no problems all the way up even though it was very cold. I was probably doing about 70-80mph and I hit a patch of ice. The car twitched one way and started to slide, I ended up doing a 180 and stopped parked up on the hard shoulder facing the wrong way down the motorway! Luckily the road was empty, I managed to partially control the skid and there were no barriers at the side of the road, only a bank which my rear end touched slightly causing no damage. It could have ended up a lot worse as I was only in an old Escort with pretty much no crash protection.

I've learned my lesson about how the roads can change just like that and if there is a chance of ice I slow right down now.
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The voice of experience :)
 
pcoltrane said:
The voice of experience :)
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Thing he was going up to / above the limit in the first place

And I was on the a470 earlier ( only up to treforest) and it wasnt bad, there was a petrol tanker driving faster than me.
Then again abercynon is a bit further isn't it?
I'm aware caerphilly is bad, I live in Cwmbran though, same story today as it was yesterday heavily gritted bone dry roads
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Your experiencing the effect of the medias "OMG! Its the next ice age!" reporting of this normal WINTER weather, everybody over reacts, see's a spec of the White stuff and hit the anchors....
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...Literally.

Last Friday I was driving on the A48 into Cardiff. It's a dual carriageway with a pointless 50 limit (should be 70 IMO) and a few flakes started coming down.

I had about 3 ********** on my windscreen when some stupid idiot in a Clio slammed on the anchors as if a child had run out (road is no pedestrians no cyclists) causing the lorry that was tailgating them to haul on the anchors and swerve out in front of me.

When I overtook this Clio, they were hunched over the wheel like an old person looking absolutely petrified and doing about 10mph.

The current conditions here in South Wales really aren't worth worrying about.

Took me an hour and a half to get home on Friday night, normally takes an hour, thanks to all these idiots, and that's despite having the outside lane of the M4 to myself.
 
chrislusty said:
Would be interesting to see which roads you have been travelling on, as yesterday the A470 had the outside lane half covered in snow heading north and south from abercynon to at least pentrebach, where i turn off, The A470 being one of the main roads in south wales...
My estate in Caerphilly is still a sheet of ice, bar the main road running through it, i can understand people being cautious, they want to get where they are going safely.
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Dominos caerphilly tried getting me to work over the weekend claiming the main roads were clear.. Well too bad almost all the houses you deliver to aren't on a main road -.- I just said a small part time job isn't worth writing off my car :P Although last night coming from bridgend to caerphilly i didnt see any ice/snow on the stretch of m4/a470, but then you aren't on the a470 for long i suppose... Doesn't even look like it snowed in bridgend tbh... all the side streets are clear :/
 
I was quite happy trundling along (sideways) at about 12mph in my RWD summer tyre-clad Volvo on the way back from work.

But then I nicked the V50 on winter tyres to pop to the shops and it's all, "OMG GET OUT OF MY WAY!!"
Not good :o

Overzealous use of the handbrake in the supermarket carpark made up for the FailWD though :)
 
Well, walking back from the supermarket, a Range Rover that wasn't going very fast slowed to let me cross at the crossing with a bit of slush on the road. I stood there as it locked up one front wheel, then another, then slid onto the crossing with the owner looking despondent and out of control. So basically my suspicions are reinforced. There is no grip and drivers claiming they are perfectly in control are being foolish. Probably explains the nearby tyre marks leaving the road and going right up the pavement.
 
Housey said:
Just put the phone down to my neighbour. She has a Merc C Class and it took her 2 hours and 15 minutes to do the journey it took me 10 minutes. THIS is the difference between RWD and 4WD. On the 3 days a year we have snow it is fabulous, she had to be towed out 3 times, 3 times!!
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Its not one of those horrible C Class Coupe's is it? :(
 
Saw some guy on a Ducati today riding one handed through sludge and snow while trying to talk on his mobile phone, squishing it into his visor gap. I couldn't believe it tbh!
 
Eliot said:
Thing he was going up to / above the limit in the first place

And I was on the a470 earlier ( only up to treforest) and it wasnt bad, there was a petrol tanker driving faster than me.
Then again abercynon is a bit further isn't it?
I'm aware caerphilly is bad, I live in Cwmbran though, same story today as it was yesterday heavily gritted bone dry roads
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I'm from Cwmbran too. I think you'll find that not all of the roads are bone dry and gritted, when the snow was quite bad a few days ago we had a couple of bus routes open and most of the side roads were still a few feet deep with snow.
 
On a separate note having driven to essex and back yesterday is it me, or are the middle lane hoggers even worse in this weather?

The middle lane was doing about 50 and you could do 70 easily in either the inside or outside lanes (M11/A14) :confused:
 
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