Sprinkle of snow = 90% of drives become complete ****s

Shock horror, another inexperienced driver thinks they know it all :rolleyes:

Most other drivers are more experienced than you, I'd suggest they know something you dont. Doesn't matter how straight the road, snow can still cause big problems.

Slow down, calm down
 
I had an idiot behind me, driving like the OP seems to, on Saturday - the Fiesta in front of me span and i was about 50m behind him. I then span whilst going 15 mph and nearly had my car totalled by some **** in a 4x4 who seemed to think that 3-4 metres stopping distance was enough. I slid sideways down the road and thanks to him tail gating, he had to mount a kerb and drive across a grassy bit at about 20 mph.

OP - just slow down and keep off people's bumpers!
 
HAHA, I'm sorry but so far this has gone exactly the same way as my thread did, the same people have got involved and said exactly the same things.
Funny how experienced folk dont learn from experience that perhaps they should give people the benefit of the doubt when they dont live where they live. Maybe just maybe Camel isnt Quite as snowed in as me or you???
Maybe he is?... in which case if you can confirm then crack on, until that time please stop going down this route its tiring and i know EXACTLY what you will say next.
 
It's gone the same way because it's the same argument, and it's every bit as stupid and arrogant as it was in your thread.

If the majority of other drivers are going slower, it's probably for a reason.
 
So many people on the roads with the OP's mentality. Even taking the slightest bends with more than 15-20mph doesn't stop the arse end of my e36 from stepping out, this isn't a new way of indicating that it's safe for you to sit on my bumper/flash your lights like a lunatic/act like an utter **** in your Zafira/MPV.

That is all.
 
Plenty do drive stupidly slow though. There is no need to crawl along a wide, lit up, clear and treated NSL road at 30mph like the Saab I was following last night.
 
Some people do drive too slowly, of course.

But the children that are always whining about it aren't more experienced than every other road user, when the vast majority have slowed down then it probably means conditions aren't suitable to go any quicker.
 
I'm a new driver and if the road is untreated I will drive at a speed I feel comfortable at. If you sit 2m behind my car and flash your lights I'm not going to speed up and risk totalling my car.

end of.
 
Well make of this what you will. I was driving back from xmas shopping late the other night and I was very tired + snow + ice + darkness = I drove like miss daisy. I was doing about 20 in a 60 in a particularly tricky bit. The car behind me was getting super irate over the course of a couple of miles. I was about to pull over and let him through since I was getting sick of the tailgating and danger. Anyway...came to a big straight on this country lane and I start to indicate left and slow down so he can overtake. He overtakes super aggressively spiinning the wheels up to make a point. He pulls back in in front of me (by this point I'm doing maybe 10mph and him about 30-40mph) and as he pulled back into the left lane he steers right to straighten up and completely lost the back end which stepped out to the left and mounted the curb. He keeps sliding uncontrollably now at a right angle to the road, it swings round and he lands backwards in a ditch on the other side of the road.
I drove past slowly with my window down flipping the mandatory bird. What a tool.
 
Camelpaw said:
Why is this necessary?!

I've been sat behind so many idiots today doing 10-15mph in a 30-50, and it's just not necessary. Sure, the roads are a bit slippery and require to use your brain slightly more than normal, but really?

Also: Theres a main road next to my house. Along one side of it, there are currently a lot of cars parks as the side-roads off it are up and down hills and it can be quite hard to get the cars out. You then get idiots who, instead of pulling in when the cars are on THEIR side, will sit facing you and refuse to back down and reverse into a gap so I can get past... I was sitting there literally 2 minutes before this douche moved, and it was only because the queue of traffic behind me started beeping a a lot.

Snow seems to make everyone drive and act like a total ****.

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I bet you drive a front wheel drive car with skinny tyres, try driving a rear wheel drive car with more than 300bhp and very wide rear tyres and an auto gear box like I do and see how fast you think you should drive because I didn't do much more than 20mph on my way home yesterday cause the back of the car was squirming around even at 1000rpm.
 
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jaybee said:
Well make of this what you will. I was driving back from xmas shopping late the other night and I was very tired + snow + ice + darkness = I drove like miss daisy. I was doing about 20 in a 60 in a particularly tricky bit. The car behind me was getting super irate over the course of a couple of miles. I was about to pull over and let him through since I was getting sick of the tailgating and danger. Anyway...came to a big straight on this country lane and I start to indicate left and slow down so he can overtake. He overtakes super aggressively spiinning the wheels up to make a point. He pulls back in in front of me (by this point I'm doing maybe 10mph and him about 30-40mph) and as he pulled back into the left lane he steers right to straighten up and completely lost the back end which stepped out to the left and mounted the curb. He keeps sliding uncontrollably now at a right angle to the road, it swings round and he lands backwards in a ditch on the other side of the road.
I drove past slowly with my window down flipping the mandatory bird. What a tool.
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O RLY? :D Or is this the bit you added after some consultation with your ego?

Quite a funny story all the same.
 
I've been managing just fine on the snow and ice, but the other day I nearly put my Focus into a BMW at about 3mph in B&Q carpark because I let my mind wander for a second and steered a bit too hard. I'd rather not have the general public and their already questionable driving getting even worse and more dangerous in the snow when their mind wanders at 30mph, never mind 3.
 
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