Well, for those of you who don't know we're currently going through a bit of a cold snap in the UK, we have ice, snow and temperatures in minus figures. This is a bit of a shock to us as although we talk about the weather an awful lot not a great deal happens with it and this funny falling white stuff is quite odd to us!
Bearing this in mind I've witnessed several people deciding that the best way to drive on an icy road is harsh, full acceleration and sudden hard braking. In addition it's also a requirement (it would appear) to drive so close to the person in front at 35mph that you can see the detritus on the back seat of the car in front.
This isn't the meat of the story today though.
I was called to a Road Traffic Collision (car crash in plain english) and it was a 4 car shunt. The three cars at the front were in a stationary line of traffic, sat on their brakes when they were hit from behind by a psychic.
I can only assume that this was his chosen proffesion as the forward visibility from his car was exactly nil, he'd only scraped the ice from the bare minumim are from his windscreen (I suspect that he'd used his windscreen wipers and screenwash only) and the inside of his windscreen was misted over. Well it wasn't *all* misted over, there was a 1 inch gap at the bottom where the windscreen was clear.
So boy genius was travelling too fast for the road conditions, couldn't see where he was going then slammed on his brakes. End result? His car going straight to the nearest scrapyard and three other angry people during rush hour.
Lovely.
Bearing this in mind I've witnessed several people deciding that the best way to drive on an icy road is harsh, full acceleration and sudden hard braking. In addition it's also a requirement (it would appear) to drive so close to the person in front at 35mph that you can see the detritus on the back seat of the car in front.
This isn't the meat of the story today though.
I was called to a Road Traffic Collision (car crash in plain english) and it was a 4 car shunt. The three cars at the front were in a stationary line of traffic, sat on their brakes when they were hit from behind by a psychic.
I can only assume that this was his chosen proffesion as the forward visibility from his car was exactly nil, he'd only scraped the ice from the bare minumim are from his windscreen (I suspect that he'd used his windscreen wipers and screenwash only) and the inside of his windscreen was misted over. Well it wasn't *all* misted over, there was a 1 inch gap at the bottom where the windscreen was clear.
So boy genius was travelling too fast for the road conditions, couldn't see where he was going then slammed on his brakes. End result? His car going straight to the nearest scrapyard and three other angry people during rush hour.
Lovely.
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