Driving In Fog

[TWR]

After reading about the accident in Oxford, does driving in fog frighten you?

[andy-hughes]

Driving in fog doesn't frighten me at all - the fact that other people are driving in fog frightens the life out of me!

[Islay]

No not at all, if you are frightened of driving in any condition then perhaps you should not be on the road in the first place!!

[hereIam]

Terrifies me TWR, have been known to cancel going out if it's foggy !

[SherryBea]

I totally agree andy. The number of people who do not put on their lights in bad weather, I presume because they 'can see perfectly well' is incredible.
I hate fog and we get a lot of it where I live and I am becoming more frightened to drive in it for reasons stated above.

[SherryBea]

Islay, maybe 'frightened is not the right word. Cautious, yes, but its always good to be cautious when driving in bad conditions.

[Baldric]

///the accident in Oxford///

What accident in Oxford?

[bookbinder]

'Frightened' isn't a word that I'd use; I prefer to say that I try to be more alert than normal, especially if it's after dark as well as foggy.

[Islay]

Sherrybea that's different, I agree with you frighten is the wrong word, but that is the word the OP used!!

[TWR]

Shire

[bookbinder]

Is this the accident, TWR?
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/m40-crash-17-injured-as-coach-careers-off-road-in-thick-fog-in-oxfordshire-a3429641.html

[SherryBea]

yes Islay, I meant I used the word frightened when I should have said cautious, so I guess I don't agree with the OP, I agree with you. If you ever feel 'frightened' to drive you really shouldn't get in the vehicle.

[Baldric]

That Coach Crash was early hours of Friday surely?
Been all over the News.

[Smowball]

TWR I was driving in that fog that very day and I was almost in tears. I started off in country lanes where I could barely see the side of th road and it was thick frost too. When I got to the motorway I though it was going to clear but it didn't. I could barely see the road signs and yet there were idiots speeding past me. When I got home after 2 hours driving in it I had gripped the steering wheel so tightly all the way home that I could barely move. Absolutely horrendous day.

[TWR]

Sherry, a firm I once drove for Employed a person, his load was in the Birmingham area, the weather was bad, he phoned up the firm said he was frightened to death & caught a train home, never to be seen again, " Frightend / Cautious".

[TWR]

once drove for a firm

[thelewisgang]

What scares me is the idiotic drivers who fail to put their headlights on or drive with just side lights. Grrrr

[mikey4444]

Scares the doo-doo out of me !

I avoid it like the plague if possible. Accidents like the Oxford one occur every time we have fog, and its always the same cause.......people driving far too fast, without proper lights, and far too close to the car in front.

I have an early start to drive to Bristol tomorrow morning and I just hope there is no fog.

[TWR]

Sorry for my delayed reply Book, Yes.

[Islay]

Frightened and cautious are to different things!!

[TWR]

The earlier the better Mikey.