Snow on car roof

[puternut]

Just had a discussion elsewhere where someone said that it will now be illegal to drive a vehicle with 'excessive' snow on the roof!!!

Can any ABers confirm this - or am I being taken for a ride??

[Nosha123]

You just need to speed up a bit.. the snow then slides off the back!!!

[milly143]

To be honest, I thought that was already a law.

A couple of times I have been driving behind a car covered in snow only for them to put on the brakes and it all flies off into your view point. I do try to remove most of the snow off my car but at 5'2 there is always a bit I can't reach.

What worries me more is the people who don't think it's neccessary to clear the snow off their headlights.

[gen2]

Rule 229 of the Highway Code states: "Remove all snow that might fall off into the path of other road users."

[jacksprat16]

a simple hand brush will get all the snow of ya boot bonnet and roof
lazy drivers only go round with snow piled on the roof . they have probably also got two small holes on the windscreen to look through the snow on that too

[Hopkirk]

What? Isn't this allowed?

http://s3.amazonaws.c...YuZ44SOwlKKWu566j0%3D

[Hopkirk]

Try again

http://news.sky.com/s...an/Week2/15521874.jpg

[sherrardk]

I once drove with quite a bit of snow on the roof of my car - I hadn't removed it as I couldn't reach it (it's a Chrysler Voyager). Never occured to me that it could be a hazard until it slid down over the windscreen and I couldn't see a flipping thing, quite frightening really.

[jd_here]

It makes sense to clear the roof of the car, only idiots wouldn't consider clearing it, probably the same idiots who think its clever to drive in adverse weather conditions without headlights. Consider this, yo have 6 to 8" of snow on your roof and all of a suddne it slides off, have you no consideration for the following drivers. Aaargh, two of my pet hates, and while I'm about it, drivers who stop at roundabouts when the road is clear, middle lane owners club drivers on motorways.....I could go on, but I won't!

[playergaz]

Section 229 of the highway code states
"remove all snow that might fall off into the path of other road users"
http://www.direct.gov...Highwaycode/DG_069859
+ of course it is dangerous to be driving with own personal skid pan on the roof of your car.

[cassa333]

I have seen idiots with a foot of snow on their roofs. Some have just about managed to clear a small patch off the windscreen and none off the windows.

How do they imagin they can see all around?

[eastern]

My partners works van has just been written off. As she was driving along the main road a van coming in the opposite direction shed its load of ice and snow off its roof onto her van roof, hers is a van derived car therefore lower, dented the roof smashed the windscreen and left her totally shaken. We never got the details of the van that shed the ice/snow, I don't want to ver dramatise it but she could have been seriously injured.