D!pstick Drivers Dicing With Death.

[eyethenkyew]

"It'll never happen to me!" "I won't be affected!" "My car can get through!"

When will some idiots learn? Freezing conditions, blizzards, drifting snow, main roads closed, all forecast well in advance etc etc, yet the mindless morons persist in trying to get from A to B, then some of them have the cheek to blame the authorities when they get stuck!!!

Hit the lot of them with the bills for recovering them, for the cost of the emergency services, for the risks they put the rescuers to !!!

Do any of them have a brain??? Was their journey unavoidable??? Why not just leave them there until it all thaws out ??? P!ll0cks !!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11863060

[B00]

Why didn't you delve deeper into whether "was their journey unavoidable???" before you labelled them all "dipsticks" or lacking a brain.

[youngmafbog]

There are sometimes conditions where even if you think your journey is unavoidable it simply cannot be made.

I doubt that any are a case of life or death so can be avoided.

[rov1200]

I learnt something new yesterday. Its a crime to have snow on the roof of your car which hasn;t been cleared off.

[ummmm]

I remember one year we had a really bad snow storm. It started at 3.15pm as I was at the school picking my kids up. I had to abandon my car about a mile from the school...

What did make me a dipstick is the fact that I left the radio on so when I went to get my car the next day the battery was flat :-(

[Count-A-Strong]

rov, thanks for the info. I wish the driver of an artic who I was following today had cleared the snow off the trailer he was towing as I was plunged into a rather unexpected snow storm as he picked up speed. No number plate on the trailer either!

[trt]

ummmm,
How come your radio didn't turn off automatically when you turned the engine off?
I have never had a car that didn't shut down my radio or any other appliances in my cars.

[trt]

Some people are out already or working or on their way home, You cant always rely on the weather forecast in the winter or you would never leave home.

[ummmm]

trt - it was a bit temperamental. I got a flat battery once before and since putting the code in and resetting it, it decided when it would and wouldn't turn on. I think on that day I had turned it down because the kids were scared seeing the cars sliding across the road.

[NOX]

Some people do indeed behave like morons in heavy snow but you have to balance that against the hysterical mob who see 1 inch of snow and think the sky is falling, stocking up on bead and milk as though they live in Siberia and refusing to set foot outside until at least March- both groups tick me off to no end- simple common sense would make everything work a little better and I wouldn't presume to judge whether anyone else's trip was important or not.

[milly143]

You also have to question what conditions are too severe.

For example, it had snowed here last night but there was only a few cm on the ground. Around the village the roads were very icy and slippy but once I got onto the main roads it was well gritted and perfectly driveable. Should I have not got in the car?

[crystalbee27]

well i've moved back to UK from canada in spring, and although am used to lots of snow i have to say that UK just never seems prepared,ever,for any severe weather. having said that, yesterday i made a decision to drive the 7 miles to go see my horses in my pissy little nissan micra ( OH had taken the Warrior to get to work) -there was snow but the roads were totally clear -no it was'nt a neccessary journey as the folks at the stable could have mucked out and fed them -anyway -3 miles into the journey the weather turned for the worst and to cut a long story short, i had a horrendous journey home where i was using gears to slow down as i dare'nt use the breaks -lots of bends and hills. i saw only a handull of vehicles but they were being incredibly sensible and driving really slow. i got home then got bloody stuck reversing into my drive lol! -neighbour had to dig me out

[joko]

milly...if your car is likely to slide around the road, and possibly hit someone or something...then no, you should not have got in the car


its irrelevant whether some roads are ok, if you have to get through numerous treacherous ones to get to them...