Sheppey

[rockyracoon]

Anyone else watching Sky News at the moment, a bad pile up (100+ cars) on the Sheppey Bridge

Yee Gods! No fatalities thankfully.

[youngmafbog]

perhaps things like this dont help

http://news.sky.com/story/1137338/driver-not-banned-despite-42-points-on-licence

[granny grump]

I have driven that road hundreds of times and the old before it and by train to school on the very old bridge before that so I know the road and the area very well indeed. I still have family living on the island.

They say the sound of vehicles crashing into each other went on for 10 minutes - It must have been absolutely horrific

There is a long sweep up to the bridge and a long curved sweep down from it. If you drive with care as you should always do there isn't a problem but in this case I feel that people did not take enough care and take the conditions into account - as happens a lot nowadays it was a case of every man (and woman) for themselves. One woman - not a boy racer- admitted that she was driving too fast and I don't think that she was the only one.

Thankfully there were no fatalities