Well January has been nice to me so far. Last week I awoke to snow. I beifly thought about how this would effect road conditions but having passed in July I was fairly ignorant to it all – and blissfully so!
I hit the Southway through Blaby and couldn’t understand for the hell of me why the lass infront driving her kids to college insisted on 20mph. It took me all of 10 mins more to figure it out.
Instead of changing my usual route through country lanes and narrow bridges, I thought I’d carry on as normal. Applying brakes on ice just makes the car skid. I didn’t think about this before. So at a steady 5mph though untreated roads I went until I got to the prangs. It was fairly obvious. It took half an hour for the traffic to turn around and head back. I managed not to find a ditch or hit a car.
Still, lesson learnt.
