Dorset ice rink

[chaz]

The fact remains that the roads were not GRITTED, there is a much wider issue here witch will affect every single one of us both financely, and for some of us personly too. Gritting is not just about the highway but also the paths within our citys and towns. Having spent some time in hospital with my wife, i was appalled to see two elderly ladies with faces that looked like they had been battered with a cricket bat, Apparently they stepped of the bus slipped up on black ice and smashed there faces into the ground,That image still haunts me. and there is more!and they were pedestrians. Like Davehms i do find those comments offensive for the same reasons, it's your chances i am trying to improve too guys.
Chaz
P.S Just heard that in London they have fancy coloured grit in all there parks!!

[Scorpion]

There's only one way to drive on ice, in my opinion, and that's very slowly. I've had the truck out a few times over the past few days and the back roads around here are mainly compacted snow, so far I haven't had any problems. I haven't encountered an icy road yet whilst out in the truck, and to be honest I have no great experience of driving on ice. I guess the worst scenario is when you hit a patch of ice that you weren't expecting.

As some of you may remember I hit black ice last December when I was taking Laura to hospital. Although I was only driving along my street at under 10mph the car started to slide as I was turning a corner and didn't stop until it smacked into a neighbours car! I was utterly powerless to gain any sort of control even at that low speed. I imagine that even with the tyres I have on the truck now it would make little difference if I start to slide on ice?

I have seen people out locally in 4 x 4's who seem to think the road conditions do not apply to them as they drive at speed in adverse weather conditions, mind you most of them are in newish Range Rover Vogues or Misubishi Animals etc.

We never see the gritters on our estate, even when the bin men are due. The council estate however does get gritted for the bin men, how does that work? Oh and by the way my parents and daughter live on a coucil estate so please don't get the idea I'm making a class statement, it's merely an observation.

[madcampbell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJO0SCFQLg

Not like this then......