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Author Topic: Winters here ! Watch out for black ice !  (Read 3300 times)
Chris24
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« on: December 01, 2009, 04:48:20 pm »

f**k*ng black ice !   I hate winter !  Angry

This was the result this morning of the over night freeze. On the way to work, I slid on a patch of black ice as I approached a roundabout and it wouldn’t stop and I hit the back of a white transit van, smack into his tow bar in the side of the grill and then moments later a silver Mazda 6 also couldn’t stop on the ice and ploughed into the back of me as well. Probably doing 15 mph at most.

The Mazda was a mess and he couldn’t even open his drivers door as the wing was pushed back against it.

Oh the joys of motoring, so I am now driving a 1 litre Fiesta Style courtesy car.

Bastard thing is last night someone told me they are sending me a £270 cheque for all my magazine articles I wrote during the year.

 Less than 12 hours later a bent car and a £200 excess bill !

Watch out people it's getting slippery out there.





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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 05:18:05 pm »

Bad news that Chris.

winter tyres all the way.

They'll go on horrid steel / smaller alloys, and you won't mind kerbing them etc. And, once you've done the initial outlay, you'll save the wear on the good tyres, for a good few winters.
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2009, 05:23:03 pm »

Nice  Angry

We had the same problem here this morning,I only just managed to keep my van out of the hedge and avoid the side of a wood lorry at 7am. Phoned the council to see why the road hadn't been treated and the answer was because the frost had lifted where he was,40 fecking  Angry miles away.
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« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2009, 05:49:43 pm »

Nice  Angry

We had the same problem here this morning,I only just managed to keep my van out of the hedge and avoid the side of a wood lorry at 7am. Phoned the council to see why the road hadn't been treated and the answer was because the frost had lifted where he was,40 fecking  Angry miles away.

Bollox!  Sad Nothing got gritted here either and I believe it was because the lazy c**ts didn't want to leave the confines of their nice warm office and their big steaming council teapot.

Merry Christmas to one and all   Angry
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I wouldn't sit there if I were you, it's still a bit wet.
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2009, 06:50:39 pm »

Gritters were very busy down here in tropical Dorset last night - we did have abit of a frost this morning though  Grin
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