Why can't English people drive in snow, or even rain? It seems that whenever the weather here is any more abnormal than a light acid rain drizzle, everyone seems to lose all their abilities to drive and think in a semi coherent manner. Just like the tosser who hit my PARKED car this morning, virtually wrote it off and was kind enough to f*$k off without leaving any details!
2007-02-09 04:57:25 · 15 answers · asked by Angel 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Many apologies fatherf.lotski, you are quite right and I stand humbly corrected. Scottish folk can indeed drive perfectly well in the snow, even if they are occasionally sozzled at the same time. Brilliant.
2007-02-09 05:07:16 · update #1
sorry I was drunk
2007-02-09 05:01:04 · answer #1 · answered by Borlax 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its because we insist on carrying on driving. If everyone who didn't need to just stayed at home when the weather was bad, meh, no problem.
Someone hit my car when it was parked up a couple of years ago, and didn't leave details. No snow, and it was in a cul-de-sac, which makes it even worse.
The source of the problem is the poor road system, which struggles to deal with the traffic as it is. Once the snow comes, people can't go quite as fast, and everyone tends to try and get home all at once, and you get gridlock.
I'm writing this, stuck in my Birmingham office. I tried to leave an hour and a half ago, and got two floors down the car park, with no further progress made before I gave up and returned to the office. Not sure when I'll get home.....
2007-02-09 05:13:20 · answer #2 · answered by Whateverandeverandamen 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I concur wholeheartedly with your views, the reason i believe is most of the people who cause the accidents when it snows have probably just passed their test; either a day or possibly even a week before. Naturally they appear to panic and lose all sense of direction, in future i think a pass should be given only when they have covered say 200 miles or so in Sweden. Or better still anywhere above the Arctic circle.
2007-02-09 05:14:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people have little experience of driving in snow, partly because we don't get any snowfall most of the time. Therefore people can be over-cautious, not knowing how to drive safely in snow. Or they ignore the snow and cause accidents.
Part of the problem is that most of the time the council doesn't send out grit/salt spreaders before predicted snowfall, and so snow can render roads unsafe.
Both snow and rain affect visibility, many people get rather panicky when they can't see as well as they usually can. But that doesn't excuse the gross stupidity of many drivers.
I grew up in Sheffield with relatively frequent snow in winter. So before learning to drive I had watched how my parents drove the car in bad weather. From walking around in snow I learnt how snow and ice affects traction. I can apply this to driving because I have the underlying experience of dealing with snow.
2007-02-09 05:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by Nebulous 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer think of that there has been a snow loose twelve months interior the united kingdom considering men walked the earth. there is many times somewhat snow on the hills interior the north interior the morning before everything of June. Deep snow is unusual interior the united kingdom and Scotland's ski hotels are often with out competent coverning of snow all twelve months. the exhilaration of a temperate climate i assume.
2016-09-28 21:20:18 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its because silly people who cant drive properly carrying on thinking it wont happen to them . If everyone who didn't need to go out stayed at home when the weather was bad, then there would not be problem.
2007-02-09 05:37:26 · answer #6 · answered by just ask jo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe its because everybody drives on the left side of the road? It seems like that could really cause some major accidents.
2007-02-09 05:01:41 · answer #7 · answered by Sciencenut 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was driving along this morning when a parked car smashed straight into me while I was on my mobile. No apology, naturally.
2007-02-09 05:01:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Beggin your pardon but 'UK' and 'English people' are three different things. Up in Scotland it snows more than once every decade and people know how to handle it.
2007-02-09 05:03:34 · answer #9 · answered by fatherf.lotski 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We're just strange I quess. Sorry to hear about your car.
2007-02-09 05:08:27 · answer #10 · answered by Lillian 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some pp hay sorry to hear about your car
2007-02-09 21:47:18 · answer #11 · answered by dream theatre 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋