Britain during the Winter of 2009!

Yeah i agree Ron, the driving is pretty awful that I see!!   I'm trained to drive emergency vehicles, and had to go on pretty extensive difficult courses to pass, I too have been on a 'skid test' and its great fun!!  and really does teach you what its like to get into, and out of a skid!  the only thing i'll say about skid tests, is it can ruin your 'normal' driving skills, it requiers a completely different style of driving, so when you get back onto a normal road it takes a little while to adjust. But it is a valuable experience as far as i'm concerned.

I think a general understanding on how you position, drive, reverse etc... would be benificial to most!  i think we should have tests every 5/10 years, just to give you an uplift. And like you say, how to drive in bad weather!!

I think everyone should have such a driving course!!! All you get is some drivers ed in high school when you are 16 and that's it!  The rest you learn by experince and most people do not have much!!!

And forget bad weather!  Rain, snow you name it, some people just do not know what to do.  And I will be honest...I am one of those people!!

Ron, I saw on the news last night about all those poor drivers stuck on the highway near Devon!!!  How horrible that must have been!!!

It's not as bad as this yet, is it?

This was taken in January 1963 just down the road from our house (you can just see me outside my house, a speck in the background).

Picture by Sue H.

Going home very early Monday morning, the fields were covered in snow and on a bit of dual carriageway, came across a driver going along around 25 MPH. Perhaps prudent for all the snow around except for not a drop of it was on the road which was quite clear.

Some youngsters were on a bridge near us throwing snowballs at passing cars. One lady with her kids in had her windscreen smashed as the snowball was hiding the stones they'd put inside of them.

Then I read in the news that councils, such as ours, won't be gritting side roads due to the shortage of salt. But, I can't recall when ours ever did grit any sideroads anyway, though noticed today the gritting trucks were back out at sundown----on the main A roads as usual; the only roads I've ever seen them on.