It amazes me how people lose a car in the wet, surely we all adjust our driving to the conditions?
I agree, but there are sometimes conditions you cannot account for. I was driving on the M4 a couple of Fridays ago when there was torrential rain. I was driving at about 45-50mph as the visibility was so poor. I was alongside an old style mini in the outside lane at this speed when he hit a huge river of water - the mini veered around and sent a massive bow wave up into my lane over my car. It was like a waterfall had suddenly engulfed my car and I couldn't see a thing. The lack of vision probably only lasted a second or two, but that's enough for something dangerous to happen even at that speed. Fortunately I kept control of my car and the mini stayed in his lane. I slowed down even more after that, but was passed a number of times by others racing along as if the conditions were perfect.
Mark, it's always tw@ts on Euro boxes I find. Hurtling along at 80mph in awful conditions.
It's about time the government spent some money on our roads.
Compared to the rest of Europe we are lagging far behind.
We all pay our taxes after all !
Air bags don't seem to have been deployed
All UK central reservation barriers are being upgraded to concrete... expect a fair few more write offs in the future.