Motorway driving in the fog

I can't help thinking that the Police's mantra that accidents in fog
are caused by people driving too fast is a bit simplistic. I don't
suppose that the syrup lorry was going to fast but he was still
involved in the accident.

If you are driving a smaller vehicle it's difficult to get it right,
too fast you risk hitting someone but too slow and you risk being run
into.

If you slow down on a motor bike and someone runs into the back of you
it's not much consolation blaming the other driver.

 

Would you care to expand upon the incident to which you refer?
Context, man, context.

And this is news why exactly?

"slow down on a motor bike" - I don't get it. You'll have to explain
the concept.

You're reminding me of a friend of my mother's - she starts
conversations in the middle, and assumes you know what and who she's
on about.

 

I wasn't aware you knew my wife.

 

Accident on the M1 today
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7040209.stm
As it made the TV news I thought it would be more obvious than it was.

 

The Hertfordshire Fire Service reckons fog "could have been a factor". So
that's obviously what happened, indubitably.

Meanwhile, this is special:

http://www.epost.co.uk/displayNode....uleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Driver has fit, loses control of vehicle and kills ped. So the council
installs speed signs in response. Speed signs that /flash/...

 

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:17:31 +0100, DR

snip>

You need to experience something similar to the conditions riding over
the mountain last Monday morning then.

I know that road fairly well and I found myself slowing down several
times because I couldn't see the grass verges and I hadn't got a clue
where I was within about 1/2 mile so I couldn't even try to get to
Douglas using memory to keep me out of harm.

 

Your wife is my mother?

 

It may come as a surprise to some people that the rest of the fucking
universe does not revolve around London.

 

Personally I'm in favour of removing the place from the map entirely
(of course I'd give some of you fair warning first - before Ordnance
Survey go in, it needs Ordnance), and relocating the capital of
England somewhere a lot closer to Sellafield, see how the politicians
like that.

 

You think that's bad. In the context of siting a new super-duper hospital
in SE Wales, some people seem to think the world does not extend beyond
Newport.

 

And I wasn't aware we shared one either. It's a bloody small world I tell
you.


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Seeing that a light already shines out of their arses I doubt they'd
notice a difference when other bodyparts start to glow, too.

 

Pahnd!

Oh, hang on, wrong poster.

 

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<fx: throws monopoly money in pot>

It was pretty atrocious, mind. The Mountain Road has fairly
closely-spaced red cat's eyes along the verges; for most of the way
over, I could see two: the one next to me, and one in front.

I kept thinking the fog was clearing directly in front of me, but it was
just my shadow from the headlights of some random loony on an Aprilia
who decided to follow me all the way to Douglas.

 

What have you got against the Cumbrians? It's bad enough that they have to
put up with a leaky nuclear power station and now you want to inflict
London on them. Wouldn't it be a better idea to move Sellafield next to the
Houses of Parliament?

 

Simplest thing would be to tell people they don't need their fucking
foglights (rear or front) unless the visibility is down to under 20
metres.

 

"tell"? Why not just nick them under the appropriate legislation? If you
do it enough, they'll start to get the idea.

 

Waht, and have Fog Light cameras springing up all over the country?

 

Telling or nicking supposes there is someone there to do the telling
and/or the nicking.