Icy roads cause accidents in South Lakeland and Yorkshire Dales (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Icy roads cause accidents in South Lakeland and Yorkshire Dales
10:21am Tuesday 11th December 2012 in News
By Steven Bell, Senior Reporter
The overturned car on the A591 this morning
MOTORISTS have been urged to drive carefully today after ice caused at least two accidents across the region.
A 20-year-old Windermere woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries after her Mini Cooper overturned on the A591 near Plantation Bridge.
Police closed the road for a time but it re-opened at about 9.30am.
And in the Yorkshire Dales, a man was hurt after his van left the A65 at Newby, near Clapham, and crashed into a field.
The driver suffered back pain in the crash and was taken to hospital.
Fire crews from Bentham and Kirkby Lonsdale were called to the incident at 4.22am.
A spokesman for North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said its crews were experiencing difficult conditions across the county.
He explained: “We have started to get a number of road traffic accidents due to icy conditions.
“All the crews who are going out say the conditions are very bad and very slippery and, when they’re getting out of their fire engines, they’re finding it difficult in some places to stand up.”
Comments(16)
ianrosie
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2:16pm Tue 11 Dec 12
zaney5 wrote:Not really a good excuse zaney5, any motorist should assume that if they needed to de-frost their car, if the fields are white - then there is a pretty good chance there will be areas on the road that may be slippery and exercise caution.
No grit on the roads again.
To blame no grit is a complete cop out and the responsibility to drive within the conditions should lie firmly with the motorist. After all looking at the photograph above it shouldn't have been any surprise that there may have been ice, even if the motorist had travelled from out of the area.
Just a thought!
BillyBob86
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4:57pm Tue 11 Dec 12
Debbie11
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11:11am Wed 12 Dec 12
zaney5
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11:48am Wed 12 Dec 12
Debbie11 wrote:I rest my case.
Ironically the gritters passed 10 mins later. The driver was not doing excessive speed and was driving carefully just unfortunate that the lorry in front of her hit ice and started to come into her lane which caused her to brake and then loose control. If the road had been gritted as you would expect with the weather forecast this could have been avoided.
Lakeuk
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12:51pm Wed 12 Dec 12
Grit isn't a magic formula for removing risk of accident
zaney5
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1:32pm Wed 12 Dec 12
lakesailor
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3:35pm Wed 12 Dec 12
tictoc1
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4:40pm Wed 12 Dec 12
Kendmoor
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5:51pm Wed 12 Dec 12
furthersouth
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9:54pm Wed 12 Dec 12
cumvagftw
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3:46pm Sat 15 Dec 12
ukmann
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4:29pm Sat 15 Dec 12
ukmann
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4:33pm Sat 15 Dec 12
lakesailor
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5:08pm Sat 15 Dec 12
cumvagftw wrote:Just looks like an upside Mini to me. Do you have some special knowledge that you can share with us?
I've seen this car driving around windermere on full boost 99% of the time. Maximum respect to the driver for managing to control such a high spec racecar for so long tbh.
cumvagftw
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12:18am Sat 29 Dec 12
The 'woman' driving it was actually pretty much daughter of the stig. Extremely talented driver.
She had winter tyres fitted yeah, was just the combination of 400+ BHP and a gearchange into 3rd insted of 5th.
zaney5 says...
1:27pm Tue 11 Dec 12