To urge everyone to please slow down & drive carefully

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In the last week we have heard of 2 tragedies

The first a college friend if dh. Her husband was walking the dog. Car mounted the pavement & ploughed into them. He left a young dd

Second was another college friend who is a teacher in a village school where her kids go to. A parent at the school was running late, told her kids they needed to hurry for school. Crashed car, children survived she didn't.

That's two families with young children lost a parent/spouse just before Xmas

It's not worth it folks.

Don't drink & drive & slow down.

Oh gosh that's just awful. :(

It's also worth remembering that you can still be over the limit the day after a night of drinking, so don't take any chances if you have to drive the next day.

Just to say there is no evidence drink was involved in these two cases but the first was hit & run.

YANBU. Getting there a few minutes early is just not worth losing a life for.

I completely agree.

Yanbu
When the roads were stupidly slippy with black ice last week the general response was to drive 5mph MORE than usual
I'm a confident driver, but there have been times in last month or so that I've been genuinely relived to get home safely
for those children you mentioned

Agree. And lights on if it's raining and/or gloomy!

tragic. seen some really shoddy driving this week. more than the usual. morons on their phone not looking, angry people driving too close, ignoring weather conditions etc. hate it. glad i wont be on the roads over christmas! so just the people mounting pavements to look out for now :(

I've seen some stupid driving in the last few weeks. The route I take to college goes through some winding country lanes with a few reasonably sharp bends. In turn, they lead to a T-junction (approached uphill) with a clear 'give way' sign.

Last week I had someone pull round me at the T-junction and speed along the lane (this is when the roads had black ice).

Yesterday I had someone pull round me just past a sharp bend (approaching a roundabout) which I was taking slower than I would usually because the road was wet and it was foggy. As I turned the corner I noticed someone had already pranged the crash barrier.

How awful :(

I agree wholeheartedly with the comment about being a few minutes early not worth using a life for. A few years ago now some stupid, idiotic, foolish woman was speeding in a 30 zone as she was running late. She turned around in her seat to talking to her child in the backseat while the car was moving and ploughed into the back of us. It completely wrote our car off and I had an injury to the tissues in my spine that took 12 months to 'heal' but still gives me trouble now and again. I was also pregnant and had a miscarriage (pre-12 weeks so 50/50 whether it was the crash or not but I'll always wonder as I bled in both of my healthy pregnancies and they were fine).

Last year an American friend emailed me about one of her colleagues. His sister and her friend were driving home from college for Christmas. A drunk-driver crashed into them, their car was crushed beyond recognition and both girls - barely twenty years old - died, one at the scene and the other on the way to hospital. The drunk driver walked away with bruises.

Any sort of reckless driving is not worth it in the slightest.

Can I add to make sure that your car is properly defrosted/clear of snow before you set off, and that you have adequate screenwash and clean headlights so you can see where you're going?

Saw so many cars this morning driving around without proper visability.

also - put yer bloody lights on!!