Frighten you!

[TWR]

When driving on / in the snow, does it frighten you? why?

[tonyav]

Driving on/in the snow does not frighten me ( have done it most winters for many years ), but some of the idiots that i have seen driving on/in the snow have frightened me.

[ChuckFickens]

Nope, not at all. Driven too many miles over too many years all over the county in all weathers for a little snow to worry me.

[ChuckFickens]

Fair point by Tony...

There are loads of "younger" drivers on the road now that have had no real experience of driving in snow and have no idea of how to do it safely!.... The times I've seen people that seem to think "it's a bit slippery, I better floor the throttle because that will help" is a bit scary!

[NOX]

No doesn't frighten me and I don't know anyone it does actually.

[tonyav]

Yes you are right Chuck, the ones that you describe are the usual suspects.

[EvianBaby]

I hate it. No matter how well you drive you can not have complete control of the car. I avoid it if i can but when i have to do it i drive about 2 miles an hour. You also cant control what other people do. Since i got crashed into a couple of years ago by an oncoming car skidding into my lane (he was also going very slowly) my confidence hasnt grown.

[ChuckFickens]

You also get the people that seem to think having a 4WD car will magically give their tyres more grip in the snow!

[ttfn]

Certainly not frightened but, as with any adverse weather condition, I always ask myself if I need to drive in/on it. Last winter I walked to and from work throughout the snowfall period, which was a challenge for me. Drivers who park in the snow cause just as many problems as those driving. Cars are left at all angles to and distances from the kerbs. Then folk moan about the roads not being gritted. How do they expect the gritting lorries to get through narrow routes - do they really want their vehicles shunted into?

[pillj123]

only been slightly scared once....the steep road covered in snow....and ice underneath.Even going zero mph, my car gently skidded with a mind of its own.

[TWR]

I like that chuck lol, seen them come & go.

[paddywak]

Like most of the older posters I've had a lot of experience of driving in snow and though I don't like it it doesn't scare me, what I really hate driving in is fog, I like to see what the idiots are doing.

[Prudie]

Not frighten but it does make me nervous of skidding out of control (probably because it happened once and did £4K of damage to my car). I know several people, mainly females, who won't even attempt to drive in it and you can't really blame them.

[woofgang]

What I do doesn't frighten me, seeing what other people do TERRIFIES me.

[sherrardk]

I plan well ahead in terms of shopping, etc if bad weather is forecast as I don't like driving in snow.

[maggiebee]

Like Paddywak it's fog that gets me. Once drove south from Aberdeen in thick fog and had to turn off at Stonehaven til it cleared. Idiots hurtling past at 70/80 mph. If I couldn't see a thing then neither could they! Snow doesn't bother me too much - was taught defensive driving by an old boyfriend.

[janzman]

When I lived in California I'd see young people (mainly) pass their driving tests in say May and then drive thousands of miles in the next 8-9 months and never drive in rain let alone snow. After 9 months of tyre rubber deposits on the roads baked by the sun, it rains and the roads can take on all the menace of black ice.It can be very scary ...

[lozzer50]

it does but other road users scare me more. i drive a long distance to work every day so its a case of get in and go dont like it but gotta do it!

[NoMercy]

I drove from Hereford to Fareham with very dodgy windscreen wipers this morning.

At one point I realised I was doing 95 so I slowed right down to 93 and took it steady for the rest of the journey...

[brenda]

Driving in snow does not worry me in itself , but people who drive at 95 in snow do so very much.
Far too many people die on the roads, for speed top become a jocular issue.

[karenmac60]

no more than normal driving...