{"id":14816,"date":"2014-01-31T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2014-01-31T23:36:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:36:58","slug":"m65-crash-was-it-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14816","title":{"rendered":"M65 Crash: Was It The Weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorway accidents are a daily occurrence, and <a title=\"Heavy rain causes M65 crash\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/10979864.Heavy_rain_causes_M65_crash\/?ref=var_6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one appears to be<\/a> just one more such incident (no one was hurt, but there were delays while the cars were removed). However, the Lancashire Telegraph is highly irresponsible to use the headline <strong>\u201cHeavy rain causes M65 crash\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As several of the commenters at the bottom of that article have correctly said, weather doesn\u2019t cause accidents \u2013 people do.<\/p>\n<p>And a point about using fog lights in heavy rain, which one of the commenters is getting a lot of stick for. <strong>Driving: The Essential Skills<\/strong> (the official DSA driving handbook) says in the <strong>Driving On Motorways<\/strong> section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Wet weather<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visibility can be made worse because at higher speeds vehicles, especially large ones, throw up more spray. So<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use your headlights to help other drivers see you. <strong>Don\u2019t use rear fog lights unless visibility is less than 100 metres (328 feet)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It IS correct to use fog lights if heavy spray is causing poor visibility. It doesn\u2019t just have to be \u201cwhen it\u2019s foggy\u201d (something I stress to my pupils when we\u2019re going through the show-me-tell-me questions). It\u2019s conceivable that dust or smoke could also lead to conditions where fog lights would be useful. I remember one summer a few years ago when combine harvesters in fields in Suffolk were causing whiteout conditions due to the dryness and wind. Fog lights <strong>may<\/strong> also have been of use in the <a title=\"M5 crash police investigating 'black smoke' and fireworks link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2011\/nov\/06\/m5-crash-black-smoke-fireworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M5 pile up a few years<\/a> ago due to the smoke blowing across the road, but certainly if smoke was causing poor visibility in other situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorway accidents are a daily occurrence, and this one appears to be just one more such incident (no one was hurt, but there were delays while the cars were removed). However, the Lancashire Telegraph is highly irresponsible to use the headline \u201cHeavy rain causes M65 crash\u201d. As several of the commenters at the bottom of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,85,87,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related","category-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}