{"id":8748,"date":"2012-04-10T00:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T00:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2012-04-10T00:51:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T00:51:29","slug":"driving-in-the-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8748","title":{"rendered":"Driving In The Wet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A timely <font color=\"#800000\">reminder from the DSA<\/font> about driving in wet weather.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#000080\">Rule 227<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000080\">In wet weather,<\/font> <font color=\"#800000\">stopping distances (PDF, 125KB)<\/font><font color=\"#800000\"> <\/font><font color=\"#000080\">will be at least double those required for stopping on dry roads. This is because your tyres have less grip on the road. In wet weather<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000080\">you should keep well back from the vehicle in front. This will increase your ability to see and plan ahead<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000080\">if the steering becomes unresponsive, it probably means that water is preventing the tyres from gripping the road. Ease off the accelerator and slow down gradually<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000080\">the rain and spray from vehicles may make it difficult to see and be seen<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000080\">be aware of the dangers of spilt diesel that will make the surface very slippery<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000080\">take extra care around pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#2a2e29\">Not many people follow this advice, judging by the number of fire engines and ambulances I\u2019ve seen racing around today.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A timely reminder from the DSA about driving in wet weather. Rule 227 In wet weather, stopping distances (PDF, 125KB) will be at least double those required for stopping on dry roads. This is because your tyres have less grip on the road. In wet weather you should keep well back from the vehicle in [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[85,87,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dsa-related","category-news","category-training"],"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\/8748","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=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}