{"id":9227,"date":"2012-06-17T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9227"},"modified":"2012-06-17T13:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T13:21:18","slug":"dsa-advice-driving-in-wet-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9227","title":{"rendered":"DSA Advice: Driving In Wet Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timely advice from the DSA about wet-weather driving:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rule 227 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In wet weather,   stopping distances (PDF, 125KB) <span style=\"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. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In wet weather <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">you should keep well back from the vehicle in front. This will increase your ability to see and plan ahead <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"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 <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">the rain and spray from vehicles may make it difficult to see and be seen <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">be aware of the dangers of spilt diesel that will make the surface very slippery <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">take extra care around pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rule 121 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Brakes affected by water. If you have driven through deep water your brakes may be less effective. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Test them at the first safe opportunity by pushing gently on the brake pedal to make sure that they work. If they are not fully effective, gently apply light pressure while driving slowly. This will help to dry them out. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With all the rain we&#8217;ve had, people <strong>really<\/strong> need to take notice of this advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timely advice from the DSA about wet-weather driving: 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 front. This will [&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":[80,85,87,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","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\/9227","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=9227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}