After a mild start to the week , I awoke to a frozen up car and foggy conditions on the drive to work .
Visibility never really dropped below 100m , although got close to it a couple of times , so I was content to drive with normal dipped headlamps and did not feel the need for front or rear fog lamps ; at the same time I had no issues with those who decided to use them - the split was probably about 50:50 between those on normal lighting and those on fog lamps . Since traffic was moving steadily but relatively slowly , separation distances were much less than the limits of visibility , hence my choice .
The drivers I did have an issue with however , and I counted no fewer than three of them , were the morons I saw driving with no lights at all !
This was at around 08:30 when daylight was just starting to filter through the fog , and really lights ought to have been used even without the fog .
To compound matters , one was a black car and the other two were grey . All of them were , of course , in the right hand lane going faster than me , and they disappeared into the fog alarmingly quickly .
Someone should take them out of their cars and make them watch themselves drive by , then thump their heads off their bonnets .
Visibility never really dropped below 100m , although got close to it a couple of times , so I was content to drive with normal dipped headlamps and did not feel the need for front or rear fog lamps ; at the same time I had no issues with those who decided to use them - the split was probably about 50:50 between those on normal lighting and those on fog lamps . Since traffic was moving steadily but relatively slowly , separation distances were much less than the limits of visibility , hence my choice .
The drivers I did have an issue with however , and I counted no fewer than three of them , were the morons I saw driving with no lights at all !
This was at around 08:30 when daylight was just starting to filter through the fog , and really lights ought to have been used even without the fog .
To compound matters , one was a black car and the other two were grey . All of them were , of course , in the right hand lane going faster than me , and they disappeared into the fog alarmingly quickly .
Someone should take them out of their cars and make them watch themselves drive by , then thump their heads off their bonnets .
