Snow Carnage on the A1 last Night

[AndyJudge]

The mini beast struck with a vengeance on the A1 last night from Doncaster Nothwards but compounded by people driving like total numpties.

Case 1 Dropping down the hill to the bridge over the River Don, Nissan 370z comes past me (I'm doing 40 following a van in inside lane0 as road is just tracks) in outside lane, hits the bridge & spinny spin time Back end hits the outside barrier Front hits the nearside then car slides to a halt half on lane 1. the car directly behind stops, both the van & I crawl as driver & passenger get out of car looking OK.

So the road is slippery does that slow people down nope....

Case 2 at next junction A1 shut Northwards due to cars spinning & crashing, left the road at the junction exit & then directed to rejoin the other side of the junction but obviously proceed with caution.

Case 3 A car that had been sat in the traffic for case 2 (Blue Audi S5 was in lane 2 next to me) had gone blasting away once back on the A1, about 4 miles further on same Audi Facing wrong way half up the embankment.

Case 4 Wind forward to North Yorks 1 car in outside lane facing wrong way all smashed in, on hard shoulder 3 other cars that had all either hit it &/or each other, highways agency in attendance.

Case 5 Now in County Durham, loads of cars still tanking it past us (I stuck at 35-40) yet another set of accidents 1 with 2 cars in outside lane & multiple cars on the shoulder with police in attendence, we crawl past literally maybe
300m further on a fire engine sat on the shoulder dealing with a car in the field, maybe a further 300m on another fire engine another set of hazard lights blinking away in the field.

It took me 5Hrs to get from the M18 junction on the A1 to the A194M turn on the A1, normally this takes me 2.

In that whole distance although the signs were showing as salt spreading I didn't see a single gritter heading north, must have been 5 or more going south.