Not driving at a sensible speed, and likely had poor tyres. The fact that the majority of drivers have ditchfinders, often mismatched even across the same axle, makes me wonder why I bother.
If I stop in time with my Continentals on my ****box, someone in a 5 year old BMW with a Triangle, a Three-A, a bald Linglong and a winter tyre mounted backwards will crash into the back of me anyway.
Hope they are insured if that happens
Yesterday as well in heavy rain on the M25 between junctions 8-10 hope they were ok but someone had hit another vehicle
as the entire front of their car was mangled & a massive curve shape was where the bonnet & part of the engine used to be facing the wrong way in the middle of the M25
the other vehicle had a destroyed rear end so clearly 1 hit the other then span & hit something else along the way. The closing speed difference must have been huge for there to be so much damage & carnage though
Again today same stretch of M25 going east this time lots of standing water & I counted at least 4 serious accidents (multiple ambulances, police & traffic officers) in a short stretch of M25 between 7-8 (I was going in the other direction having my pre lockdown 2.0
day out cancelled by heavy rain
) these drivers just do not appear to understand the simple concept of slow down if its raining heavily & go in the slow lane is a better option than getting somewhere slightly faster with high risk speed in surface water conditions
Even at 50-60 when you go through surface water you never really know how your car will react even if it has the greatest tyres man ever created an oil film under the water surface can cause a very fast loss of tyre grip
