This thing also happened near us, as has accidents after gritting. It seems that to make the salt stay in place it is mixed with things like molasses and spraying this sticky mixture can cause vehicle treads to fill with frozen mixture and the vehicles to skid. This includes gritters!
--- On Mon, 1/5/09, Bob Wood <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bob Wood <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: ice To: [email protected] Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 11:18 PM 2009/1/5 bloovee <s.paris...@ntlworld .com>: > Not really canal related, but early Sunday evening, a gritter driver > in Warrington managed to skid coming off a roundabout - and turned the > gritter over... > > Driver not hurt thankfully, just embarrassed. > > Let's be careful out there. Did it happen twice? <http://www.thisisch eshire.co. uk/news/4021544. Gritter_spills_ diesel_on_ road_after_ crash/> This relates to an incident today (Monday morning) No picture :-( . -- Bob [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
