Two-thirds of Britons don’t know how to safely drive on icy roads, survey reveals

Two-thirds of British drivers don’t cognize however to thrust safely connected icy roads, a caller survey has found.

The study, which aimed to find however galore drivers would walk their mentation trial if they retook it based connected their cognition of wintertime driving, recovered conscionable 2 per cent of Brits would person a passing score.

The survey from integer concern lender Carmoola explored Britons’ driving cognition by surveying much than 2,000 radical successful a nationally typical illustration with questions from the driving mentation test.

It recovered that lone a 3rd could springiness the safest mode to debar a instrumentality rotation erstwhile driving connected icy roads, which is to thrust astatine a dilatory velocity successful the highest cogwheel possible.

The mean subordinate scored conscionable 31 retired of 50 marks connected the mentation questions, compared to the 43 walk people needed, starring to warnings of a deficiency of important cognition among drivers.

Aidan Rushby, laminitis and CEO of Carmoola, said: “The results of our caller survey are concerning, particularly with colder upwind connected the skyline and roadworthy conditions becoming much treacherous. 

“Alarmingly, lone a 3rd (33%) of Brits are alert of the safest mode to thrust connected icy roads. These findings underscore the request for each of america to beryllium amended prepared to navigate wintertime conditions safely.”

The Met Office enactment 3 yellowish warnings for snowfall and crystal successful spot successful the North, the Midlands, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - advising that vehicles could beryllium stranded, powerfulness cuts whitethorn hap and agrarian areas could beryllium chopped off.

The yellowish informing for England has been issued until 11am and the informing for Scotland volition stay successful spot until 10am connected Wednesday.

More than 100 schools crossed England and Wales were closed connected Tuesday owed to the conditions.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued the archetypal amber acold upwind wellness alert of the season, informing conditions could beryllium unsafe for susceptible people, including the elderly.

The amber informing covers the eastbound and northbound of England, the Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber, with yellowish alerts coming into spot for the South East, South West and London astatine 8am connected Tuesday, lasting until 6pm connected Saturday.

National Rail warned the acold clime would impact assorted routes connected bluish bid services until astatine slightest 2pm connected Tuesday.