Sunday 15th December 2019.....
Today we have travelled back up to Dorset to visit my daughter and also to attend yet another MRI scan at Poole hospital.
We didn't leave the campsite until about 1400hrs and the morning was quite dry and sunny although it was cold....
About 45 minutes before we started our journey the heavens opened and it poured with rain...
The roads were very wet but it didn't seem to slow people up as lots of cars flashed past us at silly miles an hour....
As we approached Honiton we encountered a really bad hail storm which turned the road into a skating rink and one car seemed to have braked too hard and spun out of control careering straight through the centre reservation destroying the reservation cables as it carried on across the opposite carriageway ending up embedded into a bank....
The hail that had fallen had not melted but had frozen as it hit the road and had just accumulated on the roadway making it take on the characteristics of an ice rink...
Perhaps if the driver had kept his speed down he would have avoided this accident...
Anyway we stopped off in Honiton for a natural break and when we set back off again we found that the eastern side of the town had really dry roads with no sign of the previous bad weather so the rest of our journey proved uneventful.
A couple of images below showing the ice rink like conditions in the main car park at Honiton....
My MRI scan is scheduled for early Wednesday morning and following lunch in Poole we will be heading back to Devon in the afternoon.
Hopefully our return journey will be less eventful...
If there are any further developments I will keep you informed.
Today we have travelled back up to Dorset to visit my daughter and also to attend yet another MRI scan at Poole hospital.
We didn't leave the campsite until about 1400hrs and the morning was quite dry and sunny although it was cold....
About 45 minutes before we started our journey the heavens opened and it poured with rain...
The roads were very wet but it didn't seem to slow people up as lots of cars flashed past us at silly miles an hour....
As we approached Honiton we encountered a really bad hail storm which turned the road into a skating rink and one car seemed to have braked too hard and spun out of control careering straight through the centre reservation destroying the reservation cables as it carried on across the opposite carriageway ending up embedded into a bank....
The hail that had fallen had not melted but had frozen as it hit the road and had just accumulated on the roadway making it take on the characteristics of an ice rink...
Perhaps if the driver had kept his speed down he would have avoided this accident...
Anyway we stopped off in Honiton for a natural break and when we set back off again we found that the eastern side of the town had really dry roads with no sign of the previous bad weather so the rest of our journey proved uneventful.
A couple of images below showing the ice rink like conditions in the main car park at Honiton....
My MRI scan is scheduled for early Wednesday morning and following lunch in Poole we will be heading back to Devon in the afternoon.
Hopefully our return journey will be less eventful...
If there are any further developments I will keep you informed.
2 comments:
I was watching the Exeter v Sale rugby on Sunday pm and the ref called the players off whilst the hail storm lasted. I'm always amazed at the speed people travel in poor weather, no wonder motorway accidents occur.
We saw the lights on at the Rugby ground as we went past.... By the way Anne is a keen rugby fan and one of her sons was a western referee and is now a coach...I am not a fan in the same league as Anne but I do prefer watching rugby over football....
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