Unrivalled coverage of Sussex's snow chaos in tomorrow's Argus (From The Argus)
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Drivers stranded on the A23, A27 and A259, buses and cars stranded across Brighton and Hove and motorists forced to sleep in their cars.
6:47pm Tuesday 12th March 2013 in News By The Argus news team
A car abandonded on the A259 East Dean Road
- Thousands of people were stranded in the snow.
- Hundreds of cars were abandoned.
- Emergency services were called to 2,500 incidents and there were more than 200 road accidents.
- Drivers were trapped for more than 12 hours.
- But transport bosses say they did their best.
See tomorrow’s Argus for our unrivalled coverage of Sussex’s March snow chaos.
Our team has been working tirelessly despite the weather to bring you all the news from the county’s roads, explain what happened to the gritters and tell you the stories of motorists who were stranded for hours.
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Comments(10)
rolivan
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7:30pm Tue 12 Mar 13
funkyyoyo
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7:32pm Tue 12 Mar 13
BeeJam
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7:32pm Tue 12 Mar 13
barleydevil
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9:41pm Tue 12 Mar 13
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yaddab
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10:03pm Tue 12 Mar 13
did you actually get off your butt and feel or even open your eyes and see the wind, or even be awake enough to marvel at some of the drifts left around after yesterday
steveP2009
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10:55pm Tue 12 Mar 13
yaddab wrote:Grit is much heavier than snow so less prone to cause 'grit drifts', the wind was not as strong as it was in the evening so a better time to lay grit during the day and the roads were already wet so some grit would have been held by the water to the surface.
Stevep2009
did you actually get off your butt and feel or even open your eyes and see the wind, or even be awake enough to marvel at some of the drifts left around after yesterday
It would not have been as effective as if there was no wind - but it would help.
The council said gritters were out on the website at 19:30. My point is this is rubbish. There was no evidence of grit or grit drifts. If the grit 'blew away' then there would be grit on the pavements or at the side of the road - helping pedestrians and cyclists. This was not the case.
Major failings of Sussex council (east and west).
Cgull
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8:15am Wed 13 Mar 13
The last time the gritters were out was Saturday. Kitkat knows that but hasn't got the balls to confirm.
They should all be sacked or resign and call a new election.
Tallywhacker
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8:50am Wed 13 Mar 13
steveP2009
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10:56am Wed 13 Mar 13
Tallywhacker wrote:I was waiting for a comment like this.
So if you could see the roads were bad and conditions getting worse why did you go out?
I went out at around 15:00 and within 30 minutes (the time to get from Kemptown to Hove) the snow had blanketed the whole city. It was fine when I started driving. So like many other people it struck whilst out.
Also like many other people we were lead to believe the council prepared the city for it.
I had common sense and just left my car on a side road (then had no sense and got drunk at the pub :) )
steveP2009 says...
6:55pm Tue 12 Mar 13
I was travelling out of Brighton via Dyke Rd and spent 2 hours travelling 1/2 a mile. I gave up as the hills around there were covered in snow and cars were rolling about all over the place. The snow took 30 mins to get heavy and I abandoned my car and went to the pub.
The council should have got the gritters out during the dat as this weather WAS forecast and I thought it would be OK as I expected the council to be on top of the situation. People need to be sacked for incompetence. It was disgraceful especially for the council tax payers. If transport bosses 'did there best' then their best is not good enough.
Absolute rubbish that the grit would blow away. The roads were wet all day from unsettled sleet - if the gritting was done during the day it would have stayed on the wet road.