Eastbourne road closed by snow (From The Argus)
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Eastbourne road closed by snow
3:57pm Saturday 27th November 2010 in News By Anna Roberts
Hazardous driving conditions forced an Eastbourne road to shut today.
The A259 East Dean Road was closed both ways between the B2103 Warren Hill at Beachy Head and Downs View Lane earlier this afternoon.
The road is now open. However, people are being warned to approach it carefully because the road has not yet been gritted.
Snow started to fall in East Sussex this morning.
The Met Office is advising heavier snow will hit the county tomorrow.
Have any roads near you been shut because of the weather?
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Comments(6)
Wardrobe Gruber
says...
7:44pm Sat 27 Nov 10
Rita Snatch wrote:You obviously don't know that stretch of road very well, it's in a dip with the a 30% incline each side of Eastdean, prone to freezing and drifting and often shut when it snowed in the past. Some roads you can't treat, however, well prepared and this is one.
So Sussex was 'prepared!'
Prepared to do nothing!!!!!!!
bosshog
says...
8:35pm Sat 27 Nov 10
John Steed
says...
8:36am Sun 28 Nov 10
acoustic
says...
11:29am Sun 28 Nov 10
CaliforniaGirl
says...
11:05pm Sun 28 Nov 10
Not sure where 'blame' lies...but presumably if the driver of the parked car had parked more conscientiously, the bus would have made the curve okay. But I guess if the road had been properly gritted, it would not have happened in any event.
But why did the Argus not state the reason WHY the road was closed?!
Rita Snatch says...
6:48pm Sat 27 Nov 10
Prepared to do nothing!!!!!!!