AA has 100 snow claims in am

The AA’s claims department handled 100 claims for snow and ice related crashes before lunch on the first day of snow on Friday.

• 31 cars in collisions on the road, including six involving several vehicles and 10 tail-end shunts
• 6 failed to stop at junctions, hitting other cars
• 9 finished up in a ditch, two others bouncing out of the ditch and going on to hit something else (total 11)
• 14 hit parked cars, in two cases hitting several parked cars
• 7 hit kerbs so hard that serious damage was caused - including one whose ‘front wheel fell off'
• 29 hit other objects including lamp posts, telegraph poles, bollards, barriers, fences, hedges, walls, buildings, a skip and a telephone box
• 2 accidents were caused by ice and snow flying off lorries

AA Insurance had no reports of injuries in any of these accidents.