First morning of snow caused 100 minor motor claims
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.
