One does wonder if the amount of 'imported' drivers has anything to do with it....

Hmm i have a small theory about the recent spate of accidents, probably wrong as usual.

I can't be the only one who finds the rapidly increasing light displays on cars counter productive, yes they can be seen but all you can see now when you either follow or meet several other cars is a mass of blinding lights, especially those damded awful camp DRL's that look frankly ridiculous and should have left on the Christmas tree with the fairy.

Factor in that LED rear lights, especially the fad for umpteen million lumens of brake lights, whilst visible, are flickering so fast and so brightly that its virually impossible to tell the rate of deceleration of mobile Blackpool illuminations before your very eyes.

Luckily for my work i sit that much higher in the lorry and keep a good braking distance in front (not as the dive bombers leave me that luxury for long) but i increasingly detest the drive to and from work in my car due to the severe blinding.

Another thing of course is the slipperiness of the roads as they get wetter and will be much slipperier once the salt goes down, where many of us learned car control on cars that had little grip and no electronic stability controls of any description, there are increasing numbers of newer drivers who have never driven without ABS and now without some from of electronic vehicle stability as well, they are lulled into a false sense of how well their cars grip (or their pride in their driving prowess)...eventually conditions prevail over 'puter and raw physics takes over but at a much higher speed or G's than those of us maybe older and wiser would have reached at a given set of circumstances.

and don't forget the inconsiderate folk driving with fog lights on when there is no fog.

Or no lights on when it is foggy