Monday 2 January 2017

Welcome with Caution

Anyone wanting to get some symbolic satisfaction by welcoming the sunrise on the first day of 2017 was thwarted by continuous rain all morning.

A good second day's appearance over Blacka had to do.


There was a sting in the tail though. Looking backwards and to the north some treacherous black ice on the Hathersage Road had helped to send a car over the wall and into the woods. This must have happened just minutes before our arrival. Emergency vehicles got there soon after.


Cue for some more of my regular road safety beefs? Why does this hazardous stretch of highway not have a lower speed limit when much of the Peak District's roads do? Why is road safety not more of priority in South Yorkshire?  etc. etc.

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