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De-Icing With Death; Icy weather warning from esure; Over 6 million accidents caused by poorly gritted roads.

Publication: M2 Presswire
Publication Date: 31-JAN-08 		Format: Online
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M2 PRESSWIRE-31 January 2008-esure: De-Icing With Death; Icy weather warning from esure; Over 6 million accidents caused by poorly gritted roads(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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With adverse wintery weather causing dangerous driving conditions, British motorists are likely to experience a third more (31 per cent) accidents this winter season than during the summer months, mainly down to poorly gritted local roads1.

Research commissioned by esure car insurance2projects that over 6 million UKdrivers (20 per cent) have experienced an accident while driving in icy weather conditions. esure's car insurance claims reflect this and rose by a massive 130,000 in November 2007 with the onset of winter weather3.

The survey further revealed that 63 per cent of UKmotorists would like to see smaller roads gritted more frequently and almost half of drivers (40 per cent) claim that their local council is not doing enough to ensure all roads are safe to drive on during icy conditions.

This lack of confidence by motorists in relation to the safety of local roads means that the vast majority (93 per cent) of motorists refuse to set out on a journey at all if they...

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