Drove to work this morning, the main (gritted) road I would have taken has been closed for a few days because of road road works. This means I had to take the 'diversion', a more remote route over a steep hill, naively I assumed the council would have gritted this, since it is now carrying >500% its normal traffic levels and it a road 2 cars cannot even pass in places. How wrong was I! the road was a death trap, if I didn't have ABS in the car i would probably have inserted it into a dry stone wall and it is only luck nothing was coming the other way as I crawled at 2 mph for several miles.