10 cold, hard questions on the big freeze

1. I crashed my car after sliding off a primary road because doing so hadn’t been gritted. Am i able to sue the council?

You could possibly sue the area council, or Highways Agency, nonetheless it is a long-winded affair, just a small prospects for success.

The AA’s director of roads policy, Paul Watters, says that since 2003 local authorities as well as Highways Agency also have the best requirement to look at all “reasonably practicable” steps to prevent major roads in Britain clear of snow and ice. Scotland already had this requirement available.

“Each county council publishes its roads service plan, which is supposed to detail which roads it’s going to endeavour to have open. It is a small amount of postcode lottery