Lytchett Minster: the A35 in sleet
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Lytchett Minster: the A35 in sleet
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 20 Feb 2010
Not ten minutes ago it was a sunny day a couple of miles south. Now, sleet covers the roads in what appeared to be a very localised flurry of sleet – only a mile or two east it was definitely rain and the roads were not hazardous at all. The reason for the surprising route of these tyre-marks, all changing lanes at the same point, is an incident that has just occurred out-of-shot to the left – see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
50.739931
Longitude
-2.045722