Reply #3: cattle grid [View All]

[sweetheart]

Is a series of steel bars separated by about 4 inches each, with
about a foot of air below the grid. These run perpendicular to the
road. The grid keeps wandering livestock from crossing, as they
get their feet stuck in the holes. It replaces a gate between
wandering grazing pastures.

I guess ice is the main cause... bad luck and ice.

Single lane roads are dodgey as well, as one car must stop at
a passing place in order for another to go... and the car coming
the opposite way was on non-ice ground coming uphill, and he should
have stopped on seeing a car on ice coming down hilll.... woof!

but as he was on a 2 lane road, there is a tendency for people to
drive on to the single track with the same divine right of kings they
drive on the double track.