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Weather: Beware of summer black ice
Weather: Beware of summer black ice
(France 2)
A few days ago, a series of accidents took place in Côtes-d’Armor. The cause was summer black ice, a kind of film that makes roads slippery and that forms when rain falls on a road where particles of all kinds have accumulated.
Damaged cars, victims of summer black ice, a phenomenon less known than winter black ice, but just as dangerous. It occurs in rainy weather, after a period of high heat. With humidity, fatty substances such as oil, fuel or tire rubber accumulated in the bitumen rise to the surface and form a slippery film.
The phenomenon is the cause of around twenty road accidents in Côtes-d’Armor. “These three cars are HS. They are good for the scrapyard unfortunately”comments Mickhaïl Lesteven, a breakdown service. He has intervened in about ten accidents that only caused minor injuries. Summer black ice is a phenomenon well known to a driving school instructor.
