Road rules / 🇬🇧 speed
How should your separation gap change when the road is wet?
✓ ANSWER
At least double it, to a minimum of four seconds
In wet weather stopping distances are at least doubled, so leave a gap of at least four seconds.
All the options
- ✓At least double it, to a minimum of four seconds
- ✗Keep the same two-second gap
- ✗Halve it because spray helps you see
- ✗Reduce it so others cannot cut in
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