I've always believed this, personally, and I believe that the original "give way to traffic coming UPHILL" stems back to the horse and cart days when it was etiquette to give way to someone with low power who may be struggling to climb the hill. (although when you are climbing a hill on snow, the last thing you really want to do is stop). It's certainly far safer to stop on a snowy/icy hill, when going up, if the person coming down may have trouble stopping.
_________________ My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.
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