Driving carelessly home for Christmas: Motorist leaves tiny gap in windscreen covered in snow

A motorist has been reported for careless driving after leaving only a tiny gap in their snow-covered windscreen.

The driver wiped away a small square of snow from the front of their car – just enough to see out.

It left their vehicle covered in snow except for a minuscule gap of screen, as Britain was lashed with winter weather.

The gap took up less than half the windscreen after the driver only wiped their half of the car.

The vehicle was pulled over by traffic police in Harlow, Essex, shortly before midnight on Sunday.

Insp Matt Allsop posted an image of the car on Twitter.

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He tweeted: ‘My officers just came across this while on patrol in Harlow, driver reported for careless driving’.

Some parts of Essex were covered in up to 10cm (4 inches) of snow on Sunday, forcing road closures and travel disruption.

More than 50 schools were closed in Essex on Monday because of the continuing snow.

The deep freeze has also seen hundreds of schools close, thousands left without power and flights delayed on Monday, including at Heathrow where passengers have complained of waiting hours for travel to be rescheduled.

The Met Office has extended its yellow weather warnings for snow and ice to cover vast swathes of the country, including London and the South East, much of the Midlands, Northern Ireland and Wales, as well as the eastern coast of England and northern and western Scotland.

Forecasters warned that clear skies on Monday night could see temperatures drop as low as minus 15C (5F), potentially beating Sunday night’s low of minus 11.6C (11F) in Chillingham Barns, Northumberland.

Heavy snow still lying on the ground, particularly around the Hereford area, has disrupted services on West Midlands Railway and Great Western Railway, while London Northwestern Railway trains to Milton Keynes from London have been delayed or cancelled.