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Published Date: 04 January 2010
MOTORISTS across South Yorkshire face hazardous road conditions as Arctic weather conditions strike again - leaving schools and roads closed.
Totley Primary School was shut due to a burst water pipe. Lound Infants, Heritage Park, Woolley Wood and Ecclesfield Primary schools were also closed all day due to heating problems.

Similar issues means Yewlands schools was also closed to Years 7, 8 and 9 - but open to Years 10, 11 and all staff.

Check out the situation on the roads with images direct from Sheffield's traffic cameras, click here

Police closed Ranmoor Park Road in Sheffield at 10am due to the icy road conditions.

Cars overturned and slid off roads as snow fell and temperatures plunged below zero.

The A57 Snake Pass between Sheffield and Manchester was closed all day yesterday due to ice and snow.

A Volvo 4x4 flipped on its roof after skidding on ice on one of Sheffield's steepest roads.

Firefighters said a man and two boys were taken to hospital after the car ran out of control on Highcliffe Road, Bents Green, yesterday at 11am.

Firefighters used the less steep Greystones Road to approach the crash scene.

And another vehicle left a road and slid into a ditch in the Mayfield Valley.

A police spokesman said there were two car crashes within two hours yesterday on Ivy Park Road, Sandygate, due to ice.

The first, at 6pm, saw a Renault Megane, slam into a garden wall. Two hours later a BMW skidded and hit a lamp-post. No one was injured in either incident.

Police closed Intake Lane, Pogmoor, Barnsley, to prevent accidents after a two-car crash at 1.15pm.

The force received reports of people abandoning their cars due to sheet ice on Solly Street in the city centre. And there were reports of sheet ice causing problems on Weston Street, Netherthorpe, at tea time.

A police spokesman said the A628 Woodhead Pass between Barnsley and Manchester had remained open yesterday.

Weather forecasters say the cold snap is set to continue for the next few days, with temperatures not expected to get much above freezing.

This morning it was -4C in Sheffield city centre with outlying areas as cold as -6C.

Tonight cloud is set to build up and a band of sleet and snow is due to hit the area, with heavy snow expected to fall between midnight and 6am.

A fire service spokesman for the MetoGroup weather forecasters said Sheffield city centre could be under two or three centimetres of snow tomorrow morning, with high lying ground at risk of four or five centimetres.

- Police have issued a safety warning urging people to avoid frozen water after a number of people attempted to rescue a dog which had fallen through the ice on a Doncaster lake.

The dog had become trapped in the lake in Sandall Park, Thorne Road, and people who tried to rescue it also fell through the ice.

Police said the dog and rescuers all escaped unharmed.

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  • Last Updated: 04 January 2010 2:17 PM
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  • Location: Sheffield
 
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Mosbroman,

sheffield 04/01/2010 08:45:19
I was at school from 1947 until 1959 and I was never allowed to stay off school because of the weather. It's a scandal that so many schools do so today...with a bad effect on education to say nothing of the inconvenience caused to parents.
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Sheffield-born 46,

Devon 04/01/2010 09:13:21
I went to school in Sheffield from 1950 to 1963 and I can't remember my schools ever closing because of the weather. Perhaps we were made of sterner stuff in those days. No wimps.
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DonSheff Commuter,

doncaster & Sheffield 04/01/2010 09:22:50
I live in doncaster and teach in sheffield, the only time weather has stopped me from getting to work was the floods of 2006 when roads and rail were shut off for a few days. I still get to work in this icy weather, so don't start harping on about teachers having it easy - some of us travel 35 miles to get there whatever the weather.
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Sheffield-born 46,

04/01/2010 09:26:26
DonSheff Commuter: Nobody is saying that teachers are having it easy.
How come you can post a comment at 0922? Not at work today or are you online when you should be working?
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The Big Bad Devil,

04/01/2010 12:26:29
Motorists are skidding and sliding off road because they are driving too fast for the road conditions!
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Charles Farleigh,

Bradway 04/01/2010 12:42:22
Excellent point Sheffield-born 46!!
Sometimes 13 weeks holiday a year is just never enough.
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CHAP LAD ,

04/01/2010 13:10:26
When I was at school between the mid 60`s and 70`s we never were sent home becuase of the weather ,but i think the difference was in those days all my teachers at all levels ,infant,junior and senior ,lived within walking distance of the schools
I can understand in theses days of violence and reprisal attacks why teachers choose to live as far away from there work places as possible ,hence if they cant get in to work I assume the schools cant open due to a lack of staff
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Mosbroman,

sheffield 04/01/2010 14:31:54
My Grammar school had NO staff within walking distance of the school! Some travelled, by motor bike, considerably further than the 35 miles commute already mentioned. Apparantly, its the heating thats at fault with this latest crop of casualties. Wasn't it cold when term finished? Has the heating been left running during the cold spell? Don't we have engineers on call out? Or is it just pure and simple poor management?
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Handsworth,

04/01/2010 16:12:09
9 JayDee 1889

I hate to say this but I have a nasty feeling that this contributor is telling porkies. I was going to say exaggerating but it goes much further than that
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cris4,

Sheffield 04/01/2010 17:17:18
Remember that when you were at school there weren't as many cars on the road. One of the main reasons schools close is to keep pupils safe. There would be a hue and cry if a child got killed walking to school on a snowy day. Think how you would feel if that happened to your child or grandchild. You would soon change your tune.I would rather my son was at home safe than having to walk amongst cars that are sliding about. It doesn't help that the pavements are not kept clear. Most of the time you have no choice but to walk on the road, and yes my son does walk to school and back and is not ferried about in a car.
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