A council has been forced to use table salt to grit roads as temperatures continue to plunge.
Gloucestershire County Council has been running low on rock salt but has now found 500 tonnes of table salt to combat icy conditions.
White salt is not usually used to grit roads, but the council said it had to resort to any means necessary in the extreme weather conditions.
Temperatures in some parts of the UK will plunge to -10C overnight and Sunday will see snow showers return, mainly to the north of the country.
Motorists are being warned of dangerous driving conditions, with millions facing another day of disruption.
Friday saw travel chaos after heavy falls in the West Country, Midlands, Home Counties and parts of Scotland.
The M4 Second Severn Crossing - one of the two main roads between England and South Wales - was closed after sheets of ice fell from overhead sign gantries and smashed the windscreens of five vehicles.
Thousands of Welsh rugby fans hoping to travel to Scotland for Sunday's Six Nations clash also saw their plans thrown into disarray after heavy snow grounded flights at Bristol airport. Luton airport was also closed for a number of hours.
In the West, more than 1,000 schools were closed, while similar numbers were shut in the Thames Valley and in a combination of eastern England plus counties to the north of London. Wales was also badly hit, with more than 200 closed.
The AA said it expected to have attended a total of more than 70,000 breakdowns since Monday.
As the UK's worst week of travel disruption for more than 18 years persisted, Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon reportedly called on Britons to "stop whingeing" and queried why more drivers have not acquired snow chains for their cars.
During a Westminster lunch, he was quoted as saying: "Why has nobody got snow chains and why are you all whingeing about what the Government hasn't done?"
The Department for Transport said his comments had been taken out of context.
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