Drivers and their problems

You want this thread for infrastructure collisions
https://road.cc/content/forum/car-crashes-building-please-post-your-loca...

mark1a wrote:

Some pearl-clutching and sh*t-losing from my fellow inhabitants regarding *gasp* £2m allocated for active travel. 

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23534534.dorset-council-gets-2million-...

2 million won't cover the cost of consultants to say it can't be done...

Agree - unlikely she will drive again.

However - what planet was her lawyer on:

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This was not a case of dangerous driving with a flagrant disregard of the rules.

My sanity is happy that there was a sensible judge presiding:

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She is so drunk she drives on the wrong side of the motorway [you muppet]

*I may have added a couple of words...

Could have split his drink !

I couldn't see if anyone tried to get the keys off the driver but I would have tried !

Hirsute wrote:

This will be interesting as to the sentence !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65714508

A man has been arrested after a car crashed into the gates outside Downing Street, Met police said.

They should have arrested the car as that was the one doing the crashing

Normally I don't have a small enough violin for them but in this case I guess it's possible that their office / secretary / intern submitted this for them.

Having said that it's one of those "call yourself a politician - you thought nobody would care / find out about that?" moments. (OTOH they've been right up 'till now...)

SaveTheWail wrote:

It's all the speed limit's fault!  Hey - how about just having a universal speed limit of 200 m.p.h., and then there would be no speeding offences?  It's not as though drivers have any control over their speed, after all.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/30/20mph-speed-limit-speeding-o...

Nick Freeman:

“I hit the Edgware Road and my car would not go 20mph. I am being serious. I am driving with no foot on the accelerator. When the speed limit is artificially, ridiculously low, it is literally impossible to comply with,” he said.

As it's often absolutely necessary to go much less than 20 MPH, such as when pulling out of a parking space, I'd suggest that all cars be pulled from the road immediately until each model can be tested and shown to be capable of being driven at 5 MPH. It seems the regulators must have been missing this big issue for decades!

If found a twitter thread on it more bizarre where someone said he used his car as a waepon and someone insisted he didn't as 'you don't know the full facts'. Well, apart from the 1 minute video...

Clearly been watching too much Dukes of Hazard

That, the mind control and spreading COVID.

David9694 wrote:

Owner of infamous Paignton party bus won't let police incident stop him

Self-employed drum and bass DJ Martin Dickson, 50, ...

There is a solution to that problem! (Two wheels good, three wheels better! )

https://m.youtube.com/@DomWhiting

David9694 wrote:

pay up, whingers 

M5 driver stunned after being hit by Clean Air Zone fines

https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/m5-driver-stunned-after-bei...?

Signage for Bristol Airport from the M5 sends you along the A4 Portway and then the A370 toward Weston-super-Mare and the airport.  This route takes you through the Clean Air Zone, and there have been lots of complaints from tourists about it.  DfT has said that the motorway is several miles from the CAZ (true) and that they won't put up CAZ-warning signs that far away.

With the benefit of local knowledge, you can go along the A369 and the back lanes to get to the airport without going through the CAZ, but it's a much more fiddly route, not intended for heavy volumes of traffic, and takes longer.

HoldingOn wrote:

Agree - unlikely she will drive again.

However - what planet was her lawyer on:

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This was not a case of dangerous driving with a flagrant disregard of the rules.

That lawyer should get disbarred or prosecuted for perjury for spouting that rubbish. Just the drunk driving would count as a flagrant disregard of the rules and being so blind drunk that you can't figure out which way to drive on a motorway is hardly any kind of excuse.

Well that would explain all those #nodriverinvolved "accidents"!  Nick literally just sat in his car and it would not go 20mph!  Perhaps he'd even put it in neutral, or turned the engine off and put the handbrake on?

Hopefully your idea of checking them all will help identify those which are also liable to autonomous behaviour.  After all experiencing this terrifying loss of control means their drivers should be pitied.  Unlike cyclists in a close pass they're clearly victims here...

brooksby wrote:

Signage for Bristol Airport from the M5 sends you along the A4 Portway and then the A370 toward Weston-super-Mare and the airport.  This route takes you through the Clean Air Zone, and there have been lots of complaints from tourists about it.  DfT has said that the motorway is several miles from the CAZ (true) and that they won't put up CAZ-warning signs that far away.

With the benefit of local knowledge, you can go along the A369 and the back lanes to get to the airport without going through the CAZ, but it's a much more fiddly route, not intended for heavy volumes of traffic, and takes longer.

I don't know why they don't just take the train to the airport...

David9694 wrote:

Even the sky itself is copyright Google. (was looking for chemtrails). 

Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Signage for Bristol Airport from the M5 sends you along the A4 Portway and then the A370 toward Weston-super-Mare and the airport.  This route takes you through the Clean Air Zone, and there have been lots of complaints from tourists about it.  DfT has said that the motorway is several miles from the CAZ (true) and that they won't put up CAZ-warning signs that far away.

With the benefit of local knowledge, you can go along the A369 and the back lanes to get to the airport without going through the CAZ, but it's a much more fiddly route, not intended for heavy volumes of traffic, and takes longer.

I don't know why they don't just take the train to the airport...

But then they'd have to drive to Temple Meads (because they'd have to drive), so they'd still go through the CAZ.

Better to wait until the Bristol Underground is built, surely?

hawkinspeter wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Even the sky itself is copyright Google. (was looking for chemtrails). 

Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

You can't stop the signal

brooksby wrote:

But then they'd have to drive to Temple Meads (because they'd have to drive), so they'd still go through the CAZ.

Better to wait until the Bristol Underground is built, surely?

Can't they get the train to Temple Meads and then the Underground for the rest of the journey?

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

But then they'd have to drive to Temple Meads (because they'd have to drive), so they'd still go through the CAZ.

Better to wait until the Bristol Underground is built, surely?

Can't they get the train to Temple Meads and then the Underground for the rest of the journey?

But you can't carry your holiday luggage on a train!

Err - waitaminute...

hawkinspeter wrote:

I don't know why they don't just take the train to the airport...

You can't carry a fridge on a train!

chrisonatrike wrote:

You can't carry a fridge on a train!

You prompted me to take a look at where Bristol airport is, esp. re. existing railways. (Our local airport, Leeds Bradford is inaccessible by rail but there's much talk about extending the line and building a new station at great expense.)

Why don't they just relocate Bristol Airport to the ruddy great disused runway at Filton? Railway within yards, Motorway within minutes.

pockstone wrote:

You prompted me to take a look at where Bristol airport is, esp. re. existing railways. (Our local airport, Leeds Bradford is inaccessible by rail but there's much talk about extending the line and building a new station at great expense.)

Why don't they just relocate Bristol Airport to the ruddy great disused runway at Filton? Railway within yards, Motorway within minutes.

The ruddy great disused runway at Filton got sold off and built on.  Houses.  Hundreds of them.

I can't keep up with 'progress'...but neither can bing maps.