Drivers and their problems

Horrendous story: Murderer steered car into crowd
but the part that baffles me:

Quote:

McHugh admitted having almost no driving experience and had never had a driving lesson

Quote:

He ordered the destruction of McHugh's automatic Volvo, which he had acquired after trading in a manual Volkswagen Passat, eight days before the incident.

Never had a lesson. Had owned at least two cars.

It would appear that even bridges have it in for drivers. I can just see the accident report. ~ "As I was approaching the bridge suddenly lowered itself to prevent me proceeding".

Bath double-decker bus crashes into bridge https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65489111
 

Wankpanzer, small penis

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/richard-hammond-bru...

What is wrong with these people? It can't be hereditary.

"Man with a lamp post outside his house rips out the front hedge to build a massive driveway, only to find he still has a lamp post outside his house."

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/man-calls-on-peterboroug...

"How tall was the hedge if he only noticed the lamppost after removing it?"

Disbelief as van snared by bollards in North Wales seaside resort

One bystander wrote:

The posts are there to stop traffic but, as they are black, they are not easily seen.

Yes, it's all because the bollard wasn't wearing hi-viz. And I bet it wasn't wearing a helmet either!

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/disbelief-van-snared-b...

Bloody sinkholes, taking up all the road and not paying road tax:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/driver-trapped-sinkhole-opens-up-8421033

Football fans complain about getting parking tickets for parking on a yellow line
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23510211.ipswich-45-parking-tickets-i...

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/moment-car...
 

It's all the roundabout's fault.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/12/archbishop-of-canterbury...

https://twitter.com/Wankpanzer/status/1657055272907489280

Best to stop watching when the cammer runs away.

Ouch !

https://twitter.com/Only9built/status/1658018628732592128

I'll just left hook that 6 wheeler

Oddly satisfying outcome.

A cornucopia of tales in the Shropshire Star this week! And these don't include the car (a 21-reg Kia, I think) that crashed through a roundabout in Shrewsbury and came to rest on the shared path (spotted by my son and a colleague's mate).

3pm on Friday afternoon - getting them in early - a driver escapes injury after a Toyota Aygo hits a telegraph pole near Shifnal [link]

Man detained after a stolen car crashes into two other vehicles in Wellington on Saturday morning. [link]

The driver of a 44-tonne lorry that crashed through Newport roundabout at 1.50am on Saturday had 'complained of chest pain' [link]

At around 11.30am on Saturday morning a car crashed into a bus stop, damaging another vehicle [link]

Emergency services were called after car crashes into a tree in Sutton Maddock, Telford at about 8pm on Sunday [link]

Around 2.30pm on Sunday a car ended up on its side in the village of Myddle, north of Shrewsbury. No mention of any other vehicle being involved [link]

3 people airlifted to hospital after a collision on the A458 Shrewsbury to Welshpool road at at 11am on Tuesday [link]

So much for Shropshire being a sleepy rural county!! 

Cars given go faster decals

The council put up a tiny "no parking" sign, then gave all the parked cars tickets....

Can't park there mate... oh, someone else did?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65625831

Must be spring, more of these cars gambolling about.  This just by me this afternoon.  30mph limit on the road (it's hardly a "main road" either), at this point it's straight with clear sight lines.

Hope all OK - probably too soon to have reached the news / not at all unusual...

Boy, 12, suffers leg injury after being hit by car on a pedal bike

Oh no, cars are now riding bikes!

First of all, I hope the boy is ok. I am in no way commenting on the actual collision, I am only commenting on the headline (which looks to have been changed on the actual page, so the screenshot is from Google).

https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/23533858.young-cyclist-suffers-leg-i...

I forgot I had a trailer

More stories of road hooliganism and van-dalism published today (Friday) by the Shropshire Star:

• 1 casualty airlifted to hospital after van crashes into 3 pedestrians in Oswestry at 1.25pm (see pic). The other 2 were 'not seriously injured'.
• Telford driver with 'no licence and no seatbelt' with children in car this afternoon. Vehicle seized.
• Bridgnorth Chamber of Commerce says the town is losing "tens of millions" in revenue a year because there aren't enough parking spaces on the main street. Bullshit IMO.
• Motorcyclist injured in 3pm crash with a van on the A49 near Shrewsbury.
• A mini-bus crashed into barriers in a 2-vehicle collision on the A5 near Oswestry at around 2pm.
• Selfish parents parking on zig-zags outside a primary school near Chirk.