Drivers and their problems

Jogle wrote:

What is the world coming to? You can't even take your Land Rover on the slide without people complaining now! https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23498411.land-rover-smashes-chi...

Some people just can't make their minds up.  Complain about people buying cars designed for off-road capabilities and only driving them on the road; and then complain when they take them off road.

What a lovely, welcoming front garden that is.  At one with nature.

David9694 wrote:

Letter: 'Democracy is failing in Bath' as residents' views are ignored, city local claims

Bath locals are not getting a say in what happens in their own city, a resident has claimed

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/letter-democracy-failing-...

Massive swing to the Lib Dems - go cry some more, Mr Driver.

Reading that article and the language he uses, I'd wager that "Roger Whitmore, part of local action group 70percent" is also opposed to vaccines and is seriously thinking about voting for the Reclaim Party (Lawrence Fox's bunch of nutters concerned citizens).

hawkinspeter wrote:

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

Ah, the joys of "local" news.  A story published on Bristol Live about something that happened in Worksop...

I never imagined the Archbish driving around in a Golf.  Had always assumed he'd have something bigger and more flash, and driven by someone else.

Jeez, wasn't expecting that...kind of expected her to move just in time or something along them lines, pardon the pun.

Those old cars are great though - I love seeing unusual vehicles like that driving around as it's such a change from the monoculture of modern cars.

Absolutely no where near making it...fucking idiot.

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

I can only comment like this because I know nothing about the incident: this is the lorry driver building himself an excuse 'because chest pain has to be taken seriously and may have been the cause of the driver failure', whereas it's really because he was eating/ drinking/ smoking/ on the phone/ too experienced to need to bother paying attention etc.

Something something wing...

Impressive!

Is that shadowmanonatrike in the bottom picture?

Cockchafers ... see what you did there, bravo!

Jogle wrote:

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...

Does Yoda write for the St Helens Star?

Shelders wrote:

School bus gets stuck under low bridge again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65633762

I think the 'again' is the point here, but doesn't say if it's the same 'professional' driver

Those links don't work for me, but I've found the article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65633762

The reporter's name is Caroline Lowbridge - I wonder if she specialises in these topics?

David9694 wrote:

"...a number of fans on social media said they should have been exempt to normal parking rules"

I'd love to see how they seek to justify that.

"Football", innit

Should be on his bike in London!
(Maybe the crosier is hard to carry)

...the van driver, not you!

wtjs wrote:

I can only comment like this because I know nothing about the incident: this is the lorry driver building himself an excuse 'because chest pain has to be taken seriously and may have been the cause of the driver failure', whereas it's really because he was eating/ drinking/ smoking/ on the phone/ too experienced to need to bother paying attention etc.

Quite possible. Even more likely is that his diet and lifestyle choices caught up with him.

I failed to find any photos of the 21-reg car I mentioned earlier on FB but I came across a post about a collision on Thursday evening just off the A5 near Shrewsbury where a man, who looked in his 60s, driving a Land Rover Defender "was on the wrong side of the road and swerving all over the place. Unfortunately he drove into my daughter's car, who was coming from the other direction, causing a lot of damage. He then left the scene". The occupants of a following vehicle thought he may be drunk, noted the number and called the police. 

My nemesis!  But how did you see him?  Ah - something is blocking the view of the saddle.

Also features in car crashes into building thread.

We need to set up a working party to issue guidance on which thread to post in !

AKA Boomers United 

It's no accident that the only 2 vehicles in the shot are as guilty as sin!

Hirsute wrote:

Also features in car crashes into building thread. We need to set up a working party to issue guidance on which thread to post in !

Just get Road.cc to riffle-shuffle the threads together into one huge indecipherable thread.

They have an MP for the moment.