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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- HoarseMann 2 sec ago
Yes, that seems to be the collision that fits the description:...
- cyclisto 8 min 46 sec ago
Things are complex in such nations. Countries like Russia and China are very too big and diverse and do not have a clear ethnic conscience. There...
- brooksby 13 min 30 sec ago
I appreciate that it is coincidence and confirmation bias, but in the last couple of evenings I've actually had to stop on a couple of occasions...
- levestane 18 min 1 sec ago
I disagree, this needs to cite primary publications. As far as know PTFE (Teflon) is not linked to cancer but chemicals used in its production are...
- mdavidford 47 min 18 sec ago
Do they have Apple's AI writing their headlines for them?
- flobble 50 min 12 sec ago
They're new products, I agree, but more evolutionary than fundamentally innovative. I don't downplay the quality of their design and build - it's...
- mdavidford 52 min 30 sec ago
And my point was, that's... not true.
- Bungle_52 53 min 50 sec ago
Not enough information on this case to make any meaningful comments but a couple of points. Roads aren't dangerous, some drivers are. If all...
- eburtthebike 1 hour 22 min ago
I can remember, back in the mists of time, when Dylan were a lad, both the Times and Panorama were serious media, not click bait farms. Just like...
- chrisonabike 1 hour 23 min ago
Well, OK, many people in the UK drive in an adequate matter which in combination with the forgiving, driver-focussed road infra and lack of...
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They have an MP for the moment.
Alot of them were complaining about it being a BH so should be exempt, but there's been no BH parking exemption across Suffolk for best part of 10-15years.
Yeah: how does that work?
You vote for someone, they become your MP as a member of The [Something] Party. Six weeks later they change their mind and join The [Something Else] Party. Without any need to go back to their constituency for a mandate from the people.
I appreciate the gap between Conservaties and Reclaim probably isn't as huge as either party would like, but it seems weird that Bridgen can just swap about like that (admittedly, IIRC, he actually got kicked out of the Tories. How awful do you have to be to get kicked out of the Conservative Party...?).
Not awful enough?
I know, it's a slippery slope.
Did he never wonder where all the light illuminating the front of his house was coming from?.
my favourite reply.
Car driver hits cyclist - lots of "cyclist shouldn't have been on the road. doesn't even pay road tax. f**kin cyclist deserved it"
Car parks on train tracks "the train driver is paid too much. he should have pulled over to one side and wandered over to help the poor defenceless driver"
Update - reached the news, unfortunately injuries in this case. Still unclear exactly how they ended up there.
Give it enough years and you'll probably find a KSI on any given road. While searching for news on this one I found that 13 years back there was a hit and run fatality here.
What is that, the Audi of the North or something?
"Might is not right" so credit where it's due. (I think)
Should draft a petition to leave it there as a memorial / public art. I would prefer to see something more in tune with ancient indigenous monuments though, like a cairn (car-n?).
You could have this in the south-west:
It was the irony from car drivers. When they are the "might" everyone should clear out of their way and if you don't, then you get what's coming to you. When someone else is the "might" it's a disgrace and cars need protection.
Twitter. Logic dies there.
So much so, I wondered if it was ironic. Not sure what the country was or what train driver pay is like there.
How on earth did the driver manage that??
Even the world bollard association was taken aback !
Police pelted with items during chase before fleeing car crashes into road sign
There's now a poorly police car in North Wales
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/police-pelted-items-du...
Bit of black humour here
https://eu.rgj.com/story/news/2023/04/13/truck-driver-dies-after-collisi...
No doubt to be repeated later in the year as "cyclist kills truck driver".
"We could of died escaping the car"
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23454352.car-left-stranded-castle...
Bit of a deformed image due to 360 camera but this driver is parked in a wanded cycle lane, double yellows, double kerb yellows and this is his response to Vine.
Totton man rolled BMW while driving without licence or insurance
Yeah, because it's not like they would drive with no valid licence.....
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23451632.amp/
Shocking pictures - I'm shocked I tell you, shocked !
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/gallery/shocking-picture...
" driver left their pick-up truck parked on the slipway next to the River Thames and came back to find it half submerged under the high tide."
Piano James quits JOGLE charity bid after court case – found guilty of 'driving' piano while under influence of cannabis
https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/piano-james-quits-jogle-journey-af...
"the roads were not built for your hobby"
Man drives 'just divorced' car through his town to mark end of 23-year marriage
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/man-drives-just-divorc...
helicopter much?
Warning after Devon driver falls victim to 'hidden puddle danger'
Chris Hope has hit out after his son mistook a puddle for a giant pothole that wrecked four alloys
"Driving around North Devon is like an arcade game
of swerve the pot hole, difficult in the day harder at night and impossible in the wet and dark."
He has to MOT it to be safe to drive on the roads, pity the roads aren't MOTd to make them safe to drive on.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/warning-after-devon-driver-fal...
BBC use of the Oxford bollard:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65243274
Not a bad article for the beeb - bingo list of quotes: 'Mr Parnham says the schemes have "torn the city apart". ' (How - easier to walk and cycle?) Taxpayers Alliance say "What we are against is schemes being used as cash cows." (just don't break the law then). Finally Lawrence Fox: "We should be seeking more freedom, not less," - which the beeb counter with a resident's quote pointing out more driving freedom has reduced everyone else's freedom to do many other things, including breathe freely.
car goes for a swim in Great Yarmouth
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23460230.inquiries-continue-car-ended-great...
I think this ford has featured before
Images show the Sainsbury's delivery van abandoned in Buttsbury Ford in Billericay yesterday following heavy rain.
This is the best angry face ever !
Father Alan of the Holy Trinity Dockside Church said around six worshipers, who believed parking restrictions were lifted on the bank holiday weekend, were slapped with £30 tickets.
https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/community/bermondsey-priest-furious-aft...
Blubberhouses lorry driver banned for drink-driving
And
If only all driving offences could be dealt with so quickly. I'm guessing that he was thought to be a flight risk and so they had to deal with it before he wasn't around to be prosecuted
https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/23470030.blubberhouses-lorry-driver-...
Audi driver arrested "for a variety of traffic offences" after his car rolled onto its roof in a crash with a grey Honda on the M6 on Saturday morning.
A rubbernecking driver then caused a crash on the opposite carriageway.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2023/04/22/driver-of-car-that-...
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