Drivers and their problems

thats the location, if you go on the Suffolk CC report a pothole site its got a word for word copy of the story pinned at that locale https://highwaysreporting.suffolk.gov.uk/?type=5&subtype=510

What's a bit concerning about this location is the road was re-surfaced in 2016 - but without the buff coloured anti-skid coating or the two 'SLOW' markings. Cost savings?!

Possibly a poor job done, as this pothole has been developing since at least 2021. The rather sad looking remains of a wheel trim serving as a ominous warning - but tantilisingly, there appears to be pavé beneath the grim surface...

Curious, that shell grip stuff usually lasts a good while too, or at least really has to be in a poor state to resurface, no idea why it didnt go back. I'm surprised given the type of road they didn't resort to just surface dressing as that would give you the extra grip there and seal the road from potholes like this forming

As for the pave, quite a few roads are like that near me, they did just tarmac over most of it in situe, but some of the potholes that have appeared following the blink and miss it snow we've had, there's hessian sacks or sackcloth under the tarmac road surface.

Id be no good as a magistrate because if a lawyer came out with something like that Id take it as a challenge to impose the highest  punishment I could.

I think it bothers me more than normal as its a road I know well and cycle alot, specifically because its quieter and keeps you away from all the crazy so-and-so's who can stick to the a1120, there would have been no room for a car and anything else to fit and nowhere to go, and if theyre driving at NSL speeds, it doesnt bare thinking about.

YPLAC

I assume

Seems the police response to this crash was pretty shoddy too

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23398105.earl-soham-rider-hits-suffolk-polic...

It's a permanent police excuse, as in the case of the callous killing of the treasured horse, that they're busy on other calls. Works every time!

If the horse had been killed with any other weapon a prison sentence would have been the result. The only things we love more than animals are cars.

NOtotheEU wrote:

If the horse had been killed with any other weapon a prison sentence would have been the result. The only things we love more than animals are cars.

Are cars named after animals even more beloved? Jaguar, Panda, Rover etc.

hawkinspeter wrote:

NOtotheEU wrote:

If the horse had been killed with any other weapon a prison sentence would have been the result. The only things we love more than animals are cars.

Are cars named after animals even more beloved? Jaguar, Panda, Rover etc.

And Beetles 

When I looked at the Lincolnshire Live article, at the top was a far more interesting story

Runaway pig causes rush hour traffic jams in rural Lincolnshire

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/runaway-pig-causes-ru...

I don't think there is enough sarcasm available to help explain to the good Mrs Hibbard how she might go about solving this local travel conundrum.

Pretty sure you don't need an MOT if you are just driving to and from a test centre. Maybe they are making use of this exemption 

“Time and again you expect us to sit here and accept that our freedoms, our history, and our heritage are all to be sacrificed on the altar of woke extremism."

Ah yes, ancient Britain, where everyone lived on a satellite housing estate a good 10 miles from the nearest facilities and preferably further from their place of work.

Free to spend a good portion of their day battling the traffic, cocooned in perfect isolation, the occasional wave at a passing motorist their only interaction with the local community.

It's the scarring of the paint on the barriers that gets me...

World bollard association gives a better idea of the speed from another angle. (Almost like it was staged...)

https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1634871668077371392

High centre of gravity + speed, only going to end one way.

And its actually one of those vehicles they want to allow in cycle lanes isnt it ?

Why do these self-entitled motorists think they should be blocking a pavement.

Doesn't their "road tax" pay for them to block the road.

David9694 wrote:

Campaigners to stage seafront 'park in' against road changes

The protest will see people park their cars as they used to along the seafront - and leave them there

This is what it comes down to - the “right” of drivers to park on the seafront with the Daily Mail and a flask of tea.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/campaigners-stage-seaf...

I wonder whether the council will be able to ticket them for illegal parking...

Ah yes, the altar of woke extremism.

Pretty sure you don't need an MOT if you are just driving to and from a test centre. Maybe they are making use of this exemption

Good point!, but I think PJ07 XHF would have to demonstrate a booking for an MOT on each day! Joking apart, this one does seem very odd, and I did consider whether they have some sort of exemption for their own vehicles just like Travellers Choice coaches of Carnforth has recently acquired. What they have done is set up their own testing station, which I gather is then staffed by public testing employees, rather than Travellers employees marking their own homework. I can't see how this could apply to a small garage. The perplexing feature is that this 'testing station at home' doesn't then issue an official MOT pass logged by DVSA. My attention was drawn to this feature by Lancashire Constabulary doing their own MOTs and by this bus's MOT expiring on 19.1.23. It seemed improbable that a school bus would take a risk like this, so I looked into it.

I'm not convinced "staged" is the right word as that would suggest the driver intended to crash. My impression is that it was more of a "hold my beer" moment - the driver was showing off for the cameras and overcooked it.