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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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- Secret_squirrel 3 min 41 sec ago
Not sure how you came to the conclusion at the end of the article - if accidents are getting worse due to higher speeds that's an argument for...
- Rendel Harris 7 min ago
The publicity for the fine is more free advertising, no? It says look at us, not only are we so cool film stars use us, we're so socially...
- Bigfoz 24 min ago
Do we have any analysis of the rider errors? There's a finite limit to what you can cock up all riding in the same direction... I wonder if...
- OldRidgeback 35 min 27 sec ago
What's the key to Denmark's great work life balance? Well the great health system is part of it, paid for through high personal taxation. it'd be...
- Rendel Harris 40 min 17 sec ago
It doesn't, look at the boycott of Israel, for example, a country with the closest possible ties with the USA. Back in the day, the boycott of...
- chrisonabike 50 min 15 sec ago
I guess it depends on who's cycling / how they cycle?...
- muhasib 1 hour 25 min ago
Nice of them to put an internal storage space behind the head tube, should be able to get a few gels in there!
- giff77 2 hours 31 min ago
I have found that the press are very quick to let us know that about the lack of helmet when there is a fatality and stubbornly quiet if one was...
- chrisonabike 2 hours 59 min ago
Who knows? She occasionally did change her views, plus she was for more environmental regulation, held against privatising the railways for most...
- momove 3 hours 20 min ago
Ah right, that would be an interesting case to find the result of....
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probably covered by the drivers hit things thread, but 4months on police are still investigating...
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23346417.lowestoft-investigations-continue-s...
though another driver tried to finish the job the other week https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23333386.lowestoft-station-square-crossing-...
"Sheep cause traffic..." er think the headline writer missed a word there
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23347757.huge-flock-escaped-sheep-cause-traf...
Driver not disqualified despite accruing 14 points:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11797921/Dance-school-choreogra...
"new to the area" and "think of the children" the key mitigating factors. They ought to add "can't read signs" to that list too...
They recommend cyclists use the 14-mile diversion...are there really so many cyclists that they're going to clog up all those minor roads, which are probably what the cyclists are normally mostly using anyway?
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/a435-closure-14-mile-diversion-8198055
Grimsby teenager sentenced over 100mph police chase ending in crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-64809523
However:
At Grimsby Crown Court, he admitted dangerous driving and was jailed for 12 months, suspended for two years.
Two classics from the EADT today
At no point is a driver of the cars involved mentioned...unless the dogs were driving
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23355426.suffolk-two-dogs-rescued-crash-a143...
And in Lowestoft a mobility scooter safety day is planned
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23354990.lowestoft-serious-accident-fears-sp...
Prices to fall as RAC sends message to 'hard done by' drivers
Will someone please think of the hard done by drivers
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/prices-fall-rac-se...
Jeez, slow news day much, Lincs live?
Should horse riders be allowed on Lincolnshire's roads? Have your say in our poll
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/should-horse-riders-a...
Ipswich MPs have written a transport strategy to tackle traffic issues, same Ipswich MPs who campaigned to remove protected cycle lanes, you can see where this is going right ? https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23356212.will-new-travel-strategy-end...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-64811633
He said the strangest thing he'd seen on patrol was a driver doing dumbbell exercises in a lorry behind the wheel on the M20 .
Cormac workers forced to resurface around cars left on road in Helston
Some people clearly either missed the warning signs or thought that they need not listen
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cormac-workers-forced-re...
A van driver who made a rude gesture as officers filmed him from an unmarked police HGV has been fined £200.
The motorist was spotted on the A1(M) near Wetherby without a seat belt and using a mobile phone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leeds-60834509
Man had sex on neighbour's bollard amid angry parking row
He performed another lewd act after sustained arguments
Another one to file under W for "What cars do to do people"
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/man-sex-neighbours-bollar...
Not sure where to put this, so this will have to do
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23355074.colchester-man-used-bike-pu...
"During the incident, Southby, 36, grabbed a bike pump and adapted it “for use as a weapon”."
"The bike pump has been confiscated and will be destroyed." !!
#wankpanzer helps me get into the countryside
https://twitter.com/Wankpanzer/status/1632874904545636355
Sinister' notes stuck on car windscreens as resident tells people to move
British Road - check (you couldn't make it up)
"move somewhere else if you don't like it" - check
"I can park here if I like" - check
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/sinister-notes-stuck-c...
A driver caught on the phone at the wheel stuck his middle finger up - to undercover police officers. The motorist realised he was being filmed - but was unaware it was by officers on patrol.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/driver-phone-gave-finger-fellow-8226266
killer driver walks free
Martindale was made the subject of a community order, with a requirement to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £95.
Martindale’s guilty plea was taken into account by the court when his sentence was imposed.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23370635.family-pays-tribute-jill...
Mum crashed into [motorcyclist] and killed him while ‘trying to teach him a lesson’
https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/08/birmingham-news-woman-killed-bike-thief-i...
A laundry delivery driver faces having 81 penalty points put on his licence after being caught speeding 22 times on the same stretch of road in less than three weeks.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/driver-speeding-a40-westway-london...
Driver's fury as council rakes in almost £1 MILLION in fines from 'bus gate' in just eight months
"This is a cynical and calculated money-raising scam and targets innocent motorists"
have a read of of Mr Jumped-up Schrodinger's driver, simultaneously knowing Stockport's roads for 30 years, but not this bus gate...
“As a driver for over 30 years and a Stockport resident all my life, I understand road signs and I know Stockport's road layouts pretty well,” he said
“Yet I didn't know where Heaton Lane was despite having used it for many years to access the M60, going to the mini-roundabout then up to the Pyramid roundabout. I canvassed opinion with friends and acquaintances and let me assure you, none of them knew Heaton Lane.
“How do the council expect the thousands of road users from outside the Stockport area, whose sat navs send them through the bus lane, to know Heaton Lane?
“If they think someone from outside the Stockport area should know where Heaton Lane is, on a sign 100 yards away from the junction in question, on a dark rainy morning? The answer is "no".
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/dri...
Not great for an L plate: Learner driver, 43, with 63 points to his name and a 20-year-old who already has 30 are among 77,000 with points on their provisional licences
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-11830229/Learner-driver...
Ukraine war: Latvia sends cars seized from drunk drivers to help Kyiv
It's an interesting idea, seize the cars of excessively drunk drivers and I could see it gaining support on this website for other driving offences but.....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64903201
Otherwise law abiding motorists...
It's a camera Tesco car park, so a charge not a fine.
Strangely the photo shows her either driving out of the entrance, or reversing in that way.
That's just round the corner from me.
I think they started enforcing the rules when the affordable flats were built as before that it was just a car park with some very untidy recycling bins at one end. The flats are suspended, so there's a bunch of parking bays underneath that I think are for use by the residents and then bays round the outside that are for visitors.
Wow: feels like I'm missing the point with this.
It's called CyclingMikey's Twitter timeline.
Don't buses stop with fairly great regularity...
But did the police drive give themselves a drugs wipe?..
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