Drivers and their problems

brooksby wrote:

Pensioner banned from road after (driving through red light and) mowing down nine-year-old in front of her

😡 a ban but really? Just tell them "that's enough, you're done with driving now, get a mobility vehicle / trike" for Pete's sake.

David9694 wrote:

A group of workers were at a road closure on Barnwood Road, with the junction of North Upton Lane, when they were approached by a man driving a Smart Car. When he was told he could not pass due to the road closure, he became abusive towards the workmen before driving off.

"It's a road closure.  A.  Road.  Closure.  The clue's in the name."

Yep saw it, and mentioned it earlier in the week, probably lost somewhere in the mess of threading.

They made a YouTube video about it https://youtu.be/TvfHouMZd8U?si=fegmQ13TZY2s9nQ2

My thoughts, it doesn't change how they treat close passes, this is just part of a two week national campaign against mobile phone use whilst driving https://www.norfolk.police.uk/news/norfolk/news/news/2024/february/norfo...

which is why i believe it has more than just the normal road team officers involved, once it ends its back to normal.

And Suffolk which uses the same road team officers, are supporting the same campaign, haven't reported anything like the same operation has been happening, even though they could literally park the bus in the bus lane outside their own HQ and still catch as many offences, if not more.

It does feel like there are issues around how the poor child was being supervised.  If she wandered out of the garden and sat down by the car for 10 minutes with no-one noticing, she could equally have wandered off quite a way in 10 minutes.

I'm a big fan of the Crane Ritan, Japanese brass, lovely tone, have three, others here recommend the Lion bell.

Should be banned for life and 6 years in prison is not enough for the lives ruined or to protect the public.

David9694 wrote:

"It looked like they were knocked, raced and just dumped on beach and the tide did the rest."

knocked? 

Short for "knocked off", one assumes.

‘I do not think I have ever gone through a red light in my life.'

Er... but she had no idea she had gone through the red light in question, either.

Let's just hope she doesn't resume driving after her 12-month ban.

That's the thing.  I read the headline and thought it was going to be that she'd wandered out onto the driveway as he was reversing, but no.  She wandered out and sat down for ten minutes before he reversed over her.

Article was unclear whether he was sitting in his car all that time or whether he came out of the house, got in it and then started driving.

Crane do make nice bells, I've put the E-NE Revolver on the commuter/shopper, loud enough and sounds like an old school bicycle bell. 

I didn't read the Daily Echo article, but were there drugs involved? 

brooksby wrote:

I didn't read the Daily Echo article, but were there drugs involved? 

Oh yes

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Gavin Bathurst-Shaw Binning described his actions as a "once in a lifetime" opportunity after he drove down the M3 during a drug and alcohol-fueled mission that saw him collide with nine other vehicles, causing one to spin around to face oncoming traffic.

Winchester Crown Court heard that having drunk alcohol and taken cocaine and cannabis, the now-46-year-old got in his BMW, despite efforts by his friends to stop him, and entered the M3 at Junction 10 at the M25.

Jogle wrote:

brooksby wrote:

I didn't read the Daily Echo article, but were there drugs involved? 

Oh yes

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Gavin Bathurst-Shaw Binning described his actions as a "once in a lifetime" opportunity after he drove down the M3 during a drug and alcohol-fueled mission that saw him collide with nine other vehicles, causing one to spin around to face oncoming traffic. Winchester Crown Court heard that having drunk alcohol and taken cocaine and cannabis, the now-46-year-old got in his BMW, despite efforts by his friends to stop him, and entered the M3 at Junction 10 at the M25.

Hmm.  Thanks.  I'm not sure that his friends tried hard enough…

The Crown Court heard that having drunk alcohol and taken cocaine and cannabis, the now-46-year-old got in his BMW, despite efforts by his friends to stop him, and entered the M3 at Junction 10 at the M25.

ah, jogle already posted this.

I've got the E-NE (not revolver) on both of my bikes.  Sounds really nice, unless it's raining (I think the water on the bell dampens* the sound).

*Geddit?

When this came up in the latest comments area, I thought you were posting something in the style of perce !

I have a Trigger bell, which is ideal for positioning and ease of use on drop handlebars, but unfortunately just makes a pathetic 'ting' to which people rarely respond.  I once approached a large group of walkers from a distance up a long, straight, steep hill; rang the bell repeatedly for some time as I approached, to no avail whatsoever.  As I passed the front of the group, I overheard one comment to his friend, 'I wondered what that noise was.'

P.S. Thanks for all the bell suggestions, folks - I will look into them provided I can ever find them again in the labyrinth that is David9694's forum thread.

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Their argument for not agreeing is that they would get many photographs of speeding motorists

So an overt admission that the police are not interested in what one might describe as "doing their job" and prosecuting criminals when supplied with clear evidence of an offence?

Jogle wrote:

Mystery as Vauxhall Corsa and convertible Peugeot 206 wash up on Blackpool beach opposite new Hilton Hotel

Love this image, with what appears to be the sea wall covered in tyres and the upturned car being buried by the sand, like those "last of the dinosaurs" visions...

Drivers really don't respond very well to suggestions from passengers.

You know, you don't have to use the phone, This is schoolkid time, we don't have to be going this fast, It's very wet and were not in a rush can we not go so fast.

And the suggestion to my parents they might like to give a cyclist more room when passing on an urban dual carriageway was met with a full on argument and me refusing to be driven by them for several years.

I guess she will be doing a lot of walking and her son won't be able to get to the station.

When we bought a new car, I almost laughed at the rear window and the apparent slight upward angle and asked how was I supposed to see out of it. The salesman then assured me that it had a camera and tbh I wouldn't now want a car without a rear camera.

Sonic skeuomorph, or one vehicle to the tune of another.

Didn't some early electric cars have issues with people noticing they were there at low speed - and various sounds were tried until someone realised that the sound that best alerted people to "car coming" was ... the sound of a non-petrol car?