Drivers and their problems

Numpty driver with no licence has vehicle seized after series of blunders

The driver had an expired provisional licence so should not have been on the road - and wasn't even being supervised

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/numpty-driver-no-license...

I like how he's pulled up on the kerb. 

bloody cyclists 

MPs warn of rubbish crisis as Somerset faces recycling centre closures

Fly-tipping is a huge problem for farmers and rural communities, and it could get worse if Somerset Council shuts down five of its waste facilities

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/

Another day and the algorithm serves me up the Dorset Speed Cameras group. 

Imagine leading your life like this. 

Another driving tragedy and another Coroner not grasping the bull by the horns, so we will learn nothing, take no meaningful preventative steps and it will be same time next week with yet another case.  Another journalist making you read quite a long way down before it eventually comes out what actually happened:

Josh Alexander and pregnant girlfriend Jessica Poole killed in crash in Woodchurch, near Ashford, where poorly marked crossroads ‘could have been factor’

"He is believed to have been checking one of these apps just before unwittingly driving his Vauxhall Corsa across the junction and into the path of an oncoming DAF skip lorry travelling along Bethersden Road.

PC Masterson described Josh as looking “calm” and “in control of the vehicle.”

PC Masterson added: “Josh failed to recognise he was approaching a junction.

“He interacts with a mobile phone immediately before entering Bethersden Road.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/couple-expecting-baby-killed-i...

Bailiff demands £394 as couple's 2022 parking fine comes back to haunt them

Now Shaun and Joy Pickerill, from Fegg Hayes, have been given until 11 February to pay up

Heart attack victim Shaun, aged 64, said: “There were probably parking signs and meters but my wife made the basic assumption that it was free because it was the last time she’d visited. She put the parking ticket in the drawer at home and then forgot about it - I think she was probably too embarrassed to tell me about it at the time.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/bailiff-demands...

Blue badge Wayne, 58, lands £70 fine after parking in this Staffordshire street

Wayne Woolridge can now appeal to Stoke-on-Trent City Council

"You'd expect to see a sign saying 'loading area' next to the spot, but there wasn't one. "When I came back, I noticed a sign about 30 yards away in the opposite direction to the way I was walking." 

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/blue-badge-wayn...

Driver stops for a couple of minutes to appreciate the quiet beauty of Exmoor...

Gridlock as car lands in tree after Birchington (tee-hee) crash

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/car-lands-in-tree-after-crash-p...

any subscribers? 

Driver slams council after potholed road takes out three tyres in as many days

A Shropshire motorist has slammed the county council for failing in its "statutory duty" to inspect the roads after he punctured three tyres in three days on the same stretch of tarmac.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/bridgnorth/2024/02/14/dri...

Raglan Street car hits nurse but she keeps broken wing 😱 mirror

She added: "He started threatening me, waving his walking stick. I said 'why did you just drive off?' He said 'I wanted to get my newspaper'.

"I told him he had knocked into me and didn't stop. 

"He said 'I'm old I can do what I like! There's no damage to your car'. I said 'but I have hurt my ankle and my arm'. He said 'I don't care - prove it. There are no witnesses'."

Mrs Ravenhill said she had got proof - his car registration and the car part which she said he demanded back.

"I said 'sorry, you're not getting your car part back. I'm going to hand it into the police. It's evidence'," she said.

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24118539.raglan-street-car-hits-nur...

(I needed to switch to private mode to read.) 

Keyless car theft victim told to pay to get Range Rover back

She said: “I could not believe what I was hearing – I have been the victim of car theft, and I am now being charged [£192] just to get my car back.

“This is on top of the £3,000 worth of bollards, CCTV, steering locks, vehicle immobilisers and security lights we have bought to stop being a victim of theft again.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24119121.keyless-car-theft-victim-told-...

What a grim vision of Life drivers have: 

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24091094.herefordshire-council-spend-...

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24121127.herefordshire-councils-spend...

I knew it all along: 

Fly-tipper caught dumping fridge landed with big fine

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/fly-tipper-caught-dumping...

drivers are such snowflakes when the threat, however minuscule, is against them - suck it up, guys and welcome to cyclists' world.  

Man questions Winchester Golf Academy over stray balls on the A34

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24125735.man-questions-winches...

Frome roads to be closed as schools to go car-free for children and parents

Frome is launching a School Streets trial to improve the safety and wellbeing of its young residents

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/frome-roads-closed-sch...

Great, but don't let this become an obstacle to a more extensive  roll-out of 20 mph. "It's OK outside schools" is a containment strategy by drivers. 

Drivers and their problems 

this time it's "how about some community spirit?"

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/malling/news/empty-car-park-on-one-side-of-...