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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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- brooksby 2 min 33 sec ago
And, BTL in the comments: "This is a problem and so are cyclist's headlights. Why do they not have them dipped??"
- brooksby 5 min 31 sec ago
Don't worry, I'm sure another company will be along in a minute to beat it
- muhasib 9 min 28 sec ago
What an odd article, just an advert for the law firm: is this the same 'Martin' who then campaigned for cyclists to wear helmets?
- PeteZahad 25 min 39 sec ago
I understand that it's difficult to fully appreciate the quality of a product from online images. If you'd like a more thorough evaluation, I'd be...
- OldRidgeback 1 hour 1 min ago
I agree - I bet the guard doesn't get paid hugely so a gesture to show appreciation would probably go a long way....
- leedorney 1 hour 2 min ago
I can't see what the big deal is, it's a well burnt bike - ashes of, and ?
- momove 1 hour 6 min ago
Disappointing to hear that....
- cyclisto 2 hours 21 min ago
I would dream of my non-assisted bicycle to have such low weight. It is a bicycle to drool over but this Urtopia bicycle must utopic price.
- David9694 3 hours 36 min ago
This must be one of the many "I insist on using cash in the parking meter" articles, usually based on the person being old and infirm and unable to...
- Slartibartfast 4 hours 9 min ago
Might have to expand on this one a bit fella as it's hard to unpick exactly what your point is.
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Yet with all those pot-holes, somehow you live to tell the tale?
"you can't have a cycle route because cars have made all these pot holes."
I guess sleeping in the car would make sense in his case.
One suspects it's not even that, the nearest running track to Maida Vale and the only decent track north of the river that can be described as central London is at Paddington Sports Club, so odds are she lives a maximum of 2km away. As for "my Olympic dream will be shattered if I can't drive and so can't work," well you could always sell the Tesla...
That idea would allow time to assemble more typewriters and monkeys.
I was actually referring to the "fast windy" road rather than the potholed one, but your point remains. The idea of actually making the roads safer for cyclists seems a step too far, as always.
Ah yes, the one mile "commute" - the maths/ probability would certainly support that. Delete pint of milk and a scratchcard and replace with athletics track.
The dead horses are shocking, but it's the stickers that really get me.
And on it goes
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/deaths-of-ponies-and-pig-in-an...
Looks like a moment from a car advert to me.
Tougher than and faster than a train, the orange clad workers are all agape, (close-up of one of them removing his sunglasses). Cut to the driver, a rugged dependable sort, drives up dusty track, parks-up on high on a pinnacle and we see the sweeping landscape and the train chugging on across it. End with silhouetted sunset view of pinnacle parked car. That's got to be worth £400/ month for the next 3 years, right?
"My car is too big to fit in the garage"
my father suspended a rubber bung on a cord from the garage roof - get the top right hand corner of the windscreen in contact with the bung and it was job done. Back in the days when cars fitted in standard garages.
I'm old enough to remember him trapping a blanket under the bonnet overnight and if I'm not misremembering sometimes placing a paraffin light under the engine - that might have been when we only had the car port. Cars wouldn't start on winter mornings!!
I'll not comment on the possibility that this could be the police targetting her again because she got them in trouble. I doubt the police would be that childish...
I have never driven a Tesla, but doesn't it use your phone to unlock and start the car? I would be very surprised if the car doesn't keep a record of the phone that was used in it. Knowing the way cars like this are going, it probably also keeps driver metrics, like seat positioning. The police ask for access to phones now - how long before they ask for access to car metrics?
Going Orwellian - how long before cars have to have a "black box" fitted that uploads detected illegal driving directly to the police...
I would totally support your car uploading a random days driving to the licencing body once a year for analysis. Any offences caused on that day should result in fines etc.
As you won't know when this is going to happen, it may result in better driving.... or people fiddling the boxes....
A black box in every car - now. Standard safety procedure.
If anyone is interested, according to the latest census 61.4% of households in Maida Vale have no access to cars/vans.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/choropleth/housing/number-of-cars-or-...
61.41% now.
I hope the judge/magistrate told her to jog on.
He said you're for the high jump. 🧥
M25 remains closed as recovery work goes on to remove crashed lorry after driver fell asleep
You can't even fall asleep on the M25 now without the police telling you off!
Although the telling off appears to be an hours offence and not a driving offence
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2023-11-11/m25-still-shut-for-recovery-o...
Cotswolds driver faces 'utterly shocking' counter claim from council after pothole damages vehicle
'This strikes me as a blatant attempt at bullying and intimidating the resident into withdrawing his claim', Cllr Lisa Spivey said
“The County Council is not just defending a claim brought against it by a resident whose vehicle was damaged when he struck a pothole, but has also accused the resident of causing the damage by driving negligently. This is a baseless claim as the Council has no evidence whatsoever that this is the true."
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/cotswolds-dri...
Driver caused cyclist catastrophic injuries when he sped through red traffic light
The teenager was crossing the road when Jerzy Jozefiak ploughed into him
Sian Cutter, prosecuting, said at shortly before 2.30pm a 16-year-old boy on a cycle was crossing the eastbound carriageway at the light-controlled junction when he was hit by a Renault car. The youngster struck the windscreen and roof box of the vehicle before being thrown to the ground and skidding along the road, coming to rest some 20 yards away.
Jozefiak's stopped his car in the nearby bus stop on Fabian Way and got out - his wife then climbed across into the driver's seat from the passenger seat. The court heard she too then got out of the Renault and told passers-by that she had been driving.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/traffic-lights-cyclist-dan...
A new take on old meme, or maybe you can transport a sofa on a scooter.
Trapped at home by an elephant seal!
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/14/neil-the-seal-tas...
Those cyclists at it again....
Fridges and ladders cleared from A3 as nine tonnes of rubbish removed from Guildford roads
Roadside litter and flytipping is 'dangerous' and 'unsightly'
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/fridges-ladders-cleared-a3-...
I see we're using the same 2008 camera as takes the big cat sightings.
DPD lorry got wedged on railway bridge in Cornwall
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/live-dpd-lorry-trapped-r...
Fresh in from Amsterdam...and I can confirm the car is on UK plates
https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/327649/porsche-probeert-fietsenstalling-a...
we had a couple of "plucky resident parks car over site of 5G mast" stories a couple of weeks back.
Sounds like the Bedford one has been held off for now.
I'm all for a bit of public participation, but the level of misinformation here is pretty poor.
A CKHH company.
Three is part of CK Hutchison
Holdings, a renowned multinational
conglomerate committed to innovation
and technology.
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection - since you ask.
another one for the "machine broken so it's free" file
Cornwall gran on warpath after being fined despite broken parking machine
Agnes believes the older generation is increasingly being excluded from our tech society
"The retired nurse from Tintagel said that the machine was out of service that day so thought there was nothing she could do about it and went off to enjoy Tom Hanks' latest flick A Man Called Otto and didn't think any of it."
"That's when I saw red," Agnes said. "I wouldn't know how to install an app. I'm not going to download apps for every car park I go to. How are people supposed to do all that when they're old? My husband is 85. He has not got apps on his phone. He couldn't park anywhere on his own now"
Come off it, you're only 71. If hubby can't manage an app, how does he safely manage 1.5t of car?
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-gran-warpath-af...
Police find 15 people in vehicle on M62 in Warrington
Everyone on here complains how space inefficient cars are compared to bikes and public transport but, when you try to do something about it, what happens? The police pull you over and fine you. It's a war on motorists (and their world record practicing friends*)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-67429058
* they still have a long way to go though https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-people-crammed-i...
I might be wrong on this but it appears that a driver, probably at great speed, drove their BMW into a lamppost, which then went on to hit a Picasso and put a big hole in the roof. Now that is a driver with a problem and they only want £500 for that problem to be yours!
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/6710511802399956/
Motorists captured on CCTV removing SGN barriers in Church Road, Murston
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/drivers-caught-on-camera...
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