Drivers and their problems

Cotswolds driver faces 'utterly shocking' counter claim from council after pothole damages vehicle

My initial reaction on reading this was the same as the councilor but on reflection may be the county council have a point. Do drivers have a responsibility to avoid potholes and drive at a speed where thay are able to do so. I've never damaged a car (or a bike) by hitting a pothole, may be that's luck or may be I drive to the conditions and err on the side of caution.

The other point is that its motorised vehicles that damage the roads and may be they should pay for the results of that damage.

andystow wrote:

Trapped at home by an elephant seal!

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/14/neil-the-seal-tas...

I've been following the anti-car activities of these activist seals for a while now...

David9694 wrote:

Driver caused cyclist catastrophic injuries when he sped through red traffic light

Shocking but only 2 years 10 months behind bars? What a utter and total joke. 

Poor lad. I hope he recovers further and sues the arse off of the twat who did this to him. 

KDee wrote:

Fresh in from Amsterdam...and I can confirm the car is on UK plates

https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/327649/porsche-probeert-fietsenstalling-a...

I had to look this one up. This is definately a following the sat-nav driver error.

There's a car park and a bike park when you turn right off the road. If they don't know where they're going and are just looking for a 'P' and hear 'turn right into garage', hmm. Impressive getting past the bollard at the entrance. Maybe they need more than the one bollard?!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/EgPVBq38RyducCev6

David9694 wrote:

Claims Cheltenham to Gloucester cycle route is too wide and needs to be redug refuted by highways bosses

Ah yes - it's not so much that our streets are too narrow (to have space for people walking and cycling).  They're not wide enough (for parking both sides, plus two lanes for the size of car we aspire to and our actual driving skills, plus what if someone's stopped - you have to be able to get past them?

David9694 wrote:

Infamous bollards in a Watford cut-through which hit headlines could be scrapped and replaced with a weight restriction

Do you think that they'll control the weight restriction with a trap door?

Man returns from 3-week trip to find car parked outside his home covered in 24 parking fines.....

Thanks for posting this....its good to start the day with a laugh. And  yes, that statement does make me evil. 

Clearly fake news - we all know that more cars equals thriving local shops.

essexian wrote:

Hundreds 'ignore roadworks' in Staffordshire as crews hit with abuse

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/hundreds-ignore...

On the road where I work, they started replacing (or lining) the main gas pipe under it - big sections dug up. Thankfully it is just a minor road that runs parallel to the main road*. A few days after they put up all the "ROAD CLOSED" signage and cones, they had to actually dump a couple of tonnes of dug up road across the road to block access to cars, as people were moving the signs and forcing their way past!

*yes, you guessed it - people speed down the minor road in an attempt to skip the queue of traffic on the main road.

David9694 wrote:

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...

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With a one-third discount for his guilty plea Jozefiak was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison - he will serve up to half that period in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community. The defendant was also disqualified from driving for two years with the ban extended by an additional 17 months to account for the length of time he will be behind bars.

Hang on - but he initially tried to pervert the course of justice by getting his wife to claim that she'd been driving.  And only changed his plea to guilty at a much later date.  Why does he get a discount??

And don't get me started on him serving "up to" 2 years and 10 months...  <shakes head in a disgusted fashion>