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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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- ubercurmudgeon 2 hours 16 min ago
I had three different cyclocross bikes before the marketing departments at various bicycle companies came up with the "gravel" category. All of...
- Sredlums 3 hours 11 sec ago
Maybe the UK could try to reach some sort of agreement with the EU over things like international trade and such.
- David9694 3 hours 30 min ago
Cumbria County Council was a 1974 creation, merging the of old County Borough of Carlisle, and counties of Cumberland, and Westmorland - in which...
- Backladder 3 hours 41 min ago
If BC want to insist on barriers then they should have their own stock loaded on a truck that they can rent out to organisers at reasonable cost,...
- Miller 4 hours 11 min ago
Well, there's lifetime bans and there's lifetime bans. Banning an 88 year old don't impress me much.
- Gkam84 7 hours 16 min ago
I think that is why blind eyes have been turned in the UK, internationally aswell, with things like the Redhook crits, there were many licensed...
- mdavidford 8 hours 26 min ago
Ahem - other esporters(?) might be rather surprised to hear that the UCI has taken over their events - I think that would be the Cycling Esports...
- Bungle_52 8 hours 35 min ago
I wonder how he got to the game?
- OldRidgeback 8 hours 37 min ago
You'd need some good wet weather gear for that ride too.
- OnYerBike 11 hours 1 min ago
It seems to me that the most likely explanation is that whoever provided that quote fails to grasp the difference between a "public right of way"...
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Have we had this yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/23/jail-for-police-camera-o...
Four years is hardly sufficient. The Police should now explore whether they can find evidence against those these pair "helped" and if so, bring charges against them.... yes, I know, a funny from Ian. The Police actually taking traffic offenses seriously..... as if.
This is quite the family day out - a 45-50 mile round trip in two cars, an hour+ in Asda.
Taunton Asda shopper furious after vandal scrawls 'disgusting' insult on her car
"I’m really angry and upset and question why someone would want to do that?"
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/taunton-asda-shopper-f...
Staffordshire villagers 'ask drivers nicely' to stop speeding.
BBC News in Weston-under-Lizard, on the old A5 route east of Telford.
So laws are not enough, we have to stand at the side of the road and beg people to slow down a bit. I'd prefer a flashing sign that says 'Slow down or you get a brick through your windscreen'. Happy to do my bit and stand there holding the brick.
Not far away on the A518 in Telford, 2 speed cameras at Trench Lock Interchange in Telford have captured nearly 12,000 speeding shitheads during 2023.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/features/2023/12/26/shropshires-most...
Edited to add some more Shropshire Star news: No rest for emergency services on Christmas Day - a car flipped on the B5476 near Whitchurch at about 6pm. Earlier in the day paramedics and a fire crew were required after a single occupant vehicle left the A41 near Hinstock at around 4pm, crashing through a fence, narrowly missing a telegraph pole and coming to rest against a garage. The dickhead driver thankfully only had minor injuries.
From my Facebook feed.
Mid Kent Shopping Centre in Allington slammed for charging shop staff £50 a month for parking
strong "poor little me" vibe from drivers here and I'm not sure I understand where the Green is coming from here - seems to jump on the "it's so unfair" bandwagon
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/making-staff-pay-for-parking...
Council owed £120,000 by fine evading drivers
This story is interesting because of the table included - drivers always make out that they've been slapped with a fine and that The Terminator will come after them until it's paid.
The "council pockets" in the sub headline grinds my gears too. If you look at the amount of fines collected, the total "pocketed" is £370,160.
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/stoke-trent-red...
ASDA car park in the news again:
The incident involved a black Honda Jazz. One of the pedestrians, a woman from Cambridge, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital while the other, a man in his 70s, suffered minor injuries.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said: "The driver of the Honda Jazz, a man in his 80s, from Cambridge, stayed at the scene and is helping with officers with their inquiries.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/crash-cambridge-asd...
Potholes are annoying but to say I had no choice is a bit daft. Could have gone slower for one.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24015558.owner-abandon-car-hitting-pothole-c...
Frostenden drink driver, 73, had taken cat to be put down
Mrs Rushmere said she did not want to be considered for a drink driving rehabilitation course, as she had been considering giving up driving before this incident occurred.
“I don’t enjoy driving anymore. The roads are not for the elderly,” she said.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24015761.frostenden-drink-driver-73-taken-ca...
Poor little me - anything to distract from the drink-driving.
Moment cyclist catapulted over bonnet by driver who pulled out in front of her
Motorist Thomas Freeman, 29, has been jailed for causing the horrific crash which was caught on camera
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/moment-cyclist-...
Hi viz - check, helmet - check. What more do you want, drivers?
I think the next-most galling bit is the way the silver car passes the incident, it's 99.99% that they saw it, and drives on.
The Private Eye roads column made this point before Christmas, we're building roads and bridges, etc that we don't have the resources to maintain in the future.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/kent-s-roads-in-a-phase-of-m...
Counts as a driver
A man has been charged after police stopped a suspect riding an e-scooter on the M5.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-somerset-67841162
Tank drivers and their problems:
Wickes customer parks tank outside Basingstoke store after 'shoddy' kitchen fitted in home
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-12-29/customer-parks-tank-outside...
Let them have their fun latest:
Corrupt police are trying to kill off car meets in Wiltshire’, organisers claim
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/corrupt-police-car-meets-wiltshire-claim/
Man arrested after officers hit with ‘fart spray’ at Swindon car meet
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/man-officers-fart-spray-car-meet/
Duo suspected of damaging police vehicles at Swindon car meet
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/duo-damaging-police-vehicles-car-meet/
Fire engine responding to emergency call blocked by parked cars
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/fire-engine-emergency-blocked-cars/
Free parking should be introduced in Hereford to save shops
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24013432.free-parking-introduced-here...
drivers, all this infra has been put there at great expense to the public purse to for no other reason to facilitate you. Now, if you don't want it...
Cornwall's most pointless and annoying roundabouts
Everyone has moaned about these roundabouts at some stage in their lives
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwalls-worst-most-poi...
Multimillion-pound improvements to a busy motorway junction have made no difference, unhappy residents claim.
People living close to the junction 10 roundabout, on the M6 in Walsall, said they believed a £78m scheme to cut congestion had been a waste of money.
"They have not achieved anything other than making four lanes on a roundabout that still get clogged up anyway."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxrwqrqd72do
https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/03/a443-a-proper-nightmare-drivers-acted-lik...
Hereford e-scooter riders are fined by magistrates
Great to see the police and courts getting a firm grip on these offenders - why, there could be 4 or 5 fatalities every day if these were allowed to run riot.
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24016994.hereford-e-scooter-riders-fi...
File under that special category where the defence makes it ever clearer that the acccused really should not be driving.
Driver who caused crash claimed car keys stolen in mugging
Michael Bond, 29, reported the keys to his Audi had been stolen when he was the victim of a street robbery in King’s Lynn.
Matt Diss, mitigating, said he had been injured in another road accident two months before and had subsequently contracted meningitis that had caused memory loss.
“In the last 12 months the impact of this has been huge and speaks to his state of mind at the time,” he said.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24025611.driver-caused-crash-claimed-car-ke...
Optional traffic lights
Double snap- immediately ignored by Lancashire Constabulary
https://upride.cc/incident/pj23vmc_honda125_redlightcross/
Wow, that was really, really close!
Video released
https://twitter.com/javadesq/status/1737152152991051783
Not all bad news then! At least there's 1 fewer of those dangerous nutter self-driving vehicles 'on the road'.
The Good Place, a TV show. I think. A forking good sitcom.
Demonstrating that at least 79 people think that road signs are for other people...
I like the way they say, 'Warning - the image further down this story contains offensive language,' when it's the same image as at the top of the article. I was looking forward to seeing some much worse language, given that there was no warning about the original image.
Not far away on the A518 in Telford, 2 speed cameras at Trench Lock Interchange in Telford have captured nearly 12,000 speeding shitheads during 2023.
I'll be using Trench Lock in a couple of hours on the way to my MIL..... not my idea. I won't be speeding (I got my first and so far only speeding ticket a mile from their in Hadley, just after they had changed the road by the old football ground...GKN Sankey FC... from a 40 to a 30. It taught me a lession!)
The point of this post is to comment: "Only 12 000....?" People use it like a race track in order to get into the A442 towards the town cente. Time to double the number of camera and increase the fines!
Ah, the "I've got no choice" driver refrain.
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