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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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- alchemilla 6 min 20 sec ago
Never understood why a cyclist would stop when they see a warden approaching. Just keep going....
- diggler 11 min 22 sec ago
The BBC wasn't always anti cycling https://youtu.be/_VB7O8OgLwY?si=Lvpbkl0bjRWBo7ov
- quiff 52 min 49 sec ago
"However, plans for the new velodrome have fallen through, the site now earmarked for a new golf attraction, according to the BBC."...
- Rendel Harris 1 hour 11 min ago
That's the real kicker, it's only in northern France, I'm sure the riders, their teams, friends and family or a combination thereof would be happy...
- Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells 3 hours 53 min ago
"Back in the day" of real policing, yes - operation names were randomly selected, often alphabetically; however, sadly that was pre-virtue...
- brooksby 3 hours 56 min ago
North Somerset council has introduced paid parking in various car parks around the region which were formerly free. Cue howls of outrage from the...
- Midgex 5 hours 40 min ago
That's a big strong helmet that would prevent fatal chest injuries from, I suspect, a wheel of a PSV driving over the casualty.
- andystow 5 hours 54 min ago
With the Sprintech, I add a thin cord to the mirror part, thread it through the socket and tie it off inside the bar, with a few inches of slack....
- Les Ed 6 hours 24 min ago
Hi Guys. Thanks to everyone. I thoroughly enjoyed playing since 2011 despite never having any major success. ...
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Who the hell rams a horse deliberately ?
Mark Hodson says
"High end "Problem Group" participant ....using a motor vehicle as a weapon to harm or intimidate...offender should be treated in the same manner as someone who used a firearm to do the same....and result in a lifetime ban, as you would with a firearms licence."
The story, in case you meet the Kent Online paywall, is that he parked his EV in the car park, connected it but, he claims, his 'phone was dead which meant that the charging terminal would not work, so he walked home ("5 minutes" is mentioned), plugged in said phone and started the car charging from there.
The commenters aren't having it, though - charge your 'phone like a normal person seems to be the message.
I assume the vehicle was observed wrongly parked for longer than 5 minutes before the ticket was issued.
Drivers always want to stretch the rules - if you're a public transport user whose ticket is on a dead 'phone or you're 5 minutes late, there's going to be a consequence.
I always think there's a social problem to solve with EV charging - drivers use a petrol pump and generally they move on. An EV needs to be left for a while, but site proprietors need a way to get charged up vehicles to clear the space for the next customer.
Middle Street, where he lives, looks to be a car's width wide - how can anyone possibly live there???
Mercedes Benz EV owner slams charging fine in Deal car park
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/my-phone-died-so-i-couldn-t-charg...
Hereford traffic and parking problems in city centre
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24867217.hereford-traffic-parking-pro...
A Saturday afternoon in January.
The city fathers are in for such a shock when it turns out that the traffic problems continue despite their attempts once again to build their way out of trouble,
Bypass 'only choice' to solve Hereford congestion
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c515p0v4w2jo
Bypass ‘will bring over 10,000 new homes west of Hereford’
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24856398.bypass-will-bring-10-000-new...
Parking ticket fears as drivers stuck on Wolstanton Retail Park for 90 MINUTES
The car park was described as 'absolute carnage'
This one mentions the opening of a new road, as well as road works as being the problem. Great time saver you've got there.
A Friday in January.
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/parking-ticket-...
Driverless van crashes into man outside Tesco - he's now 'seriously injured' in Royal Stoke
The collision happened outside a Stoke-on-Trent Tesco Express store
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/driverless-van-...
Owner-less too?
views on this?
Two very different towns Chippenham and Hanley introducing widespread parking restrictions, to improve the flow of motor traffic, and to protect bus and cycle lanes in Hanley. I can't decide on this - part of me thinks parked and manoeuvring cars act as a kind of traffic calming, and buffering if you're on the pavement. But they have a habit of obstructing bike lanes - paint only type so of questionable benefit, and delaying buses. I assume a red route means "no stopping and we mean it"?
On the specifics of the car-dependent take away, this always seems to me like a depressingly unhealthy lifestyle. I'm sure he doesn't mean parking right outside the shop as there's a pedestrian crossing just behind us here. Peeking up over the rooftops is a multi storey car park - not really relevant to the "I've just got to nip in here" hazard flasher parking, I guess.
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/well-lose-every...
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24865580.chippenham-parking-restri...
EDIT/ UPDATE
Chippenham parking restrictions plan divides residents
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24869729.chippenham-parking-restri...
No, Mr Editor, it really doesn't. Residents want the restrictions, drivers are whining about it.
Traffic calming - so drivers, let me see if I have this right...
Fears Chippenham road's chicanes are causing crashes
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24865886.fears-chippenham-roads-ch...
Perhaps they should start with killer drivers?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/22/dwp-crackdown-could-see-...
Horror 10 pint driver caused life-changing crash near Bristol Airport (Bristol Post)
Looks like the law does work sometimes.
edited: and the BBC link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czeplwegn4do
No drivers involved in any of this. I'm wondering if the journalist who wrote it is actually a car itself.
https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/24877282.range-rover-pictured-driving-onto-beach-newquay/
Where's Cycling Mikey when you need him??
Entrapment, innit? I mean, there's a road there then they decide you can't drive there? Buses get in the way of drivers anyway, they're always stopping. And why would they issue all those fines if it wasn't to make money?
Stephen Norman shouldn't be driving if he doesn't know the rules.
I see it at every junction. Light turns amber, first car maybe could have stopped but carries on through second car certainly could have stopped but carries on through, third car put his foot down to make it through before it turns red, fourth car puts his foot down and goes through on red.
The motorist has been waging war on everybody else for 100 years, and they've always won.
One for wtjs
Thanks for the advance warning. The only proper such episode I have experienced in Lancashire, apart from the nutters shouting out the window, was from the close passing driver of BMW PK14 HLW in August 21 who claimed to have 'given me 1.5 metres' and threatened to 'fucking flatten' me and to knock me off my bike, when I caught him up at some road works. It was all on video, but it took over 6 weeks to receive a reply from the police. The officer claimed to have been temporarily transferred to another station! The result was: 'he shouldn't have spoken to you like that'.
Well everyone is concerned for the blond ... 😉
... but yes, it's funny how "cyclists" always promote sudden concerns for others.
https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/selective-concern/
As to bus stop bypasses increasing danger - I understand there is legitimate concern but I do wonder if people have ever heard of "side roads" ... ?
At least it wasn't reported as an accident.
Hidden behind a paywall.
Nope - had an urgent appointment with his tax advisor
Amen, brother!
Much as the concern for the less than able who "have to drive" when objecting to LTNs but then illegally and immorally parking in blue badge bays because...
Turn your Javascript off.
Sorry to be nit-picking, but it's javascript which has nothing to do with the language Java. The two are commonly confused and it appears that Netscape intended the confusion for marketing purposes when they released javascript.
Sorry, no idea what you are on about.
"a seemingly relentless hatred in the UK for anything motorised."
You wonder how car-brained someone has got to actually write this. Poor little me.
Whilst they are all bad, I'm particularly irked by the driving school one!
Police investigate tractor that created ‘devastating’ wave in flooded UK town
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/25/police-investigate-tract...
One man IHT protest
Man, 57, arrested after tractor filmed driving through flooded high street
https://metro.co.uk/2024/11/26/man-57-arrested-tractor-filmed-driving-fl...
The old 'I didn't mean to kill them with my motor vehicle' dodge- never fails!
With the black right above the red I'd say they've snookered themselves.
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