Drivers and their problems

So anyone on that street in charge of a small child or short-legged pooch needs to make damn sure it doesn't stand still near the kerb for too long . . .

David9694 wrote:

Herefordshire potholes are a danger on rural roads

We are seriously thinking of moving to another county.

Good luck with that.

pockstone wrote:

Loco parentis...or just plain loco? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cld442nkd4yo

A pity she's doesn't appear to have been banned from driving as well as teaching.

hawkinspeter wrote:

You have to feel sorry for this poor driver: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/lamborghini-seized-police-m5-after-9213539

Something about bikes and number plates and insurance.

Hopefully written off so we can have one less of those ugly monstrosities clogging up our streets!

David9694 wrote:

Drivers and their problems 

The 12cm reason it is harder to get out of your car now

40% of drivers have reported the problem

"...motorists all over the country are at risk of damaging their cars, through no fault of their own.”

Of course they had no control over their choice of car, or where they parked it.

No mention of all the other people's cars they have also damaged whilst parking their monstrous vehicles (not to mention tree stumps, etc.).

Hirsute wrote:

Didn't realise these are still made !

This driver had the perfect vehicle for today's weather in Littlehampton, West Sussex - a Dutton Surf amphibious kit car, produced in nearby Worthing.

That driver must be having so much fun and laughing at the other drivers

Why didn't he just dump them in the street?

3 trains between 8 and 9: 34,31,44 mins.

I liked the comment "My Nissan Juke that's turned into a BMW"

David9694 wrote:

Dog walkers upset after King's Wood in Challock destroyed by “joyriders”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/disgust-as-beauty-spot-torn-to...

There is an open space at the top of my village which has two football pitches marked out on it (the local children's team practice on it on a saturday).  It is rutted deep where local kids have ridden motorbikes or e-scooters around on it - they actually had to cancel practices where the ruts were so deep they were worried people might trip.

Why would tyre extinguishers need their weights set to zero?

David9694 wrote:

As the wetter winters (and drier summers) of climate breakdown settle on to the starting blocks, and the gammon curtain of Brexit descends making the UK a second world country, [...]

If the UK is going to be a 2nd world country (which would be about right, absent our glorious past of global rapine and pillage) do we at least get an upgrade to 2nd-world- class cycle infra and local streets?

wtjs wrote:

Another day, another Sudden Unexplained Acceleration Incident about 2:30 this afternoon [...]

The pattern that David9494 (was it?) outlined is becoming clearer - like predators and con-artists these electric autonomous vehicles are biding their time then selectively picking on the unsuspecting old and infirm - having convinced them they are just there to help.

ktache wrote:

.With thanks to the anti cyclist guardian, Joe Lycett and Foka Wolf.

Do I win a prize for recognising where that is from just half of the road sign?

It's just 5 minutes from my house in Bristol - Blackswarth Rd leading to Crews Hole Rd.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/6c7gSndgy7tGVory9

Edit: rode past there and it's currently a British Airways advert

David9694 wrote:

Drivers : cyclists should pay Road Tax etc

Also drivers : you want us to pay to use the toll bridge? L-O-L 

Fees hike at Eling toll bridge approved by Totton and Eling Town Council amid legal advice

Resident Mary Brown said exemption from the toll had been granted 40 years ago by NFDC on the grounds it was “reasonable and necessary” for residents to be able to access services and facilities in the town centre by the shortest available route.

“In that respect, nothing has changed. Parents taking kids to school, people making use of medical services, shops or the library all have to cross the bridge or make a lengthy detour.

“These services are free to other residents of Totton and to make part of the community pay is nothing short of discrimination.”

Resident Graham Gardiner added: “We have taken legal advice and are of the strong opinion that the issuance of free exemption passes is an established right and should continue in perpetuity.”

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/legal-delay-amid-fees-hike-at-...

Of no relevance whatsoever, but I cycle over the bridge pretty regularly - it's on my 100 mile ride from home in South London to our caravan in New Milton.  It's very pretty there.

Hirsute wrote:

Keep the old car

Shurely "True British patriots have second homes in warmer countries and fly there wooly jumpers and English Roadsters"?

I cant believe they spent nearly 4 hrs debating creating a £1 per hour car park charge, it should have been a 5min conversation at most if it needed anything more than rubber stamping.

and it still sounds like theyre creating some horrendous system so parking to pick up prescriptions will still be free somehow !?!

why do people find it so hard to understand using a car should cost them money and not be subsidised?

Not sure this thread is the place for detailed legal discussion, but I think the term would be "involuntary bailment" if you want to google it for more info. The long and short of it is the person who has come into possession of the goods (the bailee) has certain obligations regarding the goods, including keeping them safe. Simply dumping them in the street would likely by at the very least a civil tort against their owner, and potentially a criminal offence too (if deemed to be fly tipping). 

To match their IQs?

David9694 wrote:

I imagine the damage to the family's multiple cars would be even worse on unfamiliar roads as opposed to the one they all use regularly. 

I can promise them it would be even worse in Derbyshire.