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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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- wtjs 44 min 8 sec ago
I live in Gloucestershire where being inconvenienced is dealt with more harshly than being close passed, no matter how close or how fast...
- hawkinspeter 1 hour 30 min ago
https://road.cc/content/forum/police-issue-cow-warning-after-man-seriously-injured-308531
- Hirsute 2 hours 10 min ago
I have read people commenting before about not having a camera on your helmet as it will give you injuries....
- Hirsute 2 hours 16 min ago
It's standard to have a suspended sentence due to full prisons....
- brooksby 2 hours 35 min ago
Only buy on Aliexpress if you can justify financially supporting intellectual property theft. In my personal opinion.
- chrisonabike 3 hours 43 min ago
Perhaps you're running them at lower pressures / with extra weight? I've found they feel sketchy at least when cornering and I've had a few offs...
- chrisonabike 3 hours 49 min ago
True ... but left to itself that notion tends to go the same way as instructing pedestrians, cyclists and SUV drivers to "share the road"!...
- mdavidford 5 hours 1 min ago
To be fair to them, it looks like a choice between that or a lot of sunken surfaces and ironworks further out.
- mdavidford 5 hours 8 min ago
...mostly among sports administrators, media, and cycling fans.
- Pub bike 5 hours 57 min ago
At what point will politicians realise that no amount of effort can really protect vulnerable users on roads and that to keep people safe automatic...
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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?
This seems to run deeper for some folk than spoiling the view:
https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/cameras-c...
5G (et al) Conspiracy Theory Central right here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2509191622652006/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/uk5gmaststhatneedobjections/
I don't feel like driving any more.
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.
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.
cars cancel Christmas:
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23948021.hundreds-queue-get-wi...
He sees you when you're sleepin',
He knows when you're awake,
he knows if you've been bad or good,
So be good for goodness' sake.
We aim to please at DaTP!
Christmas traffic 'carnage' in Yorkshire town with 'cars dumped on verges' as businesses hit by 'disaster'
Some traders had a bumper day of takings while others had to close due to a lack of parking
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/christmas-traffi...
Pictures or it didn't happen. News just in - she's a carpenter, while others have claimed she is the Eggman.
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>
It seems to me drivers get longer sentences for things they did afterwards, like covering up their tracks like a snivelling coward for example, than the deed itself.
I really think there needs to be some kind of ethics/empathy test for drivers.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/dog-put-down-after-being-8870500
Novel use for an Audi here
Aberystwyth businesses revved up over parking charge plan
What surprises me most about this story is that there is still free parking on the seafront in Aberystwyth.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67273789
Swale Borough Council considers premium car park charges at most popular sites in Faversham, Sittingbourne and Isle of Sheppey
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/faversham/news/concern-as-motorists-face-pr...
Easy come, easy go
Moment Storm Ciarán waves dragged 4x4 into Sidmouth sea
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/moment-storm-ciarn-waves-dragg...
London's low emission zones have improved air quality, study suggests
The introduction of low emission zones has also led to a reduction in hospital admissions for respiratory conditions, researchers say.
Script for Scooby Doo episode
Fred: now let’s see who’s been terrorising the Vatican City (removes rubber Pope mask)
All: Archbishop Welby!
Welby: Curses! And I’d have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you pesky meddling kids
Fred : Officer, here’s your man
Pope : Now I can be myself again!
Daphne : you sure can, Your holiness
Shaggy : but what I don’t understand is how he did it
Fred : (flashback cutaway) when the real pope was preparing the communion wine, Welby switched the chalices and gave the Pope a sleeping draught. Then all he has to do was say mass and everyone was fooled.
Shaggy : but Scooby smelt something was off
Scooby: yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Fred : and that made the Swiss Guards suspicious, but we needed proof…
Thelma : which I got when I overheard Welby saying that opinions were divided about transubstantiation
Daphne : for a little while there, the Pope wasn’t Catholic - your holiness it’s great to have you back
Pope: it’s great to be back, and I owe it all to you - and Scooby Doo
Everyone : dissolves into laughter as Welby is led away by the officer
https://news.sky.com/story/londons-low-emission-zones-have-improved-air-...
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23879009.norwich-city-council-ev-parking-si...
"it's too dangerous for you to walk to school - here, I'll drive you." Rinse and repeat.
Child dies in serious crash with car in Stock as man arrested after crashing into two children
Another boy involved in the crash has also been taken to hospital
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/child-dies-serious-crash-car-...
The Sittingbourne School pupils arriving late due to A249 lane closure for Grovehurst roundabout project
Mr Lambkin explained that the single-lane closure on the Sheppey Crossing is taking 30 minutes alone.
He added: “There has got to be a better way to do this. It is not right."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/hundreds-of-pupils-late-to-s...
Note at no stage does it suggest a driver was involved https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23902071.quay-lane-near-southwold-blocked-ca...
M5 Volkswagen speeder says he was distracted by Queen's death
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23900931.m5-volkswagen-speeder-says...
what cars do to people
Victim of road rage attack in Canterbury tells of ordeal as police investigate
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/dad-punched-through-window-...
Hearses and black horses lead protest against parking charges
Cheshire East Council is proposing changes for the 59-space car park
"The hearse was to reflect that this would be the death of the village. By imposing the charge, it will impact the way of life in the village. People are annoyed and dismayed at this."
"In the report, it outlines the car park will generate an income of around £25,000, and so we’re not talking significant amounts here."
Which is it, Mr Bugeja?
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/local-news/hearses-black-horses-lea...
fucking sick of it
Women dies after being hit by car while walking dog in Leckhamstead
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-11-05/women-dies-after-being-hit-...?
Van driver who downed six pints and sniffed a line of cocaine asked police if victim was dead
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-11-05/is-she-alive-van-driver-asks...?
BMW driver arrested after woman dies in Bradford crash
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-11-05/bmw-driver-arrested-after-w...?
Woman dies after being hit by car outside Horncastle supermarket
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-11-05/woman-dies-after-being-hit-...
Southampton: Traffic bollards make Archery Road 'more unsafe'
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23895856.southampton-traffic-bollards-m...
Southampton driver guilty of hitting woman on zebra crossing
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23901467.southampton-driver-guilty-hitt...
Sevenoaks woman caused thousands of pounds of damage to eight cars when she keyed them because they were parked on pavement
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sevenoaks/news/woman-keyed-eight-cars-parke...
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