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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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- teckert 1 hour 15 min ago
Well it appears Velogames isn't overly good at getting races up too quick either. ...
- hawkinspeter 4 hours 41 min ago
Can't that be resolved with different gearing though? (Smaller chainring)
- Christopher Clifton 4 hours 43 min ago
The main reason that I have never subscribed to any pay to view channel is that it would mean paying for access to a lot of content I have no...
- David9694 5 hours 33 min ago
1981 Raleigh brochure on EBay - a missing link in the catalogues available on line. Bidding starts at £35. ...
- David9694 5 hours 57 min ago
It's a Brexit level of over-simplification the idea that car parking charges and retail prosperity are connected.
- newbankgyratory 6 hours 59 min ago
Useful video. Gives a chance to see other's points of view. Albeit not a lot of anticipation or consideration being shown (from the cammers). Very...
- S.E. 7 hours 15 min ago
It's probably in Romania by now, or Poland, but a picture would certainly help, size too?
- S.E. 7 hours 25 min ago
Sounds like spam... which bike was used for the kit, please at least post pictures with the end result.
- chrisonabike 7 hours 30 min ago
He needs a good lawyer......
- wtjs 9 hours 1 min ago
I live in Gloucestershire where being inconvenienced is dealt with more harshly than being close passed, no matter how close or how fast...
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Police patrol school drop off areas where residents have had enough of parents blocking their driveways
Residents say they are frustrated with what they described as inconsiderate parking
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/police-patrol-school-drop-...
Driver issued with traffic summons after crash involving Gills players
(Follow up) A speed awareness course - wrist duly slapped - I guess anything more would constitute "unfair enforcement".
His manager:
He said: “I have seen the video clip, where it doesn’t look great, that he’s lost control, but having spoke to eye witnesses myself and police and all the players involved, the problem was the car, not the driver, which is pleasing for me to be able to say.
“However, it is just a reminder to all of us that we have to be careful and make sure we look after our community as well. I reminded the players of that but everyone is safe and it was just a pure accident.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/driver-issued-with-traffic-summ...
great to know you're on the side of the drivers, Prime Minister - here's a couple of examples of who you're backing:
Penzance crash into car, bus and pole leads to driver being detained under Mental Health Act
The incident saw a van collide with a car, a bus, and then a roadside pole.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/penzance-crash-car-bus-p...
Stoned driver's head-on crash changed victim's life forever
Patrick Dean was driving far too fast in difficult driving conditions - then sat down and smoked a cigarette as his collapsed victim asked him for help
A head-on collision then took place badly damaging both cars. Mr Crome was able to get out of his car but immediately collapsed due to pain. Mr Crome asked Dean to call him an ambulance but when he saw him sat down having a cigarette he called one himself.
Mr Crome was rushed into hospital and found to have suffered a ruptured bowel. He was off work for nearly three months and still suffers psychologically. In one of his victim personal statements he said: "If it's not the thought of what happened it's the pain that keeps me up at night."
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/stoned-drivers-head-cras...
'We're living under siege' from school traffic
Neighbours say traffic-calming measures have actually made roads around the secondary school more chaotic
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/were-living-under-siege-...
'I was kidnapped by my runaway electric car'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67005620
Apropos of nothing at all - I just wanted to share this local newspaper photo because it is SO local newspaper...
Particularly the caption.
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/calls-action-tackle-br...
Johnny Mercer says he will 'fight tooth and nail for Tamar Bridge commuters'
MP Johnny Mercer says 'no-one has worked harder on this than Sheryll Murray'
At most, regulars will have to pay £1.80 instead of £1.50.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-opinion/johnny-mercer-says-fight-...
drivers and their problems
Vandals write off driver’s car after breakdown on the A35 near Lyndhurst
Mr Squier lamented the theft of handmade Dolly Anna (not at all cursed - see article pic), gifted by his aunt on a rare visit to her in Yorkshire two weeks earlier.
“The claim is now settled and I have another car now, a BMW 520, but it still hurts,” Mr Squier said.
“The car was a rare model which I had hoped to keep for several more years.
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/i-m-sick-and-i-m-angry-driver-...
Some of the courts still haven't got the message about "we're for the drivers":
Driver on M25 disqualified after losing control of his car.
Although Yorkshire was ahead of the game:
Road resurfaced around parked car.
Bloody cyclists - Southampton: Concerns over street lights after pile of waste dumped
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23840013.southampton-concerns-street-li...
BBC denies reports that Top Gear will be axed after Flintoff accident
Filming for series 34 of the show was halted after an accident involving presenter and former England captain Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-top-gear-axe-freddie-flintoff-acc...
How thick do you have to be to achieve this ?
"The walls were touching on both sides of the car," he said. "They got it wedged and they just put more power on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67032246
Article on PCPs and their dangers. I was told I was being extreme when I mentioned this before.
The financialisation of car consumption
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2023.2254727
"Car manufacturers have promoted PCPs to solve long-running problems in their business model related to the need to maintain a certain level of ongoing new car consumption to conform with path-dependent patterns of production. In doing so, they have partly exported their own financial risk onto consumers, leveraging what is widely construed as consumers’ material dependency on their vehicles for transport to do so."
"The council said that forcibly moving cars comes with difficulties surrounding the risk of damaging cars and legal issues."
I used to live near a football stadium. The council would come round a couple of hours before a match and tow cars away so they wouldn't get damaged...
Although I enjoyed them as a kid, I then came to think good guys vs bad guys storylines were trite and simplistic - things are never that clear-cut. Now the contrast grows ever stronger.
Exeter Just Stop Oil protester 'struck by motorist'
The march brought traffic to a standstill in Exeter on Saturday - leaving some drivers angry
Mia Fidge, 20, "My generation has no choice but to fight against the genocidal decisions that the UK government is making, in an attempt to protect our loved ones and the future for all.”
Marilyn Spurr, 75, “I find slow marching with Just Stop Oil rather scary but the climate crisis is even scarier.
In the south, T-shirt weather in October. Landslips and flooding in Scotland.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-just-stop-oil-protester...
cyclists should be made to display number plates etc
Surrey driver fined for leaves taped to number plate after speeding on A3 near Guildford
The leaves were said to be taped to the number plate
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-driver-fined-leaves-...
cars.destroy.everything
Hampshire police pleas for drivers to report animal collisions amid fatal New Forest hit-and-run spate
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/five-hit-and-run-animal-deaths...
Hampshire fly-tippers dumped waste including fridge at walking spot
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23842163.hampshire-fly-tippers...
police were able to eliminate cyclists from their enquiries at an early stage
Driver who led police on 160mph police chase in East Yorkshire claimed car was stolen
There are some things in this that I find very worrying.
This man led the police on a very high speed chase, damaged police cars, lied to the police about the car being stolen (although he didn't lie to his insurance company, that would be fraud...) and thought that he'd got away with it because it took the police so long to prove that it was him. After thinking that he'd got away with it, did he learn from his actions and turn into a model driver? No, he got caught speeding twice!
Something else that worries me is "Whitaker had a four-month-old daughter, who was brought into court by her mother with permission from the judge." Was the child allowed in because there were childcare issues or was the child being used as some form or mitigation? He's a family man and sending him to jail is a bad thing to do...
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-10-07/driver-who-led-police-on-16...
'Openreach plonked a telegraph pole over my driveway while I was at work'
"My daughters have bigger cars and can't fit."
""I think it's going to devalue the house as well, because if I eventually sell, because I've lost my husband, it's going to put someone off...no real notice before the new pole was put up"
https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/new-telegraph-pole-...
Oh, Mr Ebay!!
One for wtjs (admittedly not in Lancashire, though):
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-10-10/driver-ticketed-after-overtaking-traffic-to-run-red-light
The convoy is underway with between 30-40 vehicles involved
According to our reporter at the scene Phil Dewey, the protestors of the 20mph speed limit have met at Magor services. The convoy has just started.
There are "30-40" vehicles taking part - on the M4. Seems to all have passed off safely - with extensive police involvement.
He said the speed had changed from 30mph to 40mph for safety reasons and added: “We don’t want your point to end with a crash”.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/live-updates-20mph-protest...
very few adults are going to walk 2 or 3 miles tot he school and 2 or 3 miles back again, so if the child must be accompanied then driving becomes default for those with a car.
rishi sundack has declared an end to the war on motorists (legal or otherwise) s clearly poor plod needs to get up to date with the latest national polcy to avoid "committing treason"
I was quite surprised by the comments on the article. A lot more in favour of slower driving.
Also - what a strange test. Driving 10mph below the speed target made drivers behind him impatient. Well yes. Same as if you drove 30mph in a 40 or 60mph on a motorway.
Capricorn One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3I6XjqCho
I struggle, for differing reasons, to understand how detergent and meat are easy things to fence.
Wanna buy some steak? You'll er need to wash up afterwards, wontchya?
Maybe placing so much reliance on self-service tills doesn't turn out to be quite the genius cost saver after all?
Two bagged for Car Crashes into Building from the linked stories.
Thanks - I found the Abstract interesting and I'll have a read through it later.
And if people can't afford price increases, they can use food banks. Sheryll Murray is very pleased that South East Cornwall has food banks
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/i-m-pleased-we-have-foodbanks-t...
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