Drivers and their problems

Hirsute wrote:

From World Bollards

Those bell-shaped bollards don't mess about, do they?

Interesting. She may be railing against seatbelts, but at least acknowledges they're only necessary because of "speed maniacs and sheer bad drivers".

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More than 300 cars are set to receive speeding tickets...

Around 250 vehicles descended on the park and ride on Sunday...

...upwards of 300 cars can expect a fine ...

Naughty, naughty cars!

"Ah, medical episode, mind how you go sir"

It's a handy Omni-Dodge, which works for every occasion just like LancsFilth's 'only a momentary loss of concentration' (when the oncoming vehicle on the wrong side of the road hit me with the mirror) and ScotRozzer's 'he doesn't remember the incident so there's nothing we can do'. When the police can't be bothered, they'll accept anything

"had not consumed a huge amount of cocaine that weekend"

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"I would hope that the vehicle was also confiscated and crushed."

 errrrrr...

You cannot stop us from coming into this car park

There's a challenge! Make sure you can stop them, is my suggestion- lockable bollard in the middle of the entrance should do it. Entitled parents are as much a pain as any other entitled group. We'll soon be into the season where the dreadful idle parents sit in cars outside Garstang Community Academy waiting for the idle offspring with the engine running, and blocking the pavements, the road, making bus-drivers' lives difficult etc

Good! They're turning on their spiritual siblings now! Perhaps they'll drive themselves extinct

As far as I can recall, Guildford High Street has been car free on Saturdays since the seventies. 

David9694 wrote:

hmm, no information there about parking rules and restrictions like the ages / number of children you need to be toting use the parent & child spaces.

The sign in the car park just says 'young children', can't read the small print though and it might be more clearly defined in there.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/EU4qWXnTJySzcz4w9

That and if your car has a blowout on the motorway and your car flips...

Yeah that's the one - looks like a trailing space got caught up in my link, sorry.

David9694 wrote:

Sorry, this is a CCIB matter. And I have reported you this time to Police Scotland. 

My legal counsel insisted that it was "wedged" or "stuck" and not crashed.

My legal counsel also insisted that Police Scotland can go huff a bag of squirrel scat.

https://www.lancs.live/whats-on/shopping/tesco-sainsburys-warning-shoppe...

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A Tesco spokesperson said that its parent and child bays are there to help parents of young children who may need additional space to get their child in and out of their car and into a pram or buggy. The bays are clearly marked and the conditions of their use advertised on signage in our car parks. If those conditions of use are breached then a parking enforcement contractor (in Tesco car parks where enforcements are in place) may issue a penalty charge notice.

A Sainsbury's spokesperson said: "For added convenience we offer a limited number of parking bays specifically for customers shopping with children. Our parent and child bays are for customers accompanied by one or more children up to the age of 12."

David9694 wrote:

"Ah, medical episode, mind how you go sir". This whole "it was a medical episode" is starting to wear a bit thin for me.

PS This was back in June - good luck if you need hospital this week. 

https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/a1m-crash...

Well the driver was found unconscious, so I'm inclined to believe it was a medical episode.

However, drivers should have their licences revoked if they suffer a medical episode until it's either diagnosed and rectified or they have a minimum time (a year or three) without any symptoms before they are allowed to drive again.

I think I'd find myself in urgent need of throwing a mop bucket full of VERY dirty water out the front door were I the caretaker of the village hall. After all, what idiot is gonna park there?

I guess that motorhome driver doesn't bother looking at the road signs when he's using his satnav, even then, I'm surprised they even made it into Mill Road in the first place, it's not exactly invitingly wide!

Even more seriously, this - is a 24yo footballer really a candidate for passing out without warning?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66852585 

"Driver acquitted after couple's crash death in Glenrothes

A man has been acquitted of causing the deaths of a couple by driving dangerously.

Liam McWatt, 24, walked free from court after jurors found the case against him not proven.

Earlier in the trial, the court heard that Mr McWatt had lost control of his vehicle and crashed into Harry and Shirley Taggerty.

The driver told a police officer at the scene that he must have blacked out before the crash.

Mr McWatt of Glenrothes, Fife, was driving in his home town when he hit the couple, who were walking on the other side of the road.

He was the sole occupant of a Ford Fiesta which was westbound on the A911 just after 10:00 in the morning on 13 July, 2019.

The jury heard that Mr McWatt's car crossed the carriageway and struck Harry Taggerty, 61, and his wife Shirley, 58.

One eyewitness described how Mr Taggerty tried in vain to pull his wife out of the way of the car which was "careering" towards them at speed.

The witness described how the couple appeared to still be holding hands as the impact threw them into the air.

A police officer who witnessed the crash previously told the court how he had seen Mr McWatt's car mount a pavement and hit the couple who were sent "flying into the air".

He said that he went to their aid but saw "no signs of life". He then turned to Mr McWatt who told him he had blacked out.

Mr McWatt went on to enter a not guilty plea, telling the court during the trial that he could not remember the moments leading to the crash but that he had been feeling unwell in the days before the collision and that he had been sent home sick from work.

Prosecutors had alleged that Mr McWatt drove at excessive speed while using a mobile phone, then crossed the road into the path of oncoming traffic.

The jury was told he had not tested positive for alcohol, and there were no defects in his vehicle that could explain what happened.

After deliberating for two hours, the jury returned its verdict that Mr McWatt was not criminally responsible for the Taggertys' deaths."