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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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- Rendel Harris 43 min 24 sec ago
Best Bogart voice: "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of where to watch cycling don't amount to a...
- ChrisA 44 min 13 sec ago
I'm mising the point here. Why are there (permanant) barriers across the cycle path. It's like a 10 foot section of road where motorists are told...
- SecretSam 1 hour 33 min ago
I've just bought a second hand Mason but that 105 mechanical Strael looks a seriously good deal. Deeply pretty bike and I love the company ethos.
- andystow 4 hours 55 min ago
Ok, just noticing this on my own bike. The rear wheel I bought from wheelbuilder.com. The front I rebuilt on my existing SON hub with a rim ordered...
- hawkinspeter 9 hours 24 min ago
Looks to me like they crashed into a "give way" sign
- jamesha100 10 hours 9 min ago
This is so sad but also so sadly familiar. I am not sure whether more punitive sentences - e.g. life driving bans - would make any difference but...
- chrisonabike 10 hours 29 min ago
Probably. But ... applied / enforced by whom? (See Private Eye's "Rotten Boroughs" page for evidence of how well that might work).
- Miller 10 hours 54 min ago
Because the reframing work in post is a right pain in the neck, the reframed quality doesn't match normal action cams, because the cameras are...
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Cautious Rotherham drivers rendered helpless when a dastardly developer failed to put in road markings (crunch, smash)!
Or could it be the "shared space" idea - that people will drive more carefully if there are no markings - doesn't actually work very well? Or indeed at all with current UK drivers? (It's awful for pedestrians and cyclists too).
You can't have any sleep at night because cars:
Exeter residents living next to 'noisy' major development are now enduring sleepless nights from roadworks
Developer Watkin Jones has told DevonLive that the completion date for The Gorge is August 31, and that roadworks will take place between 8pm and 2am. They added that also due to the location of the works and the high volume of traffic, they have no other option but to close the highway overnight.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-residents-living-next-n...
Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring could see free parking axed
New excuse for cheap/free parking unlocked - a fair bit of gymnastics going on for Cllr Capozzi here:
"...because people are using those places for wellbeing, they should be some of the last to be charged," she said. The Liberal Democrat councillor added "when you see the amount of people who use, for example, the skate park", free parking becomes an issue of "losing access" to affordable exercise."
https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/hemel-hem...
The Rotherham estate prone to car crashes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-south-yorkshire-66502015
(Can't help feeling that "prone to prangs" is a missed opportunity)
'Legoland' road markings met with confusion
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c16e46ed25ko
Torbay Council said it painted a junction on Paignton Road to increase safety for pedestrians.
Paignton Zoo visitors left 'hot, angry and frustrated' by long queues
And that's not the animals, that's the drivers.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/paignton-zoo-visitors-left-hot...
Just had the insurance renewal - up just over a third !
War on motorists !
Confused A30 Chiverton Cross driver causes chaos by going wrong way
This seems to be happening regularly.
Kudos to Cornwall Live for a headline which blames the driver and not the car
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/confused-a30-chiverton-c...
This letter has cut me in two
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23722765.letter-why-spending-2...
(This is Winchester, btw, Aka Chelsea, Hants)
Good to see the council is battling on with this
Cornwall Council faces legal battle as restarted road scheme is 'bad for business'
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-council-faces-l...
"Late again, Smith, what's the excuse this time?"
Great pictures, but the story doesn't quite add up for me.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-terrified-after-find...
More unfortunate goings-on - comments on this story have it right.
Dad with heart condition 'abandoned' in pitch black car park
Darren Williams said he joined breakdown firm after his car broke down - but claimed they gave him wrong information about costs to get home leaving him stranded for hours in desolate country park
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/dad-heart-condition-abandoned-...
Clevedon : "We will fight tooth and nail for our seafront parking"
*Camper vans join in*
"Not like that!!"
Anger as tourists in campervans take over seafront parking spaces
Holidaymakers are taking advantage of a lack of parking restrictions on evenings and Sundays
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/anger-tourists-camperv...
see also: I can't remember what role Clevedon Town Council played in the seafront thing, but WTAF
Somerset folk can't access numerous public areas after insurers dump council
Access to allotments, tennis courts, and a park is now 'strictly forbidden' (situation resolved by Friday)
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/somerset-folk-cant-acc...
Angered Hertford residents slam footway works set to close street from vehicle access and 'trapping disabled people'
Residents will be forced to move their vehicles 30 minutes before the works begin every day at 7.30am
https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/angered-h...
'The cars fined included a Mazda, a Honda, a Mercedes and a Porsche.'
https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/transport/porsche-among-cars-fined-for-illegal-parking-in-peak-district-as-number-of-drivers-slammed-for-breaching-highway-code-4259073
Hoping that we've now reached peak silly season 2023:
Boy finds piece of chicken which looks just like the UK
Harry Hitcham, 16, was travelling with his dad and younger sister to Cornwall when he spotted the fillet in his Boneless Banquet meal
dad, Rob, 53, said Harry is “well proud of his UK chicken.”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/boy-finds-piece-chicken-loo...
Wiltshire Police family liaison officer on fatal crashes
A missive from the front-line of the daily death toll from cars
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/23735522.wiltshire-police-family...
A "seemingly minor mistake" led to someone dying.
Tractors and three-wheel car cause standstill traffic in protests against this month's ULEZ expansion
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/tractors-three-wheel-car-caus...
'Cheeky' Callington shoppers 'taking the mick' amid town's 'frustrating' parking problems
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cheeky-callington-shoppe...
Man vows to fight 'grossly unfair' Chester parking fine even if it means going to court
The grandad-of-four admits he's worried 'debt collectors will be banging at the door' but refuses to pay out of principle
"You had to input your registration. I tried all that with no joy and gave up. I'm 67 and my eyesight isn't great."
https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/man-vows-figh...
"A man who crashed into the back of a police car, causing injury to a police officer, has been fined more than £700."
"Stevenson was fined £755 and had his driving licence endorsed with nine points."
Should have been wearing hi Viz !!
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23732436.colchester-man-crashed-back...
From my Facebook feed part 1. My favourite here is the "my brother says there are no emissions from old vehicles" bit - I guess all those people with respiratory conditions* must be wrong, then.
Part 2
* modern medicine can do so much to repair injury and reverse diseases and their effects. But - on the strength of one clinical presentation a few years ago - one hospital specialty you don't want to be under is respiratory. They can do relatively little to repair lung damage - the best you can hope for is to stabilise optimise what lung function you have.
Is it aero though? And does it climb?
That road looks quite familiar - I wonder what area that's in.
Edit: they've posted it under "Horfield", so not that close to me. Though I did live for a while on Broadway Rd - just a couple of houses away from The Young Ones house. (They'd turned Neil's grave into a fishpond)
Just saw this mock up
Nice to see a bike in the library pic of the court.
Wonder if he'll stick around for trial here? The US tends not to support prosecution of its military and associates overseas. (Just like the UK of course, but more so).
Like moving house or getting divorced, crashing your car/ chancing it is a rich man's pursuit. Quite a worrying video.
Many of the head-oners are so because drunk, it seems. Many were directed there by their stupid-nav.
Others will be going car-jousting because they're drunk on freedumb. Who is this "society" (that doesn't exist anyway 'cos The Thatcher Thing banned it) that dares to say I can't DO WHAT I WANT?
Others again will have seen a robber-hero do it on an yank cop movie so it must be cool. See the second-raters swerve-crash out of his way!
Oh Brave New Blighty, that has such carloons in it.
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