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.
David9694 | 2740 posts | 1 week ago
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Anxieties swirl after latest accident on 'terrifying' Leighton Buzzard
road where there have been 50 accidents in 5 years
“Local people are very concerned. I’ve travelled on this road daily for more than five years. It’s terrifying. Can someone please do something about this.”
response so far
It’s been acknowledged there have been about 50 personal injury accidents along this route from April 2016 to March 2022. Some of these incidents
are because of common types of error, such as:
46 per cent or 23 of them involved failure to look properly;
24 per cent or 12 of these failure to judge another person’s speed or direction;
18 per cent or nine were caused by careless or reckless driving by someone in a hurry;
and 12 per cent or six were the result of a driver exceeding the speed limit.
EDIT - just added this up and realised its a full house. Drivers and their problems. WDIW?
https://road.cc/content/forum/drivers-and-their-problems-296315
A woman who moved traffic cones to cross over a major Essex A-road to
avoid traffic queues has been fined. Footage of the woman went viral in
April this year when she was queuing in traffic due to a crash and
decided to move two rows of traffic cones on a central area of the A12 to
try and avoid the queues.
In the footage, the woman attempts to drive into the parallel lane before being spoken to by National Highways contractor Andrew Craig. Mr Craig
has now described what happened as part of a National Highways campaign
to educate road users about the dangers of not following instructions around roadworks.
He said: “There had been a collision further up the A12 – which was the reason for the congestion. I was driving towards the incident to help
when I came across the lady moving cones and trying to get her car in a
more free-flowing lane. Stopping my vehicle to deal with it delayed me getting to the collision and helping those affected. It also put me in an incredibly dangerous situation, which was completely avoidable.
“You can see from the footage how busy that section of road was, and the actions of the lady was understandably drawing the attention of other motorists who were driving yards away from where we were both stood. Just
one distracted driver could have easily led to a fatal accident."
Following the incident, a 66-year-old woman from south London was issued
with a conditional caution. She was also fined £100, with the money going
to a road worker safety charity. Moving cones and driving through a marked-off area is an offence and a breach of the Highway Code.
Karl Brooks – National Highways’ Programme Delivery Manager in the East Region - said: “We understand that nobody likes being stuck in a car and queueing through roadworks, so we plan very carefully and, where
possible, carry out work overnight and at weekends when roads are at
their quietest. Unfortunately, that’s not always possible and traffic management measures like cones and signs are there for the safety of the public and those working to improve the road network.
“We do everything we can to highlight roadworks – and alongside our contractors – we train those working on the road network to recognise potentially dangerous situations and take every precaution they can to minimise that risk.
"We are now urging drivers to do the same; if you’re driving through a section of roadworks please take extra care, follow the signs, and think about the people working there to make the road you’re travelling on better. Safety is an absolute priority for National Highways; we want everyone to get home safe and well, and that goes for our workers too.”
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/woman-who-moved-traffic-cones-8599343
irsute | 7815 posts | 1 week ago
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'We can't use new drive because council put bollards in front of it - we're trapped'
TRAPPED I TELL YOU !
Then you read that they use a pedestrian crossing to go over the pavement
to the house, failed to ask permission for anything and thought driving
over a ped crossing was normal.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1Um65rX0AAfuyI?format=jpg&name=small
David9694 | 2746 posts | 1 day ago
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More signs needed in Nottingham to stop drivers blocking tram route as
car dealership approved.
one more sign will fix it.
:-)
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HoldingOn wrote:
Ignoring the (assumed) drivist responses, as I've sat here thinking
about this - I actually think it is about time.
I have been noticing pedestrian crossings changing to amber while (generally older) people are still trying to cross. I can imagine some drivers will start to drive through because "its amber and that means go"
I see it most days: drivers waiting until people are not directly in
front of their car on a zebra crossing then pulling away; drivers doing
the same on pelican crossings, as long as the light is amber...
Musician Noel Gallagher must pay more than £1,000 for failing to tell
police who was driving his Range Rover.
The 56-year-old former Oasis star, who cannot drive, was also handed six penalty points.
He refused to give information relating to the identification of a driver when required by magistrates earlier this week.
Gallagher's Range Rover was recorded speeding at 41mph on a 30mph stretch
of the A40 in west London in October.
The guitarist and songwriter's case was dealt with at Willesden
Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. Under the Single Justice Procedure, Gallagher was not required to be present.
He was fined £742 and told to pay a £296 victim surcharge plus £100
costs, a court official confirmed.
His manager declined to comment.
A spokesperson from Lancashire Police said: ‘As a responder, when you hear ‘car trapped under a lorry’, you prepare yourself for the worst.
‘This lorry was parked up in Rawtenstall with the driver soundly asleep in his cab when the Mercedes collided with the rear of it, becoming trapped underneath the tail mounted forklift.
‘Incredibly, the Mercedes driver suffered relatively minor injuries despite travelling at around 60mph (in a 40mph limit) when the collision occurred. He also passed all impairment tests.
‘The Mercedes driver has been reported to court for driving without due care and attention, driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence and driving without insurance.’
All of the comments about it are saying how lucky the driver was etc etc. Nothing about how f-ing stupid he was driving that fast and clearly not paying attention - on the whole, parked lorries are not difficult to spot...
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David9694 | 2746 posts | 1 week ago
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Driver caught speeding at 100mph in Wiltshire claims electric car was
'running out of charge'
A Specialist Operations unit at Wiltshire Police tweeted a picture of a
device recording 101mph.
The caption said "the driver of the electric vehicle stated they were in
a rush to plug in for more charge they didn’t understand the faster you
go the more juice the car uses!"
The force said: "A trip to court awaits where hopefully more common sense
prevails. #Fatal5".
EVs have a lot to answer for.
Musician Noel Gallagher must pay more than £1,000 for failing to tell police who was driving his Range Rover.
The 56-year-old former Oasis star, who cannot drive, was also handed six penalty points.
Visitors slam 'extortionate' parking charges at popular Devon beach (Wollacoombe- also 'won't return' klaxon)day or an hour is unacceptable." (See picture of "unacceptable" charges.)
The fees have received mixed reviews with one calling the trip a ‘waste of time’
User Charley M said the parking charge was extortionate. She commented on June 5: “Car parking… £10 for 1 hour?! We had no other choice but to pay it.
“Daylight robbery. We were taking little one for her first play in the sand, turns out she isn’t a beach babe! Otherwise we would have stayed longer. Should have gone to wales. Waste of time- won’t visit again.”
Another user, Kelvinjohn agreed that the parking charges were 'unacceptable'. They said: "Car parking charges have become extortionate and really are a rip off despite their contributions to RNLI and beach maintenance. Ten pounds to park a car for a
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On 25/07/2023 08:28 pm, Spike wrote:
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David9694 | 2746 posts | 1 week ago
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Driver caught speeding at 100mph in Wiltshire claims electric car was
'running out of charge'
A Specialist Operations unit at Wiltshire Police tweeted a picture of a
device recording 101mph.
The caption said "the driver of the electric vehicle stated they were in >>> a rush to plug in for more charge they didn’t understand the faster you >>> go the more juice the car uses!"
The force said: "A trip to court awaits where hopefully more common sense >>> prevails. #Fatal5".
EVs have a lot to answer for.
He was probably trying to get home before the battery exploded.
A man who refused to take an evidential breath test after being spotted driving erratically has been banned from driving for four years. Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police’s No Excuse team spotted Connor Dennison’s red BMW weaving across twolanes on the A390 between Treliske Hospital and Threemilestone in Truro on April 13.
Video footage from the unmarked police vehicle shows the moment officers pulled Dennison over after witnessing him driving erratically. Dennison was breathalysed at the roadside, where he gave a breath test of 78 microgrammes of alcohol per 100millilitres of breath – more than double the prescribed limit of 35 microgrammes.
However, when he was arrested and taken to Camborne police station to provide an evidential breath test, he refused and was subsequently charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis. Dennison, aged 24 from Truro, appeared in court on Tuesday,June 13, where he pleaded guilty to the charge.
He was disqualified from driving for 48 months and given a 10-day community order with a rehabilitation requirement. The court also ordered Dennison to pay a £323 fine, £85 costs and a £114 victim surcharge.as the lives of innocent members of the public – at risk.
Chief Inspector Ben Asprey, head of roads policing in Devon and Cornwall and chair of the Vision Zero South West tactical tasking group, said: “The substantial length of the driving ban in this case should act as a warning to others.
Dennison, aged 24 from Truro, was handed a 48 month driving ban and given a 10-day community order with a rehabilitation requirement.
“Driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs is one of the biggest causes of fatal and serious collisions, known as the ‘Fatal Five’. If you get behind the wheel after drinking or taking drugs, you are putting your own life – as well
“We receive regular intelligence about roads being used by drink and drug drivers and coordinated our patrols to target these areas. Drink driving carries a mandatory driving ban of at least 12 months, which may lead to you losing your job, yourlivelihood and potentially much more. It’s just not worth it.”
So far this year, up to May 30, there have been 790 arrests for drink driving in Devon and Cornwall, with over 500 giving evidential tests that are over the prescribed limit. During the same period, 904 drivers have been tested for drugs (cocaine andcannabis) with 417 arrests made.
A woman had to be cut free from a car by fire crews after the crash on the A41 near Newport, Shropshire at 1.15pm on Thursday. [report (link is external)]road, he said.
A car ended up on its roof on 30mph road after a collision on Belle Vue Road in Shrewsbury on Friday morning [report (link is external)]. A local resident I know was not at all surprised - far too much fast, dangerous, and inconsiderate driving on that
A driverless car went rogue in a "one-vehicle collision" in Parkway, Madeley, Telford shortly after 7am on Sunday morning when a car "left the roadway and came to rest on a concrete bollard and fence. Nobody was trapped inside". Isn't technology great.
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So what the lorry driver is saying is that in the 24 years since passing
his test, he hasn't picked up a copy of the highway code? Because it's
there in black and white (Rule 249).
And if he thinks lorry drivers are "easy pickings", I would suggest law enforcement would have a much easier time enforcing Rule 248 - go to any residential street at night (excluding those where most houses have driveways) and you'll find a significant proportion of cars are parked illegally facing the wrong way. I daresay the majority of drivers are completely ignorant of that requirement. ===============================================================================
A Westcountry lorry driver has hit out at a 'hidden' parking law which landed him in court.
Paul Down, 60, from Tiverton, just over the Somerset border in Devon,
pulled over to take a break after feeling a migraine coming on.
But because he didn't have his lights switched on while he was pulled up
in a layby, he ended up before a district judge at the magistrates court
in Exeter, Devon Live reports.
He was given a ticket for switching off his lights while he slept, which apparently breached the Road Traffic act 1988.
At the time of the offence Paul, who has driven HGVs for 24 years, was
among the lockdown drivers 'keeping the nation moving' by making vital deliveries during the first weeks of Covid.
Paul says he has never been made aware that parking in a layby without
lights illuminated was illegal. He says the law, passed in 1989, is out
of date and does not take account of the number of reflective strips
modern lorries have or the inevitable drain on the engine's battery.
He says thousands of lorry drivers up and down the land unwittingly break
the traffic law every day by not having their lights on when parked.
He said: "In 24 years since passing my test I and other drivers have
never been informed of this law and huge companies have never informed me
or any transport manager either. You're told many important rules about
lorry driving but I was never told about this one.
"I can't get my head around it," he says. "I was off the road and no
danger to anybody. I now know it is a law but you've only got to drive
around and there are hundreds of lorries parked up with no lights on. I
see some European lorry drivers parked on hard shoulders and farmers with tractors parking under bridges on the M25 with no lights on.
"It's a crazy, stupid law. Back in the 1980s when a trailer had one
measly light bulb at the back on each side it might have made sense.
Today the manufacture of units and trailers is so much more advanced.
There are reflective strips on the side and the back.
"A lorry has 25 or 30 different lights on it. If I leave them on the
battery won't sustain it and it will be flat in the morning.
Paul did not speak to a police officer at the time as he as asleep in his cabin. He had no knowledge he was doing anything wrong and there were
further delays caused by documents being sent to the wrong address. He
chose to contest the case, in part so that he could hear what the charge
was about, and ended up in court last week - more than two years after he parked up.
The incident happened less than two weeks after the country went into
Covid lockdown. At the time, lorries drivers were categorised as key
workers, along with NHS staff and government officials, and there was
much publicity about how vital it was to keep the country's transport network moving.
Paul says lorry drivers are 'easy pickings' for over zealous law enforcement.
Paul pleaded not guilty but was found guilty after a brief trial on June
2 prosecuted by North Yorkshire Police. He was discharged conditionally
for six months, told to pay prosecution costs of £100 and a victim surcharge of £22.
A spokesperson for North Devon Police said: “Road safety is high priority for North Yorkshire Police and we will take action when motorists break the law.”
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/lorry-drivers-fury-crazy-parking-8504266
Dashcam footage captured the moment a speeding driver crashed a hired Lamborghini on a busy city road.
Gull Khan, 32, was seen weaving in and out of traffic on Bourges
Boulevard in Peterborough on 15 March 2022 at up to 75mph (120km/h) in a 40mph (64km/h) zone.
Police said he hit the back of another car, causing it to lift into the
air as it was pushed along the road and into the central reservation,
leaving the other driver with facial injuries.
Khan, of Silverwood Road, Peterborough, admitted dangerous driving and
having no insurance and was given a 10-week suspended prison sentence at Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Friday.
PC Pete Smith said: "Khan seemed determined to use the roads like a racetrack. He showed a complete disregard for the laws of the road and
other people’s safety."
Whilst it would be great for more people to cycle or get the bus to
the beach, for many, a car is pretty much an essential.
It's not 'essential' to go to the beach unless it's part of your job.
Genuinely deprived people probably can't afford a car in the first place!
Using the term 'deprived people' is just like the whataboutery deployed against LTNs, pedestrianisation of town centres etc saying "what about disabled people" when they don't GAF about them. Do they really think
that these Cornish car parks are full of 20 year old Peugeot 307s and
tired Skoda Fabias? There will be more 19- to 22-plate SUVs and Audis
than anything else. Anti-social drivers have had it too easy and too
cheap for far too long.
Thanks to the repeated cuts every council has to find revenue somehow to
pay for the services that everyone takes for granted - like the street cleaning, bin emptying and litter picking due to all the selfish c**ts
that toss litter everywhere (like the sleeping bag with broken zip that I carried back from a beach walk on Anglesey the other week and the carrier
bag full of bottles and cans collected the following morning on a short walk in Bangor.
The most surprising thing about this report is that Peterborough has a Boulevard!!
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Dashcam footage captured the moment a speeding driver crashed a hired
Lamborghini on a busy city road.
Gull Khan, 32, was seen weaving in and out of traffic on Bourges
Boulevard in Peterborough on 15 March 2022 at up to 75mph (120km/h) in a
40mph (64km/h) zone.
Police said he hit the back of another car, causing it to lift into the
air as it was pushed along the road and into the central reservation,
leaving the other driver with facial injuries.
Khan, of Silverwood Road, Peterborough, admitted dangerous driving and
having no insurance and was given a 10-week suspended prison sentence at
Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Friday.
PC Pete Smith said: "Khan seemed determined to use the roads like a
racetrack. He showed a complete disregard for the laws of the road and
other people’s safety."
swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
Whilst it would be great for more people to cycle or get the bus to
the beach, for many, a car is pretty much an essential.
It's not 'essential' to go to the beach unless it's part of your job.
Sounds like you’ve never had kids.
Genuinely deprived people probably can't afford a car in the first place!
And even the non-genuinely deprived too…
Using the term 'deprived people' is just like the whataboutery deployed
against LTNs, pedestrianisation of town centres etc saying "what about
disabled people" when they don't GAF about them. Do they really think
that these Cornish car parks are full of 20 year old Peugeot 307s and
tired Skoda Fabias? There will be more 19- to 22-plate SUVs and Audis
than anything else. Anti-social drivers have had it too easy and too
cheap for far too long.
The green eye is strong in this one…
Thanks to the repeated cuts every council has to find revenue somehow to
pay for the services that everyone takes for granted - like the street
cleaning, bin emptying and litter picking due to all the selfish c**ts
that toss litter everywhere (like the sleeping bag with broken zip that I
carried back from a beach walk on Anglesey the other week and the carrier
bag full of bottles and cans collected the following morning on a short walk in Bangor.
You forgot to add bicyclists’ gel packs, for some reason.
More than 50 Devon road users were caught speeding during just one hour.
Cops took to the streets of Paignton following complaints by residents of speeding motorists – and caught plenty breaking the limit.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-road-users-caught-paignton-8506116
The Devon and Cornwall news is full of main road crashes too numerous to mention and and it's only the beginning of June.
Not a news story, but on-topic... In conversation a while ago, a friend told me they were annoyed because they'd been 'done' by a speed camera van parked about 50 yards from our house. Which is on a 30 limit village road, just along from a schoolentrance.
I didn't quite know what to say, so I ran with "Good!".
They seemed genuinely confused as to why I thought that...
A man from Kingsbridge has received two speeding fines - in a matter of
two minutes. George Peck is now warning other drivers to "keep their
speed in check" when travelling down the A379 into Plymouth.
The first of Mr Peck's summons was for breaking the speed limit at 2.42pm
on August 6, 2022, and the second was for the same offence two minutes
later at 2.44pm. The first clocked Mr Peck driving at 36mph while the
second caught him travelling 37mph.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/man-receives-two-speeding-tickets-7631249
IanMSpencer replied to ShutTheFrontDawes | 1862 posts | 9 months ago
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I had a limiter on a 1999 Mercedes, and that could only use engine
braking to hold the speed. On my 2012 they integrated it with the ABS/stability control system and now it will apply brakes to hold the
speed. When approaching a speed limit it is easy to gently knock it down
in 5s or 1s to hit the new limit bang on the line - which of course
pisses off drivers behind who think that you have a few hundred meters of allowance so you shouldn't start braking until some point after the limit sign (but before any obvious speed cameras of course)
MUST STARE AT THE SPEEDO ALL THE TIME.
A TikTok user has shamed their neighbour who blocked in her car for 13 HOURS. Stacey Campbell says her neighbour wants to park directly outside his house.
She shared a viral clip showing his black Mercedes parked right up to the kerb in front of his house. Stacey branded him "inconsiderate" - because he keeps blocking her in.
She wrote: "The joys of Sunday morning parking issues. "How inconsiderate are some people." Stacey added: "I asked the main to move his car as he was blocking in my car and had been for over 13 hours and he wouldn't."
Her daughter "missed a play date", she added. The TikTok user added to her followers: "Do people not realise you own a house...not the road."
In response, as the clip went viral, one wrote: "Just get a mate to drag away in the night." And a second chimed in with: "Someone I know had this issue, he welded massive steel bumpers onto the front and rear and pushed anyone out the way."
"Buy a skip and have it placed in his space," another asked her. And a fourth wrote: "I'll fully park outside and not move the car for a week."
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mum-rages-neighbour-blocks-13-25238816
A plan that would see people's car registrations printed on food packaging from McDonald's is being considered in a bid to deter littering. The idea would see the details put on bags given to customers who use drive-thrus.
When you mix a pedestrianisation with a string of iffy car parks, relief
road with iffy underpasses and the local river, you can end up cutting
your town centre off from its surrounds. But if your business is
offering something special or worthwhile, people will find it.
They can be a strange lot, shopkeepers, they seem to associate people
driving past in their cars with actual trade.
:-)
swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
When you mix a pedestrianisation with a string of iffy car parks, relief
road with iffy underpasses and the local river, you can end up cutting
your town centre off from its surrounds. But if your business is
offering something special or worthwhile, people will find it.
They can be a strange lot, shopkeepers, they seem to associate people
driving past in their cars with actual trade.
:-)
That sounds as if it was written by someone who has never even ran a whelk stall.
A plan that would see people's car registrations printed on food packaging from McDonald's is being considered in a bid to deter littering. The idea would see the details put on bags given to customers who use drive-thrus.
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