Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

If only he'd been able to keep cycling - in a safer environment.  True - he might have come off his bike and that might be enough.  But the possibility he'd kill someone else is much less.  Even better if there was provision for cycling (side-by-side) with a friend.

Depending on the car, maybe an attempt to cover some obviously tiny genitalia?  Hopefully the police didn't brief the press - and compound the problem.

Nominative determinism extending to lorries now.

Not sure if my irony meter is actually broken or wether SocialistHero (comments on Bristol Post article) is too subtle for it.

SocialistHero5 HRS AGO

Trees are a menace. Cut mire down and make the road wider. I can't think of any other solution

The damage to the hi viz warnings on the top...

You're going to take a little longer to get to a thousand on that topic.

Earlier this year a 26 tonne HGV struck the underpass and the driver failed to stop

So he gets 2 months HGV ban, which is severe under-punishment for failing to stop and for being a useless HGV driver with no road awareness or brains. However, even these trivial punishments are more than he would get up here where the HIP-sters (Hyper Indolent Policing) wouldn't even be able to work out how to use those numbers and letters to identify the vehicle. This, for variety, is just one of the many long term 'No VED' offenders in Lancashire- secure in the knowledge that no action will ever be taken against them. MJ09 LFH has already saved over 2 years of 'road tax' by his enterprise!

Well, they often end up on their own rooves.

IanMSpencer wrote:

He ran a red light too. Probably an off duty cyclist.

We need a way to identify cyclists when they're driving

Presumably counted across 2 pedals left-to-right to find the brake...

Mungecrundle wrote:

Not sure if my irony meter is actually broken or wether SocialistHero (comments on Bristol Post article) is too subtle for it. SocialistHero5 HRS AGO Trees are a menace. Cut mire down and make the road wider. I can't think of any other solution

I reckon it's ironic, but with car culture being so ingrained, sometimes you can't tell

Meanwhile Surrey cops go round with their unmarked car and there twitter page is full of drivers pulled over with no insurance, ved, mot. eg

https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1539958772751368192

Obviously they are the ones driving on the pavement, no lights, dressed in black and the aforementioned running red lights.

And of course, breaking the 20 mile an hour speed limit.

#drivelikeyoucycle

Meanwhile Surrey cops go round with their unmarked car and their twitter page is full of drivers pulled over with no insurance, ved, mot

Thanks. Useful page, as in Lancashire they would receive a commendation for having troubled to obtain MOT and VED in the past. Red Golf AK59 CCA was well in arrears for both when previously reported, and still has neither now. Lancashire's Lardmeisters can't be bothered even when someone else does all the detection for them so they don't lose their places in the queue for pizza (don't be deceived by ITV's The Bay- the actors would be much better at policing than the police). Garstang High School at home-time is a meeting point for evaders of VED and MOT, where they swap tales of years without paying for either

Otherwise law abiding...

If only they had passed a test, had insurance and were taxed...

Any cyclists driving should have to wear a tabard with their registration number on it.

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

I'm pretty sure the only difference between an automatic and a manual is gears, they both still have an accelerator and a brake.

there is a big difference in how the throttle picks up in an automatic vs a manual, which is a factor in alot of these how on earth did they crash into that shop front or completely obvious solid object in their path, which doesnt excuse the driver at all but its still a factor ok.

for years autos used to be labelled sluggish at accelerating & people were dismissive of them for that reason, so motor manufacturers spent alot of time tuning throttle response & gearing in autos, so that if you hit the throttle you absolutely will accelerate very quickly and it will quickly unleash the full power of the engine, and because its an auto will just keep going till you lift off, in a manual you have to shift gears to get that to happen, in an auto, stamp on the throttle you will get to max speed quickly.

And so when that happens in an auto, alot of inexperienced drivers and older ones too, panic, forget they are in an auto, theres no clutch to stamp on to disengage the engine, and in mistakenly attempting to hit the brake, because its often bigger in autos and the positionining can be subtly different than manuals, end up hitting the accelerator even harder. Most will swear blind after the crash the car just accelerated by itself out of control.

"This road's not big enough for the both of us."

As there is a cyclist pictured right at the end, how many people in the comments blamed him?

Also, who was the arsehole who "aided and abetted" the driver by pushing the car off the other one?

Do AMD do civil claims and could they offer the driver no-win, no fee?  Obviously they won't be able to act in their own matter but it sounds like the driver's had a busy day of window-shopping elsewhere.

David9694 wrote:

Woman pleads guilty to harassment after covering car in underwear

"She proceeded to send pictures of the affected car to its owner and his family."

https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/20194271.woman-pleads-guilty-har...

Tom Jones was playing the Salisbury Guildhall at the time. No buildings harmed, but a worthy addition to the list of reasons why a driver couldn't possibly have avoided a hazard. 

Might lead to a brief loss of attention