Drivers and their problems

Should be on his bike in London!
(Maybe the crosier is hard to carry)

...the van driver, not you!

wtjs wrote:

I can only comment like this because I know nothing about the incident: this is the lorry driver building himself an excuse 'because chest pain has to be taken seriously and may have been the cause of the driver failure', whereas it's really because he was eating/ drinking/ smoking/ on the phone/ too experienced to need to bother paying attention etc.

Quite possible. Even more likely is that his diet and lifestyle choices caught up with him.

I failed to find any photos of the 21-reg car I mentioned earlier on FB but I came across a post about a collision on Thursday evening just off the A5 near Shrewsbury where a man, who looked in his 60s, driving a Land Rover Defender "was on the wrong side of the road and swerving all over the place. Unfortunately he drove into my daughter's car, who was coming from the other direction, causing a lot of damage. He then left the scene". The occupants of a following vehicle thought he may be drunk, noted the number and called the police. 

My nemesis!  But how did you see him?  Ah - something is blocking the view of the saddle.

Also features in car crashes into building thread.

We need to set up a working party to issue guidance on which thread to post in !

AKA Boomers United 

It's no accident that the only 2 vehicles in the shot are as guilty as sin!

Hirsute wrote:

Also features in car crashes into building thread. We need to set up a working party to issue guidance on which thread to post in !

Just get Road.cc to riffle-shuffle the threads together into one huge indecipherable thread.

They have an MP for the moment.

Alot of them were complaining about it being a BH so should be exempt, but there's been no BH parking exemption across Suffolk for best part of 10-15years.

ktache wrote:

They have an MP for the moment.

Yeah: how does that work?

You vote for someone, they become your MP as a member of The [Something] Party.  Six weeks later they change their mind and join The [Something Else] Party.  Without any need to go back to their constituency for a mandate from the people.

I appreciate the gap between Conservaties and Reclaim probably isn't as huge as either party would like, but it seems weird that Bridgen can just swap about like that (admittedly, IIRC, he actually got kicked out of the Tories.  How awful do you have to be to get kicked out of the Conservative Party...?).

Not awful enough?

Hirsute wrote:

"Man with a lamp post outside his house rips out the front hedge to build a massive driveway, only to find he still has a lamp post outside his house."

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/man-calls-on-peterboroug...

 

 

"How tall was the hedge if he only noticed the lamppost after removing it?"

Did he never wonder where all the light illuminating the front of his house was coming from?.

my favourite reply.
Car driver hits cyclist - lots of "cyclist shouldn't have been on the road. doesn't even pay road tax. f**kin cyclist deserved it"
Car parks on train tracks "the train driver is paid too much. he should have pulled over to one side and wandered over to help the poor defenceless driver"

Update - reached the news, unfortunately injuries in this case.  Still unclear exactly how they ended up there.

Give it enough years and you'll probably find a KSI on any given road.  While searching for news on this one I found that 13 years back there was a hit and run fatality here.

Should draft a petition to leave it there as a memorial / public art. I would prefer to see something more in tune with ancient indigenous monuments though, like a cairn (car-n?).

You could have this in the south-west:

It was the irony from car drivers. When they are the "might" everyone should clear out of their way and if you don't, then you get what's coming to you. When someone else is the "might" it's a disgrace and cars need protection.
Twitter. Logic dies there.

David9694 wrote:

What is that, the Audi of the North or something? 

How on earth did the driver manage that?? 

Even the world bollard association was taken aback !