[David9694]

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. 

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[Jogle]

Car gets stuck in sand on

[b]Car gets stuck in sand on remote Cornish beach[/b]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv74qy7ymno

[wtjs]

While we appreciate there

While we appreciate there will be unavoidable delays while the work is undertaken, once the work is complete the bridge will continue to be used and cherished for years to come

Nope- there’ll be another crazed nutter driver along soon. We had a canal bridge repaired near here, and pretty much as soon as the big red and white plastic/ water barriers protecting the new stone bridge walls were removed, somebody knocked one of them into the canal again.

[wtjs]

Wow! If he only got a joke

Wow! If he only got a joke penalty for totalling 3 ‘motahs’, imagine the commendation he’d have received if had only been cycles or cyclists he’d hit!

[andystow]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Its closure has been leading to major detours, causing one mother to spend up to two hours on the school run – a journey that should take more than 10 or 15 minutes.

It sounds like it still does.

[David9694]

Teston Bridge closure for

Teston Bridge closure for repairs causing headaches for locals and motorists

What cannot be factored in are the drivers who smash into bridge.

Its closure has been leading to major detours, causing one mother to spend up to two hours on the school run – a journey that should take more than 10 or 15 minutes.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/bridge-closure-is-turning-school-runs-into-two-hour-detours-315124/

[ktache]

Well done Billy for the

Well done Billy for the supreme effort, but calm it down in the motor…

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/national/24641995.ex-racing-driver-billy-monger-banned-driving-crashing-parked-cars/?dicbo=v2-Bzd4SV8

[NotNigel]

First there was driverless

First there was driverless cars, now riderless bicycles.. I think the main focus is on (people on) motorbikes.
 

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/police-plane-flying-above-hull-9669390?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

[David9694]

Man ‘blocked’ from charging

Man ‘blocked’ from charging car outside own home

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrddz2407zo

[wtjs]

You’re both living in the

You’re both living in the past, hidebound by unthinking adherence to an outmoded document long abandoned by the police. Why, here in Lancashire, our brave lads in go-ahead Lancashire Constabulary have long since legitimised crossing unbroken white lines while overtaking at any speed and in any dangerous position in order to keep the country moving!

https://upride.cc/incident/ds16wjx_peugeot_uwlcross/

This ignored offence by the driver of JP63 PEA is just approaching the crest of a humpbacked bridge which is immediately followed by a left hand bend

[Hirsute]

You may cross the line if
You may cross the line if necessary, provided the road is clear, to pass a stationary vehicle, or overtake a pedal cycle, horse or road maintenance vehicle, if they are travelling at 10 mph (16 km/h) or less

[David9694]

Hirsute wrote:

Cycling Mikey overtakes stationary traffic but the number of people calling him out for crossing a solid white line based on their ignorance of the HC is quite something.

Is it only cyclists who actually know the HC ?

You’re going to have to help me on this. The solid line applies to all vehicles travelling towards the level crossing, no? 

[Hirsute]

Cycling Mikey overtakes

Cycling Mikey overtakes stationary traffic but the number of people calling him out for crossing a solid white line based on their ignorance of the HC is quite something.

Is it only cyclists who actually know the HC ?

[David9694]

Pub sign has number of days

Pub sign has number of days since last crash at ‘UK’s most dangerous junction’

An A-board, updated daily, has been outside the pub since August

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/pub-attempts-warn-drivers-dangerous-9651109

Local take on a national story – brought to you from England, the country with Europe’s highest drink- drive limit. 

[hawkinspeter]

chrisonabike wrote:

chrisonabike wrote:

Where logic or “theory” clashes with reality though – the stats apparently show this is a real thing AND when relatively simple measures are applied there is a measurable improvement. https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/graduated-driving-licensing/ https://www.racfoundation.org/media-centre/study-confirms-benefits-of-graduated-driver-licensing Policing – agree that a) needs police and b) a subtle approach to avoid “police stopping us just ‘cos we’re young”.

Well if there’s a need for a graduated driving license (and it does look like there’s a good case for it), then let’s have a graduated driving license with additional tests to let young drivers take passengers or drive after midnight. Instead, we get a half measure that assumes that maturity is purely linked to age and develops at the same rate in people.

[NotNigel]

The steepest hill in the UK

The steepest hill in the UK would appear to be which ever one each commentator has been up(or down) or knows of..

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