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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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Bus driver who killed two
Bus driver who killed two women after accelerating instead of braking spared jail
Bus driver who killed two women after accelerating instead of braking spared jail
Baruania Baros, 35, was trying to manoeuvre his vehicle to deploy a ramp to let a disabled passenger off at the busy Piccadilly bus station in central Manchester around 9.25pm on July 10, 2022.But in an ‘unfortunate lapse of concentration’ he left it in gear causing it to lurch forward before mistakenly pressing the accelerator instead of the brake.
The bus mounted the pavement and crashed into the bus shelter where Joyce Bacon, 60 and Adele Boylin, 55, were standing.
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Baros, from Ashton-under-Lyne, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by careless driving sentenced to 20 months in prison, suspended for two years.
‘This was a fatal mistake on your part,’ Judge Suzanne Goddard KC told him, describing the incident as a ‘tragic accident’.
It’s to do with a driver and his problem, so I figured I’d put in on here
Ashford Borough Council
Ashford Borough Council warden gives funeral car parking ticket during service for war hero at St Mildred’s Church, Tenterden
“On appeal of this PCN, we can confirm that it has been cancelled.
“We appreciate that this must have been a very sad and upsetting time for family and friends attending the service and if our actions have caused any further upset then we are sorry for that.”
Road closure in Watlington
Road closure in Watlington will create 10-mile diversion
People in a Norfolk village will be forced on a 10-mile diversion through three neighbouring villages just to get to the shop, doctor’s office and playground this week.
Edward Travers, 41, who lives in Watlington, is angered by the extent of the disruption. “This will affect more than half of the village’s residents,” he said. “It has not been thought through properly.
“People living on the train station side will have to take a 10-mile diversion to get to the A10 which will add about another 15 minutes just to go what is effectively only two miles away.
“It will also affect the school busses as they start their run from the station but they won’t be able to pick up children from the other side of the closure and get them to school on time.”
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24283865.road-closure-watlington-will-create-10-mile-diversion/
10 miles diversion, you say? Well, challenge accepted. The official diversion into the village comes out as 7.5 miles on my mapping app.
From the farthest flung (westerly) end of Station Road into the centre of the Watlington is 1.2 miles, tops. Not sure the One.Network is accurately showing the extent of the road closure, so I’ve hazarded a guess in red and let’s assume no-one is allowed though by any travel means.
With a little ingenuity, there’s a cycling/ walking route (blue) through the houses to the north of Station Road for what looks to be the village centre, and plenty of options to the south for the medical centre and school.
Or it could it be Edward is whingeing because he’ll have to tackle some wriggley unclassified roads to get to the A10 just to the east of the village?
You fear it because you don’t
You fear it because you don’t understand it
Somewhere in Australia.
I ‘m not bothering with the twitter link as the comments are all about jealousy and necessity apart from one gem
The oversize front bull-bar is to protect the vehicle fom stray elephants, rhinos and water buffalos found on the highway, and from bollards, barriers and barricades, buildings and bulldozers it may encounter offroad.”
Good on him, he might be out
Good on him, he might be out of pocket by £100, but he still has a visual pun sense of humour.
Driver fumes at Bristol Airport three-point turn fine and says he won’t return
Ian Simpson was driving a hire car at the time
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/regional-news/driver-fumes-bristol-airport-three-9251953
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