[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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[Hirsute]

I guess she will be doing a
I guess she will be doing a lot of walking and her son won’t be able to get to the station.

[chrisonabike]

? a ban but really? Just

brooksby wrote:

Pensioner banned from road after (driving through red light and) mowing down nine-year-old in front of her

? a ban but really? Just tell them “that’s enough, you’re done with driving now, get a mobility vehicle / trike” for Pete’s sake.

[brooksby]

Pensioner banned from road

Pensioner banned from road after (driving through red light and) mowing down nine-year-old in front of her mum

When told about the (12 months) ban, Hopkins pleaded: ‘Oh, please don’t. Where I live there are no shops. The nearest shop is over a mile away.’

Pensioner banned from road after mowing down nine-year-old in front of her mum

[stonojnr]

Norfolk police ride buses to
Norfolk police ride buses to catch drivers using phones, as daft as it sounds, they still caught 59 drivers in one day.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24161232.norfolk-police-ride-buses-catch-drivers-using-phones/

[David9694]

Two cars destroyed after

Two cars destroyed after being driven onto beach and getting stuck

One was washed out to sea and the other was flipped onto its roof

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/two-cars-destroyed-after-being-9139172?int_source=nba

(news of this took a few days to reach Somerset)

[David9694]

A load of cars is great for

A load of cars is great for your world heritage – Pay up, freeloaders. 
 

Fears Devon town could lose world status over parking plan. 

Thousands of people have backed the ‘Stop the Meters’ campaign

Mrs Sanders  (Tavistock BID manager Janna Sanders) worries that having to input a car registration number into a machine could cause unnecessary stress, especially if they also have to use a phone or app to pay. “They just want to pop into the grocery shop or the butchers, have a chat and buy something quickly. Having to negotiate parking meters is going to change everything about our high street. We are thinking about people’s mental health as well as supporting the businesses we care about.”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fears-devon-town-could-lose-9136140

[ktache]

Drivers really don’t respond

Drivers really don’t respond very well to suggestions from passengers.

You know, you don’t have to use the phone, This is schoolkid time, we don’t have to be going this fast, It’s very wet and were not in a rush can we not go so fast.

And the suggestion to my parents they might like to give a cyclist more room when passing on an urban dual carriageway was met with a full on argument and me refusing to be driven by them for several years.

[essexian]

David9694 wrote:

Parents of teenager who died in crash give plea for passengers to voice concerns with driver

They should also be concerned over the failure to drug test the driver for 12 hours! Surely it should be one of the first things they did?

Poor Policing. Poor lad didn’t deserve to die at such a young age. And only 30 weeks: poor!

[David9694]

Parents of teenager who died

Parents of teenager who died in crash give plea for passengers to voice concerns with driver

The parents have also called on companies to provide a method for people to report concerns about a colleague’s driving

Jacob sent a message to his friend minutes before he died, saying: “My driver’s stoned. Lovely.” 

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/parents-teenager-who-died-crash-28737929

[David9694]

It begins to look like full

It begins to look like full road closures, rather than for example SALT is yet another thing drivers have brought on themselves in recent years. 

A house built on cars is built on sand:

A448: The Fox Inn boss ‘stressed’ over road closure

The work by Severn Trent on the A448 started in May 2023 but had to be abandoned due to a road worker being seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle.

The closure is in place 24/7 and there is no through route to Kidderminster from Bromsgrove between Harvington Hall Lane and Dobes Lane.

 

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24149984.a448-fox-inn-boss-stressed-road-closure/

[David9694]

Could the picture have been

Could the picture have been taken by Charlton Heston? 

[chrisonabike]

Jogle wrote:

Jogle wrote:

[b]Mystery as Vauxhall Corsa and convertible Peugeot 206 wash up on Blackpool beach opposite new Hilton Hotel[/b]

Love this image, with what appears to be the sea wall covered in tyres and the upturned car being buried by the sand, like those “last of the dinosaurs” visions…

[David9694]

SaveTheWail wrote:

Shock, horror: Council targets the main source of the problem.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/02/hounslow-council-chiswick-school-parents-ltn-fines/

Council issues most fines when most offences occur – shock 

[essexian]

Don’t read the comments below

Don’t read the comments below the article as its full of thick racists. 

Frankly, if you don’t want to get fined for breaking the law, then….er….this is really hard to work out but i’ll give it a go….DON’T BREAK THE LAW. 

 

[SaveTheWail]

Shock, horror: Council

Shock, horror: Council targets the main source of the problem.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/02/hounslow-council-chiswick-school-parents-ltn-fines/

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