[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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[hawkinspeter]

HoldingOn wrote:

Agree – unlikely she will drive again.

However – what planet was her lawyer on:

This was not a case of dangerous driving with a flagrant disregard of the rules.

That lawyer should get disbarred or prosecuted for perjury for spouting that rubbish. Just the drunk driving would count as a flagrant disregard of the rules and being so blind drunk that you can’t figure out which way to drive on a motorway is hardly any kind of excuse.

[HoldingOn]

Agree – unlikely she will

Agree – unlikely she will drive again.

However – what planet was her lawyer on:

This was not a case of dangerous driving with a flagrant disregard of the rules.

My sanity is happy that there was a sensible judge presiding:

She is so drunk she drives on the wrong side of the motorway [you muppet]

*I may have added a couple of words…

[Hirsute]

A drunk driver who caused a

A drunk driver who caused a head-on collision while driving the wrong way along a motorway has been spared jail.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65670368

Denny was also given a 20-month suspended prison sentence and banned from driving for 10 years at a sentencing hearing on Friday.

 

Quite a long ban, so doubtful if she will drive again.

 

[chrisonabike]

mark1a wrote:

Some pearl-clutching and sh*t-losing from my fellow inhabitants regarding *gasp* £2m allocated for active travel. 

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23534534.dorset-council-gets-2million-government-active-travel/

2 million won’t cover the cost of consultants to say it can’t be done…

[mark1a]

Some pearl-clutching and sh*t

Some pearl-clutching and sh*t-losing from my fellow inhabitants regarding *gasp* £2m allocated for active travel. 

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23534534.dorset-council-gets-2million-government-active-travel/

[Hirsute]

You want this thread for
You want this thread for infrastructure collisions
https://road.cc/content/forum/car-crashes-building-please-post-your-local-news-stories-276441#block-node-comment-block-node-comments

[Shelders]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-65665113

This sounds bad and I hope all fully recover, but how many buses are going under low bridges?

[hawkinspeter]

Hirsute wrote:

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.

[Hirsute]

Also features in car crashes
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 !

[hawkinspeter]

Shelders wrote:

School bus gets stuck under low bridge again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65633762

I think the ‘again’ is the point here, but doesn’t say if it’s the same ‘professional’ driver

Those links don’t work for me, but I’ve found the article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65633762

The reporter’s name is Caroline Lowbridge – I wonder if she specialises in these topics?

[Hirsute]

Officers were called to
Officers were called to Clingoe Hill, Colchester, after reports a car had crashed into a tree.

An onlooker ran to the 19-year-old driver’s assistance, offering for him to borrow their mobile phone.
The driver then fled the scene with the borrowed phone, but he failed to outsmart police officers who tracked him down using the phone’s technology.

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23536260.find-iphone-helps-essex-police-arrest-drunk-driver/

[Shelders]

http://School bus gets stuck

School bus gets stuck under low bridge again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65633762

I think the ‘again’ is the point here, but doesn’t say if it’s the same ‘professional’ driver

[David9694]

New research shows obese

New research shows obese patients cost NHS twice as much as those who aren’t

Thu 18 May 5pm • Imperial College London has released new research that shows obese patients cost the NHS £1,375 a year – whereas non-obese patients only cost £638.

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/new-research-shows-obese-patients-cost-nhs-twice-as-much-as-those-who-arent/cdsvzqs

[Simon E]

More stories of road

More stories of road hooliganism and van-dalism published today (Friday) by the Shropshire Star:

• 1 casualty airlifted to hospital after van crashes into 3 pedestrians in Oswestry at 1.25pm (see pic). The other 2 were ‘not seriously injured’.
• Telford driver with ‘no licence and no seatbelt’ with children in car this afternoon. Vehicle seized.
• Bridgnorth Chamber of Commerce says the town is losing “tens of millions” in revenue a year because there aren’t enough parking spaces on the main street. Bullshit IMO.
• Motorcyclist injured in 3pm crash with a van on the A49 near Shrewsbury.
• A mini-bus crashed into barriers in a 2-vehicle collision on the A5 near Oswestry at around 2pm.
• Selfish parents parking on zig-zags outside a primary school near Chirk.

[Hirsute]

I forgot I had a trailer

I forgot I had a trailer

[Author]

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