[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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[Simon E]

wtjs wrote:

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. 

[wtjs]

The driver of a 44-tonne

The driver of a 44-tonne lorry that crashed through Newport roundabout at 1.50am on Saturday had ‘complained of chest pain’ 

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.

[Simon E]

A cornucopia of tales in the

A cornucopia of tales in the Shropshire Star this week! And these don’t include the car (a 21-reg Kia, I think) that crashed through a roundabout in Shrewsbury and came to rest on the shared path (spotted by my son and a colleague’s mate).

3pm on Friday afternoon – getting them in early – a driver escapes injury after a Toyota Aygo hits a telegraph pole near Shifnal [link]

Man detained after a stolen car crashes into two other vehicles in Wellington on Saturday morning. [link]

The driver of a 44-tonne lorry that crashed through Newport roundabout at 1.50am on Saturday had ‘complained of chest pain’ [link]

At around 11.30am on Saturday morning a car crashed into a bus stop, damaging another vehicle [link]

Emergency services were called after car crashes into a tree in Sutton Maddock, Telford at about 8pm on Sunday [link]

Around 2.30pm on Sunday a car ended up on its side in the village of Myddle, north of Shrewsbury. No mention of any other vehicle being involved [link]

3 people airlifted to hospital after a collision on the A458 Shrewsbury to Welshpool road at at 11am on Tuesday [link]

So much for Shropshire being a sleepy rural county!! 

 

[Spangly Shiny]

Oddly satisfying outcome.

Oddly satisfying outcome.

[NotNigel]

…the van driver, not you!

…the van driver, not you!

[NotNigel]

Absolutely no where near

Absolutely no where near making it…fucking idiot.

[Hirsute]

Ouch !

Ouch !

Morning All😘👋

**Poor decisions don't just happen** pic.twitter.com/7BZFZf5s72

— Electric (Azure) Blue🔋💙 (@Only9built) May 15, 2023

I’ll just left hook that 6 wheeler

 

[David9694]

So much so, I wondered if it

So much so, I wondered if it was ironic. Not sure what the country was or what train driver pay is like there.

[David9694]

driverless cars, now car-less

driverless cars, now car-less crashes

Botley Road in West End opens after telegraph pole crash

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23519944.botley-road-west-end-opens-telegraph-pole-crash/

[HoldingOn]

It was the irony from car
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]

“Might is not right” so

“Might is not right” so credit where it’s due. (I think) 

[David9694]

Businesses to take Cornwall

Businesses to take Cornwall Council to court over controversial Truro road scheme

Truro politician says affected businesses were told not to speak to their local councillor for support

“Now that work has started we can see just how far the new pavement will encroach onto the road and we’re really worried that someone will end up killed.”

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/businesses-take-cornwall-council-court-8435296

[David9694]

They’re all cars – barging

They’re all cars – barging you out if the way, polluting, etc whether it’s these or the latest EV. I don’t like them on the roads because they lack the servo assisted steering and brakes, but many of them can still go pretty fast. The only interest I find is with things like the Austin Seven we saw – a reminder of the needless expansion of vehicles and their users. 

[hawkinspeter]

Those old cars are great

Those old cars are great though – I love seeing unusual vehicles like that driving around as it’s such a change from the monoculture of modern cars.

[HoldingOn]

my favourite reply.

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”

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