[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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[OnYerBike]

I’m not convinced “staged” is

I’m not convinced “staged” is the right word as that would suggest the driver intended to crash. My impression is that it was more of a “hold my beer” moment – the driver was showing off for the cameras and overcooked it.

[Awavey]

World bollard association
World bollard association gives a better idea of the speed from another angle. (Almost like it was staged…)

Over to Monaco🇲🇨 where we have exclusive footage of bollards saving lives.#WorldBollardAssociation
pic.twitter.com/ESfwsI3EId

— World Bollard Association™ (@WorldBollard) March 12, 2023

High centre of gravity + speed, only going to end one way.

And its actually one of those vehicles they want to allow in cycle lanes isnt it ?

[Rendel Harris]

There is one on display in

There is one on display in the appallingly named “Chelsea Truck Company” car dealership on the north end of Albert Bridge that I go past every day. Seeing it sitting amongst the enormous wankpanzers on display is like seeing a toddler wandering through a crowd of elephants; I think it would be a lovely thing to have if one had a private estate to drive it around on, not sure I would fancy taking it out in any sort of traffic.

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

Jogle wrote:

Jogle wrote:

[b]Tiny electric car tips over while driving around Monaco Grand Prix hairpin[/b]

[Quote]This is the moment a Citroën Ami electric car drove around the Grand Hotel Hairpin in Monte Carlo, Monaco on March 11 and overturned. Bystanders rushed to help the occupants, who were hospitalized with minor bruises.

Who knew that the Citroën Ami was self-driving?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tiny-electric-car-tips-over-092715674.html?espv=1%5B/quote%5D

We’ve got one of those near us and I can’t decide if I love it or hate it. It looks like it’s made of lego, it’s butt-ugly, I reckon it would crumple like tinfoil in a collision but…. I think I’d want to drive it like Mario cart which I’m assuming is what was happening on the hairpin ?

[wtjs]

For those who don’t know what

For those who don’t know what this is about, it’s PJ07 XHF which is an MOT testing centre van which has no MOT- expired 9.2.23. The discussion was whether they can have an exemption for their own vans, which I doubt. The fact that Lancashire police has done nothing about the report doesn’t help as they never do anything about reports of traffic offences anyway, and have essentially legalised not only ‘not bothering with an MOT’, but ‘not bothering with MOT after you’ve failed MOT for 4 major defects’: DS13 ATX. So in Lancashire, offending drivers can expect to carry on without any problems

[Jogle]

Tiny electric car tips over
[b]Tiny electric car tips over while driving around Monaco Grand Prix hairpin[/b]

This is the moment a Citroën Ami electric car drove around the Grand Hotel Hairpin in Monte Carlo, Monaco on March 11 and overturned. Bystanders rushed to help the occupants, who were hospitalized with minor bruises.

Who knew that the Citroën Ami was self-driving?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tiny-electric-car-tips-over-092715674.html?espv=1

[Simon E]

Car flips due to driver

Car flips due to driver “using the infotainment system to answer a phone call” in south Shropshire.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/south-shropshire/2023/03/27/driver-lucky-to-escape-with-no-injury-after-car-flips-in-south-shropshire/

Police and firefighters attended a car that had flipped at 5am in Whixall, near Whitchurch, Shropshire on Sunday morning. Later that day a Passat driver was arrested on suspicion of being intoxicated and car seized in Telford. On a Sunday!!

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2023/03/26/car-seized-and-man-arrested-on-supermarket-car-park-after-alert-from-public/

There were also 2 separate car fires in Telford and Ironbridge in the early hours of Sunday morning and one in Shrewsbury that evening:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/telford/2023/03/27/crews-rush-to-tackle-car-fires-as-flames-spread-to-nearby-vehicles/

Last Monday West Mercia’s speed enforcement team were in Hagley, Worcestershire. “54 offences detected with a highest recorded speed of 83MPH in a 40!” (the tweet shows a time of 10:54 for that one)

[David9694]

google maps / my sat nav sat

google maps / my sat nav sat nav told me to come this way 

[David9694]

Hmm, well my recollection is

Hmm, well my recollection is that the Council depot was registered as an MoT test centre for the very purpose of testing its own vehicles (mark own homework, etc but maybe VOSA can police that) and you sometimes see articles about “hidden cheap MoTs” because they are obliged to offer a service to the public if they operate as a MoT centre.

[ktache]

They want some of those

They want some of those bollards to stop that.

Milton Keynes has a few that should have been going spare…

[Jogle]

Cornwall coastal path blocked
[b]Cornwall coastal path blocked after driver takes unconventional route[/b]

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-coastal-path-closed-after-8290379

If you’re thinking you’ve seen this before, well a black Mercedes did get stuck on a coast path in Cornwall last year. I’m not sure if it’s the same car

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/22820003.coverack-cornwall-car-parked-across-sw-coast-path/

[wtjs]

No, that’s a misunderstanding

No, that’s a misunderstanding. This is a legal method for companies with lots of vehicles, and maybe it’s only HGVs, PSVs…, to set up their own testing centre to arrange MOTs at their own convenience. Travellers previously had them done at an HGV testing centre nearby run by a company for its own convenience. It appears that this procedure does not result in a formal MOT that is logged at DVSA when it’s your OWN testing centre, but there is a formal pass when it’s another company’s OWN testing centre. I can’t see that this system could apply to a small MOT garage, and I don’t know if they’re allowed to test their own vehicles or they have to take them to another testing centre

[Awavey]

based on income isnt it…

based on income isnt it…

[David9694]

This seems a lot of trouble

This seems a lot of trouble to go to to keep an un-Mot’d coach on the road? If something happened to it full of kids, there would – rightly – be all hell to pay.  

I think there is a range of options to pursue this, if this is the vehicle they are using to service this route, starting with the school, LCC school transport. 

https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/593372/

https://bustimes.org/services/952-catterall-churchtown-kirklands-ceps

 

[Jogle]

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham
[b]Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to pay almost £2k speeding fine[/b]

That’s quite some fine, although that might be because he was doing nearly double the speed limit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-65075890

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