[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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[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

Jogle wrote:
[quote=Jogle][b]Not great for an L plate: Learner driver, 43, with 63 points to his name and a 20-year-old who already has 30 are among 77,000 with points on their provisional licences[/b]

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-11830229/Learner-driver-43-63-points-77-000-points-provisional-licences.html%5B/quote%5D

Who the hell is insuring these dickheads? Who is sitting in the car with them whilst they rack up these offenses?

Why is this country so desensitised to appalling driving standards that kill and maim thousands
?

[Jogle]

Not great for an L plate:
[b]Not great for an L plate: Learner driver, 43, with 63 points to his name and a 20-year-old who already has 30 are among 77,000 with points on their provisional licences[/b]

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-11830229/Learner-driver-43-63-points-77-000-points-provisional-licences.html

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

wycombewheeler wrote:

wycombewheeler wrote:

David9694 wrote:

“If they think someone from outside the Stockport area should know where Heaton Lane is, on a sign 100 yards away from the junction in question, on a dark rainy morning? The answer is “no”.

Luckily for those of us born outside of greater Manchester, we don’t need to rely on encyclopedic knowledge of every road in the land, and can instead rely on universally used signs

I get being pissed off that you got caught out. I even get making the odd mistake and missing a sign.

I do not get why people have to blame everything but themselves and continue to whine to the local press.

Chalk it up to experience and do better next time.

I do have a smidge of sympathy for the laundry driver. Yes, he should have been aware but that is going to have a far more disproportionate impact on him than the arseholes getting away with murder daily.

[wycombewheeler]

TrollsandPBUsWelcome wrote:

A laundry delivery driver faces having 81 penalty points put on his licence after being caught speeding 22 times on the same stretch of road in less than three weeks.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/driver-speeding-a40-westway-london-galicia-b1065631.html

he tried to have all the occurances treated as a single offence, but that wouldn’t wash with the judge.

But if a speeding offence is 3 points, does this mean the driver is already on 15 before these 22 are taken into account?

[wycombewheeler]

David9694 wrote:

“If they think someone from outside the Stockport area should know where Heaton Lane is, on a sign 100 yards away from the junction in question, on a dark rainy morning? The answer is “no”.

Luckily for those of us born outside of greater Manchester, we don’t need to rely on encyclopedic knowledge of every road in the land, and can instead rely on universally used signs

[David9694]

Driver’s fury as council

Driver’s fury as council rakes in almost £1 MILLION in fines from ‘bus gate’ in just eight months

“This is a cynical and calculated money-raising scam and targets innocent motorists”

have a read of of Mr Jumped-up Schrodinger’s driver, simultaneously knowing Stockport’s roads for 30 years, but not this bus gate…

“As a driver for over 30 years and a Stockport resident all my life, I understand road signs and I know Stockport’s road layouts pretty well,” he said

“Yet I didn’t know where Heaton Lane was despite having used it for many years to access the M60, going to the mini-roundabout then up to the Pyramid roundabout. I canvassed opinion with friends and acquaintances and let me assure you, none of them knew Heaton Lane. 

“How do the council expect the thousands of road users from outside the Stockport area, whose sat navs send them through the bus lane, to know Heaton Lane?

“If they think someone from outside the Stockport area should know where Heaton Lane is, on a sign 100 yards away from the junction in question, on a dark rainy morning? The answer is “no”.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/drivers-fury-council-rakes-almost-26419451#

[Hirsute]

A laundry delivery driver

A laundry delivery driver faces having 81 penalty points put on his licence after being caught speeding 22 times on the same stretch of road in less than three weeks.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/driver-speeding-a40-westway-london-galicia-b1065631.html

[brooksby]

Mum crashed into

Mum crashed into [motorcyclist] and killed him while ‘trying to teach him a lesson’

Mum crashed into biker and killed him while ‘trying to teach him a lesson’

A mum is facing jail after she killed a man in a dramatic street chase when she saw him on a stolen motorbike.

Kerry Fair, 39, said she wanted to teach Thomas Maguire, 30, a lesson for stealing a Yamaha that belonged to her daughter’s boyfriend.

She spotted him riding through Kingstanding, Birmingham, in May last year so did a U-turn and started chasing him.

She reached speeds of up to 86mph in a 30 zone before crashing into him.

Fair then fled the scene, abandoning the car and leaving Thomas mortally injured on the floor.

[Hirsute]

£2500 for cyclist https:/

£2500 for cyclist https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-guilty-riding-carelessly-killing-motorcyclist-297631

Only a 12 month ban for Martindale for a life.

[David9694]

killer driver walks free

killer driver walks free

Martindale was made the subject of a community order, with a requirement to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £95.

Martindale’s guilty plea was taken into account by the court when his sentence was imposed.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23370635.family-pays-tribute-jill-crisp-killed-christchurch-crash/

[hawkinspeter]

A driver caught on the phone

A driver caught on the phone at the wheel stuck his middle finger up – to undercover police officers. The motorist realised he was being filmed – but was unaware it was by officers on patrol.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/driver-phone-gave-finger-fellow-8226266

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Sinister’ notes stuck on car windscreens as resident tells people to move

Mysterious amounts of energy devoted to the whole affair! And another classic quote;

“There are too many cars and not enough street. But the main thing is …” (goes on to ignore the main thing they just mentioned eg. too many cars).

[David9694]

Sinister’ notes stuck on car

Sinister’ notes stuck on car windscreens as resident tells people to move

British Road – check (you couldn’t make it up)

“move somewhere else if you don’t like it” – check

“I can park here if I like” – check 

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/sinister-notes-stuck-car-windscreens-8221572

[Grahamd]

Well it certainly helped them

Well it certainly helped them connect with nature.

[Hirsute]

The superior off-road

The superior off-road handling of my

@LandRover

#wankpanzer helps me get into the countryside

 

The superior off-road handling of my @LandRover #wankpanzer helps me get into the countryside pic.twitter.com/uTgzwniegt

— Wankpanzer Watch (@Wankpanzer) March 6, 2023

 

 

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