[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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[chrisonabike]

Another horrific death,
Another horrific death, presumably more “I thought it was a deer / sack of potatoes” excuses coming?

BBC wrote:

Three men have been arrested after a pedestrian in his 80s died after being hit by a car and carried on top of it for as much as a mile.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r9rdjr21do

RIP.

[David9694]

Well, it’s national news

Well, it’s national news (Daily Telegraph) that a driver has been inconvenienced as the seven car parks at Cragside with its tallest ever Christmas tree have filled up this week.

North East world record attraction forced to turn visitors away as crowds flock to site

Struggles for visitor favourite which became a world record-holder just before Christmas

One person responded to the news on Facebook saying: “Here we go again. That’s the end of today’s holiday plan.”

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/north-east-world-record-attraction-33129296

https://bustimes.org/services/x14-newcastle-to-morpeth?date=2025-12-31

[David9694]

Funeral procession nearly cut

Funeral procession nearly cut up at Worcester roundabout

Following the incident, the funeral directors shared a post on its Facebook page, urging people to respect the deceased.

It read: “When we leave our building for a Funeral we always ‘paige’ from the building as a sign of respect for the deceased.

“As we cross a busy road island it is becoming increasingly more worrying that few people want to slow down to let us do this. See today’s car? it did not want to stop. Our deceased deserved the respect and we kept walking.”

In a further message to drivers, Mrs Clayton told Worcester News that people should put themselves in the position of the bereaved family.

“Just think carefully and imagine it was one of your family members that was being taken to their funeral service,” she said.

“You would want them to be treated with dignity and respect.”

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25726812.funeral-procession-nearly-cut-worcester-roundabout/

pic: “it’s my right of way”

[David9694]

Why create this ambiguity and

Why create this ambiguity and this precedent, guys? Next up: “police are ‘suddenly’ enforcing 60 mph limits on A38″,”Devon man accumulates 27 speeding fines in a fortnight” and “I saw the signs, but I didn’t realise they were being enforced” 

Police issue A38 Plymouth warning amid ‘adjustment period’

Officers have reminded drivers about the new 60mph limit between Marsh Mills and the Tamar Bridge

The A38 Parkway speed reduction scheme followed a safety review which revealed the collision rate is double the national average on that length of road. 

The latest validated collision data identified a total of 157 collisions on the A38 Parkway, resulting in 226 injuries between 2020 and 2024.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/police-issue-a38-plymouth-warning-10727280

[David9694]

what we need here is an even

what we need here is an even-handed enquiry between the person with zero protection and the person with two tonnes of motorised metal – we just don’t know whose fault this could have been and what happened here – was the cyclist under the influence, was the driver?   

Review held at coroner’s court into Ludham cyclist fatal

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25723344.review-held-coroners-court-ludham-cyclist-fatal/?dicbo=v2-x4HQUkr

[wtjs]

If that was a cyclist going
If that was a cyclist going down the road and hitting that, it could have resulted in a serious injury. They might have gone over the top of their handlebars, hitting the cold road before a car came up behind them
Hilarious festive fun! As if anyone in a Panzer could care less about a cyclist being KSI’d! It’s like the sincere concern claimed by protesters for the disabled, the elderly, the children, the trees… when all they’re bothered about is loss of parking spaces, installation of a cycle lane etc. etc.

[David9694]

Jason £250 out of pocket as

Jason £250 out of pocket as ‘five cars’ wiped out by same Stoke-on-Trent pothole

Jason Richards is calling on Stoke-on-Trent City Council to sort out the roads

“If that was a cyclist going down the road and hitting that, it could have resulted in a serious injury. They might have gone over the top of their handlebars, hitting the cold road before a car came up behind them. Speaking dramatically, it could result in a death or anything. You never know.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/jason-250-out-pocket-five-10698016

£250???  I hope chancers like this don’t get a penny from the public purse. 

https://www.atseuromaster.co.uk/tyre/volkswagen-tiguan-tyres?itemsperpage=24&sort=relevant&fieldnametosort=saleprice&sortingorder=descending&display=grid&filter=dimension%3A235-55-r17-99-v,215-60-r17-96-v,255-40-r19-96-w,215-65-r16-98-h,235-50-r18-97-v

[pockstone]

A Christmas antidote to all
A Christmas antidote to all the car misery, and the bike tech’ arms race as well. Happy Christmas all!
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/26/experience-cycled-uk-john-ogroats-dover-wooden-bike

[Rendel Harris]

Exactly, that’s why it’s high

Exactly, that’s why it’s high time we had a law in the UK reflecting that of many states in the USA where failure to stop at the scene is marked as a refusal to take a drink/drug test which is in turn marked as having failed a drink/drug test and given exactly the same sanctions.

[wtjs]

I can’t believe someone could
I can’t believe someone could do this and just abandon him in the road
I can, because the penalty for ‘Hit and Run’ is barely more that for ‘Hit’ (which is not much anyway if you hit a cyclist) and you have a very good chance of getting away with it completely. In any case, you can claim you thought you hit a fridge or a bag of potatoes, and can claim to have had a few drinks at home to steady your nerves to get away with drink-driving

[David9694]

Cyclist knocked off his bike

Cyclist knocked off his bike was left injured in the road for two hours after driver fled the scene

The cyclist needed hospital treatment for six broken bones after being knocked off his bike on the way home from a shopping trip

A man was left with several broken bones in his arm after he was knocked off his bicycle by a car and left injured in the middle of a Swansea road. The driver left the scene and police are now investigating.

Ulugbek Meliev was travelling home on his bike after a Christmas shopping trip, when he was hit by the blue-coloured vehicle at Gors Avenue in Swansea on Sunday, December 21 at around 1.15pm. The 41-year-old’s partner, Natallia Banifatsyeva, claimed the driver made off down Townhill Road, and appealed for witnesses to come forward with information.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cyclist-knocked-bike-left-injured-33117356

[wtjs]

my Christmas wish is I just
my Christmas wish is I just want this to stop
Then you’ll need a completely different police force and a completely different public opinion – the police are prepared to do nothing at all to prevent KSIs (to cyclists, at least) but are ready to bash out the ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ instead; the public opinion is that nothing whatsoever must be done which they THINK will reduce the convenience of driving fast for idle people.

[David9694]

40 years ago today, a much

40 years ago today, a much younger version of me was at the funeral of a bloke I was at 6th form with – he piled his father’s car into a tree a few days earlier.  It doesn’t leave you.  

It will be the same story in 2026:  my Christmas wish is I just want this to stop. 

Families in tribute to crash victims, 17 and 18

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg337rejyzo

Brandon – Victim of fatal collision named, as family pay tribute

https://www.suffolk.police.uk/news/suffolk/news/news/2025/october/brandon–victim-of-fatal-collision-named-as-family-pay-tribute/

Leeds United tribute to crash victim planned

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrlk0pg84eo

Llantrisant fatal RTC – Victim named and his family pay tribute

https://www.south-wales.police.uk/news/south-wales/news/2025/november/llantrisant-fatal-rtc–victim-named-and-his-family-pay-tribute/

TRAGIC DAY ‘Hearts shattered’ as 2 victims pictured after 3 separate horror crashes in 12-hr span & touching family tributes paid

The latest fatalities take the death toll on our roads to 183 for 2025, nine deaths more than for the entirety of 2024 — with around two weeks to go

https://www.thesun.ie/news/16269577/garda-road-crash-limerick-monaghan-tipperary-collision/

Tributes have been paid to a “beautiful” 21-year-old woman who was killed in a horror late night crash outside a shopping centre in Sutton Coldfield

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/08/27/tributes-paid-to-beautiful-young-woman-killed-in-crash-outside-a-sutton-coldfield-shopping-centre/

Tributes paid to mother who died in crash

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cger47vyqxeo

Tributes paid to victims of fatal car crash on A98 near Buckie

https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/news/tributes-paid-to-victims-of-deeply-tragic-fatal-car-crash-384501/

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

I wish more clinicians would be vocal about the effects of air pollution, although this intervention mis-fires as it’s all about buses and idling traffic, and then there’s the comments completing the wall of denial and distraction.  

Often it seems the problem is expressed not as “too many trips being driven” but rather “congestion”. Which in turn is blamed on “cycle lanes” and vulnerable road users getting in the way, or sometimes “unrealistically low speed limits”.

The cure is then apparently “one more lane” or at least “rip out any cycling infra because it’s never used”, or only for “leisure trips” or food delivery riders (probably undesirables for separate reasons)

[David9694]

I wish more clinicians would

I wish more clinicians would be vocal about the effects of air pollution, although this intervention mis-fires as it’s all about buses and idling traffic, and then there’s the comments completing the wall of denial and distraction.  

Calls to cut air pollution along Lewes Road

Dr Leddy, a neurology registrar at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Brighton, told councillors that she saw people with dementia, stroke and conditions affecting their brain and nervous system every day.

She said that, in 2020, the medical journal The Lancet included air pollution as a risk factor for dementia and, in 2024, it said that addressing the risk could prevent half of dementia cases.

By 2040, 1.7 million people in England and Wales are expected to be living with dementia.

Dr Leddy said: “It is a devastating illness for individuals and families. Any measures that can be taken to prevent this condition make sense on an economic, medical and personal level.”

https://www.theargus.co.uk/comments/25719282/

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