[Sriracha]

I think I’ve found part of the answer as to why some motorists seem to think a gnat’s dick is 1.5m clearance – they can’t even judge the width of their own vehicle, never mind any clearance to the sides. What hope is there?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59641534

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[joe9090]

Liking your comment mostly

Liking your comment mostly coz you unashamedly said wing mirror!

[chrisonabike]

I must say that hiss was

I must say that hiss was rather satisfying…

[chrisonabike]

Excellent parenting from your

Excellent parenting from your dad and no doubt good tuition. As for police using the “alley trap” technique I recall from some trash TV that’s also favoured by the crims – can’t find video online but there was one where joyriders decamped from the car just after driving down a narrow alley – the police in the pursuing car found they didn’t have room to open their doors …

[mdavidford]

Maybe it says something about

Maybe it says something about our car-centric / self-centred society that we’ve all shifted our thinking from an observer’s perspective to a driver’s perspective. 

[wycombewheeler]

Secret_squirrel wrote:

wycombewheeler wrote:

the nearside is the side nearest the kerb (counter intuitively) which is the passenger side whether in the UK or elsewhere.

Thats me learned gud.  In my head nearside was the side nearest the driver.  Thanks for the larning Wycombe – of course now something important has dribbled out of me ‘ead……

In fairness that’s what I thought too, until I googled it, and every site came back with the same definition. 

[Secret_squirrel]

Maybe its the lack of my

Maybe its the lack of my morning coffee but that looks like the start of the Doctor Who Episode Christmas to me.  Those are evil space puddings arent they?  When do they start eating unsuspecting revelers at midnight?

[Secret_squirrel]

wycombewheeler wrote:

the nearside is the side nearest the kerb (counter intuitively) which is the passenger side whether in the UK or elsewhere.

Thats me learned gud.  In my head nearside was the side nearest the driver.  Thanks for the larning Wycombe – of course now something important has dribbled out of me ‘ead……

[mdavidford]

wycombewheeler wrote:

Captain Badger wrote:

shoko wrote:

…., with the unforgiving bollards added about 10 years ago.“

That would be the necessary protecting of people on the footway

I think bollards at 7’6″ would also protect people on the footway, unless they were walking along the kerbstones

Except the original bollards were apparently forgiving. So they may have looked the other way while people were run over.

[Captain Badger]

wycombewheeler wrote:

wycombewheeler wrote:

Captain Badger wrote:

shoko wrote:

…., with the unforgiving bollards added about 10 years ago.“

That would be the necessary protecting of people on the footway

I think bollards at 7’6″ would also protect people on the footway, unless they were walking along the kerbstones

That would narrow the footway.

[Kapelmuur]

After I passed my driving

After I passed my driving test my Dad arranged for me to have some tuition from a mate of his who was an advanced police driver.

One of his exercises was to have me put cones out at the width I thought my car was and also to place cones himself and challenge me to drive through if I thought there was sufficient room.

He said that people not knowing the width of the vehicle they were driving was a secret weapon for the police and they brought many a chase to an end when the suspect car got stuck in an alley.

[wtjs]

The Joy! The Joy!!

The Joy! The Joy!!

Stolen and modified from ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ to describe the view of The Filth coming to well-deserved grief

[Oldfatgit]

So the bollards have been
So the bollards have been doing their job by forming an immovable object to protect the residential area**.
But …
Because some dicks can’t judge the width of their car, the council area considering replacing the bollards (which are an instant deterrent and *work*), with cameras and FPN …

Leave the bollards in, and natural selection will do the rest.

** Many years ago (must be close to 30 odd years), when I was a truck driver I once had to take a 7.5 tonner down the A2 (I think it was … Somewhere near Woolwich anyway). At the time, there was a 7.5t weight and 7ft 6 width restriction in place, marked by steel poles.
It was a typical council job; crap tarmac had rutted from constant cars, vans and bin wagons.
So … It was 7ft6 at the bottom, but after a couple of feet, the poles had bent inwards to such an extent that my 7ft trucklet wouldn’t fit.
It made a bit of a bang when the headboard hit the poles …
I was blocking the road for a good 10 mins before people had enough sense to let others back up so I could reverse out.
I was slightly … Nay, horribly embarrassed by it at first, but then when I realised that none had the brains they were born with, I didn’t care.

[wycombewheeler]

Citroen c1 is 5’4″ wide. BMW

Citroen c1 is 5’4″ wide. BMW X5 is 7’3″ (must include mirrors)

People who are choosing to drive oversided vehciles need to be aware of the consequences. Such as not bing able to drive through these restricted roads

[wycombewheeler]

Captain Badger wrote:

wycombewheeler wrote:

David9694 wrote:

How many dozy drivers do you see who clearly can’t judge speed or distance. 

Had me a little Google of this location: here’s what you don’t see in the movie, if you go in close, you can see bits of trim from recent victims.  Yet Mr Appliances Direct seemed to have made it ok. 

because it’s a 7 foot wide opening, no one other than HGVs should have problems driving through there, I remember a lot of these restrictions at 6’6″ when I was a new driver, when they really wanted to deter large vehicles. There was normally a gate where the bus lane is on this example, the gate would be locked and the fire brigade would have the keys.

AS a reckless youth I used to drive though the 6’6″ without slowing down, anyone who can’t get their car through a 7′ gap needs either

• retraining
• being taken off the roads
• limited to small cars.

limited to classes of car would be brilliant.

Acceleration and top speed to be limited across the board.

classes such as SUV/4WD restricted to commercial use only (concession for the vanishingly few people who need heavier vehicles due to their place of abode, such as teh cairngorms)

NCAP safety ratings to primarily include 3rd party safety as priority importance, and insurance class to be formulated on that basis

anyone caught damaging street furniture, getting to 9 points on their license, limited to driving a citroen c1 or toyota aygo. No please of hardship need be heard because they are still mobile.

[wycombewheeler]

Captain Badger wrote:

shoko wrote:

…., with the unforgiving bollards added about 10 years ago.“

That would be the necessary protecting of people on the footway

I think bollards at 7’6″ would also protect people on the footway, unless they were walking along the kerbstones

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