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Mercedes driver crashes into
Mercedes driver crashes into Voi e-scooters
It’s a good job there are onboard speed limiters – just imagine the carnage imagine if there weren’t
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/20067966.mercedes-driver-crashes-e-scooters-southampton/#gallery1
A couple of reports on local
A couple of reports on local FB groups of local filling stations being “out”, diesel seems to be the most affected. Just Stop Oil being blamed. Drivers actually trying to steady each other’s nerves and not kick off another wave of “brimming” your tank.
Curious place, local FB. This week I posted a builder’s van 100% blocking the pavement. Our moderator doesn’t usually allow this sort of thing, so I was suprised it ran. Not sure who won that one, but the loudest voices, from white van man, were saying I should have (single-handedly, and there were 3 of them) asked them to move it, because that would totally would have happened, had I done so; I’m clearly such a snowflake.
Not sure where we are getting to on councils enforcing pavement parking – not convinced it needs anything other than being prioritised, but I can see them being kept quite busy, at least to begin with. It’s gone unchecked for too long now, many drivers no longer see it as wrong and will go into their usual victim mode if caught.
Then elsewhere, on a new housing development fronting our main road, they’ve put in a small children’s play area: why, oh why?? People seem to get that the side of the main road isn’t a nice place for anyone to linger, but make no further connection.
When a road is blocked, it’s
When a road is blocked, it’s drivers you often see saying “ppl can’t get past”.
It’s nice that many drivers
It’s nice that many drivers in high-speed chases think “I’m sure to lose them if I go into this 1970s housing estate”
I predict a rise in this sort
I predict a rise in this sort of thing:
NHS transport vehicles have fuel stolen in Blandford
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20065995.nhs-transport-vehicles-fuel-stolen-blandford/
Dangerous driver crashed into
Dangerous driver crashed into garage in Teddington Close, Canterbury, while being followed by police
The local MP seems pretty
The local MP seems pretty quiet on all of this – this is all I could find on a quick search from her. Would you not be shouting from the rooftops about this?
The sense that govt is confused and conflicted about how to respond and how to treat the company persists. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it.
Stack used happen pre Brexit but it lasted 2-3 days, not 3 weeks, IIRC..
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/natalie-elphicke-dover-column-for-week-ending-april-8/
The M20 stack is still there this morning, shrinking a bit, from Leeds Castle down to Ashford. That moveable feast, known as when P&O will start sailing again is now Good Friday.
Other lorry ro-ro ports are available, aren’t they?
I was working at a hospital
I was working at a hospital in Kent when the 2020 lockdown started – I remember a comment that there were hardly any trauma cases coming in (people stayed away from hospital in their droves at the time) because there was less driving and less crashes. I don’t know any detail, but I agree with you an awful lot of trauma work must arise from car crashes.
I hope the blind dog got out
I hope the blind dog got out OK.
And relatively painless, I’d
And relatively painless, I’d have thought. Whether you scale it at one household or many, it’s hard to see what the downside is.
Meanwhile in ambulance land..
Meanwhile in ambulance land…
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/ambulance-forced-wait-14-hours-23626118
totally grinds my gears that we have to task ambulance crews to pick the pieces up after idiots like this have broken their toys.
“Midlands hospital bosses have said they are facing ‘very serious’ and ‘unprecedented’ challenges as ambulances face huge delays to handover patients. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has revealed one of its ambulances was forced to wait nearly 14 hours outside Worcestershire Royal Hospital on Monday (April 4).”
“Yesterday my daughter tried
“Yesterday my daughter tried seven petrol stations on Sheppey and in Sittingbourne without any luck.” (That’s a 20 mile round trip)
Petrol and diesel shortages affecting Sheppey and Sittingbourne
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/drivers-face-fuel-nightmares-again-265272/
This is being blamed on Just Stop Oil, who get a brief mention. If they are descendants of Insulate Britain, wouldn’t it be better to think that they might just be right, rather than arrest them and double down on ignoring the point they’re trying to make?
photo caption: Sheerness roads gridlocked by drivers trying to get fuel at Tesco this morning. Picture: Googlemaps
Fake speed van – bear with me
Fake speed van – bear with me, there is a CCIB connection:
“The video then cuts to an image of a crashed car in his front garden. Rob explained a speeding driver had once lost control of their vehicle and ended up on his property.”
Interestingly, the police don’t seem too concerned.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/dad-told-i-hope-you-23596215?int_source=nba
Clickbait time:
“Drivers could be fined £1000 asking for change at a car park”A old law could land you with a large fine
There seems to have been a run of these “drivers could be fined under-little known law”, articles, each more improbable than the last.
Rocketing fuel prices spark number plate theft epidemic
My guess would be that as those Audi A.3s don’t run on air, this is a lot to do with the local drugs gangs trying to keep overheads down. But if/when things get tighter for people, I wonder what new trends in this kind of thing there will be.
Ah, Manningtree, where
Ah, Manningtree, where drivers can save a few vital seconds when the level crossing barriers are down by taking the underpass.
one car a week impaled on the
one car a week impaled on the Canterbury bollards:
Canterbury’s anti-terror bollards spring 79 cars in 16 months since they were installed
“The town is already congested enough without people queuing up the road to get through the bollards.” Or ‘the town is too busy to regulate the traffic.’
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/79-vehicles-sprung-by-anti-terror-bollards-265138/
