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What about tail lights?
What about tail lights?
what’s the latest on this?
what’s the latest on this?
Interesting that for no other
Interesting that for no other reason than too many cars, parking area at top of narrow track for village nature reserve is going to be closed for the weekend.
Test Valley village car park to close for period of good weather
I guess lots of people will be getting in their cars this weekend to escape their hot, car-ey home locations….
cautionary tale here
cautionary tale here
Driver banned from road after chasing hit-and-run driver
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25251436.driver-banned-road-chasing-hit-and-run-driver/
(Un) suprsingly car-ey at the
(Un) suprsingly car-ey at the top of the steps.
Not us Guv, says Google.
Did you go any faster? I
Did you go any faster? I assume these are a go-fast item for if you haven’t gone tubeless.
A Reform spokesman said “we
A Reform spokesman said “we are determined to stamp out these unregulated tides, loose sand, rough seas and winds that affect people’s simple pleasure of using a jet ski, bringing it down by trailer to a beach”
Motorists are being consulted
Motorists are being consulted over plans to change traffic regulations in seven Stoke-on-Trent streets. The proposed changes include the introduction of more red routes and new permit parking zones as well as extra parking, disabled spaces and loading bays.
Motorists are being consulted are they, Stoke Sentinel?
Council wants new rules on these seven Stoke-on-Trent streets – full list
Thou had cars that stopped
Thou had cars that stopped for you? I were run over 5 or 6 times a day – and I was grateful.
Sand Land Rover stuck in the
SandLand Rover stuck in the sand – jet ski on the trailer for the bonus. High tide at 18:30 today so would have been c17:30 Tuesday.https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25248877.car-seen-stranded-boscombe-beach-tuesday-evening/
As always, The Simpsons has
As always, The Simpsons has this covered.
Now Homer, don’t you eat this pie
Now pie, I’m just going to be doing this: NOM-NOM-NOM and if you get eaten, it’s your own fault.
This article headline avoids
This article headline avoids upsetting our sensibilities too much. Killed by drivers, not just keeling over from old age.
I don’t follow it super assiduously, but I don’t recall a corresponding number of news articles where drivers are prosecuted for this – a lot are hit & run and that’s one badly boshed-in local car where it will be pretty obvious what has happened.
New Forest: High numbers of animal deaths in 2025 so far
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25244869.new-forest-high-numbers-animal-deaths-2025-far/
The “accident” narrative is
The “accident” narrative is an important fig leaf for the driver/ oil /car lobby to maintain.
Given that 1,600 people are getting killed every year (by drivers), that is an unsafe system. Private motoring is the only area where this level of harm is tolerated – no airline, no industry or rail operator would be allowed to continue to operate like that. Getting people to think of each episode making up the total as an individual “accident” is a good way to stop them seeing the annual sum total for what it is.
If there weren’t 1.5 tonne lumps of metal going around at speed, there wouldn’t be 1,600 people a year killed by them, and the 60-70 serious injuries. You don’t need crash investigators and witness statements to reach that overall conclusion. Drivers like to defend each other on social media – for some it’s about never taking responsibility.
There is criminal lawyears talk of the actus reus meaning the guilty act and the mens rea – the guilty mind. Malice aforethought, i.e. the criminal action was planned is the strongest evidence of mens rea. It’s more complicated when it comes to actions that perhaps weren’t intended, but your reckless actions led to it happening, or turning out worse for someone than might have been expected.
An example would be that it would be murder if you arsoned a farm barn one night and there was someone sleeping in there who was killed by the fire you started. The “single punch” cases are another example.
Drivers have, from the very beginning, done themselves a pretty good job of dismantling the idea of recklessness in the legal system and in the popular mind. We all expect a degree of recklessness from drivers – that’s how it is, right?
Despite so many cases where never been in trouble before drivers have been given the benefit of the doubt and cases either never make it to court, or derisory penalties are given, drivers are very good at being the persecuted victims who are always held to account the moment they do anything wrong. I always wonder at the degree of convincing you have to do with yourself to come to that view and to repeat it, but that’s cars for you.
Finally, I happened on this story today – the driver actually got a decent jail term and the point of Lillie’s law would be to ensure lifetime driving bans in cases like this.
Grieving family want law change after Lillie, 22, killed by 100mph driver
Her inquest takes place this week
From a little further away.
From a little further away.
Car smashes into front of
Car smashes into front of Littlemoor Morrisons in Weymouth
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/25240545.car-smashes-front-littlemoor-morrisons-weymouth/
