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Businesses still seeing ‘drop
Businesses still seeing ‘drop in footfall’ at St Stephens Place
Ah dear old local journalism we rely on thee so much, powered as you are some times by anecdotes from individual employees and barrack-room lawyers in the comments.
Funny how this private car park concerns a local councillor and the newspaper – what separates it from say a customer complaint that the nachos at the cinema weren’t very nice or that the cinema shows too much Marvel and not enough DC?
Young driver reported after
Young driver reported after flipping car in Wiltshire high street
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/young-driver-flipping-car-high-street/
Car overturns in ‘very scary’ crash on Chippenham roundabout
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/car-overturns-scary-crash-chippenham/
Driver crashes car into
Driver crashes car into school gates in Cambridge
The driver was allegedly almost four times the legal limit when police tested his breath
I count 11 buses in an hour
I count 11 buses in an hour from the stop in Bridge Street.
The car park bottom left is being sold along with the former civic centre.
Maybe she just thought she could sycamore lenient sentence by staying.but then she blew it by giving police a false acacia of what happened
Fury over Devon seafront
Fury over Devon seafront fines for cars ‘overhanging’ markings
One visitor said she had counted eight parked cars with tickets
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fury-over-devon-seafront-fines-9971575
Two miles? Two miles? I came
Two miles? Two miles? I came here for a nice day out in a national park, not to walk two miles – oh.
Otherwise laurel-abiding🧥
Otherwise laurel-abiding🧥
Drink-driver who called
Drink-driver who called police to fallen tree gets roads ban
She was initially compliant with police, who smelled alcohol on her when she was put in a police vehicle, but she later attempted to escape the car by climbing into the front seats and trying to leave through the door.
In mitigation, the court was told: “She did her civic duty by staying there and making sure that nobody else collided with the tree.”
uninsured as well. I guess when she was invited for a ride in the police car, she didn’t *ducks* cedar funny side.
Person trapped after car
Person trapped after car crashes into wall
Police, paramedics and firefighters were sent
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/person-trapped-after-car-crashes-9969022
or competently?
or competently?
Sittingbourne pensioner appears in court accused of running over a woman in Morrisons car park
It is alleged after initially knocking her over, the 72-year-old then moved his car while Mrs Newman, who suffered a broken pelvis and other injuries, was still on the floor and his vehicle then collided with her head.
Unusually, the CPS changed the charge from Careless to Dangerous and it was sent to the Crown Court to be heard next month.
“A person was taken to
“A person was taken to hospital after a car crashed into a wall in the early hours…”
“Ah well, it was just an
“Ah well, it was just an accident” seems to have become one of the most important ideas in the active travel campaigner’s world. I guess the ‘haves’ in life have, at least since the Industrial Revolution, insulated their own selves and left everyone else to face the perils of overcrowding / disease, their dark satanic mills or quite simply, each other (e.g. in the rush to get to said mill on time).
People get “he did it on purpose/ he should be punished”, but the “he didn’t mean to”, so-called accident is a more subtle i.e. tougher sell. No more so than when it comes to cars, where the idea of the “accident” and lack of consequences has been carefully crafted for decades. Rinse and repeat. Trivialise and ridcule law enforcement, deprive it of resources, resist automated enforcement because of the link to individual freedom, individualise each incident and suppress those who try to join the dots.
We went into motoring and mass motoring largely for the wrong reasons – “my pleasure, my freedom, I can afford it” so of course, like my other hate in life, Brexit it’s a mess, one that we’re actively conditioned to just accept and work around as best we can. If cars had have absolutely only been about transport from the start, we wouldn’t now be in half the mess.
Sounds delightful. Do we
Sounds delightful. Do we know who or what is BE?
Something occasionally pricks
Something occasionally pricks drivers about cycling and they feel a need justify their driving and come up with a range of reasons why they cannot possibly ever cycle or, as you’re suggesting, they create some unlikely (and uncommon) scenarios involving multiple passengers, heavy/bulky loads, remote locations and times.
Everyone in Southampton works some 12 hour shift ten miles from home in the middle of nowhere, if you believe the DE comments column. In this great city of enterprise, hard work and grafting, everyone’s got a bad back or a dodgy knee. They’re perfectly fine to drive, of course, even right after that 12 hour shift. Don’t get them started on the evil Southampton City Council.
It’s always wet dark and cold, it’s hilly, you get sweaty; it’s expensive (£5k for a bike dontchaknow). There’s never anything about the effects on the body of years of inactivity, nor anything about journeys they could make by bike, just obstacles why they can’t. And in Mr Martin’s case, why no-one could or would ever wish to.