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Absolutely, I did the calculation at the time and worked out that the extra reaction time at that distance for the motor speed limit of 20 mph instead of the cyclist’s alleged 30 mph would be seven hundredths of a second (0.22 vs 0.14) and neither speed would give sufficient time for a reaction.
(It was Regent’s Park btw)
I roughly worked out the speed at which a cyclist could stop within 2m and it was about 3mph or so.
You don’t need to judge the
You don’t need to judge the speed of a cyclist to figure out if it’s safe to step out in front of it – just go by how far away they are and treat them like you would a driver. IIRC, the Richmond Park collision had the pedestrian step out only 2m in front of the cyclist which would be reckless for just about any speed of cyclist. The whole focus on the cyclist’s speed and “racing” is just a diversion as neither is at all relevant.
This morning’s Sun has a long op-ed by Howard Cox of Fair Fuel UK, complaining about how people being fined for being in a hatched yellow junction box is apparently an evil and ongoing war on motorists, so I suspect that old habits don’t exactly die easily…That doesn’t even make any sense. The yellow junction box rule is to prevent traffic getting jammed up at those junctions, so it helps motorists if the rule is enforced so that traffic can flow better. I mean, are they suggesting that drivers want to sit in a queue behind a car blocking the junction?
Does a ditch count as a
Does a ditch count as a building?
Driverless car heads for a ditch on the M5: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/car-careers-m5-ends-up-9477717
Rachel Reeves is mulling unfreezing the fuel duty escalator which could generate £3bn annually.Here’s an idea:
Charge fuel duty not just on volume of fuel but also based on engine size and/or fuel consumption in order to encourage motorists to buy less powerful and more efficient cars, and generate tax revenue to pay for government services such as child benefit.
To achieve this, at the filling station, ANPR is used for example to capture the registration plate, which is then used to look up the amount of fuel duty payable in a similar way to other road/vehicle pricing schemes such as LTNs, ULEZ and congestion charging. This technology is becoming ubiquitous.
Filling stations would then make a regular fuel duty return to HMRC.
I doubt this would see an end to 6.3 V8 twin turbo 4×4 supercars being used for the school run and harrassing other road users, but it would help.
That seems over complicated as putting tax on the amount of fuel would automatically provide an incentive to drive less or use more efficient vehicles.
However, I can see an issue with the poorer demographic being penalised for not being able to afford to change to a more efficient vehicle. Maybe have an amount of fuel duty reclaimable for low incomes?
Driverless car overturns
Driverless car overturns
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-south-gloucestershire-road-closed-9465043
Although I had no part in the
Although I had no part in the counter protest in Bristol last night (which easily outnumbered the EDL idiots), I was encouraged by their chant “We are many, you are few. We are bristol, who are you?”
The far right may be very vocal and they get a lot of media attention (Farage on the BBC all the time?), but there’s far more of us that enjoy having a multi-cultural society and welcome refugees despite the narrative that the mainstream media is pushing.
Spare a thought for the hard
Spare a thought for the hard working Amazon lorries that sometimes just need to lay down for a quick nap
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/amazon-lorry-side-avonmouth-dramatic-9457612
I can recommend running
I can recommend running pihole on your home network/router however it does cause a problem with Road.cc’s use of go.skimresources.com on most of the links.
Trains have been stopped
Trains have been stopped after a vehicle hit a bridge this morning (Thursday, August 1). Services are reportedly at a stand between Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa.
The incident was first reported by traffic monitoring site Inrix at 9.51pm. National Rail is expecting the disruption to last until 10.45am.
National Rail said in a post on X: “Delays between Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa expected until 10:45.”
Inrix adds: “Services at a stand on Great Western Railway between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads due to road vehicle hitting a bridge.”
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-trains-stopped-between-bristol-9451746
Dramatic moment car crashes into van which smashes into Stockwood houseAn 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/dramatic-moment-car-crashes-van-9451355
Avon and Somerset Police are now appealing for information from eyewitnesses. A spokesperson for the force said: “We were called at 9.51pm yesterday (30 July) to a report that a car had collided with a van, which subsequently collided with a property in Stockwood Lane in the Stockwood area of Bristol.Those autonomous cars!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-men-fatally-shoot-california-road-rage-incident/story?id=112413824
Two men are dead after they fatally shot one another in an apparent road rage incident in Southern California, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
One of the men had his two children in the car — ages 2 and 5 — at the time of the double shooting.
jaymack wrote:
An interesting article but the more pressing concern is that the pictured Fire Fighting Squirrel doesn’t seem to know how to wield an axe properly. Is the arboreal world safe for those of a Sciurus Carolinensisian disposition? We need to know.They’re in training and looks to need quite a bit more. I think they’re mainly a danger to themselves.
Here’s a more proficient one
We actually have one in my city since a few years ago. Our stormwater tax applies to all properties, residential or business, and is based on the impermeable area which includes buildings and concrete or asphalt driveways. Mine amounts to a bit over $60 (£45) quarterly for about 22% of my ~12000 ft² / 0.25 acre / 1100 m² property being impermeable. You can get discounts if you add significant water retention features.We have a “combined sewer overflow” problem where a few times a year during heavy rain, an untreated combination of storm water and sewage goes into the major river that flows through town. The federal government (EPA) fines the city for each event. The tax is intended to fund fixing the system so that this doesn’t happen any more, but I haven’t seen much progress yet.
Don’t get me started on water companies pumping sewage into our waterways!
BBC arranging crashes for TV:Reminds me of this old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qir4EEpawE