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Woman drives car onto pavement and crashes into lamp post in Ketley, Telford. 2.30pm on Friday afternoon.
This is a straight 30mph road on the approach to a crossroads with traffic lights (street view).
And we have to share the roads with these morons…
Yeah, but see it from their point of view…
Has anyone got the wit to access this story (regional content again)? I’d love to know more.https://www.wbaltv.com/article/car-crash-into-building-cockeysville-york-road/38883885
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. —A senior citizen crashed their car into a commercial building Tuesday morning in Baltimore County.
SkyTeam 11 reported the car crashed into a building around 10 a.m. at MVS Wound Care & Hyperbarics in the 10500 block of York Road in Cockeysville.
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The driver was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
County police said no one inside the building was struck or hurt.
I’d like to say that I’m
I’d like to say that I’m behind this, but I just don’t feel that I have any personal connection with Mike. I totally support what he’s doing, but it’s not where I live and all I’ve seen is media reports on him, so it feels disingenuous for me to do anything except provide internet comment support (or maybe chuck in a donation if he needs a camera upgrade etc).
(I’m also not a fan of the honours system, but that’s not a deal-breaker)
Sriracha wrote:
The headline reads, “Car Drives Past Road Closed Sign Into Hole”. All they needed to do was change one letter; “Car Driven Past Road Closed Sign Into Hole”.It’s in the U.S. which is even more firmly under the thumb of the automobile, so I have low expectations on how their media reports crashes.
What does “Road Closed”
What does “Road Closed” actually mean though?
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2022/02/07/overbrook-creedmore-avenue-hole/
mdavidford wrote:
Bloody entitled gardeners – deliberately holding up traffic – don’t even pay rhododendron tax…
As I understand it, the drivers are furious about his garden ornaments. He calls them his elves, but that’s just a common misgnomer.
Hmm – I wonder if that is because of cars parked along both sides…?
He says that later – I didn’t quote the entire article (fair-use or something or other)
“The irony in all of it is they put the crossing in because it’s a busy road but they haven’t done anything about the parking.“So that busy road is now even busier because of double parking,” he said.
Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile?
Isn’t it a nobby one, and just the proper style?
I should like to have one Just the same as that!
Where’er I go, they shout “Hello! Where did you get that hat?”
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/incredible-pictures-van-driver-accidentally-6625158
300,000 empty homes in the UK at present – not holiday homes etc, just unused homes. I recently rode through a street near London’s Docklands, all new builds, all empty; a security guard told me they’d all been bought by a Malaysian syndicate who were just holding them as an investment and didn’t want the bother of tenants. Stopping that sort of thing would be a good start.That’s Capitalism for you – houses as a means of building capital rather than housing glorious workers.
Well that was a wild ride:
Well that was a wild ride: https://apnews.com/article/oddities-arrests-florida-west-palm-beach-fb19a5d3699310da848d92693ce2da43
I read the BBC News article about this and was going to post about it but you’ve beaten me to it. Sadly this is so typical of our government. They say one thing and do completely the opposite. So depressing.With politicians and people in power, don’t listen to what they say, but watch what they do (e.g. holding parties whilst telling everyone else to not mingle)
I found the language a bit
I found the language a bit distracting with “you know” and “like” all over the place, but it’s an informal chat so I’ll cut it some slack.
I’m not sure that I agree with his closing comment as I think that self-driving cars will be feasible at some point, but time will tell. Although amusing, it’s a poor analogy because there’s only so much that you can do with horse breeding, but computer hardware has already been exponentially improved over the decades (more computing power in a modern phone than a PC of 10-20 years ago).
Fair enough.In the interests of full disclosure, I do tend to look at the nws on the Grauniad site first.
( I don’t think I’m an evil hate-filled commie, or anything like that, but YMMV).
To be fair, The Gradunai is going to have much better quality reporting on cars/bikes/environment than the BBC.
I’m still using a Proviz
I’m still using a Proviz rucksack that’s now looking quite battered, but it’s still highly reflective. I had some gloves, but my skin didn’t like the rubber material on the cuffs, so they got binned. Also got a coat, but it’s a terrible fit so that never gets used.
They’re a brand with one good idea and lots of questionable decisions.
Jogle wrote:
[quote=Jogle]Car drives into auctioneers https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/car-crashes-into-reception-at-leyburn-auctioneers/%5B/quote%5D
I got addicted to auctions with all the suspense and excitement after going once…
going twice…
