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her husband saw the tractor
her husband saw the tractor driver quickly reattach his trailer and drive off
I wonder if this area suffers from the same problem we have here in Lancashire: tractors, trailers, other agricultural vehicles… have no need to bother with number plates because the police are too busy to bother with traffic law
Are the police now routinely
Are the police now routinely accepting “medical episode’ as an excuse for dangerous driving?
Whenever they can, but sometimes they don’t get away with it. I think we’re waiting to hear about the London toff driver in a Range Rover, or similar, who killed children by driving through school walls/ fences. The police tried to get her off, but unfortunately it was a toff school, I think, so the decision had to be reviewedThe constable who eventually
The constable who eventually came out and took our statements went through everything and explained everything with us and was a lot more helpful
This bears all the hallmarks of a standard police ‘There, there. Never mind!’ post-complaint brush-off. I think she’s going to be disappointed by an affirmed NFA, after a sufficient interval to make it look like careful consideration has taken place. What the rest of us want to know is ‘has the driver been prohibited from driving’ after this ‘medical incident’ or do the police take the easy way out and accept ‘I’m all right now, I’m sure it won’t happen again’?So he has his eye on the
So he has his eye on the allotments, I’d guess, but he seems to have no idea what demand his 1000 new spaces would induce
No, and he doesn’t care either- a true inheritor of the spirit displayed by Eric Idle (I seem to recall) as the Monty Python BMW driving bore: ‘I coud save 2 minutes on that journey, knock that hospital (or care home, social housing, vaccination centre etc.) down…
Pretty much everything to do
Pretty much everything to do with the police in general, and the Met. in particular (Carrick, Couzens, the recent case of an entire station full of bent coppers, exposed by the Beeb/ Panorama) is rubbish – and that’s before we even get to special dismissive attitude concerning offences against cyclists. I despise the bastards!I really like my Tucson
I really like my Tucson
How appropriate, as Arizona is the test site for the SkyNet-bots featured in the other topic. Big cars, bots carrying tiny packages that should be carried by the recipients themselves, by bike
It’s not my photo! I stole it
It’s not my photo! I stole it from the internet. I haven’t been to Glacier, but I did do the High Sierra Route from Yosemite to King’s Canyon – illegally of course. It’s impossible, or was, to get these backcountry permits without an aeon of notice. I had to pirate Grand Canyon, Mt Rainier (failed) and Mt St Helens as wellBearhat Mountain looks scenic
Bearhat Mountain looks scenic from the Overlook, but an arduous steep pile of stones for climbing! Didn’t get up to Montana except travelling through, but went to Yosemite, Arches, Yellowstone, Tetons etc
Great stuff!
Great stuff!
You’re always coming up with
You’re always coming up with interesting details!!The problem with pandering to
The problem with pandering to the stupid ‘requirement’ that you have to notify people is that it’s just a dodge by Lancashire Constabulary and other likeminded forces and they have simply made it up- there is no such legal requirement. it also opens up ‘but I didn’t see it, so the camera footage is inadmissible’ defence
they now require cyclists to
they now require cyclists to declare if they were wearing a helmet
Is there no end to these really stupid and blatantly anti -cyclist ‘rules’ made up by the really stupid and blatantly anti-cyclist police? Is it like Lancashire where the report won’t be accepted unless you lie and agree to their ‘rule’- the particular ‘rule’ here is that you have to assert that you were carrying a notice on your ‘mode of transport’ (bike or legs, or motorised vehicle) that you were filming! I have never seen one of those notices in Lancashire, except on police vehicles. I have to put in my text that I carry no such notice.The screeching tyres tell me
The screeching tyres tell me that, under the hard deceleration, the concept of A speed is not applicable – he’s doing a lot more than 44mph before he crosses that junctionI have sent the following to
I have sent the following to the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commisioner and fully expect to be at best fobbed off and in all likelihood ignoredI’ve had a number of phone calls and emails with the police now and they have finally agreed to investigate
Unfortunately, you were right the first time. This is standard police practice for fobbing – off annoying punters who show signs of not being mollified by the initial stages of ‘bin it!’. There’s a 98% probability that they have already decided that they ‘can’t do anything’ before the sniggering coppers have even begun making up the so-called investigation. The only thing in doubt is the collection of excuses they will use to justify that decision. It appears there’s no video, and the driver has had plenty of time to have no recollection of the incident, or to make up something that makes it your fault. You have already experienced a variety of police dodges so far, so don’t expect anything different in the future.I can’t wait for the
I can’t wait for the ‘outraged motorists call for War on [other] Motorists to be escalated’ stories. I was in a 45 minutes late standing room only 555 Keswick Lancaster bus on Monday
