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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- Matthew Acton-Varian 2 sec ago
You don't have to be a cyclist to submit camera footage for Third Party reporting. Car dashcams catch stuff regularly too, so drivers should also...
- Dnnnnnn 16 min 11 sec ago
It surely isn't hard to collect a decent quantity of good data on before and after conditions around LTNs. I'd have thought that would lead to a...
- HoarseMann 35 min 31 sec ago
Couple are forced to sell new Land Rover at a £14,000 loss ONE MONTH after buying it after insurers cancelled their policy - and manufacturer won't...
- chrisonabike 40 min 11 sec ago
I once went to a cafe in Dundee for fruitcake but they were out of their eponymous product. Worse - on the way back we tried Abernethy but they...
- OldRidgeback 1 hour 20 min ago
Interesting, tho they only take narrow 20" slick tyres. I'd want to be able to use 1.75 Maxxis DTHs.
- Exup 3 hours 20 min ago
At least some justice is being done........
- BIRMINGHAMisaDUMP 3 hours 30 min ago
I imagine the Police treat bike theft as an insurance issue rather than a criminal issue. Can't blame them to be honest. The best thing is to use...
- David9694 3 hours 57 min ago
Police launch investigation into destruction of barber shop in Hythe High Street...
- Nick T 13 hours 19 min ago
They need to use some harder material for the cleat retention clip really, that's worn out long before any bearing has had a chance to fail on...
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My grandfather and great uncles lived in Putney during WWII when they were on leave from active service, they always used to recount how if it seemed likely an air raid was imminent they would get down to the Rose and Crown down the hill because if the siren blew the landlord would let everyone down into the cellars to shelter - some very memorable nights ensued, apparently!
Well, thanks for helping re-kindle this unpleasant memory, which one cut price student movie night at the Roxy I had the dubious fortune to sit through.
This tended to happen because the main feature we'd turned up to see was full and the 2nd screen (yes that's all there was in those days, and it was located in the city centre, not next to Curry's and a TGI Fridays). But then that's how I came to see The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer, so lose some, win some.
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewi... - Car Trouble
It's even better than you described! Check out the place names!
"One Anglian Water driver was forced to abandon their van in Wash Lane in Combs Ford"
Who knew places with historical names featuring water might get wet?
Used to live in Combs ford many years ago and it is aptly named you'd still find a big puddle on Wash lane in the middle of summer, it literally is just a lane that drives through the river, this was July last year.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/osXw6a1WH9k2bmN3A
Got to have been following sat nav and not paying attention to end up there
Perhaps there is an upside.
10 tipsy drivers driving from the pub
10 tipsy drivers driving from the pub
And if 10 tipsy get caught up in the flood
There'd be no tipsy drivers driving from the pub...
I expect the driver thought nobody would notice - after all, it's a black pipe, and it was dark at the time:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/manager-sacked-banned-haulage-job-28307901
This is a year old, but here's a Texas driver having some real problems transporting a bit of lumber. And understanding geometry.
Somehow these people manage to tie their own shoes and use credit cards.
Optional traffic lights
https://twitter.com/MerseyRoads/status/1736720593850962323
snap
BBC reporting again- self driving car nearly kills mum and child
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-67762440
"Being a police officer means ramming your car into a building and arresting the owner for getting mad at you"
Future vision - only venture out of your Marc Zuckerberg compound in your bullet proof cyber truck for essential journeys and arm yourself in case of any trouble.
Road-rage driver pulls out gun after jumping car park queue
Gun-wielding Kian Ward was attempting to jump the City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College car park queue
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/road-rage-drive...
Council forced to apologise over Exmouth car park crisis
The expansion of permit parking zones across Exmouth and East Devon District Council reintroducing £2 all-day parking again this winter is being blamed for huge pressure being put on car parks in the town
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/council-forced-apologise-over-...
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/2-day-parking-back-east-8871862
Combination of new resident parking schemes and the off season £2 daily charge for off-street. Oh no drivers, you've got your cheap parking, but you've used it all up. How much of the town will you now demolish to solve the problem?
Also Tavistock
Janna says if people need to queue for tickets, even if they are free for the first hour, and deal with complicated parking machines, they will just bypass the town and go to Morrisons.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/anger-devons-rebel-town-over-8...
also:
Dartmouth battles against new pay & display parking
There has already been more than 2,000 objections to the Devon County Council proposal
"Businesses are struggling at the present moment. As we all know, there's a cost of living crisis and for people to have to pay on-street for their parking is going to have a detrimental effect on our businesses, our cafes, our restaurants and our shops. It's going to make Dartmouth less welcoming to visitors.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/dartmouth-battles-against-new-...
So your whole business model relies on custom from drivers short-cutting back and forth through residential streets to visit your store? You'd be complaining if you were in an LTN and you're complaining for being outside of it.
Tool shop in Oxford to close 'because of Cowley LTNs'
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24002425.tool-shop-oxford-close-becaus...
Audi found submerged in water by Welney Flood Watch crew
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24002041.audi-found-submerged-water-welney-...
You passed your driving test but didn't realise that meant you were joining an eternal police line-up…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/20/police-to-be-able-to-...
When you didn't realise that London was a part of the North:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/disbelief-at-plan-to-fix...
bro just one more lane please bro, one more lane will fix it I swear bro
Anyone know the movie reference?
DPD delivery van impaled by Canterbury anti-terror bollards in St Peter’s Street
Statistics revealed by KentOnline in 2022 showed how 79 vehicles were sprung by the posts in the first 18 months of the scheme.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/another-one-dpd-van-impaled...
'There's no way I'd let mum go out on her own': Life on the roads home to Lancashire's worst drivers
Government data shows that there are 1,140 licence holders living in the postcode district who have six or more points on their licence
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/theres-no-way-id-mum-28326435
This must surely be a parody book ?!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ULEZ-Files-Motorists-Every-Could/dp/B0CQJ37Z68/...
"Max's passion for cars symbolises not just a personal crusade but a wider fight for civil liberties against the backdrop of environmental exploitation and political corruption. This novel is a testament to the courage of individuals standing up against a tide of deceit and tyranny, where the roar of engines and the clash of ideologies reverberate through the streets of London.!
keep scraping the barrel, drivers - desperate stuff here
Parking charges in West Malling ‘could put children in danger’
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/malling/news/new-parking-charges-could-put-...
Have we had this yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/23/jail-for-police-camera-o...
Four years is hardly sufficient. The Police should now explore whether they can find evidence against those these pair "helped" and if so, bring charges against them.... yes, I know, a funny from Ian. The Police actually taking traffic offenses seriously..... as if.
This is quite the family day out - a 45-50 mile round trip in two cars, an hour+ in Asda.
Taunton Asda shopper furious after vandal scrawls 'disgusting' insult on her car
"I’m really angry and upset and question why someone would want to do that?"
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/taunton-asda-shopper-f...
Staffordshire villagers 'ask drivers nicely' to stop speeding.
BBC News in Weston-under-Lizard, on the old A5 route east of Telford.
So laws are not enough, we have to stand at the side of the road and beg people to slow down a bit. I'd prefer a flashing sign that says 'Slow down or you get a brick through your windscreen'. Happy to do my bit and stand there holding the brick.
Not far away on the A518 in Telford, 2 speed cameras at Trench Lock Interchange in Telford have captured nearly 12,000 speeding shitheads during 2023.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/features/2023/12/26/shropshires-most...
Edited to add some more Shropshire Star news: No rest for emergency services on Christmas Day - a car flipped on the B5476 near Whitchurch at about 6pm. Earlier in the day paramedics and a fire crew were required after a single occupant vehicle left the A41 near Hinstock at around 4pm, crashing through a fence, narrowly missing a telegraph pole and coming to rest against a garage. The dickhead driver thankfully only had minor injuries.
From my Facebook feed.
Mid Kent Shopping Centre in Allington slammed for charging shop staff £50 a month for parking
strong "poor little me" vibe from drivers here and I'm not sure I understand where the Green is coming from here - seems to jump on the "it's so unfair" bandwagon
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/making-staff-pay-for-parking...
Council owed £120,000 by fine evading drivers
This story is interesting because of the table included - drivers always make out that they've been slapped with a fine and that The Terminator will come after them until it's paid.
The "council pockets" in the sub headline grinds my gears too. If you look at the amount of fines collected, the total "pocketed" is £370,160.
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/stoke-trent-red...
ASDA car park in the news again:
The incident involved a black Honda Jazz. One of the pedestrians, a woman from Cambridge, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital while the other, a man in his 70s, suffered minor injuries.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said: "The driver of the Honda Jazz, a man in his 80s, from Cambridge, stayed at the scene and is helping with officers with their inquiries.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/crash-cambridge-asd...
Potholes are annoying but to say I had no choice is a bit daft. Could have gone slower for one.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24015558.owner-abandon-car-hitting-pothole-c...
Frostenden drink driver, 73, had taken cat to be put down
Mrs Rushmere said she did not want to be considered for a drink driving rehabilitation course, as she had been considering giving up driving before this incident occurred.
“I don’t enjoy driving anymore. The roads are not for the elderly,” she said.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24015761.frostenden-drink-driver-73-taken-ca...
Poor little me - anything to distract from the drink-driving.
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