http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Has anyone ever wondered...? en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:14:14 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-11021 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:54:08 +0000 splitshift 11021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>crash reports, I believe its to do with police investigations, vehicle weights. Asa a propheshunull driver I see LOTS of scary stuff out there. Traffic reports on radio dont give any meaning to what really happens. Bad weather, lorry jacknifes. You get in it as it gets sideways ! 2 car collision on the M8. what they dont tell you is one car is embedded in the armco and the other is upside down. emergency services take 7 minutes to reach the site. But for 7 mins people stare, and phone home and complain about the journey. A brocken down car on the city bypass, no one knows about the recent mother with a new born, in the rain without a jacket, in tears cause its her in laws merc !Enough about motorists, I know as well cyclist v vehicle, limbs go ping ! But who cares cause WE ALL WANT HOME !<br /> take it easy, be safe and let em go ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-11007 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:43:37 +0000 LaidBack 11007@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You're right - it's all fake... just Halfords stuff put together in wrong order with a fancy name ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-11004 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:20:55 +0000 steveo 11004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Your a fine one to talk laidback, with your modified bicycle trying to look like its low to the ground with a fancy body kit and the dodgy fake legs coming out the front we all <em>know</em> its a kids Apollo your sitting on. :D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-11003 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:12:57 +0000 LaidBack 11003@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes - I do get entertained by the stuff people stick onto their cars.</p> <p>Speed bumps usually involve a grating sensation too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-11000 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:03:30 +0000 kaputnik 11000@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Laidback - I had a titter at a "modified" Focus this morning at the lights, they had tried to make it look lowered by putting on ground-hugging bodykit all round, however the exhaust was behind the bodykit and had simply melted a big, black gaping hole in the back with strands of fibreglass dragging along the road. There's nae hidin' class! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-10988 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:33:50 +0000 LaidBack 10988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>Cyclingmollie</strong><em>'It's a dismal thing to do - to judge people by the car they drive - but I know I do it.' </em></p> <p>Sure all of us do it to a degree. I expect certain types of behaviour from cars with 'modifications' for example.</p> <p>The crash reports are strange because it's almost a kind of 'product placement' of the kind used in Dan Brown novels. </p> <p><strong>kaputnik</strong> <em>I read a bit in the news recently about a motorcycle tragedy on the A9.</em><br /> The press reported it was 125cc and the rider killed was very new to biking - it sounded awful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-10970 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:25:50 +0000 kaputnik 10970@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been guilty of the type of pre-conception that is mentioned above. I read a bit in the news recently about a motorcycle tragedy on the A9. Now first thing that jumps into my mind was "yet another accident caused by someone riding a bike that was too big and too powerful for them". However on this occasion they happened to mention the make of bike that had to satisfy my curiosity I looked up the type of bike it was to see it was a little 250cc Honda thing that looked like the motorised equivalent of your step-through framed ladies town bike with wicker basket and dynamo headlamp. To my prejudiced mind, the word "motorbike" equates to 1000ccs of technicolour leather-clad superbike breaking the sound barrier as it blasts it's way down the A82 through Glen Orchy and ruins the tranquility of my Munro-bagging expedition... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-10963 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:52:55 +0000 Cyclingmollie 10963@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Laidback, I think you are right. It's a dismal thing to do - to judge people by the car they drive - but I know I do it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-10960 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:48:40 +0000 chdot 10960@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"eg Honda drivers are older and think they are safe"</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1193" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1193</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-10959 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:38:29 +0000 LaidBack 10959@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I partly agree Smudge - </p> <p><em>My take on it...</em><br /> Like people's addresses and occupations the car model is shorthand for what kind of person they possibly are. (eg Honda drivers are older and think they are safe. Ford drivers like value for money. BMW drivers think they are in armoured cars etc)</p> <p>As cars occupy such a large part of our environment it also allows people to identify with them. For many people their car is their second home and I'm sure that newsreaders and journalists hardly notice the 'commercial' aspect of accidents.</p> <p>The roads are tribal and your car shows what tribe you belong (or aspire) to.</p> <p><em>But I could be wrong?</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-10884 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:06:25 +0000 Smudge 10884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Same reason they say "Mrs Xxxx, 34", but never "Mr Xxxx, 34", lazy habit... and it fills the column inches I suppose! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1182#post-10880 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:55:43 +0000 LaidBack 10880@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Why crash reports always mention the model of car (or private vehicle)? </p> <p>I'm not saying they shouldn't but just wondered if it was a journalistic thing? </p> <p>Sure there is an obvious reason... isn't there? </p>