Action taken to foil these bad cars? 'The injunction prohibits two or more vehicles gathering in the combined local authority area "known generally as the Black Country" between 15:00 and 07:00 GMT.' 'Car-cruising' ban
(People also affected:"People taking part, organising or promoting them will now be arrested under a three-year injunction.")
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Posted 9 years ago #
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"A car mounted the pavement and hit a boy on a push-along scooter in a hit-and-run in Davidson’s Mains."
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/car-hits-boy-on-pavement-in-hit-and-run-1-3622255
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Poor lorry just misses home
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'Pedestrian killed walking along East Lothian road' seems rife with inexplicable vehicle behaviour.
"The 47-year-old was knocked down by a Ford Focus on the A198 at Dirleton near North Berwick at 00:10 and pronounced dead at the scene.
Meanwhile, a man was knocked down by a white Vauxhall Astra van on the A199 at Old Post Road in Tranent at 16:30 on Sunday."
And further to that --- the even more curious case of a man being inexplicably "trapped under a lorry". It would be laughable if these weren't real peoples lives we're talking about here.
Three separate incidents in one article, with one death, one hospitalisation and probably one guy seriously injured. No driver mentioned in any of these cases.
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The Ferry Rd "trapped" (now a fratality) turns out to have been after a
completely different scenario(not traffic related).Posted 9 years ago # -
I read through the article several times and have no idea what happened. A naive reader could believe that any pedestrian can spontaneously be transposed beneath the wheels of an HGV without passing through intervening space.
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See also the two taxi related deaths gogarburn and Dalkeith. Weekend of casual loss of lives
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Today's headlines (before Ferry Rd. incident)
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Elderly man hurt after car flips over
How do you manage to flip a car in the 20mph Blackford Road which has no corners on it?
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To be fair, the suface on Blackford road is terrible.
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Car crashes into barrier on M8.
Bad car.
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Police look for man who suffered possible head injury after being struck by a van (East Lothian Courier)
See these vans...
Posted 9 years ago # -
6 cars having a party, but no drivers invited
From Scotland live on the BBC
Car skids off road and into house
Posted at 10:38
A car has skidded off the road and into the side of a house after a six-car crash in Dundee.
It is thought one person was hurt in the crash on the corner of Constitution Road and Dudhope Street.Posted 9 years ago # -
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17/01/2015 1:10 PM GST
ARISTOTLE_2
Tried driving at 20mph yesterday, found it impossible to keep to that limit for more than a few seconds as car seems to naturally want to go quicker even with foot off the accelerator. Also mpg indicator showed 25mpg rather than 55mpg at 30mph. Can get into top gear at 30 but unhappy above 3rd at 20. Can't see new limit reducing pollution but only increasing it through extra fuel use and longer journey times. Seems idea is down to political ideology and nothing else.
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"Emergency services are in attendance and Craigs Road and Maybury Drive had been closed."
If the national news can get it correct why does the chpwrapper not know the difference between Maybury Drive and Road?
I hope the woman is OK.
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This one is genuine -
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The black Seat car is understood to have crashed through railings after skidding on ice while the driver looked for a parking space.
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That makes it sound like the driver was outside the vehicle
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That is a spectacular effort. In Saxe-Coburg Place as well - what sort of speed would you need to be doing (around a small Georgian square, no less) to be able to slide off the road, over the pavement and through the railings like that?
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Red brake calipers.
I rest my case.
Robert
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BBC provide a similar view of the same incident. No mention of a driver. Instead they say no one was hurt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-31040438
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Some stunning bad driving. EEN report
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Seems to be common for the EEN
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/video/news/near-miss-lorry-overtakes-dangerously-3971516701001
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/video/news/lorry-almost-wipes-out-row-of-traffic-3971702172001
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Not really for this thread. But of course it had to be a Rover.
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/video/news/cat-rescued-from-car-engine-4019683624001
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BBC News Scotland: Snow has caused dangerous driving conditions across Scotland and forced the closure of more than 100 schools. http://bbc.in/15RXUtx
Dangerous driving conditions? OR dangerous drivers?
Some right terrific smashes.
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@Dangerous, The remarkable thing about the fire engine article is that the subheading admits:
"Driver mounts pavement to avoid fire engine"
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BBC again. Presumably the man was the driver ?
He could have been a passenger, odd that there is no mention of driver at all.
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Indeed. P&J confirms he was the driver. Certain press outlets do seem to have a real problem with labeling the responsible human as 'the driver'.
Perhaps a legalistic press technique to avoid any suggestion that the press implied 'blame' against the humans?
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"Driver crashes into petrol station shop"
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