Our ancient city centre once again like a war zone thanks to the weight of motor traffic. Apparently a roof getting cut off a car! What are folk doing in their cars?! The mind boggles.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » General Edinburgh
More car violence - North Bridge
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Rode past this an hour ago, didn't look that bad that a roof would need cut off?
Two cars facing the Royal Mile in the citybound lanes, tho. Couldn't suss how they made it over there - quite an effort.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Wonder if they were sticking to the 20mph limit?
Posted 6 years ago # -
That explains the Majestic tour bus that was too long for the turn out of Chambers Street on George IV Bridge then. Everything stuck, stuck, stuck.
Posted 6 years ago # -
And somehow EEN managed to leave the comments switched off because it was "a car" (no drivers though)
Also "accident"
Posted 6 years ago # -
"A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Police in Edinburgh were called to North Bridge around 1.30pm on Wednesday 8 November following a collision involving a black Vauxhall Insignia and a private hire car. The road was closed northbound until shortly before 4pm while emergency services attended the scene. The 21-year-old male driver of the Insignia was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with minor injuries. The 52-year-old male driver of the private hire car was charged with careless driving and has been issued with a fixed penalty notice.”"
Polis can work and charge quickly when they want, it seems. Surely all that was required was "re-education" a la Op Close Pass? That always works, no?
Posted 6 years ago # -
New Kickstarter idea: something like one of those automatically-inflating neckscarf-helmets, but which inflates into a realistic-looking car shape.
Posted 6 years ago # -
The 52-year-old male driver of the private hire car was charged with careless driving and has been issued with a fixed penalty notice.
...and will get back in his car and continue driving "professionally"...
Posted 6 years ago # -
“...and will get back in his car and continue driving "professionally"...”
Might be the one with no roof.
Posted 6 years ago # -
You can charge extra for the smells-of-the-city experience.
Posted 6 years ago # -
2-3 weeks ago a head on collision between two cars happened a few hundred yards ahead of me, out near nine mile burn.
Stopped, helped a bit. Got caught up in the middle of the emergency services cordon for a couple of hours.
The woman from the car in front of me was walking wounded. I let her shelter in my car.
Fire crew was first to arrive. Their first aider asked if she could stand up unaided. Instead of answering, she just did it. The firefighter then physically stopped her sitting back in my car, instead he sat her on the kerbside.
His colleague explained that if she'd sat in my car again, then her neck or back started to stiffen even the adrenaline wore off, I was losing the roof of my car to allow a brace to be applied easily.
Be warned. Your car doesn't even need to be involved in the accident for the cutter to come out!
Posted 6 years ago # -
Top work ECT
It may be an urban myth, but I seem recall reading that a good Samaritan in a similar situation to you had difficulty getting their insurance to pay out when their car was cut open as it wasn't involved in the original collision.
Posted 6 years ago #
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