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stickyTypical entitled motorist here:
Plymouth Half Marathon: Car driven into path of runners
The actions of a woman who drove on to the route of the Plymouth Half Marathon have been described as "disgusting". An eyewitness captured footage of the car pulling out of Hawkers Avenue in front of the runners on Sunday.
@crowriver crikey, reading the article gives no indication of what the video actually conveys! Good on the person who tried but failed to stop the driver who I hope is jailed.
Granton Square. The spidey senses were on, I just knew this guy was going to join the roundabout and drive right at me. I was so utterly stunned I didn't say a single word (not like me at all, I have to say). I stared at him through his window, he didn't ever flinch. O_o
I'd go to the police, but they're useless at dealing with this kind of nonsense, and they'd just blame me.
@Kenny - that car is untaxed and its MOT expired a month ago so the police might actually care.
How on earth do you know that?
Either way - hmm. Interesting. What's the best way of reporting it? 101?
You can check on the DVLA's website: https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/
Yes, phone 101, tell them you want to report careless driving and have video evidence. Pretty sure you're right about them not doing anything about the manoeuvre itself, though.
Bus driver pleads guilty to manslaughter of pedestrian
Will be interested to see the specifics as to what motivated the charge.
@jdanielp She can do what she likes, don't you know, as she has a blue badge.
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not reporting being punched on the head. Was this on the C road parallel to the main road? I will watch out for angry farmer when out that way.
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I'd consider reporting that yourself anyway. Even a phone call to check if it has already been reported might be worthwhile.
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Yes, I'd call 101 for everyone's sake. Especially if you have the plate.
Good call There are some absolute maniacs on quad bikes. No need to give plod the cyclist's number or anything - (s)he can be left out of it.
Gilmerton Road, approaching this pedestrian crossing, a startlingly blonde lady smoking a cigarette chose to overtake by going on the other side of the road through the zigzags and the keep left bollard.
Clearly saw nothing wrong in that and I passed her in a queue of traffic thirty seconds later.
Just as well there's not an entrance to a building used by lots of young children anywhere near there, isn't it? Could have been extremely dangerous otherwise...
@Frenchy
Oblivious don't cover it.
A bloke reversed out of a parking space on Baird Drive this morning rather quickly. Only instinct stopped me from being wiped out.
He did shout "sorry!", but then when I replied "sorry?" he replied he would only apologise once as I was some kind of King Imbecile.
Perpendicular parking should be reverse only by law.
Also Gilmerton Road - yesterday at the temp lights just past Gilmerton Station Road a noisy close pass from lady in Focus with go faster stripes, only to get caught again at the lights outside Lidl/Supperbowl.
Just her bad luck as it took me ages to clip back in (oops... ;-)) and get going when the lights turned green. Next pass was with plenty space but lots of noisy revving of engine and waving of hands.
Clear punishment pass from a moron in a bulky white motor car after I occupied the tiny sliver of advanced stop box in front of their encroaching bonnet at the Constitution/Bernard/Baltic junction, heading north. I was unable to keep track of them to look pointedly into their rear-view mirror the next time we met as I had to post a letter at the post box outside the post office.
Stupid is as stupid does...
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/woman-who-drove-onto-half-1594204
Hmm... This make me wonder if private vehicles should have external emergency stop buttons? Public transport vehicles do. There would be a risk of abuse, but there are clearly occasions when such functionality would be beneficial.
@jdanielp - you reminded me of this:
@Frenchy that was pretty much the first thing that I found when I was Googling just now... Would motorists drive more carefully if that was a potential risk or would they drive more erratically than ever to prevent anyone stopping them?
The Plymouth Herald paints the motorist as the victim - quelle surprise
Emergency ‘engine’ stops for private motors are done by opening the rear passenger-side door. Driver must get out & walk around to close it, assuming they are alone & they care about their door / paintwork
Another fine upstanding member of the community acting completely out of character when driving a car.
Although this is considerably higher profile they are not alone. There was at least 2 drivers flouting the closure on the Bealach na Ba the weekend before last when it was closed for the Bealach Beag.
Sadly it seems that a certain percentage of driving licences were posted out with a permit for blind arrogance in the same envelope.
rather than an 'engine stop' button it'd be interesting to fit buses with 'hang on a minute, that driving back there wasn't exactly great buttons' that cyclists could press to flag up CCTV for a discussion back at base.
Got hooted at for not following the red stripe of death across Princes Street from the Mound.
Caught the guy up fifty metres later and requested an audience, but he was the kind of gammon that is meatier in the pack than on the plate and wouldn't even wind his window down so I digitally indicated his likely penis size to his female companion and left it at that. This is what it has come to.
Driving continuously for 9hrs 36 mins on public roads at an average speed of 90mph, filming the whole thing and posting it online. What larks.
""We needed a car that was fully equipped to handle this sort of thing, so we made a number of modifications to it.
"It's a worthy adversary to a police car, with upgraded brakes taking it to 400 brake horsepower, counter measures to avoid speed traps and a detector to pick up police radio signals so we know if there are any police with in a kilometer of us.
It’s a bit of strata mentality seeing the public road as somewhere to try and beat other people’s records, if focusing on a record may take extra risks, like strata record attempts this type of behaviour should not be encouraged on public road
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