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stickyI checked:
First letter: W
Second letter: F P;
Numbers: 17
Third letter: X Z V;
Fourth letter: P D R F H K L N M;
Last letter: R P F K;
The following are potential matches:
WF17XPR A Class (black)
WF17XPP CLA Class Coupe(blue)
WF17XPK A Class (grey)
WF17XRP A Class (black)
WF17XRK A Class (grey)
WF17VFR GLA Class (black)
WF17VFK GLC Class (grey)
WP17XKK A Class (black)
WP17XLF GLC Class (brown)
wow thanks @Frenchy and @acsimpson - this is immensely helpful - it's def not an A Class and it was a sort of sporty 2 door number - I think that can only be the CLA Class coupe
Excellent CCE skilz.
I checked B and R as the second letter and none were Mercs.
I had character 5 as a nailed-on 'N'. State of me.
The grill should be easily identifiable to anyone who know's their mercs. There appears to be quite a variety of single and double horizaontal bars out there.
Backing up to the rule 160 discussion. I interpret the keep left instruction to only really be relevant if there is more than one lane available on the road, eg don't sit in the middle/outside lane of a motorway.
The best suggestion from operation close pass seems to be don't overtake a bike if you can't cross into the next lane. Although I can't find this in writing just now.
I think that can only be the CLA Class coupe
Struggling to see how the second letter can be an F, on a second look.
Upping the contrast wasn't particularly revealing, but I'd still guess P for the second letter:
I'm now thinking it's actually WP17XLE - black 2 door convertible AMG C Class - think that's quite close to what I remember it being - grill fits potentially too from an image search
Huh, surprised I didn't check E as the last letter.
Definitely seems to fit, though.
thanks loads though for doing the legwork to narrow it down - I was scuppered by my belief the X was a Z.
@algo, That was the last letter I resolved too.
The image definitely fits with an E in a way that F doesn't.
https://cazana.com/uk/car/WP17XLE has photos (you need to sign up for an account to see them all), and the grille matches too.
thanks loads - it's an absurdly powerful car for a Mum to lend her roughly 20 year old son...
Did the driver say that his Mum had lent him the car or just that it was his Mum's car? I wonder what Mum will say if/when she finds out.
It's an absurdly powerful car for anyone to own.
just that he didn't know the insurance details as it was his Mum's car..... of course he might be in more hot water than he bargained for.... I wonder if he was even insured to drive it...
nice one @Frenchy - will check that - definitely looks like the right car
Would have thought insurance on an AMG would be punitive for a young male driver even as an additional driver (though if they can afford an AMG in the first place...)
Clearly the driver didn’t fully exchange details, and there was injury/damage, so unless the driver informs the police within 24 hours, an offence is committed which can be useful for allowing the police to lever insurance details out of recalcitrant drivers. Though the first thing the police will ask for is a license plate. They may be interested in the apparent number plate cheating....
Hooray for comunal detective work!
My video of the driver trying to undertake from Wednesday morning. As suspected, the rear footage (From around 0:49) is pretty telling...
Taxi driver on Princes Street who couldn't even wait till the pedestrian crossing was clear of pedestrians before going through a red light.
Then the driver of a private car who I think belatedly realised they weren't supposed to be on Princes Street, so turned illegally turned left on to Hanover Street.
the driver of a private car who I think belatedly realised they weren't supposed to be on Princes Street
I see this so often: even though I don't go in to the centre of town very much at the moment, it seems that every other time I do there's someone in a private car where they shouldn't be on Princes Street. Can't help wondering why it doesn't have any bus lane cameras.
(Last one I spotted was a schemey-looking couple plus shaven-headed kid in a rather second-hand looking Mustang with an an unnecessarily noisy exhaust. Couldn't really have made their attitude any clearer if they'd had a tinted sunstrip across the top of the windscreen with "We don't give a <rule 2>" on it. P.S. Anyone remember tinted sunstrips? They seem to have gone the way of the dodo. No great loss if so.)
There was something in recent committee papers saying that they'd revised previous legal opinions which said that they'd need to put in a full bus gate or bus lane or something to say that actually it's fine as it is and a camera should be going in soon.
Makes you wonder how much of the legal advice about cycle stuff is similarly in need of "revision"
"I see this so often: even though I don't go in to the centre of town very much at the moment, it seems that every other time I do there's someone in a private car where they shouldn't be on Princes Street. Can't help wondering why it doesn't have any bus lane cameras."
This was us, shortly after moving to E'burgh. We'd come out of the Omni car park and were heading for Inverleith--not realising we couldn't go north on Leith St from the Omni.
Google told us to U-turn on Princes St--um, no? We thought we could take a right turn towards George, but also a negative--we ended up in the bus lane.
Spent weeks waiting for a ticket to arrive. (Karma--partner got a parking ticket a while later, when he had in fact paid for parking.)
In retrospect, we should have just crossed North Bridge and waited for the maps to recalibrate, but that's not the normal psychological pattern when humans are following a set route.
In fairness, I don't think it's particularly clear coming from the east. Could do with BUS TAXI CYCLE ONLY markings like there is at the Charlotte Square end.
Indeed, I witnessed this while cycling on Christmas Day. By the time a stranger to the city can see the signs it is a bit too late and they tend to panic - or keep going as they are already past the turning when they realise.
Yeah, I'm not sure why the left hand lane westbound on Princes Street after Waverley Bridge isn't a big obvious green bus lane like it is at the other end. Perhaps they'll need to do something like that when they introduce the cameras to avoid press bus gate rage.
Conversely, they should get rid of the No Entry signs at the mound junction. They're functionally useless for Mound traffic and impossible to legally observe for Princes Street traffic, meaning that the uninitiated end up turning (illegally) across the (green man) pedestrian crossing.
The driver ****involved**** in a crash on the A1 this morning has been arrested for drink-driving.
FML
Sheesh
With the rain and the schools going back I was close passed twice within 100 metres of leaving home today. Traffic then seemed to become very snarled so I cut down through Currie which was not brilliant with parked cars and oncoming traffic giving little mercy.
I then cut through Heriot Watt, all fine. THe canaltowpath was quite flooded (it slopes down North south towards the canaql water very slightly) so puddles are a little deeper on the south edge concomitantly the Heriot Watt/RBS commuters were a little in the middle of the path but this was way superior to having anything to do with roads this morning.
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