The 72 year old driver of the below car decided to take a picture of #SPCasualtyReduction officers conducting speed enforcement outside of an infant school in Bramley on his phone while driving. Upon being spotted, he sped off and tried to hide down a side road...CRO caught up with him where he stated he stopped to take a picture "as it would be funny". What wasn't funny, however, was the other CRO recorded his speed and found he had no insurance. Vehicle was seized & driver summonsed for all 3 offences.
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11341 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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to finish off the bingo card, is there evidence he rants online about cyclists running reds and police not going after real criminals?
(also, thanks for quoting the post, as we can no longer see twitter without an account.)
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I watched in disbelief as drivers ran red lights in front of cops near where cyclist was killed
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/watched-disbelief-drivers-ran-red-27472115
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American media reports that 21-year-old Daniel Rivera has been charged with three counts of murder. His bail has been set at £600,000.
He was allegedly driving the vehicle drunk, with his blood alcohol level reportedly much higher than the legal limit.
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https://news.stv.tv/north/aberdeen-dad-among-three-dead-after-suv-crashes-into-golf-buggy-in-texas
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This incident has been quite prominent on the MSM over the weekend and since. The thing is, I know that road, and I struggle to understand how anyone proceeding in the direction reported could roll their car onto the campsite. It's the A847/Wood Hill on Google Maps; according to bikehike.co.uk the last part of the descent is about 1 in 10, so steep, but not horribly so. There appears to be a very minor leftward kink at the junction with the minor road heading off NE, at the SE corner of the campsite, otherwise the bends are all to the right, which one might expect to cause an out of control vehicle to end up on the opposite side of the road to the campsite.
Barring another vehicle being involved, I think they must have been going ridiculously fast and/or made some seriously bad control errors to end up where they did. If they were actually going along the flat, straight bit alongside the beach then it's even more difficult to imagine what might have gone wrong.
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I've long held this fear in campsites - that someone is going to mistake accelerator and brake and drive over your tent, while you're in it. Particularly the ones where cars are allowed alongside tents
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@ejstubbs - this BBC Wales news article shows the location pretty clearly (scroll down to second video). The car left the road on a relatively level section, just after the speed limit reduced from 60mph to 30mph.
Genuinely hard to see how a car could flip into the campsite - I can only think the driver massively oversteered out of the corner, effectively turning 90 degrees, rolling the car onto the "opposite" side of the road. Must have been going at some speed to do so as the car would need to flip several times to land where it did.
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Well if they - as most drivers seem to - were speeding on the 60 stretch and never bothered to slow down/were too deeply nuzzled into the warm embrace of their phone screen to notice the signs, that'd probably do it.
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Driver facing fight for life after BMW left with three wheels and multiple roads closed
A driver has been left with 'potentially life-threatening injuries' following the single-car collision which closed the busy Great Charles Street Queensway overnight
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/driver-facing-fight-life-after-27515483
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Stranded Land Rover Defender rescued after getting stuck on Brean dunes footpath
A vehicle was rescued after getting stranded when its owner attempted to drive it along a footpath through the dunes onto Brean beach on Saturday (August 19th).
Beach wardens found the new 2023-plate Land Rover Defender had become stuck at the bottom of a path leading from the Seagull Inn onto the beach, as pictured here on Saturday morning.
An eyewitness told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “The vehicle had been driven down the path near the foot of the dunes and had then become stuck on top of a wooden groyne with its wheels spinning.”
“The rather embarrased driver had to call a commercial recovery service onto the beach to pull the vehicle free. A crowd of beach visitors watched it all unfold.”
A beach warden said vehicles should be kept to the road and beach parking areas – and never driven along footpaths.
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Video (Edinburgh)
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Some pretty bad driving from a works van AF19 ELX that was reeking of the Devil's Cabbage cycling home through Craigmillar last night.
Strike 1 was a very laborious left turn with no indicators at the Peffermill Crossroads just outside the police station. Fortunately I was also turning left and had held back behind them as I wasn't sure where they were going either.
Strike 2 was slowing right down, almost to a stop, waiting for me to pass and then speeding past me at close quarters at around 40-50mph.
Finally Strike 3 was not long after strike 2 doing a simultaneous signal + manoeuvre into an estate on the left. Given the previous 2 strikes I'm fairly convinced this was a deliberate left hook rather than just your common garden inattention endemic of Edinburgh drivers.
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Glad you survived unscathed. Worrying how many white vans reek of rank hydroponics
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Anecdotal but I have noticed a lot of white vans being stopped by the police recently. Cameron Toll and the bridges seem to be favourite places (survey bias as these are my routes).
Perhaps a crackdown of some sort is happening? Presumably not for herb or nitrous balloons bit should they find such things during a stop the police will presumably prosecut.
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Mini meltdown on Mound!
- • Young female cyclist cornering at speed on Mound outwith painted cycle lane
• BMW Mini driver (young male) objects by sounding his horn (yes really!)
• Red light ahead so all this is pointless for mini man
• Woman goes into cycle lane at junction to cross Princes St and is rewarded with green bike advance light
• Mini follows and more horn sounding ensues...And we wonder why more women don't cycle :-(
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I’ve been multi-beeped by an angry-white-van-oaf when descending the Mound like that
Can’t help thinking drivers have been emboldened by the current UK government - time to get rid of them
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Has there been a memo to drivers that I missed?
I had two separate beeping incidents about a week ago, both occasions for not cycling far enough to the left for the driver's liking (both times I was overtaking parked cars, with oncoming traffic). Then a few days ago my wife was beeped at for not using a cycle lane, despite indicating to turn right at the time.
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I’m definitely taking the remaining running lane for 100% of George IV bridge now. Bus lane’s always blocked anyway
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Knee down, Racing line is the way to do it!
This just reminded me that I got a toot off a Highway maintenance van for the outrageous act of swearing when it shaved my leg hairs off passing me while exiting Tranent. The fact it was slightly downhill, still a 20 zone and I was sitting at a fair bit above that myself is neither here nor therePosted 1 year ago # -
"Can’t help thinking drivers have been emboldened by the current UK government - time to get rid of them"
It doesn't matter whether you mean the drivers or the government.
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Twatwaffle at GIV Bridge/Royal Mile intersection, on a red light, rolling not just into the ASL (as is their wont), but right through it and indeed over the first row of ped crossing studs, all while someone was crossing! Didn't stop till I gave his fender a dunt. Very apologetic then. Probably on dope, crack or smack, or all three.
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My favourite last week was the taxi in Newington deciding that the advance light for cycles applied to them too. caught up with them at the Tesco light. Pointless.
I was beeped at for not using the 'cycle lane' near the Causewayside Sainsbury's. I never use it, because I don't have one of those bmx bikes with all the shock absorbers. And yup, we had a red light ahead of us...
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A 20mph road.
A road I often cycle on…
(Is anywhere ’safe’??)
More to the point, are any cars/drivers safe!
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And he described how the Nissan had overturned and hit the bus stop. "The car flipped up, flew across the road, and then landed on its roof, wiping out the bus stop.
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Bad car! Rolled over! Woof.
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