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IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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stickyGot beeped at for no particular reason by the beepy people this morning
Also, 26 tonne lorry driving down our residential street with the driver firmly with his head down in something (wonder what?) for as far as I could see him. Just after the school had gone in
I got screeched at by something that I think was a female human leaning out the passenger window as they overtook me yesterday. It was hard to tell exactly what it was, by the sounds emanating from the car it might have been a chimpanzee in the midst of being strangled.
Also jag man who felt the need to toot at me as he approached from behind despite me holding a straight line and clear road ahead.
Not quite sure how you manage this in a 20mph street... well, except by not driving at 20mph!
A horrific crash in Edinburgh's West Maitland Street this evening.The road is closed as police investigate.
It's not known if anyone is injured.
https://x.com/radioforthnews/status/1705276780494381322?s=46
Alternative view!
https://twitter.com/lachiekeay/status/1705289958662017494
Hope the full story emerges - and it goes beyond ‘driver can’t remember…’.
Could have been a tragedy:
So while leaving Edinburgh (fantastic place) on the tram last night I witnessed a crash that caused hit a car to hit a pram shoving it into a man knocking him down, he just wrapped himself around it taking the force.So glad there's no bad news this morning
UPDATE
My bold
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A man and baby have been taken to hospital after a car crashed and flipped onto its side in Edinburgh.
Police said the man was walking with a pram when the crash happened on West Maitland Street near the junction with Coates Place at about 17:00 on Friday
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The 35-year-old was taken to the Royal Infirmary while the baby was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People to be checked over.
The BBC understands they were not seriously injured.
The driver of the car was taken to hospital as a precaution.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66900521
Still no ‘answers’.
Of course CEC rule 3aaa is ‘don’t speculate’.
I’m sure I’m not alone in noticing that there seems to an increase in flipping cars.
Obviously some will be (partly) due to absurd speed.
But seems ‘low speed collision’ is (said to be) a reason.
Shape of cars when they interact? Suspension?
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CCTV caught the moment a 12-year-old boy was hit by a car in Coventry and knocked to the floor in the middle of the road - and narrowly missed by a second vehicle. His dad has now spoken out about the footage as he said his child had been left traumatised by the incident.
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/boy-12-traumatised-ends-up-27775268
There are videos out there on the internet of cars flipping at very low speed. Something to do with the wheel of one catching a part of the other in just the right/wrong way.
Worth remembering that kinetic energy varies with mass and the square of velocity. So a 1.6 tonne car doing 25mph will actually have 2.5x the energy of a one tonne car doing 20mph. Quite shocking when phrased in those terms really.
As if on trend but I was awoken by a very loud bang just before 6am this morning. Looks like another flipping car on the junction at the Rennie Bridge in Musselburgh. Car on its roof, no news on the inhabitants other than social media reports of the driver fleeing the scene. Bit scary when you ride/drive/walk on that road almost daily
It’s made it onto the local newspaper https://trib.al/wH9mydY
They’ve used a later photo of the car after it’s been put the right way up rather than the one of it on its roof that was posted on the Musselburgh FB group
mcairney there's now two photos in that article including one of the upside down car.
That looks like a child's buggy that's been thrown out of what's left of the boot of that car
Hmmm, I felt there was a traffic light missing from the crossing tonight.
Car crashes into verge while undertaking bin lorry
Love the way the bin man just stands there watching, hands on hips, while he waits for the lift at the back of the lorry to finish emptying the bin and give it back to him.
I'm pretty sure I'm right in identifying the "car" as being a second generation Range Rover Evoque, possibly one of the most pointless SUVs ever conceived IMO - not quite tank-like enough for the school run, the faux 'sporty' profile unlikely to appeal to anyone other than overpaid hairdressers. Nonetheless, it must have appealed to enough people for them to have gone to the bother of designing the second generation version, if only to avoid losing customers whose first generation cars have come to the end of their PCP...
@keithirving1
At Driver Behaviour and Enforcement event this morning. After years of good progress reducing road fatalities, the figures are now going in the wrong direction. Everything from cycling infrastructure to the dashcam portal to work-related road risk needs more action.
https://twitter.com/keithirving1/status/1706632808616075574
quoting Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance :
Today we're at the COSLA Conference Centre in Edinburgh for our Driver Behaviour and Enforcement Event!If you've joined us today, let us know your favourite part of the day
Become a ScORSA member for FREE to learn about our events in advance
B7076 service road in D&G (or maybe S Lanarkshire) on Tuesday:
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People are holding coordinated protests across UK towns and cities this weekend against what they call a “climate of fear” on the roads, and an “epidemic” of careless and dangerous driving that is curbing children’s freedoms and putting lives at risk.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/29/uk-protests-planned-amid-epidemic-of-dangerous-driving
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/alarming-video-show-elderly-edinburgh-27822178
“The video, which was taken on Friday September 29 at 8.57am, shows three motorists ignoring a red light just as an elderly pedestrian attempts to cross the road in Leith.”
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“And another said: "Did it myself the other day too much going on looking for pedestrians traffic and bikes I was through before I realised." “
FFS
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Highland bridge to remain closed for two months after being damaged
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Herald
On Nicolson St and Alfa Romeo man decides to force by my Urban Arrow with a centimetre of clearance. I have lights and not cycling in gutter.
Alfa man then realised that car ahead is reversing into parking space and gets stuck. Ha, ha.
I'm then able to cycle alongside and shout advice in his window and continue to mosque cut through.
Was following me but he decided to not go through bus lane. Bye!
Urban Arrow without shop logo on side of course!
Almost left-hooked by someone trying to turn left from Princes Street into South St Andrew Street. They then headed south down North Bridge, so can only assume they were thoroughly lost.
The pedestrian standing on the kerb and waving their umbrella into the bike lane wasn't helpful, either.
Driver who swerved across three lanes of M25 on spare tyre disqualified
Jack Doolan, 22, failed to stop after undertaking one car and then crashing into another and the motorway’s central barrierAt the time, Doolan was travelling at 75mph despite the car being fitted with a space saver tyre, a type of smaller, thinner spare tyre which has a recommended maximum speed of 50mph.
Hit this morning on Fishwives Causeway at the junction with Telferton by a driver who didn't slow down as he drove into Scottish Power.
Fortunately slow enough that I stayed upright and there doesn't appear at first glance there's any damage to the bike - though I need to properly check the wheels and frame haven't taken a knock.
What's my options for reporting it? My partner has had close calls at the junction too and it gave me a right scare.
All the options for contacting Police Scotland here:
https://www.scotland.police.uk/contact-us/
Easiest thing to do is probably call 101.
Lady in the Nissan Micra who close passed me on Drum Street, whilst on the phone, can count herself very lucky that the batteries on both my cameras had apparently died.
Whilst walking along Gilmerton Station Road, I noticed a car and a van facing each other about 2m apart, both stationary. The car was facing west, on the correct side of the road, and the van was fully on the wrong side of the road.
Then the van driver drove carefully onto the correct side of the road, and stopped next to the car. They appeared to have a short conversation, then shook hands through their windows, and they both set off again.
Very odd, I thought. I wonder what set of circumstances led to that. Then I noticed that the van driver was texting.
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