Or they have done substances that the drug wipe is unable to detect.
From personal observation, balloons and ketamine seem to be depressingly popular these days.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Debate!
Today's rubbish driving...
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Posted 3 months ago #
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I think the lorry driver at Kings Junction was on nitrous oxide and ket. This morning
He came hurtling though the lights from the Bruntsfield end and battered round the corner onto Gilmore Place using all of the ASB
Bizarrely I had stopped before going into it. I cannot say why. The driver to my left was also shocked.
Technically I should be dead.
Posted 3 months ago # -
Cycling spidey sense saved you
Posted 3 months ago # -
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Appeal following hit and run on Colinton Road, Edinburgh
Road Policing officers are appealing for information following a hit and run in Edinburgh on Saturday, 15 March, 2025.The incident involving a cyclist and a black BMW happened on Colinton Road at the junction with Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh, around 1.30pm on Saturday afternoon.
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Posted 1 month ago # -
Did my "long commute" back from Livingston to Musselburgh for the first time this year yesterday.
Not one but two close passes (close enough for me to bellow "OI! SPACE!").
One car parked in the Lanark Road cycle lane (should really have stopped and added a YPLA* sticker).
One car passing me while I was in the bus lane and then pulling in when it was no longer the bus lane forcing me to brake hard. Admittedly they wanted to turn left and we were all slowing for the traffic lights at the Lanark Road/Longstone Road junction, but I still Was Not Happy.Posted 1 month ago # -
This isn't meant to happen. Jackknifed lorry. Cab fully over the pavement. In the city centre (Hanover St). Here's hoping no one was walking there at the time
Posted 1 month ago # -
How have they managed that?
Posted 1 month ago # -
Probably too busy looking at his phone, followed by hard braking to avoid rear-ending someone.
I'm guessing the big yellow heavy thing in the background of the last picture was on the back at the time
Posted 1 month ago # -
Can’t park there mate
Posted 1 month ago # -
That bike locked to the post had a lucky escape.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Unfortunately, I think its front wheel was clipped; looks to be front wheel parallel with handlebars...
Posted 1 month ago # -
"George Street will be fine as a cycle street with access for loading and deliveries, safe as houses..."
Posted 1 month ago # -
It only took the Police 3 hours to get to the scene!
I’m surprised they bothered to turn up at all
Also lucky it jackknifed when it did, because it potentially could’ve travelled a very long way down Dundas St, picking up quite a bit of speed
Posted 1 month ago # -
Pedal looks gubbed. Driver seems oblivious of the damage he has done to the bike, though maybe it was like that before. Thankfully street empty as Monday. Felt Ike it was a school holiday somewhere yesterday. No traffic. Weans kicking around the town.
Posted 1 month ago # -
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The incident took place on Hanover Street in Edinburgh's New Town around 7.25am on Monday, March 31.
The 62-year-old driver has since been charged in connection with a road traffic offence.
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Posted 1 month ago # -
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Train services around Aberdeen have been disrupted after a car crashed into a stone wall above railway tracks.
Network Rail said the line between Aberdeen and Dyce had to be closed at about 21:00 on Saturday, while police sealed off the area.
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Posted 1 month ago # -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39j7r1re2ko
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A child was taken to hospital after being hit by a taxi in Edinburgh.Police said the driver of the black, "people carrier-style" vehicle did stop after hitting the four-year-old on South Gyle Broadway, close to Burne Cruik, but then left the scene in the direction of the South Gyle Access Road without giving his details.
"""I am shocked, shocked that a "professional driver" would do such a thing...
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
I was in the wilds of Balerno this morning, heading up Johnsburn Road by the church, where there are parked cars on one side of the road so it's about 1.5 lanes wide, and minding my own business, when I noticed in my peripheral vision the nose of a car appearing beside me and slowly overtaking me. The car was close enough to touch.
This was sub-optimal, and perhaps made worse by the fact that it was a marked driving school car with a learner driver under instruction in control.
I shook my head in emphatic disappointment as it passed.
It pulled over a little way up (not because of me, I think) and for the first time in my life I stopped beside the driver's window, waited until they had lowered it, and then said that that wasn't good enough and when they got home they should look up the bit in the Highway Code about passing cyclists with at least 1.5m of clearance.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
Given the vehicle involved, Rubbish Driving seems quite likely
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
"The incident involved a black BMW 118i Sport and a pedestrian."
My current motorised vehicle is a BMW 1-series (I even springed for the optional indicators!) but I notice that there's also one implicated in the tragic death at the Loch Ness Etape during the weekend:
https://road.cc/content/news/etape-loch-ness-police-investigate-cyclist-collision-death-313745
"The male driver and female passenger of the BMW 120 M Sport involved were uninjured."
Posted 1 week ago # -
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McEwan, of Craigie Road in Perth, was travelling on the B9099 between Stanley and Luncarty when he repeatedly swerved over the road.
The OAP mounted the near kerbside outside Downhill Cottage.
There, he collided with a woman who was pushing a pram with an infant girl inside.
McEwan then mounted the offside kerb and collided with a wall and a metal fence, damaging them.
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Posted 1 week ago # -
Quite spectacular of rubbish driving at lunchtime today.
Young guy driving near Corstorphine Primary/St Margaret’s Park using his mobile phone. So far, so humdrum. What raised it to the next level was that entire left side of his windscreen was completely obscured by a car dealer’s price sticker.
Unfortunately never saw which dealer it was or I’d be reporting them to the police.
Posted 6 days ago # -
Tailgated by a bus driver along Princes Street and into Queensferry Street, including as I crossed the tram tracks.
Absolutely fed up of this.
Posted 5 days ago #
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