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IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
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Maybe it's just the fact the average Edinburgh driver doesn't have 2 brain cells to rub together?
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10697#post-254530
to wit, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham and Glasgow drivers and their relative skillsets.
The Paul Doyle details were horrifying. Why a car can still accelerate and not be automatically made to brake after repeatedly colliding with objects (people!) is apparently beyond the ability of science to solve?
On a lighter note Bella served this up.
Next up, Chris Deerin appeared in the New Statesman where he gushed:“The last time I saw Lord Offord of Garvel in the flesh was a few months ago. We both attended a lunch for well-to-do business types, and as I left I was suitably impressed by the array of elite motors in the car park.”
“The best belonged to Malcolm Offord, though: a vintage, open-top Jaguar sports car, Bond-esque in its sleek lines and growling power. Offord, with his sunglasses and slicked-back, wealthy man’s hair, looked entirely fit for purpose in the driver’s seat as he roared off into the countryside.”
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/17/admiring-malcom-offords-jaguar/
I was close passed by a driver on London Road this morning, which was bad enough that I'm considering testing out the new police reporting system.
I was in the right hand lane, as I was going straight on and the left lane is for left turns only. The driver passed me without leaving the lane, maybe a foot of space. Bad enough but itself, but the two hands on the phone and none on the steering wheel were what really, really annoyed me.
Some ridiculously close 'punishment' passes cycling up the Wisp from Old Dalkeith Road. Pretty sure there was a touch of retribution given I'd already played leapfrog with the 2 drivers at the Drum St and Ferniehill lights before the lights at the left-hand turn.
Loud-exhaust-BMW-convertible-M-series vanity-plated aggressive-muscle-gym-rat driving onto the pavement at Gibson Tce / Dundee St. Forced a woman walking to stop abruptly to avoid getting ploughed into.
Called him out on it, as he got out in some great hurry, "shouldn't be driving on the pavement, ya nearly knocked someone over!"
Got a load of F-word abuse and called a "gimp" for the pleasure of it. LOL. Aye, I wonder where he learned that word?
Later tonight, passed the Choobs and someone shouted “nice bike”. Laidback will know the one.
What a week it’s been! And it’s only Thursday!
I think we have a winner biggest loser
'Perth driver with five life bans jailed for injuring pensioner while fleeing police
John Phillips has numerous driving convictions and was previously labelled a danger to other people.
A drink and drug-fuelled driver, who defied FIVE life bans to crash into and seriously injure an elderly woman in Perth, has been sent to prison for 28 months.
Serial dangerous driver John Phillips was trying to flee from a city centre police roadblock when he reversed at speed into the front of the 75-year-old woman’s car.
Phillips has nine previous convictions for dangerous driving and has been banned at least 12 times.
The 35-year-old admitted causing the woman severe injury by dangerous driving in Caledonian Road shortly after midnight on July 24 last year.
Sheriff Alison McKay jailed him for 28 months at Perth Sheriff Court and banned him for life again.
She also imposed an eight-month supervised release order.
The sheriff said: “The first difficulty is that you were driving again at all.
“You have been disqualified for life. You are not allowed to drive motor vehicles.
“You still got yourself into a position where you were driving when you shouldn’t be, you’ve taken alcohol and drugs and were a danger to others in the community.
“On this occasion, you injured somebody and you could have killed her.
“I know you know that. The only disposal available to me has to be custody.”
Banned driver spotted by police
Phillips admitted driving while disqualified and at three times over the legal alcohol limit (69mics/22), nearly three times the cocaine limit (27mics/10), and almost 12 times the limit for a cocaine-derivative (591mics/50).
Phillips was once described in the same court as having a “deep-seated attraction” to cars.
Fiscal depute Laurelle Johnstone told the court police in a marked car spotted Phillips’ BMW turning onto Caledonian Road.
“Due to information that had been passed onto police, they went to stop the accused.
“They manoeuvred their vehicle into the opposite lane, blocking the accused while signalling for him to stop.”
At the same time, the pensioner was driving south down the street in her Toyota Aygo, directly behind Phillips.
The prosecutor said: “Upon seeing the police vehicle, the accused reversed at speed.
“This caused the rear of his vehicle to collide with the front of the witness’s.”
Officers made “tactical contact” with Phillips’ car to bring it to a standstill.
Ms Johnstone said: “The accused was still trying to reverse but he could not do so as his car and the police vehicle were now stuck together.”
Ms Johnstone said the victim was taken to Perth Royal Infirmary and found to have a fractured sternum and other injuries.
The woman told prosecutors she continued to suffer pain and take medication.
Solicitor David Holmes, defending, said Phillips had realised he needed to make changes to his life and had lost six stone in weight.
Mr Holmes said: “He recognises alcohol has been a problem.
“He has reached the stage in life where he has had to examine his own behaviour.”
Previous ‘danger’ warning
In 2023, Phillips was convicted of stealing a friend’s Transit van and “using it as a weapon” against a pedestrian in Alyth.
Following that conviction, Sheriff McKay told Phillips: “You are a danger to yourself, but you are also a danger to other people.”'
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/courts/5433987/perth-driver-life-bans-jailed/
Sheriff Alison Mackay sentenced him to 18 months and banned him for life again. Again yup 6th life ban.
He will be back driving very badly on the streets of Perth in less than a year
Saw the aftermath of some presumably quite rubbish driving at the junction of Ardmillan, Gorgie and Dalry earlier.
One motorcar had come to a crashing halt in the middle of the junction with various bits hanging off it and an entourage of 2 police motorbikes and a patrol car.
A second vehicle, also heavily damaged was resting on the pavement outside the fancy Springwell development on Gorgie road. This too was surrounded by cops. No ambulances at least so hopefully no humans were harmed.
The broken vehicle on Gorgie Road was still there this morning.
They'd put a "police aware" note on it at least.
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