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In retrospect, I should have specified 'road/ street transportation'
Plenty of aggressive pushy cunts at rush hour on Tubes, trains and buses, mind...
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Plenty of aggressive pushy cunts at rush hour on Tubes, trains and buses, mind...
sleaterkinney
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Italy does have that thing with traffic lights, never been to Greece - I need to go.
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I saw that stupid tailgating in Germany too, unsurprisingly some miles down the road the 3 cars involved had ran into each other creating a traffic jam.
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It's difficult to understand how something like this can happen
Woman killed in 'wrong-way' crash on A3 in Guildford
Police said they responded to "numerous reports" a Mercedes car was on the wrong side of the road.
www.bbc.co.uk
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I don't know the road in question but I know a couple of roads local to me where the signage is poor anyway and a non-local might miss something overgrown by new foliage, especially when there's no other traffic at the moment of taking the wrong decision.It's difficult to understand how something like this can happen
Woman killed in 'wrong-way' crash on A3 in Guildford
Police said they responded to "numerous reports" a Mercedes car was on the wrong side of the road.www.bbc.co.uk
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"a silver Mercedes was being driven on the wrong side of the northbound carriageway"
Which side of the northbound carriageway would that be?
Which side of the northbound carriageway would that be?
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I'm guessing they entered the northbound carriageway just here headed south:
Note the missing No Entry sign at the time this image was taken. Since replaced, but who knows what state the signage is in now. Looking at the multiple streetviews over the years shows more than one disappearing No Entry sign.
Note the missing No Entry sign at the time this image was taken. Since replaced, but who knows what state the signage is in now. Looking at the multiple streetviews over the years shows more than one disappearing No Entry sign.
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In any decent society the police would make collision reports public, so we could all learn from fatal traffic collisions and where necessary, hold people and organizations to account. But they don't do that "to protect the privacy of the victim's family".
So we have to rely on a local journalist attending the inquest and reporting a few sentences on an ad-ridden website run by the Daily Mirror group. Because the coroner won't release any details "to protect the privacy of the victim's family".
So we have to rely on a local journalist attending the inquest and reporting a few sentences on an ad-ridden website run by the Daily Mirror group. Because the coroner won't release any details "to protect the privacy of the victim's family".
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Have been on a bus in to town for literally 5 minutes and heard at least 3 drivers aggressively hooting at each other in addition to the bus driver.
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Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
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Not for a year or two. Italians drive on their horns.
Elpenor
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aggressive drivers flashing their lights behind you and driving right up your arse as you’re “only” overtaking a slower car at 70 mph, you pull over into the slow lane after the overtake, they then cut across both lanes of traffic to get off at the turn off 100m ahead.
Just get in lane a bit earlier ffs or get off at the next junction rather than drive dangerously in wet conditions. First knob head driving I can recall in Devon, probably a tourist
Just get in lane a bit earlier ffs or get off at the next junction rather than drive dangerously in wet conditions. First knob head driving I can recall in Devon, probably a tourist
How does this work then?...assuming she must be mentally unfit to stand trial?
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Range Rover drink driver left cyclist with brain damage before her wedding
“I know I shouldn’t have been driving. I had a drink, I have done wrong, I’m sorry"
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Quite right. The building we are seeing is now Candlemakers which was previously Prices Candle Factory. By coincidence, I worked with someone last week
whose grandfather spent his working life in there.
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Seems a reasonable place for this question:
Some scratches have accumulated upon my car since i got it, they're all in the same spot (front of car furthest point from my face when i'm driving). I'd quite like to get rid of them because they make it look as though i am not an excellent driver, which i totally am. So does "T-Cut scratch remover" work ?
Some scratches have accumulated upon my car since i got it, they're all in the same spot (front of car furthest point from my face when i'm driving). I'd quite like to get rid of them because they make it look as though i am not an excellent driver, which i totally am. So does "T-Cut scratch remover" work ?
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A question is how much do you care and how much would you be willing to spend to keep the motor looking nice.
If you are not very careful when cleaning it, you will leave swirls in the paintwork. These are easily removed by
machine polishing by yourself or your could get someone else to do it, but care needs to be exercised. My Alfa,
I paid around £500 for a machine polish, ceramic coat (and underseal) and it has bought the paint up a treat.
I know this is not you neck of the woods, but quite good on info Car Valeting Kingston | Car Detailing Kingston | Car Valeting Surrey | Car Detailing Surrey | Autoshine
If you are not very careful when cleaning it, you will leave swirls in the paintwork. These are easily removed by
machine polishing by yourself or your could get someone else to do it, but care needs to be exercised. My Alfa,
I paid around £500 for a machine polish, ceramic coat (and underseal) and it has bought the paint up a treat.
I know this is not you neck of the woods, but quite good on info Car Valeting Kingston | Car Detailing Kingston | Car Valeting Surrey | Car Detailing Surrey | Autoshine
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If you dive in with T-Cut you risk making a big smear.
Light scratches can often be covered up by just dabbing on a polish that approximately matches the colour of your car.
Light scratches can often be covered up by just dabbing on a polish that approximately matches the colour of your car.
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Not sure how people feel about something like this
Driver fined £1,100 for passing cyclist in Bridgend too closely
The motorist says the prosecution for failing to allow enough room has cost him about £4,500.
www.bbc.co.uk
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He was driving an Audi Q8 so should obviously have been fined more.
Personally, although the highway code mandates giving cyclists a wide berth, in practical terms I think it can in practice depend upon the road.Not sure how people feel about something like this
Driver fined £1,100 for passing cyclist in Bridgend too closely
The motorist says the prosecution for failing to allow enough room has cost him about £4,500.www.bbc.co.uk
Where the road is narrow and there is insufficient room to give the cyclist a wide berth, the car is expected to follow at bycycle speed possibly for many miles, when in actual fact if the cyclist showed a little common courtesy under such circumstances and pulled over to let the car pass it would be much more reasonable. That this rarely ever happens is part of the reason impatient drivers pass too closely sometimes.
I do think that where cycle lanes are provided, cyclists should be expected to use them and not arrogantly clog up the road anyway as a few do.
The highway code defers in favour of cyclists who are in fairness potentially much more vulnerable than people in cars. However, a little understanding and courtesy by all road users, including cyclists as well as drivers, would go a long way.
Not sure how people feel about something like this
Driver fined £1,100 for passing cyclist in Bridgend too closely
The motorist says the prosecution for failing to allow enough room has cost him about £4,500.www.bbc.co.uk
Bearing in mind there was plenty of room for him to move out, and other drivers in narrower cars moved out further. It’s fair enough.
Suspect most drivers don’t know this is law, but ignorance of the law is no excuse.
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It doesn't mandate anything of the sort, it merely advises. If it did mandate then the situation would be clearer and easier to understand, but then there would be less flexibility
It's not the law, the law is "without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place" which is about as clear as mud. I'm sure there are lots of situations where a pass such as this would not have been prosecuted.
The highway code has been changed recently in favour of cyclists. After all, if giving cyclists a wide berth is not mandatory, why has a driver been fined for not doing so?
Rule 212: Give motorcyclists, cyclists, horse riders, horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians walking in the road (for example, where there is no pavement), at least as much room as you would when overtaking a car
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The Audi driver in question was given the option of a fixed penalty OR attend a driving course, resulting in him being summoned where the fine and points were applied - if he'd've just accepted that he was a bit of a twat it would have cost him pennies in comparison
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The law hasn't changed. He was fined because the way he drove fell below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver. You might think that such expectations align perfectly with the advice published in the Highway Code, but case law over the years clearly demonstrates that not to be the case.
Regard close passing the HC has long stated "give motorcyclists, cyclists and horse riders and horse drawn vehicles at least as much room as you would when overtaking a car". What has been added is "As a guide ... leave at least 1.5 metres when overtaking cyclists at speeds of up to 30mph, and give them more space when overtaking at higher speeds"
So.. advice has been updated with a specified distance as a guide. None of that is mandatory - as I said, there will be plenty of situations where a pass closer than the one this man was fined for would not have been prosecuted.
