Driving Standards

[cupid_stunt]

We disagree about the 7.5t limit but afaik the van speeds are right - ime most people think 3.5t limits are the same as cars so that's a from me. I haven't gone to check what that limit is to see what the 7.5t limit is though.

The 7.5t limit was increased recently.

After I posted my reply I took a look at the previous thread, and saw the answer as 40 rather than 50, and thought that's wrong, until I spotted that thread was from 2013, and so was correct at the time.

 

[Dogsauce]

Didn’t know it had changed for HGVs, I know it used to frustrate drivers being stuck behind big wagons that obeyed the rule (the big delivery ones for supermarkets are quite strict about it, independent companies less so). I Remember reading about the mainly single carriageway road down to Stranraer from Glasgow and how that had a shocking casualty rate due to the unfortunate combination of many slow wagons heading for the port and impatient drivers worried they’d be late for the ferry they were booked on.

 

[hash tag]

From the first of Bahnhof Strasse two pictures we can see a green light poking out to the left of the picture. Also, if we look closely we can see the railings coming to an end,
before the ped crossing. When I did road safety campaigning many years ago, I advocated for doing away with things like railings as they give the motorist that pedestrians are
safley kept out of the way and it is safe to be reckless. They give the impression that it is like being on a motorway or race track. Remove the things which separate the two and
you put doubt in the motorists mind which in most instances help to temper their driving. From memory, I don't think there are nearly so many barriers like this in Amsterdam,
Copenhagen or Vienna. Copenhagen to some extent and always in Vienna everyone always abides by the red and green lights without fail, regardless of whats around.
That I doubt the green light or gap in railings would have been visible to the BMW driver.
On an advanced motorists course you are shown (not taught necessarily) this and much more. Doing a commentary, people are encouraged to state not that a pedestrian crossing
can be seen in the distance but what type of crossing it is.

 

[Poi E]

The galvanised barriers are a ghastly blight on Britain. Oddly reflective of the way the class society funnels people.

 

[Dogsauce]

The galvanised barriers are a ghastly blight on Britain. Oddly reflective of the way the class society funnels people.

The high street where I lived until recently had them to pen in pedestrians and stop you crossing where you wanted to, despite not being a particularly busy road. They got a load of heritage lottery money to redo the paving and street furniture a few years back but as a condition of the grant they weren’t allowed to do anything other than replace like with like, so we have nice black painted heritage railings now. Councillors would have liked to get rid of them and make some of the side roads easier to cross (they have wide radii which allows drivers to take them at speed) but hands were tied and grateful to get any money. Kind of not-joined-up bollocks that boils my piss a bit.

 

[hash tag]

Too many signs as well as general furniture all over the place. Do we need signs saying police ANPR is operating in this area?

 

[Winot]

Too many signs as well as general furniture all over the place. Do we need signs saying police ANPR is operating in this area?

Bit like the CCTV signs. Human rights innit.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Triple death crash drink-driver jailed

Drinking beer and gin, smoking cannabis, described as grossly intoxicated, kills three people, a brother and sister and her fiancé.

Eight years and four months, will spend just over a year inside for each life he took.

ffs

 

[hash tag]

9 miles down the wrong side of a dual carriageway 'I'm lost': Drunk beautician drove nine miles WRONG way down A19

 

[hash tag]

Shocking. I can't believe they have got this bastard from the car registration Moment man, 80, is shoved into brick wall in 'road rage' attack

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Shocking. I can't believe they have NOT got this bastard from the car registration Moment man, 80, is shoved into brick wall in 'road rage' attack

 

[hash tag]

Sorry, just too full of rage.

 

[hash tag]

I take no joy in posting this nugget of local tittle tattle Louise Redknapp to appear in court after jumping red light in Wandsworth

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I take no joy in posting this nugget of local tittle tattle Louise Redknapp to appear in court after jumping red light in Wandsworth

Who is she?

 

[BigTom]

Who is she?

I think she was from Girls Aloud, but might have been a different pop band, married Jamie Redknapp, erstwhile Liverpool FC and England midfielder iirc. No idea why i know this as i don't like football or pop music so i could be wrong but I'm also confident in my knowledge.

 

[Spymaster]

I think she was from Girls Aloud, but might have been a different pop band ...

Eternal .

 

[Artaxerxes]

This is the second day in a row someone's blasted past me on a zebra crossing and waved thanks as they did do.

Did I miss a memo

 

[hash tag]

Car overtaking a car or your a pedestrian crossing?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

This is the second day in a row someone's blasted past me on a zebra crossing and waved thanks as they did do.

Did I miss a memo

If it were an Audi there would be no wave of thanks.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Car overtaking a car or your a pedestrian crossing?

Pedestrian crossing, actually had my foot on the line today but was keeping an eye on the cab that had seemingly no intention of slowing down.

Yesterday there were 4 cars and the end one waved at me, bless her.

 

[hash tag]

Well, there might be a wave, of sorts of maybe not a proper Audi driver.

 

[hash tag]

Don't believe everything you hear in adverts https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-48614354

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Don't believe everything you hear in adverts https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-48614354

Wouldn't have happened if he'd driven a Land Rover. That would have broken down long before it got near the coast.

 

[mauvais]

Wouldn't have happened if he'd driven a Land Rover. That would have broken down long before it got near the coast.

Yeah, like Solihull.

 

[Dogsauce]

Earlier this week I watched a six wheeled dumper truck get stuck on the sand here after attempting a three point turn. Tide was up to the axles before it got out with the aid of a large tracked excavator which stuck it’s bucket in the tipper part to drag it up the beach. The old Wurzels song ‘Thee’s got’n where thee cassn’t back’n hassn’t’ was running through my brain

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

20mph zone fatal crash driver jailed

Almost double the speed limit, knocks down a pedestrian and kills her, doesn't stop, or even hand himself in later.

18 months for careless driving.

 

[hash tag]

I'm sorry someone has died, especially in these circumstances. There's a big lesson for many people here. Ignore your children, they could be worse than using a mobile.
BBC News - Spider dropped on driver before crash which killed boy, 11
Spider fell on driver before fatal crash

 

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Because driving is so boring (I'm so stoopid) Yorkshire woman banned from driving after posting this video

 

[Teaboy]

I'm sorry someone has died, especially in these circumstances. There's a big lesson for many people here. Ignore your children, they could be worse than using a mobile.
BBC News - Spider dropped on driver before crash which killed boy, 11
Spider fell on driver before fatal crash

Hmm, bit of an odd one this.

Anyway, I had a bee land on my leg the other day whilst driving, it must have been in the car when I got in. Its really hard to keep concentrating on the road and not make any sudden movements. Fortunately it was a built-up area and I was only doing 20 and there was a side street to quickly pull over onto.

 

[hash tag]

this has been shown on television news a few times. Quite shocking and made me feel sick Cyclist hunts for hit-and-run driver

This was a truly horrible incident, but hey Driver in hit-and-run cyclist crash jailed