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Plastic Paddy
I agree with that though. Drink/drug driving, racing or otherwise being an arsehole absolutely should be punished more heavily.
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Even if they say they are really really sorry and put a sad face on and everything?
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Starry Wisdom
if she can't put cops deliberately at risk then what is she doing in the police force? we're always told how they put themselves in harm's way to protect the public. not in brighton it seems tho. i expect she brings all her plod cups of tea and biscuits and organises some sort of aromatherapy for any of them who might not have been received in utter adoration by the burghers of brighton.
Saul Goodman
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Get better cops.
That will fuck the drivers
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Plastic Paddy
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Three close passes on the way home in suburban Bristol ... within the space of a mile and a half.
First one 50 yards from a roundabout, second one on the approach to a blind bend and a junction he himself was taking (as was I) - desperate to get to the pub.
Third one ignored my clear hand signal as I was positioned to turn right.
Oh and then the one who pulled out from the left, only to pull into the bus lane to continue his phone conversation.
First one 50 yards from a roundabout, second one on the approach to a blind bend and a junction he himself was taking (as was I) - desperate to get to the pub.
Third one ignored my clear hand signal as I was positioned to turn right.
Oh and then the one who pulled out from the left, only to pull into the bus lane to continue his phone conversation.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Seems her name is Brighton but she works in Worcestershire. Her twatter page looks like a memorial to a dead cop.
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Starry Wisdom
It's a multi functional device which can be a bed, a bench, and breaks down into a coffin
Should throw use of phone in with some of that as well. As per the above video it's an epidemic out there and still so many people don't give a shit. Time for an automatic minimum 3 or maybe 6 month ban I reckon.
Agree.
Drink driving is a mandatory 12 month ban.
Think that a 6 month mandatory ban is pretty fair for using a phone while driving.
Maybe a 3 month mandatory ban for using one in stationary traffic.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Truck drivers watching a film or facetiming; 2 years' prison and lifetime HGV ban, a punishment that really messes up their life. That kind of behaviour is wholly inexcusable from a professional driver with 40 tons of truck under their command and the message needs to go out that society will not accept it.
Agree on HGV drivers but there should also be a similar scale of ban for all professional drivers (taxi/coach/van/courier) given the amount of driving hours.
Road traffic accidents are the number on killer of children up to 15yo
Ahead of Cancer, Malaria, etc. which is pretty shocking.
Ahead of Cancer, Malaria, etc. which is pretty shocking.
Yes. That wanker doing a video call when driving on the above clip. Would it be so hard just to make a standard hands free call?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
tbf they are treated a little differently, some years ago I was knocked off my bike by a truck driver kicking his door open, a copper came to see me in St Thomas' and informed me of an offence that I'd not heard of, he called it opening the door to danger. He said that they don't nick car drivers for it, but would be doing him as he's a professional driver.
Seems fair. Although I would give a car driver points at least for undue care and attention. If I threw a brick into the road in front of a car I would get fined/charged, no reason why a car driver opening a big metal door into incoming traffic should get better treatment.
The Dutch Reach is a really good safety project:
Dutch Reach Project – A site to promote the Dutch far-hand habit to avoid dooring cyclists, or drivers or passengers from stepping into on-coming traffic.
A site to promote the safer far-hand Dutch Reach habit to get out of your car. It prevents dooring 'accidents' / crashes that injure & kill bicyclists. You too are safer because you naturally turn & see on-coming traffic before and as you exit.
www.dutchreach.org
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I have been doing that for the past couple of years, but using my left hand to open the door, rather than the right hand yer Dutchies use...
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Plastic Paddy
Nah. I'm all for cracking down on dangerous driving but banning people for using them when the car's stopped dead in stationary traffic is just wanky anti-car bellendery.
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Plastic Paddy
Nah. I'm all for cracking down on dangerous driving but banning people for using them when the car's stopped dead in stationary traffic is just wanky anti-car bellendery.
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Plastic Paddy
I just look down the road!
Eyes off the road before pulling away.
Not all do as you well knowI just look down the road!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I just look down the road!
Yeah, but you're only looking cos you're waiting for a bike to come past before opening the door...
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