Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.

[platinumsage]

Yes, 'should' and 'must'. I addressed it. The fact that pedestrians have right of way whether crossing or 'waiting to cross' though, doesn't change. You know this (you certainly shouldn't be driving if you don't)

The don't have a "right" of way. Check out rule 8 and rule 19 in the HC for starters.

 

[mojo pixy]

OK we're back to the platinumsage show

Yeah, no.

 

[edcraw]

OK we're back to the platinumsage show

Yeah, no.

Love that he must have turned ignore off for me so he could see that post

 

[platinumsage]

OK we're back to the platinumsage show

Yeah, no.

Thankfully you don't drive so you're only putting yourself at risk by assuming "rights of way" where there are none.

 

[edcraw]

Love platinumsage arguing about the technicalities of the Highway Code when this is the reality.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Thankfully you don't drive so you're only putting yourself at risk by assuming "rights of way" where there are none.

Rule 8
At a junction. When you are crossing or waiting to cross the road, other traffic should give way. Look out for traffic turning into the road, especially from behind you, and cross at a place where drivers can see you. If you have started crossing and traffic wants to turn into the road, you have priority and they should give way (see Rules H2 and 170).

Rule 19
Zebra crossings. Give traffic plenty of time to see you and to stop before you start to cross. Vehicles will need more time when the road is slippery. Wait until traffic has stopped from both directions or the road is clear before crossing. Remember that traffic does not have to stop until someone has moved onto the crossing. Drivers and riders should give way to pedestrians waiting to cross and MUST give way to pedestrians on a zebra crossing (see Rule H2). Keep looking both ways, and listening, in case a driver or rider has not seen you and attempts to overtake a vehicle that has stopped.

 

[platinumsage]

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A suggestion to a pedestrian that other traffic should give way to them (to someone waiting to cross) is not the same as telling a pedestrian that other traffic is legally required to give way (while on a zebra crossing).

It's really not rocket science, or brain surgery. They even capitalize "must" in the Highway Code to highlight the difference and make it idiot-proof.

 

[mojo pixy]

Thankfully you don't drive so you're only putting yourself at risk by assuming "rights of way" where there are none.

I do drive (I drove someone to hospital and home again just last week), I just don't own a car because it's a huge waste of money, a massive health risk, and quite honestly my ego is perfectly comfortable without one.

I know what 'rights of way' are, and I know as well as a legal term it's a vernacular expression often used as shorthand for "X should/must give way to Y under Z circumstances" ... or, as they say it more clearly in French, "vous n'avez pas la priorité" (and yes, I know french traffic laws are not the same as UK ones)

 

[Artaxerxes]

A suggestion to a pedestrian that other traffic should give way to them (to someone waiting to cross) is not the same as telling a pedestrian that other traffic is legally required to give way (while on a zebra crossing).

It's really not rocket science, or brain surgery. They even capitalize "must" in the Highway Code to highlight the difference and make it idiot-proof.

 

[edcraw]

Everything’s fine.

Another video of it - should be automatic lifetime ban.

 

[teuchter]

A lot of replies under that twitter thread asking what the context was and what had led up to it and so on.

It implies that there are people out there who can imagine some context where it's justifiable or reasonable to drive your car directly and deliberately into a pedestrian.

 

[MrCurry]

He’s gonna get a driving ban and nice big fine for that.

 

[edcraw]

He’s gonna get a driving ban and nice big fine for that.

A very short ban - should be a prison sentence.

 

[maomao]

If he attacked someone in the street with a cricket bat or a hammer it would be chokey.

 

[kabbes]

Well, the law — nonsensically, to my mind — differentiates the severity of the attack based on the level of harm to the victim. So if you swung a cricket bat at somebody’s head and they luckily moved at the last second, receiving a glancing blow, that would attract a lesser sentence than if they didn’t move at the last second and were seriously injured. Ridiculous, but there it is.

 

[edcraw]

“The matter was concluded by way of a community resolution order issued to the driver, who also agreed to pay compensation for the damage to the man.”

Luxury SUV crushes bicycle as road rage escalates in front of horrified onlookers

Witnesses captured the moment a driver mows down a bicycle, with the cyclist only narrowly escaping in time.

7news.com.au

 

[edcraw]

Cars ruin cities.

 

[MrCurry]

Reckless cyclist endangers truck tyres

 

[edcraw]

Selfish drivers example #2,674

Ms Goodlet asked councillors: “How did the council officers take into account the negative and distressing impact a large unattractive structure like the cycle hangar would have on the unfortunate residents living in the house where it is to be located, bearing in mind that the resident will have absolutely no control over this immovable structure?”

Woman wins battle to stop new cycle hangar being placed outside her home

A Hove resident’s plea for the council not to site a cycle hangar outside her home led to councillors voting to remove it from the latest set of…

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[edcraw]

Love platinumsage arguing about the technicalities of the Highway Code when this is the reality.

They’re just doing it on purpose now. Def need to ban cars until we work out what the hell is going on.

 

[edcraw]

My heart bleeds.

 

[edcraw]

This man is going to be allowed to drive again.

 

[MrCurry]

This man is going to be allowed to drive again.

He didn’t call him a ****, but he is one.

 

[maomao]

This man is going to be allowed to drive again.

platinumsage will be here in a minute to tell us he's just in shock because of the crash and it was the pedestrians fault for being alive or something.

 

[platinumsage]

Love platinumsage

platinumsage will be here

Why do I keep getting summoned to view another edcraw post, whom I'm ignoring? I know my wisdom is much in demand but I'm gonna put this thread on ignore now, since it's just duplicating the bad driving thread. Maybe that will stop the alerts.

FWIW edcraw even managed to get that last post wrong by stating "This man is going to be allowed to drive again."

He was banned for seven years to run consecutively with his eight year prison sentence, meaning he will have to live to 83 and then pass a test to be allowed to drive again, so there's nothing certain about it.

 

[maomao]

Gonna put this thread on ignore now,

Hurrah. Don't let the door hit you in the arse etc.

 

[liquidindian]

Aw, no more ms paint diagrams?

 

[edcraw]

FWIW edcraw even managed to get that last post wrong by stating "This man is going to be allowed to drive again."

He was banned for seven years to run consecutively with his eight year prison sentence, meaning he will have to live to 83 and then pass a test to be allowed to drive again, so there's nothing certain about it.

Did they take his age into consideration with the sentence or are you just indulging in pointless pedantry & defending the obviously lenient sentence of an absolute evil scumbag?

 

[platinumsage]

Aw, no more ms paint diagrams?

Have a parting graph, carefully researched:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Have a parting graph, carefully researched:

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Didn't know there were three billion users on this site.