Tulse Hill news, chitter chatter and gossip

[oldandjaded]

I had to cancel my bt order as it was unusable. I've since changed to plusnet and it's much better.
It's all to do with the connection at the wholesale (name escapes me) if you can get bt to give you a new connection as a new customer then it will improve. I gave up with bt in the end. The company is in too many pieces to know what the arm and elbo are doing.

I wish Virgin would cable the area perhaps they might be the answer.

 

[oldandjaded]

On a different note passed midnight I was about to go to bed when there was a loud knocking on my door. I greeted the noise with some well chosen words as I thought at first someone was off there face given the slurred speach. We then noticed that it was an old man with a walking stick and slippers. It was below freezing, so I went out and, well, cut a long one short, he was in his 90s lost and confused. We gave him a cup of tea, a hot water bottle a blanket and called for an ambulance. Four hours later the ambulance arrives and we are able to go to bed.

His name was Tommy and I do hope he found his home.

 

[Winot]

On a different note passed midnight I was about to go to bed when there was a loud knocking on my door. I greeted the noise with some well chosen words as I thought at first someone was off there face given the slurred speach. We then noticed that it was an old man with a walking stick and slippers. It was below freezing, so I went out and, well, cut a long one short, he was in his 90s lost and confused. We gave him a cup of tea, a hot water bottle a blanket and called for an ambulance. Four hours later the ambulance arrives and we are able to go to bed.

His name was Tommy and I do hope he found his home.

Good Samaritan

 

[Smick]

On a different note passed midnight I was about to go to bed when there was a loud knocking on my door. I greeted the noise with some well chosen words as I thought at first someone was off there face given the slurred speach. We then noticed that it was an old man with a walking stick and slippers. It was below freezing, so I went out and, well, cut a long one short, he was in his 90s lost and confused. We gave him a cup of tea, a hot water bottle a blanket and called for an ambulance. Four hours later the ambulance arrives and we are able to go to bed.

His name was Tommy and I do hope he found his home.

Good for you. Putting the Christmas spirit into action.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Looks like something bad has happened on the one way. Road closed. Police tent up at the crossing.

 

[Winot]

Looks like something bad has happened on the one way. Road closed. Police tent up at the crossing.

Hit and run according to Twitter; woman killed

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Hit and run according to Twitter; woman killed

Oh shit. Horrible.

There was a vehicle at the side of the road.

Cars fly thru that corner....and people take too many chances. Not a good mix.

 

[Smick]

Thankfully they’re looking at doing something about it the gyratory, but we’ve been pointing out the insanity for years here.

I was a bit annoyed at the public transport impact in the rain earlier, but some family’s day has been a million times worse than mine.

 

[Winot]

Fuck me this is grim - she was hit by up to 4 vehicles and none of them stopped

Appeal for witnesses to fatal collision in Tulse Hill

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Fuck me this is grim - she was hit by up to 4 vehicles and none of them stopped

Appeal for witnesses to fatal collision in Tulse Hill

That's horrendous...

 

[T & P]

That's absolutely horrific

I'm sure there must be CCTV/ traffic cameras monitoring the junction, so they should be able to identify the vehicles involved.

 

[editor]

Fuck me this is grim - she was hit by up to 4 vehicles and none of them stopped

Appeal for witnesses to fatal collision in Tulse Hill

That is truly horrific. I can't imagine there's any way that the drivers wouldn't know they've just run over a body in the street:

Officers have established that the woman was struck by an HGV as she crossed the road at a pedestrian crossing. The driver failed to stop at the scene.

Officers believe that the woman was subsequently struck by a second lorry and two cars; none of these drivers stopped.

I hope all of these fuckers are tracked down and get the full vengeful thump of the law in their faces.

 

[Crispy]

At 06:48 it's still night. A body in the street could be indistinguishable from a bag of rubbish

 

[Thimble Queen]

That's absolutely terrible

 

[editor]

At 06:48 it's still night. A body in the street could be indistinguishable from a bag of rubbish

It could be, but a body is a solid lump that a car would definitely notice running over, and the accident happened right by a pedestrian crossing where drivers should be ready to slow down and be more observant.

 

[Crispy]

Absolutely. Not victim blaming at all, but I imagine there's plenty of drivers who don't care that their car goes THUMP now and then cos they've got important places to be. Out of sight, out of mind.

 

[editor]

Absolutely. Not victim blaming at all, but I imagine there's plenty of drivers who don't care that their car goes THUMP now and then cos they've got important places to be. Out of sight, out of mind.

Let's hope that these particular careless fuckers get it right in their sight in the form of a court summons.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

a pedestrian crossing where drivers should be ready to slow down and be more observant.

Not at that crossing.....they speed through it and proceed to speed up even more on the approach to Christchurch road.

 

[editor]

Not at that crossing.....they speed through it and proceed to speed up even more on the approach to Christchurch road.

If I ruled the world spikes would rise up under the tarmac to puncture the tyres of such speeding cars. And when they'd ground to a smouldering halt, they'd have a few moments to vacate their vehicle before a laser wielding eco-robot would transform it into something useful to the local community.

 

[gaijingirl]

That crossing terrifies me with the kids. That poor woman and her poor family. Just horrible.

 

[Maharani]

It could be, but a body is a solid lump that a car would definitely notice running over, and the accident happened right by a pedestrian crossing where drivers should be ready to slow down and be more observant.

I cross there all the time. So many fuckers just don’t stop. That poor, poor woman.

 

[Cat Fan]

This is disgusting. Someone needs to sort out this crossing, and not wait until 2020 to do it.

 

[simonSW2]

I was just crossing the road down there and thinking of that poor woman that was killed this morning.
Of all the places to die, that atrociously designed, utterly banal, grimy fucking gyratory. The site of many deaths, collisions and crashes for years. And plans to change it have sat still on council desks, with meek and mild consultations and zero action. All the while overworked and underpaid drivers go increasingly faster and take more risks. A disgusting, shameful situation and a family destroyed.

 

[editor]

The Standard has a bit more, but they're saying the woman's body was found in Station Rise, which is clearly wrong according to this picture.

 

[editor]

Met Police have issued an appeal for witnesses: Appeal for witnesses to fatal collision in Tulse Hill

 

[T & P]

The Standard has a bit more, but they're saying the woman's body was found in Station Rise, which is clearly wrong according to this picture.

That picture also fails to tell where it took place. That's just the coppers blocking traffic from turning right. The dreadful police tent that gets erected in such incidents was right outside the Ladbrokes. So kind of opposite Station Rise, but actually at the beginning of Christchurch Rd. and right on the pedestrian crossing.

It is a tight turn yet one allowing two lanes of traffic in the same direction over a narrow bend. I've seen countless heavy vehicles kiss the edge of the kerb while turning, and sometimes mount the pavement. It's particularly dodgy as fuck during rush hour.

That poor woman

 

[T & P]

It's in the Guardian now. The stock photo in their article gives you a better idea of where it happened. Not at the foreground, but by the Ladbrokes.

Woman dies after being run over four times in south London

 

[editor]

That picture also fails to tell where it took place. That's just the coppers blocking traffic from turning right. The dreadful police tent that gets erected in such incidents was right outside the Ladbrokes. So kind of opposite Station Rise, but actually at the beginning of Christchurch Rd. and right on the pedestrian crossing.

It is a tight turn yet one allowing two lanes of traffic in the same direction over a narrow bend. I've seen countless heavy vehicles kiss the edge of the kerb while turning, and sometimes mount the pavement. It's particularly dodgy as fuck during rush hour.

That poor woman

I've crossed that junction many a time and always feel uncomfortable. Cars seem to cone from every angle.

 

[Smick]

I've crossed that junction many a time and always feel uncomfortable. Cars seem to cone from every angle.

And for drivers, you are coming from one or two lanes into three and the road splits immediately once you get through the light. Add a bus stop and it’s shocking design. I don’t like driving it.

But worse than the design are the drivers. As it’s one-way, on a hill and people are taking off from a start, people seem to floor their cars and get up to the speed limit in as short a distance possible. It’s a TFL route so the speed limit is 30 and not 20. People are doing 35 by the time they reach Probyn Road, just to reach the queue at Roupell more quickly.

 

[Maharani]

I thought it was the crossing on Thurlow. This is exactly where a friend of mine was hit by a bus a few years ago. She went under the wheel but somehow managed to be alive. Broke her back and was in a wheelchair for 6 months though.

They still haven’t tracked this poor women’s family...it’s totally fucked up.