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Sirius B   Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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Interesting report. Sadly it highlights a worldwide problem. It takes a major disaster before necessary action is taken. |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Picked up a copy of the Metro on way home this afternoon. Spotted a "lovely" photo with just a caption. A lorry & a van became wedged under a railway bridge following a collision in Epsom, Surrey.Pretty sure I recognised the bridge so searched for the photo on Metro online. Sadly they split into the print & online versions some years ago. So, googled Epsom bridge strike as nothing about it on the online edition. Sure enough it was reported yesterday.  However, that van looks like a Mercedes Sprinter, but the report that photo was taken from states that it was just a lorry with the cab jacknifed & on the A24 in Epsom. Nope, pretty sure that it was a B road so checked via Google Maps.  Yep, B284 in Epsom (Hook Road). Quote from today's edition of Metro. Photo from Daily Mail's report yesterday. You gotta love modern journalism. |
 ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 
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... You gotta love modern journalism. Underpaid, over-rushed, with expectations of global writing yet uneducated for anything local or detailed. All lost in the mush of 'social media' snippets?... Keep searchin'? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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All lost in the mush of 'social media' snippets?...Does that include Surrey Police? |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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All lost in the mush of 'social media' snippets?...Does that include Surrey Police? Very likely for their deskbound minimum wage PR 'communications facilitator'... Note the adage about being promoted up to a level of incompetence?... There has to be better ways... Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Stupidity at its worst
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874
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As a student (so nearly 50 years ago), I remember borrowing my parent's Volvo estate for a student houseparty. I think we got 10 into that... but only for a couple of miles on quiet roads. |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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There is the old student game of seeing how many people can be crammed into an old-style mini... A variation of that by the hiking club was for how many people can stand at the same time on top of a trig point... See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36864 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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We use to do that a lot here back in the days before seat belts and seat belt laws. ;-) Oh the days of sitting in the back of the ute while going down the highway. LOL Cheers. |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19407 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304
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Tesla vs insecure loadTalk about lucky. If the load had come off just a fraction of a second later i don't think he'd be around to talk about it. Grant Darwin NT |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Will any action be taken about the dangerous load and/or dangerous driving?... I've seen where a scrap wagon was shedding its load in front of me. On that occasion the driver did stop, he knew about it, and had stopped a few times already on his journey, but he was under pressure to "just get there" and no time or ropes or tarp to secure all the flailing pieces thrashing in the wind... No good answer to that one other than to keep a ridiculous distance clear and be ready on the phone if anyone did get hit or damaged... Brain cells?... What's them? I was lucky on that occasion... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Dr Who Fan  Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3348 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 
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And I thought the speeders were crazy here in the USA; but this one in the UK is a doozy! Banned driver jailed for speeding at 130mph with boy, 7, in car during police chase The man, age 26, was sentenced to 30 months behind bars after what the investigating officer called "one of the worst cases of driving I have seen in my 20 years of policing". |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19407 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3348 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4
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Well, I guess this is "Transportation Safety" related... Democratic lawmaker calls for 'gender equality' in crash test dummies ;) |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3348 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3348 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4
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You drink, you drive, you go to jail! Relative called to pick up drunk driver’s vehicle was also drunk, Washington cops say |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3348 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4
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9-Year-Old Driver Slams Head on Into Semi After Swiping Keys to Parents' Car Miraculously, no one was injured. For all their wild ideas, both girls had made sure to fasten their seatbelts — a fact that ensured their joy ride ended in expensive damages instead of costing them their lives. |
rob smith    Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22539 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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Not a good day to be on a train in Pakistan :-( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57380615 Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Data from Pakistan Railways shows there were 757 train accidents between 2012 and 2017 - an average of about 125 incidents a year.At any time. |
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