One Manoeuvrer to many?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czegzgkdjxro

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Bob Smith
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A camera near a pub in Staffordshire has captured a series of crashes at a road junction.

Junction crashes caught on home's doorcam

The pub's landlord has been chalking up the days in between crashes at a crossroads.
Locals have called for changes at the A521 junction with Draycott Cross Road outside the Huntsman pub in Cheadle.
The county council said it had recently repainted road markings and would consider what changes might be needed at the junction.
Landlord Conor Bernard Devine started using an A-board in August to raise awareness of the issue and updates the board daily to highlight the number of days since the last crash.
In the latest crash, no-one was seriously hurt but Mr Devine said it was "a question of time before someone gets killed".

Locals have called for changes at the A521 junction with Draycott Cross Road outside the Huntsman pub in Cheadle.

Wouldn't be necessary if the people driving weren't idiots & incapable of following the posted road signs.
Easiest and most effective fix would be replacing the give way sign with a stop sign and removing the 30 speed sign, & large speed bumps just before the intersection so even if they don't stop they'd at least have to slow down to an almost stop or destroy their suspension.
And i've no doubt that's what would still happen- wiped out suspension due to the idiocy of the idiot driving.

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Grant
Darwin NT

People would still ignore the stop sign just as they ignore the give way sign and the speed limit. Speed humps are only of limited value with so many idiots driving....

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Bob Smith
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Speed humps are only of limited value with so many idiots driving....

There are some rather severe ones in shopping centre carparks here where if you do it at more than a couple of km per hour & you're going to be in world of pain. However, the number of SUVs/4WDs that just continue to roll right over something that would destroy the average car if it tried to take it at speed will continue to ignore such bumps in the road.

These days you have to be careful around shopping centres as extra high curbs that would rip the front panels off a car if they tried to drive up them don't stop people in their 4WDs from just driving right over them instead of taking the narrow windy roads to the actual entrance & exit. End result is large vehicles coming on to the road where you don't expect anything to be coming out there.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Making it a roundabout, with a substantial centre, would be better than speed bumps.

Making it a roundabout, with a substantial centre, would be better than speed bumps.

Yes, cut down buildings to install that roundabout. Only solution roadblocks on one of the directions.

First, a disclaimer - I know that junction and have seen first hand how much contempt the users of the "minor" road have for the signs; I was stopped waiting for a couple of tankers to come past on the main road when an idiot was to impatient to wait and nearly got himself crushed by the first one, idiot shouted at me for stopping, then at the tanker driver for not stopping, then at the cop in the car behind the tankers.......
There's actually enough "waste" land on that junction to divert the roads slightly and put a roundabout in - knowing how "fast" the local highways people do this sort of job the two or three years of roadworks (mostly one man picking his nose all day) and the idiots would get used to slowing down to get through the sea of cones and other barriers.

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Bob Smith
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Now for some truly terrifying numbers ...
https://cdllife.com/2024/inspectors-placed-23-of-commercial-vehicles-out-of-service-during-72-hour-roadcheck-blitz/

Inspectors placed 23% of commercial vehicles out-of-service during 72 hour Roadcheck blitz
During the 72 hour inspection effort, CMV enforcement personnel conducted a total of 48,761 inspections.
Inspectors uncovered a total of 13,567 vehicle, 2,714 driver and 163 hazardous materials/dangerous goods (HM/DG) out-of-service violations.

Yes, that is right 1 in 4 HGV's shouldn't be on the road.

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What's really worrying is the top three vehicle defects.
Defective brakes, tyre issues, other brake issues made up 64% of the reasons for declaring them defective.

Oh, and for the drivers getting pinged- 25.4% didn't actually hold a Commercial Drivers' Licence (drivers were only 4.8% of the those 25% of vehicles that shouldn't have been on the road, but still...).

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Grant
Darwin NT

Appears to be "pilot error" that lead to the crash...
Houston helicopter crash: 'Multiple fatalities' reported

An NTSB investigation into a deadly helicopter crash in east Houston is now underway, according to authorities.

The Houston Fire Department says the helicopter hit a radio tower in the Second Ward shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday night.

The R44 helicopter was carrying the four people and is believed to have taken off from Ellington Field, according to officials.

One of the people on board was a child, according to Houston Police. The identities and age range of the individuals on board have not been released. However, officials said on Monday, that the families of the victims have been notified.

During a news conference on Monday afternoon, Lt. Jonathan French with the Houston Police Department Vehicular Crimes Division said there were multiple reports of debris being discovered due to the crash.

The norm would be one train parks there, and the other passes. The fundamental question is, why that didn't happen last night?
He said a new digital system to stop trains might be to blame, or leaves on the line, given the steep incline at the location of the crash.

It'll be some time, but the RAIB report will be interesting.
1 dead, 15 injured in train collision

A tram derails and plows into a shop in the Norwegian capital but only 4 are lightly injured

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A tram derailed in downtown Oslo and plowed into a phone and computer shop on Tuesday, Norwegian police said, but the accident only left four people lightly injured.
There were about 20 people on the commuter train when it derailed off the tracks at an intersection on Storgata, one of the Norwegian capital’s main thoroughfares close to Oslo’s main train station.
Witness Mohnsin Munir told Norwegian media that he saw the tram coming at high speed. It was supposed to make a left turn but derailed and continued straight ahead and into the shop.
Police said that the tram driver is considered a suspect in the case. The driver was not identified.
Images from the scene show that most of the first carriage of the tram had slammed into the shop. Police and the fire department said the crash had caused extensive damage in the shop.

A quick and early analysis of that Welsh train crash. Not yet the final verdict, of course, but there are are enough new facts in there to get your teeth into.

Train safety system failed before fatal crash, report says

Sanding has long been a source of failure, especially now many trains have very small pipes & orifice for the sand to flow down. Said "holes" don't take much to block them up, and it's not unknown for them to get blocked up while the train is in service.

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Bob Smith
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Australia's air safety watchdog has recommended national safety standards and minimum drop heights for water bombers as it wraps up its investigation into the crash of a large air tanker in Western Australia.
The Boeing 737 water tanker crashed on February 6, 2023, while dropping fire retardant on a bushfire in the Fitzgerald River National Park, 460 kilometres south-east of Perth.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Watch: Moment road worker dodges high-speed truck crash

Bloody hell!!!

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Grant
Darwin NT

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14l78e44gvo[url]

As Michael Caine would say "I said just blow the ****** doors off"[/url]

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Bob Smith
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