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Do you know how wide your car is?
« on: 14 December 2021, 08:35:34 »
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59641534

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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #1 on: 14 December 2021, 08:44:04 »

This is a news story of a few weeks back in the U.K.

Even a police van was caught out by these bollards being too close together ;D ;D

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« Reply #2 on: 14 December 2021, 08:57:19 »
It takes news a few weeks to travel a thousand miles.  ;D

Someone might have missed it.
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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #3 on: 14 December 2021, 08:59:21 »
Quote from: Varche on 14 December 2021, 08:57:19
It takes news a few weeks to travel a thousand miles.  ;D

Someone might have missed it.

It was only yesterday that I saw it on the BBC's website  ;) ;)
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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #4 on: 14 December 2021, 09:02:01 »
Saw this a couple of months ago on the news, then it made its way onto You Tube.
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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #5 on: 14 December 2021, 10:50:21 »
Devon County Council installed a couple of 'traffic calming' chicane type things a few years ago near me and they're a complete PITA if not down right dangerous.  ::)

One is near the local school so causes massive congestion (and pollution) in the morning and at kick out time, and another is on a bend so if you're not on the priority side, you can't see if anything is coming the other way that has right of way. I've had several near misses on that one!  >:(



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« Reply #6 on: 14 December 2021, 10:58:40 »
I remember a set of bollards like that in an approach road into Hemel Hempstead Industrial estate . It looked like they were installed to prevent HGV's routing through the town .
I scraped the wheel rims of several cars on the concrete bases over the years as I passed through them and that was at pedestrian speed as the gap was so narrow .
Just a couple of inches off centre and crunch .
Perhaps the council need to install some kind of "soft" early warning device like this ...

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« Reply #7 on: 14 December 2021, 11:15:22 »
Quote from: Olympia5776 on 14 December 2021, 10:58:40
I remember a set of bollards like that in an approach road into Hemel Hempstead Industrial estate . It looked like they were installed to prevent HGV's routing through the town .
I scraped the wheel rims of several cars on the concrete bases over the years as I passed through them and that was at pedestrian speed as the gap was so narrow .
Just a couple of inches off centre and crunch .
Perhaps the council need to install some kind of "soft" early warning device like this ...




The cause is stupid people driving cars they can't handle.
A fix is removing the cars.
The cure is removing the stupid people as well. That's impossible, so a fix would have to do.
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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #8 on: 14 December 2021, 11:25:06 »
there's a width restriction on the approach to an industrial estate near me that was to stop HGV's from using the road, but also to allow fire engines etc to use it if needed. On the rare occasions I use the road, I use the bit intended for fire engines because the ML will only just fit .... there's paint on the concrete barriers representing just about every manufacturer.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5759044,-2.2183326,3a,75y,119.67h,70.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spvHWoi1s_1acSLS8kQ9qHQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en-GB
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« Reply #9 on: 14 December 2021, 11:27:58 »
Quote from: Nick W on 14 December 2021, 11:15:22

The cause is stupid people driving cars they can't handle.
A fix is removing the cars.
The cure is removing the stupid people as well. That's impossible, so a fix would have to do.

A government minister suggested this a few days ago in relation to climate change............  ::)
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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #10 on: 14 December 2021, 11:57:36 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 14 December 2021, 11:27:58
Quote from: Nick W on 14 December 2021, 11:15:22

The cause is stupid people driving cars they can't handle.
A fix is removing the cars.
The cure is removing the stupid people as well. That's impossible, so a fix would have to do.

A government minister suggested this a few days ago in relation to climate change............  ::)


Which one?
I'm amazed that somebody had the balls to say it in public.
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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #11 on: 14 December 2021, 12:03:41 »
Some dopey bint who has barely been outside London said that car ownership is an old fashioned 20th century concept, or words to that effect.
A 21st century version of "let them eat cake."  ::)
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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #12 on: 14 December 2021, 12:19:46 »
I idiotted both mirrors off a yellow Escort van back in my yooof.  A tractor was turning right, and I was pedal to the metal flat out (the only way), going to undertake him...

...and before turning right he swerved left a bit (WTF, no idea, maybe was gonna try a Scandie Flick in his Massey).  So I lose one mirror on his back tyre, and one mirror on a post.

No bodywork damage bar slight scratches where the mirrors bounced off the panels.


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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #13 on: 14 December 2021, 12:20:19 »
idiotted? bloody word censor.  Knocked.
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Re: Do you know how wide your car is?
« Reply #14 on: 14 December 2021, 13:41:07 »
The Range fits in my garage but have to fold the mirrors in , have never forgotten yet will be an expensive job if ever I do.
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