Car damages cemetery.

Once again demonstrating the sheer destructive force of a car compared
to the much maligned bicycle.

"A woman from South Gloucestershire has said she is "devastated" by
the damage she caused at a cemetery after losing control of her car.

Shirley Potts, who is a Labour member of South Gloucestershire
Council, was visiting Mangotsfield Cemetery on Easter Sunday to tend
her son's grave.

She lost control of her new car and accidentally drove over the
memorials.

Mrs Potts said she was advised not to contact the police but report it
to the council when their offices reopened.

After laying flowers on her son's grave, Mrs Potts, who had owned the
vehicle for a month, was trying to leave when her foot slipped and
caught on the accelerator.

"It all happened so fast, the car just shot forward," she said..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8610549.stm

It wasn't a Toyota by any chance was it? If it was no doubt we shall
never be allowed to know.

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A driving licence is a licence to kill.

On Apr 10, 8:13*am, Doug wrote:
Once again demonstrating the sheer destructive force of a car compared
to the much maligned bicycle.

"A woman from South Gloucestershire has said she is "devastated" by
the damage she caused at a cemetery after losing control of her car.

Shirley Potts, who is a Labour member of South Gloucestershire
Council, was visiting Mangotsfield Cemetery on Easter Sunday to tend
her son's grave.

She lost control of her new car and accidentally drove over the
memorials.

Mrs Potts said she was advised not to contact the police but report it
to the council when their offices reopened.

After laying flowers on her son's grave, Mrs Potts, who had owned the
vehicle for a month, was trying to leave when her foot slipped and
caught on the accelerator.

"It all happened so fast, the car just shot forward," she said..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8610549.stm

It wasn't a Toyota by any chance was it? If it was no doubt we shall
never be allowed to know.

--
UK Radical Campaignswww.zing.icom43.net
A driving licence is a licence to kill.

It might have been a Toyota, lets check the report, driver in new car
lost control "foot slipped and caught on the accelerator. "

Sounds like the sort of thing that might have happened to Toyota's in
the USA.

I think NASA should investige.


WSR

On 10/04/2010 08:13, Doug wrote:

It wasn't a Toyota by any chance was it? If it was no doubt we shall
never be allowed to know.
Since the driver admits hitting the accelerator, it's hardly relevant
what car it is.

But since you're so keen on suggesting the use of Google, it was a
Hyundai i10.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...es-in-car.html

from the article:

"But local politician Shirley Potts has now come forward to admit she
accidentally mowed them down when her muddy foot slipped onto her brand
new car's accelerator"

Chris Bartram wrote:
On 10/04/2010 08:13, Doug wrote:

It wasn't a Toyota by any chance was it? If it was no doubt we shall
never be allowed to know.
Since the driver admits hitting the accelerator, it's hardly relevant
what car it is.

But since you're so keen on suggesting the use of Google, it was a
Hyundai i10.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...es-in-car.html

from the article:

"But local politician Shirley Potts has now come forward to admit she
accidentally mowed them down when her muddy foot slipped onto her
brand new car's accelerator"

so should someone campaign to get cleats on all drivers shoes to minimise
this dreadful risk?
I did wonder whether one of the gravestones might have been a cyclist's, the
it could have been 'Driver rams cyclist in Graveyard attack' or something.

On Apr 10, 8:13*am, Doug wrote:
Once again demonstrating the sheer destructive force of a car compared
to the much maligned bicycle.

Still having to convince yourself of this, I see. Most people know
that cars are heavy objects, and driving them into things isn't going
to end happily.

Anyway, "car runs over people who are already dead" is hardly
newsworthy.

It wasn't a Toyota by any chance was it? If it was no doubt we shall
never be allowed to know.

This statement just shows that twice in one post you are determined to
make something of nothing, and making things up to try and justify
your misplaced rage.

On Apr 10, 12:53*pm, FrengaX wrote:
On Apr 10, 8:13*am, Doug wrote:

Once again demonstrating the sheer destructive force of a car compared
to the much maligned bicycle.

Still having to convince yourself of this, I see. Most people know
that cars are heavy objects, and driving them into things isn't going
to end happily.

Anyway, "car runs over people who are already dead" is hardly
newsworthy.



It wasn't a Toyota by any chance was it? If it was no doubt we shall
never be allowed to know.

This statement just shows that twice in one post you are determined to
make something of nothing, and making things up to try and justify
your misplaced rage.

Are you trying to say that he is a narrow minded bigot, who wears
blinkers, who doesn't have the ability to learn anything, while all
the time spouting out rubbish against anybody or anything that he does
not agree with, while still selectively quoting & misquoting from
various sources that he thinks may back up his one sided view of the
world, all the time telling everybody that he is the only person who
knows what is happening, while at the same time asking for more laws
even if he is an anarchist, who denies the holocaust, thinks Hitler
invented motorways, thinks all car drivers are killers, and we should
all live in vertical cities, never have public holidays because the
Christians rule the world, should allow cyclists to drive on
motorways, in supermarkets & along railway platforms, who will have
answers for all your travel problems but will never tell you how
(Vince's report), a person who is the most rammed cyclist in the
history of the world, but can't produce proof.

Are you trying to say that, if not why not?

Thomas

On Apr 10, 8:13�am, Doug wrote:
Once again demonstrating the sheer destructive force of a car compared
to the much maligned bicycle.

Thanks, Doug. I'm still not convinced, though. Please could you post
a lot more evidence to support your conjecture that a car can cause
more damage than a bike.

Cheers!

Doug wrote:
|| Once again demonstrating the sheer destructive force of a car
|| compared to the much maligned bicycle.
||
|| "A woman from South Gloucestershire has said she is "devastated" by
|| the damage she caused at a cemetery after losing control of her car.
||
|| Shirley Potts, who is a Labour member of South Gloucestershire
|| Council, was visiting Mangotsfield Cemetery on Easter Sunday to tend
|| her son's grave.
||
|| She lost control of her new car and accidentally drove over the
|| memorials.

Shocking. It's not the first time it's ever happened either, I remember a
few years back the same thing happened at a Dublin cemetery. They were
pulling the bodies out for weeks.

--
Rob

Rob wrote:
Doug wrote:
|| Once again demonstrating the sheer destructive force of a car
|| compared to the much maligned bicycle.
||
|| "A woman from South Gloucestershire has said she is "devastated" by
|| the damage she caused at a cemetery after losing control of her car.
||
|| Shirley Potts, who is a Labour member of South Gloucestershire
|| Council, was visiting Mangotsfield Cemetery on Easter Sunday to tend
|| her son's grave.
||
|| She lost control of her new car and accidentally drove over the
|| memorials.

Shocking. It's not the first time it's ever happened either, I remember a
few years back the same thing happened at a Dublin cemetery. They were
pulling the bodies out for weeks.


They must have been Doug's 'art' mates.

--
Tony Dragon

Doug gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

After laying flowers on her son's grave, Mrs Potts, who had owned the
vehicle for a month, was trying to leave when her foot slipped and
caught on the accelerator.

It wasn't a Toyota by any chance was it?

two second google It wasn't. It was a Hyundai.

"She scraped the mud from her feet before getting into her brand new grey
Hyundai i10, which has an automatic gearbox."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264561

Maybe the same issue afflicts them, eh, Duhg? Certainly sounds like the
same cause as the Toyota issues.

"But just as she turned to pull away her foot slipped sideways from the
accelerator and lodged under the brake.

As it slipped her heel clipped the accelerator, and as she tried to pull
her foot free the car sped forwards and slammed into six graves belonging
to members of the same family."