Rising bollards

Anyone who doubts the utter stupidity of some drivers:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

(Click the "Watch the CCTV video here" link).

spindrift wrote:
Anyone who doubts the utter stupidity of some drivers:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

(Click the "Watch the CCTV video here" link).

How can they be legal? Potentially killing, if not seriously injuring
the innocent passengers of the inattentive, or arrogant, driver. The
passenger of the van smashed the windscreen with his head! The baby in
the second car could have been killed!

I doubt they'd be any less ruthless if a cyclist was following the bus,
or even if a pedestrian or wheelchair user started to cross the road
immediately behind a bus.

It may be amusing to see the car of an idiot wrecked, but is it worth
risking killing someone for?

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Matt B

spindrift wrote:
Anyone who doubts the utter stupidity of some drivers:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
(Click the "Watch the CCTV video here" link).

They can be dangerous for cyclists because they don't register
visually when down. If bikes are allowed through, they need hatching
or something round them.

Colin McKenzie

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the population level, and anyway cycling is about as safe per mile as
walking.
Make an informed choice - visit www.cyclehelmets.org.


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"Matt B" wrote in message


How can they be legal? Potentially killing, if not seriously injuring
the innocent passengers of the inattentive, or arrogant, driver.

Pay attention then, dumkopf.

Tim

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Sent from Birmingham, UK timdunne at blueyonder.co.uk
'God's electrician sparked up the heavens once again, heading northbound
on the 7:10. And the lord said let there be commuters...' - Thea Gilmore
Look, mum, an anorak on a bike! Check out www.nervouscyclist.org

Matt B wrote:
spindrift wrote:

Anyone who doubts the utter stupidity of some drivers:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770


(Click the "Watch the CCTV video here" link).


How can they be legal? Potentially killing, if not seriously injuring
the innocent passengers of the inattentive, or arrogant, driver. The
passenger of the van smashed the windscreen with his head! The baby in
the second car could have been killed!

Oooh, thats a thought, bit unlucky for the gene pool that one.

I doubt they'd be any less ruthless if a cyclist was following the bus,
or even if a pedestrian or wheelchair user started to cross the road
immediately behind a bus.

It may be amusing to see the car of an idiot wrecked, but is it worth
risking killing someone for?

Ffs, they had big ****off red LED signs saying no entry. I mean, if you
don't want your crotch fruit, don't have one, there's a 9 month lead
time on these things, you'd think they'd be more careful.

I especially liked the helpful chav, and also the motorbike parked in a
cycle bay.

Tim Dunne wrote:
"Matt B" wrote in message


How can they be legal? Potentially killing, if not seriously injuring
the innocent passengers of the inattentive, or arrogant, driver.

Pay attention then, dumkopf.

You'd happily sacrifice a driver's innocent passengers to teach /him/ to
pay attention?

--
Matt B

Colin McKenzie wrote:
spindrift wrote:
Anyone who doubts the utter stupidity of some drivers:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
(Click the "Watch the CCTV video here" link).

They can be dangerous for cyclists because they don't register
visually when down. If bikes are allowed through, they need hatching
or something round them.

Colin McKenzie

--
No-one has ever proved that cycle helmets make cycling any safer at
the population level, and anyway cycling is about as safe per mile as
walking.
Make an informed choice - visit www.cyclehelmets.org.


--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

AFAIK bikes have seperate access. That clip is hilarious, any driver
who can't see ten foot flashing signs deserves all he gets. It's
obvious they are trying to sneak through after the bus. They should
receive the same scorn as a burglar who tries to sue after cutting his
hand on a window he smashed to gain access to a house.

Excellent! Keep these morons out of the city centres.

"Matt B" wrote in message


You'd happily sacrifice a driver's innocent passengers to teach /him/
to pay attention?

Explain to me how that's different to not paying full attention anywhere
else on the road when in charge of a tonne of metal?

Tim

--
Sent from Birmingham, UK timdunne at blueyonder.co.uk
'God's electrician sparked up the heavens once again, heading northbound
on the 7:10. And the lord said let there be commuters...' - Thea Gilmore
Look, mum, an anorak on a bike! Check out www.nervouscyclist.org

Tim Dunne wrote:
"Matt B" wrote in message


You'd happily sacrifice a driver's innocent passengers to teach /him/
to pay attention?

Explain to me how that's different to not paying full attention anywhere
else on the road when in charge of a tonne of metal?

The bollards appearing, almost instantly, from nowhere, giving no chance
to react?

It's not far removed from shoot first, ask questions later, applied not
to suspected terrorists, but to errant motorists' passengers. It's a
scandal.

--
Matt B

spindrift wrote:
Colin McKenzie wrote:
spindrift wrote:
Anyone who doubts the utter stupidity of some drivers:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
(Click the "Watch the CCTV video here" link).
They can be dangerous for cyclists because they don't register
visually when down. If bikes are allowed through, they need hatching
or something round them.

AFAIK bikes have seperate access. That clip is hilarious, any driver
who can't see ten foot flashing signs deserves all he gets. It's
obvious they are trying to sneak through after the bus. They should
receive the same scorn as a burglar who tries to sue after cutting his
hand on a window he smashed to gain access to a house.

Excellent! Keep these morons out of the city centres.

Have you come across any clips of them propelling blind pedestrians,
naughty toddlers, or electric buggy users into the air, for us to also
have a good laugh at? :-(

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Matt B