Say 'drivers', not 'cars': it's the people in inside the boxes that do the stuff

It isn't the thread that's out of control, it's the people posting in it.

#wouldrep

It's all semantics, anyway.

/thread

Terribly sad:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31574161

A woman in her 40s has died after being knocked down by a Mercedes car in a hit-and-run in north London.
The Metropolitan Police said the car involved, thought to be a silver Mercedes, failed to stop and continued north-bound.

Another horrible crash:

'the lorry may not have even realised what had happened'

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-outside-luxury-car-showroom-in-west-london-10097798.html

In an update this afternoon, police said the lorry was recovered in the W2 postcode and the driver had been spoken to by police but not arrested.

Not arrested??

Perhaps because his lorry didn't realise it had killed the guy :-(

The poor lorry never knew what hit it...

i wonder if it will lose it's job?

Trudging the dog this evening, I encountered a car parked (by a driver) totally blocking the pavement. VW Scirocco or something. Some kind of new fangled off road vehicle, clearly. No doubt the driver thinks of themself as being most considerate (to other drivers). Makes me want to scratch their eyes out and shit in their radiator vents.

Later on our loop I observed a car driver driving their vehicle slowly over a traffic calming bit of road just behind a bird standing in the carriageway. There were no other vehicles being driven or ridden on this stretch of road at the time. The driver was proceeding at about 5mph but the bird didn't take off, so the driver just drove straight over it and killed the fucker. Using the horn in every situation except where it might actually be appropriate (regardless of what the highway code might have to say about that). I closed my eyes for a couple of seconds and shook my head. I'd like to have thrown a brick at their fucking car.

why take it out on their innocent car - attack the driver its the people in inside the boxes that do the stuff

Because it's theirs.

Presumed liability would benefit pedestrians as well as cyclists, as
well as cars in the event of a collision with a HGV.

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/cycle-lobby-should-be-ashamed-says-transport-expert-at-iea/017871

That guy is an explosion of cunts

a quote from the facebook page of my local paper

"A CAR mounted a kerb and wiped out a bus stop before ploughing into the side of another vehicle on Silverdale Road today.
The grey VW Polo travelled 20 feet across the road, mounted a pavement before hitting another car.
Claire Coker, manager at WKD hair and beauty in Silverdale Road said she couldn't believe her eyes after she heard the “bang”.
The 31-year-old said: “I didn't see it because I was away from the reception but it looks like a grey Polo has driven over the path and hit a black Ford Focus."

couldn't believe her eyes after she heard the “bang”

Basic anatomy training required

Ha ha - excellent answer
You touch my car you touch me.

To be fair- first she hears the bang then sees what caused the bang and what she saw was unbelievable to her eyes what is what she saw when she was a 31 year old.

The porche was just rolling about on its own, no driver at fault here:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/cyclist-in-hospital-after-being-hit-by-porshe-in-south-west-london-10312242.html

Seems no driver involved in this tragedy just a rogue car
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-33217346

Ive read it
media
unprepared to acknowledge human involvement..............
repeated all over local press

Reading the updates on the Birmingham mail this sounds fucking horrific. It never ceases to amaze me just how much carnage one driver can cause.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/grove-lane-handsworth-crash-children-9497089

While Peter Walker writes a good piece about the BBC anti cycling bias:

Even he refers to the inanimate objects rather than the people:

More than that, incidents like Blackpool are extremely rare, unlike deaths and serious injuries caused to pedestrians on pavements by motor vehicles. Boardman quoted the statistic that around 36 people a year on average are killed on pavements by motor vehicles, with about one every three years by a cyclist. Similar data for London shows that over five years, 12 pedestrians were killed on pavements, not one by a cyclist.

I see that LFGSS gets a mention in the comments section of that article.

Urgh, the comments section.