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Surprised one of these new kicker style curb stones hasn't sent someone through the window yet:
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Well spotted, but I think that that's not really the alignment a stray driver will take there. I think the issue here may be that there is this short contraflow facility for people leaving the supermarket car park (Coxwell Road). In order to accommodate this, they changed the entrance to the one-way system; the centre line would previously have run up to the point of the triangular island, so that there would have been only one or two one-way lane(s) into Westow Street. You can just about make out the former road markings in the StreetView picture from 2008:
It looks as if the scheme hadn't been done too long ago at that point.
It's possible that the island used to be wider to direct traffic past the corner building, i.e. there may have been only one wide lane at the corner, but it may have been narrowed in order to accommodate two lanes. That misalignment is now what will cause drivers who drive too fast and misjudge the corner to be at risk of crashing against the corner of the building. I think the tilted kerbstone is still sheltered by the island and unlikely to be hit by a driver. Just let's not give the local skaters any ideas. :)
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Here are some numbers on the old lorry-hits-bridge problem. As Fox has reminded us, many bridges are merely structures and not buildings (although in German, engineers refer to bridges as "Bauwerke" (one of the main words for buildings, the other being "Gebäude")), as I recently saw while following the saga of the Salzbachtalbrücke in Wiesbaden, which near-collapsed and has only just been demolished):
Anyone who's ridden the Dunwich Dynamo to the end will be familiar with the Coddenham Road bridge in Needham Market, which is so low that it appears the Google car couldn't fit under it:
I suspect the main reason why it gets hit so often is because it's between two bends and drivers unfamiliar with it see it too late.
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Another ram raid. These seem to be enduringly popular:
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I normally ignore these as some kind of click bait but you really do need to watch to the end of this (it's less than 30 seconds long)
https://twitter.com/cctv_idiots/status/1462836966500806666?t=NUU0Pt9PU1pJFUtYWOPNPg&s=19
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It's good slapstick, but where does anyone crash into a building?
I'd guess that must have been at least a whiplash injury, if not worse. The speed at which it happens is pretty terrifying.
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Yes, there's signage there, and there is generally a lot of signage ahead of such bridges, plus conspicuous warning strips with neon colours, carriageway markings, etc.--but none of that ever works for more than 99.9% of all lorry drivers. The Needham Market bridge being hit 19 times in a year, while leading the countrywide league table, is still out of tens of thousands of passes, quite likely somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 non-lorries. That is, the lorry drivers who get it wrong are a tiny percentage of overall motor traffic through there, and the vast majority of lorry drivers will have avoided it.
I've gone round with council officers looking at signage and, simple though it seems, it really is a bit of a science to get it right. Even if it is got right, some people will simply miss it.
The main thing you can then rely on is that they see it as they approach, but here the two bends make even that more difficult than in most other cases.
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Possibly my favourite thread these days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-59458659
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A neighbour rolled their car into their house earlier. I was crossing the road, saw they were reversing off their drive. Next thing the driver side door opens and a guy gets out. I assume he thought the handbrake was on but it very much wasn’t as the car stalled and then rolled a few metres back down the driveway into his house, pursued futilely by this poor bloke going ‘shitshitshit’. Crunch.
I did the kind thing and quickly ducked past so as to help him live in the illusion that no one witnessed his failure. Didn’t take any pictures, I’m afraid.
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I took a quick trip into my local Tesco yesterday and it nearly developed into a trip to A&E. Just as I passed through the first set of doors a woman heading towards me on a mobility scooter ploughed into the second set via a sandwich-board and a metal bollard. The bollard was set into the ground and flipped up a few floor tiles in the process. She was upset but not injured. I don’t know what power the motors on those things put out but it wasn’t travelling fast and it took some stopping. I don’t think it would have hesitated to steam-roller me into the door mat.
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I guess ram-raids will never go out of fashion, despite stern warnings from Mr Policeman:
“These men have since discovered that crime does not pay and thanks to the complex investigative work by the Flying Squad, they will instead be spending time behind bars.”
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Bus crash in Higham's Park this morning - some injuries, but not much detail. I hope none serious, but pics don't look great.
https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/19872162.highams-park-injuries-reported-bus-crash/
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Some CCTV footage from just before the crash.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/highams-park-bus-crash-latest-video-cctv-woman-b978825.html
Various interpretations of that are possible, but I'll wait until what happened is fully established.
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Nineteen injuries, with footage from the scene:
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https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1486322523998461961?s=20
#Pyrford common road, a single vehicle collision where the driver has collided with a bus shelter. The road is currently closed for recovery and clear up. I for one ride this road quite regularly. The only way they crashed is due to incompetence.
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Shouldn't be any pedestrians in an FLT area, so that risk has been eliminated? Consider the process layout so reducing chance of coming into contact with a bollard that is on its own and protruding? Different barrier types? Relying on employee discipline is bottom the list of considerations as the most difficult to control. How would the operators improve matters?
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Yup, not too hard to see why this will happen from time to time.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4168979,-0.0813767,3a,45.2y,334.29h,82.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swhc2EjduJi4U6hKUGSrg-w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Hope everyone was OK.