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Hi Ted

Thought this might be worthy of debate in that forum you chat along in. Not much point my registering as there's already three of you there to my knowledge!


Well - Friday coming home from work proved to be a right nightmare.

1. Along a road with parked cars on one side. A nice polite gent in an Audi flashes to let me through as I'm already trundling down the road and there is not enough room. So he pulls in to give me space.

Some dopey woman overtakes him and continues up the road - apparently blind to the fact that parked cars on one side of the road, a Vauxhall travelling towards her and a huge Merc are not going to be able to pass at all.

She clearly expected me to reverse a good half mile as well. I ended up having to ask the pedestrians to stop and allow me to run my nearside wheels over the pavement so that I could get by as this was safer than a long reverse with a car approaching from behind. He also had to run over the pavement to make room for this rude woman driver.

The pedestrians and the Audi driver all agreed they had never seen such a display of bad manners. She did have a child in the front seat as well and a "baby on board" chav sticker in the rear window. We watched her accelerate hard to the hump back bridge and force a car entering to reverse back for her.

2. Mini roundabout. Chap drives over without even stopping - nearly hits a cyclist.

3. Woman on 4x4 overtakes a cyclist but has no regard whatoever for oncoming cars who happened to be almost level There was no indication. I think she should have held back. Arguably she did give the cyclist room - but this was a 30 mph road and she passed him at 40 mph - and then slammed on her brakes at the Gatso just after this overtake.

4. Cyclist (no helmet/no lycra) pedals up to a pelican on green for him. I'm waiting for the green man. Young man crosses the road. Car slows down - but the cyclist does not and collides with the man. Both parties highly abusive to each other. I am sad to say that as they were both bigger than me - I just watched with an open mouth in shock and the cyclist thumped the man and kicked the car which had stopped and then rode into the shopping mall where there is a big sign saying bikes are not allowed.

This was one hot evening and I do wonder if the hot weather made people behave even more like numpties.

I would be interested to know what those other people on the site think - as I already more than know your opinions!


By the way - have some photos of a hidden Gatso in Glazebury and my Near Miss scene - but I think I must have done something when I edited with an explanatory comment within the photos - as I cannot get them to e-mail out - keep getting a connection error and don't know why since the Evening News scan went through OK. There are some tell-tale tyrre marks though so I think this area - Warburton Lane - Dunham Massey area and Dunham Road junction with Warburton Road is a bit of a danger spot.

There is also the distraction of all the young women wearing really skimpy clothes...

Where???

I think perhaps the work through lunch at office desks - not taking in any fresh air, short walks, leg stretch und the long hours culture also not help - especially when we start to move into the very warm weather spells.

Not sure if they did any reseach or it was a wet thumb in the air approach and guesstemate.