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Just been reading this article about a missing bollard on a road side causing 19 motorists to hit the curb and now they want compensation. I mean for gods sake why dont they just watch where they are driving and take responsibility for they own bad driving.
It states that someone could get killed!! Its only a missing bollard for god sake,the funny thing is they damaged their cars because they say there was no bollard,yet there wasnt a bollard as some car driver had hit it!!
The bloke in the feature says he kept left to avoid an oncoming car,didnt he think to brake instead?!
That's it...I'm going back to bed!:loopy:
Originally posted by Carmine
That's it...I'm going back to bed!:loopy:
Careful going up those stairs,hope you have a safety bannister?!
foo_fighter 31-08-2005, 10:41 Originally posted by unners
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Just been reading this article about a missing bollard on a road side causing 19 motorists to hit the curb and now they want compensation. I meen for gods sake why dont they just watch where they are driving and take responsibility for they own bad driving...
From that article:
…"But even though he was aware of it, he too hit the kerb and damaged his car."…
Numpties all of them, I just hope the police test their eyesight, and get them off the roads before they run over a child "on the kerb edge".
:mad:
Originally posted by unners
Careful going up those stairs,hope you have a safety bannister?!
I need a qualified bedmaker to come round and tuck me in, just in case I don't fall out of bed and have to sue the folks that sold it to me!
(As an aside: I once lived with a lass who fell down the stairs whilst p*ssed and wearing high heeled shoes. She broke her arm in the fall and the daffy cow tried to sue the makers of the shoes!)
Originally posted by unners
Careful going up those stairs,hope you have a safety bannister?!
I hope they're clearly marked (http://www.health-safety.co.za/images/signs/ga17big.gif)
Originally posted by foo_fighter
From that article:
…"But even though he was aware of it, he too hit the kerb and damaged his car."…
Numpties all of them, I just hope the police test their eyesight, and get them off the roads before they run over a child "on the kerb edge".
:mad:
LOL .How to make yourself look like a pratt to thousands of Sheffielders
foo_fighter 31-08-2005, 10:49 Originally posted by unners
LOL .How to make yourself look like a pratt to thousands of Sheffielders
Yeh, and he'll have fun suing anyone now wont he,
council brief: "...so Mr Milne, were you aware that there was no bollard on this piece of footway whilst attending the site of your fathers accident?..."
:hihi:
:loopy:
honestly if they were hitting the kerb they were going too fast!
Thats the whole point of the traffic calming lol
Why the hell should they be compensated for their own error?
Thats like saying because you crash into someones house that you should be compensated by the house owner for putting it there!
Originally posted by csi_bha
honestly if they were hitting the kerb they were going too fast!
Thats the whole point of the traffic calming lol
Why the hell should they be compensated for their own error?
Thats like saying because you crash into someones house that you should be compensated by the house owner for putting it there!
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: liking this thread
LesMcQueen 31-08-2005, 11:11 "Everyone understands some drivers need slowing down but the traffic calming in Beighton cost a fortune and in my opinion is just a lethal accident waiting to happen."
Priceless!
Originally posted by LesMcQueen
"Everyone understands some drivers need slowing down but the traffic calming in Beighton cost a fortune and in my opinion is just a lethal accident waiting to happen."
Priceless!
Of course the traffic calming measures are the big issue here...why the very idea of motorists having to slow down and pay attention to the road is preposterous!
They pay their road tax...why should they have to worry about killing some pedestrian as well?!?:hihi:
RazorSHarp 31-08-2005, 12:22 Avoid Beighton, sounds like its full of crap drivers !!
Bet you all a fiver that bollard lasts about a week before some James "Beighton" Hunt knocks it down.
QUOTED FROM ARTICLE: First to hit the kerb was 80-year-old Frank Milne, of Broomwood Gardens, Beighton
at 80 years old should he be allowed to drive:heyhey: :heyhey: :help:
seriously though, i have hit the kerb (not this one in articel) once or twice and damaged my car and it was totally my own fault as i misjudged it!!!!
people are in a claim soceity which as soon as they break a nail on something that does not belong to them the £ signs flash in eyes!!!!
if they were slowing for oncoming traffice (mr Milne) theoretically he wouldn't have been driving fast enough to puncture his tyres.
Blimey :loopy: Reading this thread has given me a right old laugh :hihi:
Can anyone explain WHY a bollard is needed to avoid people hitting the bloomin kerb??? They don't have bollards along most kerbs do they, and most other people seem to manage ...
If there's traffic coming the other way and the road is too narrow - errr try stopping and waiting for the vehicle to pass???
I'm going to keep this link - it's classic
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Don_Kiddick 31-08-2005, 14:59 What an absolute load of Bollards!
I've been helping me mate decorate & renovate his house.
The times I've hit my finger or thumb with a hammer...
I'm gonna sue the hammer maker now for making hard heavy hammers. :rolleyes:
Mr Sykes said: "I was told by a resident that I was the 19th car in a week to hit that kerb. She said she had reported it to the council but nothing was done
To which the council employee replied when it hits the magic 20 you get a free prize......a life!
I think Mr Sykes needs counselling as he thinks he is a car.(think about it!)
Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
What an absolute load of Bollards!
I've been helping me mate decorate & renovate his house.
The times I've hit my finger or thumb with a hammer...
I'm gonna sue the hammer maker now for making hard heavy hammers. :rolleyes:
I'd sue your mother for giving birth to you,as it wouldnt have happened otherwise!
I feel sorry for the pedestrians having a dirty big bollard planted in the pavement,this is an accident waiting to happen.
Don_Kiddick 31-08-2005, 15:16 Originally posted by unners
I'd sue your mother for giving birth to you,as it wouldnt have happened otherwise!
I would but she's dead.
I could sue Gallaher fag makers for giving her throat cancer & killing her so preventing me from suing her :confused:
"I don't expect that anything will be done about it until someone is killed. These are just minor accidents but how long before there is something more serious?" said Mr Sykes.
I think he's right - the police should prosecute him for dangerous driving. After all, it might have been a minor accident this time, but what if next time he decided to drive on the pavements without looking where he's going, he kills someone.
Has he been reported to the police?
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LesMcQueen 04-09-2005, 13:49 I drove down High Street yesterday to see if I could spot the offending kerb.
If it's the one across from the Miner's Welfare club, I can't for the life of me see how anyone managed to hit it, bollard or not.
Maybe the distraction of a cheap pint and a couple o' nicker on the meat raffle is just too much to people of a certain age. :confused:
DragonofAna 04-09-2005, 14:20 Been out searching for kerbside bollards. Not seen any yet. Are they an endangered species?
As for hitting the kerb - I think there are instances where it is damned hard to hit the kerb so luckily the council decides not to put one in. I am referring to Manchester road on the way into Stocksbridge from Deepcar. Narrow road, cars parked all down one side, two way traffic. Hmmm. If we put a path in there then someone may get knocked over and killed? We could put bollards along there? Nah! Then we sould be sued by people hitting them.
And now you have idiots parking on both sides of that road - just to make matters even more interesting.
Oi! You know you with the blooming white van parked between Stocksbridge and Deepcar on that narrow bit of road - I am so going to take off your wing mirrors you prat.
Dragon
funny thread this, but some of the new safety measures this week:
top of oakholme road (endcliffe)...
narrowed, and makes you go on the wrong side of the road at a junction normally blinded by school coaches and suv's/mpv's...
but!!!!!, theyve put about 6000 bollards, just incase Mr Beighton or Mr Beighton Senior mounts the kerb and knocks a couple over. so i spose its ok
commuter 06-09-2005, 14:38 thank you so much for livening up what was turning into a very depressing day. I have to confess to hitting a kerb and putting two triangular dents in the rims. I was in Nottingham .....I know thats no excuse but I had a choice between the oncoming Granada or the dog that wandered into the middle of the road or the pavement .....
I also once nudged a cyclist (no injury other than pride) in Lincoln who picked himself up and shouted "that's the third f***ing time this week" which coupled with the expression unfortunately just made me laugh but I guess you had to be there. :clap: :thumbsup:
LesMcQueen 06-09-2005, 16:13 Here's an idea for the drivers of Beighton.
Why not use Inflatable bowling alley gutter bumpers on every street?
sheff_minx 06-09-2005, 16:23 Originally posted by commuter
I also once nudged a cyclist (no injury other than pride) in Lincoln who picked himself up and shouted "that's the third f***ing time this week"
:thumbsup:
That made me cry with laughter... The poor bloke... Priceless :hihi: :hihi:
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